admin | August 18, 2021
Every year, the Chief Rabbi visited Vatican City. On getting there, he would walk to where the Pope sits and stand there. For his visits, the Chief Rabbi always carried a linen bag and would give the Pope a worn-out and dusty piece of paper
admin | August 18, 2021
The author's two children in their grandparent's backyard. Rabbi Yael Buechler When the pandemic began, my husband and I left New York City with our two young sons to live with my parents. After almost a year and a half, we are finally moving out and back to the city
admin | August 18, 2021
AP Top Stories August 13 P Heres the latest for Friday, August 13: Taliban seizes more Afghan cities; FDA says some got extra vaccines early; Houston schools defy Texas mask ban; Extreme heat his nations capital.
admin | August 18, 2021
Former Transport Minister Miri Regev called for a Mizrahi revolution in the Likud party on Thursday, complaining that the right-wing party has for too long been dominated by white Ashkenazi men at the expense of Middle Eastern and North African Jews. In an interview published in Yedioth Ahronoth, the senior Likud lawmaker stated that the fact that members of the Mizrahi community were not adequately represented in national leadership and that there had never been a Mizrahi Prime Minister showed that something is wrong here and only the Likud could change it
admin | August 18, 2021
The Israeli Ministry of Defenses Directorate of Defense Research and Development's (dubbed MAFAT) joint endeavor with venture capital firm Awz Ventures is up and running.
admin | August 18, 2021
It started with a tweet. Kate Clanchy, author of Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me posted on her Twitter account that a reviewer on Goodreads had made up a racist quote and said it was in my book. She urged her almost 40,000 followers to flag the review that claimed she had bigoted views on race, class and body image, and had used terms such as chocolate skin and Jewish nose.
admin | August 18, 2021
New York Jewish Week via JTA Writer Luc Sante calls them the ghosts of Manhattan. Those are the souls of the poor and marginal people, now dead, whose presence can be felt like a shade in the history of now affluent US neighborhoods, where they push invisibly behind it to erect their memorials in the collective unconscious.
admin | August 18, 2021
A new report titled Beyond the Count, conducted by the Jews of Color Initiative, revealed some of the struggles that Jews of Color experience in the US, with a large number of respondents indicating that they had experienced discrimination and scrutinization based on race as well as difficulty expressing their dual identities. The data was gathered at Stanford University by a multi-racial team of researchers, with over 1,118 respondents participating in the study released on Thursday. Some 80% of respondents said that they had "experienced discrimination" within Jewish settings, including synagogues, congregations, and Jewish spiritual communities, according to a press release issued by the Jews of Color Initiative.
admin | August 18, 2021
It's hard to understate the genius of Albert Einstein.
admin | August 18, 2021
For the pianist Evgeny Kissin, it was a love story that provided the inspiration to write his own music again. After being reunited with a childhood friend now his wife he woke up in the middle of the night and jotted down a Meditation that would become the first of his Four Piano Pieces Op
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