admin | August 22, 2021
Courtesy of YouTube Screenshot Rabbi Yaakov David Klar speaking at a 2011 Chai Lifeline event in Boro Park about coping with trauma. A New York rabbi sexually assaulted children while he was supposed to be treating them for mental health issues, and the prominent Jewish institutions he worked for covered it up, claims a lawsuit filed August 13 in New York
admin | August 22, 2021
AL DHAFRA AIR BASE, United Arab Emirates A rabbi, a priest and a pastor walk in to your office What sounds like the opening of a good joke, is the unique reality of the service members who are deployed to this Southwest Asia base. With countless service members deployed to Al Dhafra Air Base, it is a challenge to tend to everyones likes and needs and ensure mission readiness across the board.
admin | August 22, 2021
The USC Shoah Foundation is will present two nights of film screenings and discussions in Aspen on Monday and Tuesday.
admin | August 22, 2021
In a momentous ruling in the ongoing debate over Polish complicity in the horrors of the Holocaust, a Polish appeals court overturned a verdict that had ordered two historians to publicly apologise for part of their research into a Holocaust pogrom. In their 2018 book Night Without an End, historians Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking wrote that that Edward Malinowski, the late mayor of the village of Malinowo, told Nazi officers where a group of Jews were hiding in a forest
admin | August 22, 2021
The Talmudic tractate Chagigah tells the tale of Rabbi Meir and his teacher Elisha ben Avuyah. Despite his teachers abandonment of Judaism and Elishas descent into heresy, Rabbi Meir would not abandon his mentor. Elisha was branded as Acher "Other by a Jewish community in the Land of Israel that had shunned the apostate and rebel.
admin | August 22, 2021
The crucial film in the retrospective of the Polish director Andrzej Munk that opens online today at Film at Lincoln Center is Passenger, one of the very few fiction films about Nazi death camps that neither vulgarizes the subject nor presumes easy dramatic access to it. Munk (who was born in 1920 or 1921) didnt live to complete the film; he died in a car crash in 1961, with much of the movie already in the can. His associates (principally Witold Lesiewicz) completed the film, or, rather, finished it in a way that reflects its fragmentary state while calling attention to Munks plans and ideas, and emphasizing the effort to realize them
admin | August 22, 2021
Al Tapper, the entrepreneur behind the hit documentaries "Broadway: The Golden Age" and "Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy" announced he will be opening a new Off Broadway theater at 354 West 45th Street. The 99 seat house will be called The AMT Theater and will bring a new level of excitement to the Broadway area, focusing on new musicals, children's theater, new play development and cabaret. The composer/lyricist of the original musicals Sessions, An Evening at the Carlyle, National Pastime, All Aboard, The Paparazzi and Upside Down will also seek to strengthen international artistic ties between the United States and Mexico
admin | August 20, 2021
There is plenty of demagoguery, ignorance and propaganda when it comes to the concept of Zionism in the Arab world. Arab views on Zionism are first and foremost the result of the vile lies and conspiracies propagated by Arab governments and their state medias for over 70 years.
admin | August 20, 2021
AFTER ISRAELTowards Cultural Transformationby Marcelo Svirsky256 pp. Zed Books, $28.75 In his recent article My grandfathers Nakba, Emad Moussa referred to Marcelo Svirskys 2014 book After Israel: Towards Cultural Transformationin connection with the active forgetting practiced by most Israeli Jews
admin | August 20, 2021
On September 22, the United Nations will waste a day celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Durban Declaration, adopted at the UNs 2001 World Conference against Racism, held in Durban, South Africa. In a just world, the UN would mourn this debacle, for reducing an anti-racism conference into an antisemitic hatefest
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