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Boris Johnson warns of ‘Jewish exodus’ out of Northern Ireland over threat to kosher food – Haaretz

| July 9, 2021

An ongoing post-Brexit trade dispute between the European Union and Great Britain centered on Northern Ireland has threatened to cut off access to kosher food, raising the possibility that Jews would be forced to leave the province, Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Wednesday. Addressing parliament, Johnson said that Jewish communal representatives had pointed out that because of the problem with the food sector it was becoming difficult for them to have timely access or any access to kosher food"and that they were beginning to speak about the possibility of an exodus from Northern Ireland. Now clearly we want to do everything we can to avoid that and to sort it out, but its going to take our friends in the Joint Committee to make some movement and to make that movement pretty fast, he stated, referring to an EU-UK body tasked with implementing the Northern Ireland protocol, part of the Brexit divorce deal Britain agreed with the bloc.

Banning critical race theory will gut the teaching of Jewish history – The Jerusalem Post

| July 9, 2021

Anyone teaching the past by skipping over the unpleasant parts isnt teaching history. They are engaged in propaganda

Kauai Jewish Weddings Now Offered by Island’s First Reform Rabbi – WFMZ Allentown

| July 9, 2021

POIPU BEACH KAUAI, Hawaii, July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- For the first time ever, Kauai has its own progressive rabbi who can perform Jewish ceremonies for visitors seeking an iconic destination Hawaii wedding or life cycle event.

Jewish opposition to Israel’s oppression of Palestinians is growing. Here’s why | Opinion – NorthJersey.com

| July 9, 2021

Tova Fry| Special to the USA TODAY Network WATCH: North Jersey's most visible Jewish supporter of Palestinian rights Rich Siegel of Teaneck, who is a professional musician and North Jersey's most visible Jewish supporter of Palestinian rights, answers some questions at his home in Teaneck.

After Years of Heated Debate, an Exhibition Dedicated to Jewish Art Dealer Max Stern Is Moving Forwardand His Heirs Are Not Happy – artnet News

| July 9, 2021

An exhibition dedicated to the life and legacy of persecuted Jewish art dealer Max Stern will go forward this fall in Dsseldorfdespite opposition from scholars and the dealers own heirs. The show, called Disenfranchised and Deprived: The Art Dealer Max Stern, will open at the Stadtmuseum in Dsseldorf on September 1 (until January 30, 2022), three years after it was initially canceled amid a dispute between local authorities and Sterns heirs over how the German city was handling the project. The heirs, a group of international universities, were concerned that German authorities were not being transparent enough about the works linked to Stern that remain scattered around Germany and have yet to be returned.

Jewish transgender transformation explored in new book – The Jerusalem Post

| July 9, 2021

If as former Apple CEO John Sculley once said timing is everything, author Larry Goldsmith has managed to pull off the fictional coup of the decade by producing a work of fiction book that is totally outside of his experience.

A Word of Torah: The Best-Laid Plans … Detroit Jewish News – The Jewish News

| July 9, 2021

Awaiter remembers every detail of an order but forgets those details as soon as the plates hit the table. Inspired by this thought experiment, German psychologist Bluma Wulfovna Zeigarnik conducted a series of laboratory tests to demonstrate that people have a better recollection of the puzzles they are prevented from finishing than those they have completed

What do you do when you’re tired of being Jewish? – The Jerusalem Post

| July 9, 2021

As I took my child to kindergarten this morning, I walked past a father, wrapped in tefillin, dropping off his son and waving goodbye with the leather straps between his fingers. I get coffee and see men in their tallitot picking up fresh bread on their way to synagogue, women whispering the morning prayers at the bus stop, old men with a stick in one hand and a little Book of Psalms in the other, reciting as they walk. This is Israel.

Tokyo Olympics: All the Jewish Athletes to Watch – The Jewish News

| July 9, 2021

(JTA) The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are finally happening, a full year after they were planned. And yes, theyre still being called the 2020 Olympics, even though theyre happening in 2021.

Why Were the Jews Blamed for the Black Death? – The Great Courses Daily News

| July 9, 2021

By Dorsey Armstrong, Ph.D., Purdue UniversityThe Crusaders Attack on the Jews In 1095, Pope Urban II called for Christian forces to head to the Middle East and retake Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land from the Muslim rulers who controlled it. Several of the Crusaders, on their way overland through Europe, got to the area of the Rhineland, which had several large Jewish populations


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