The Tensions Inside a Mixed Jewish-Arab City in Israel – The New Yorker
admin | May 25, 2021
Faten Alzinaty was heading to the community center that she manages in the Israeli city of Lod on Sunday morning when she noticed a familiar face.
As trust between Israeli Jews and Arabs reaches new lows, Netanyahu rises again – The Conversation US
admin | May 25, 2021
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the worlds capitals in mid-May 2021 blamed the Israeli government for recent bloodshed in Israel and Gaza, and called on world leaders to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Bibi Netanyahu into calling a ceasefire. Protesters emphasized the perceived power imbalance between Israel and Palestine. According to this view of the asymmetry between the two sides, Israel is a major economic and military power while Hamas-led Gaza is poor, weak and has suffered many casualties.
The American Jewry demographic is only growing and becoming more diverse – The Jerusalem Post
admin | May 25, 2021
Behind the Pew Research Center surveys estimate of the number of Jews are far-reaching demographic and cultural trends in American society in general and particularly in American-Jewish society. We need to confront them truthfully and acknowledge the opportunities and challenges that they present to Jewish vitality in 21-century America.The study found 7.3 million people in the US who define themselves (or, if children, defined by their parents) as Jewish. Three-quarters of them view their Jewishness through the lenses of Judaism as a religion; another quarter consider themselves Jewish by ethnicity, culture or family background.
Joseph Borgen, Brutally Beaten By Group Of Suspects In Manhattans Diamond District, Speaks Out: My Whole Face Felt Like It Was On Fire For Hours – CBS…
admin | May 25, 2021
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) A Jewish man was attacked Thursday in the Diamond District, as pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters clashed in Times Square. Police said a group of five to six men attacked the 29-year-old victim around 6:30 p.m.
Essay: The Four Absurd Criticisms of Israel’s War Conduct Detroit Jewish News – The Jewish News
admin | May 25, 2021
Much of the media and many experts and observers have succumbed to what can be described as a complete loss of rational thinking when it came to evaluating the Israel-Hamas war. Israels critics invented an entirely new set of illogical rules of war for Israel that one can only conclude is aimed at leaving the Jewish state defenseless and allowing the terrorist group Hamas to attack freely. There are four key themes that are propagated in articles, interviews, social media and by well-known comedians, all of which are simply absurd
Can America Be America When Jews Are Beaten in the Streets? – The Dispatch
admin | May 25, 2021
It happened again.
There is still so much hatred: looking back on Holocaust documentary The Last Days – The Guardian
admin | May 25, 2021
The last time June Beallor saw the Auschwitz survivor Irene Zisblatt, they watched Sex and the City together. That was 20 years ago. Beallor is one of the producers behind The Last Days, the Oscar-winning 1998 documentary executive-produced by Steven Spielberg about the Hungarian Jewish experience during the Holocaust, which has now been remastered and re-released on Netflix.
The Rabbis and Their Conception of Evil as a Challenge – The Great Courses Daily News
admin | May 25, 2021
By Charles Mathewes, Ph.D., University of VirginiaThe rabbis believe that evil is a challenge that must be faced on a daily basis. (Image: greiss design/Shutterstock)Facing Evil as a Challenge to Be Overcome Evil should be faced as a challenge whose successful overcoming on a daily basis will strengthen and deepen the person in their wisdom and their faith.
As a ceasefire takes hold in Gaza, Israelis and Palestinians remain two peoples haunted by their own history – ABC News
admin | May 25, 2021
Jacques Derrida spoke of people who have the bread of apocalypse in their mouths. These are the people formed by history haunted by history, as Derrida would have seen it
James Moll talks The Last Days – Solzy at the Movies
admin | May 25, 2021
James Moll, Founding Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, spoke about The Last Days.
