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Cutting Edge: The endless complexities of diaspora – Limelight

| September 19, 2021

From my New York apartment I can walk to my local liquor store and find one of 170 wines from the Barossa Valley. The verdant region north-east of Adelaide is justly famous for its zigzag quilt of villages and vineyards. It is rather less well known, however, for its extraordinary music history, which includes Australias oldest choir andbrass band and a surprising wealth of pipe organs.

Declaration of blood feud by Akhmed Arsanukaev triggers outrage of Chechen Diaspora in Turkey – Caucasian Knot

| September 19, 2021

The declaration by Akhmed Arsanukaev of a blood feud against four families is contrary to Vainakh traditions and elementary decency rules, members of the Chechen Diaspora in Turkey have stated. The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in September in Turkey, armed men attacked Akhmed Arsanukaev, a former Chechen law enforcer. On September 7, it became known that Arsanukaev announced blood feud against four families the Naurbaevs, Khalitovs, Mamakaevs and Azhievs

It is time Israel, the West admit the two-state solution is dead – Al Jazeera English

| September 19, 2021

In August, the influential US magazine Foreign Affairs carried out a survey on the two-state solution in Palestine among authorities with specialized expertise together with leading generalists in the field.

From tribalism to cohesion, and the Israeli cultural war – The Jerusalem Post

| September 19, 2021

Political Zionism has achieved its goals more successfully than any other national movement of the last century. In objective, measurable terms, the State of Israel is a dazzling success. Still, Israelis are far from satisfied with the way in which their national life is conducted

If you are going to spell it ‘antisemitism,’ then you should remove the hyphen from ‘anti-Zionism’ – Connecticut Jewish Ledger

| September 19, 2021

By Kenneth Marcus (JTA) Deborah Lipstadt, recently named by President Joe Biden as the U.S. Special Envoy To Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, wont just combat anti-Semitism but may well eliminate it.

Why Was the Jewish Response to Durban a Failure? – Algemeiner

| September 19, 2021

JNS.org Exactly 20 years ago, the egregious proceedings of the Durban Conference illustrated how the international community, and in particular the United Nations had legitimized antisemitism. A conference whose purpose was to oppose racism was essentially hijacked by the Palestinians and their allies, who were eager to revive the United Nations since-rejected libel about Zionism being racism.

Top Agudah and Reform Rabbis Join Forces Over Temple Mount – Algemeiner

| September 19, 2021

JNS.org We have witnessed a remarkable development as a result of the publication of an article by Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik in Commentary titled The Real Truth About the Temple Mount, which suggested that the government of Israel owes it to its citizens, and thousands of years of Jewish history, to state unequivocally that the Temple Mount, and not the Western Wall, is the locus of Jewish longing. He also expressed sympathy for those seeking to ascend to the Temple Mount, enclosed within the Muslim Haram A-Sharif compound, so that they could continue to pray, writing, For those who care deeply about the Jewish connection to the Mount, and who desperately desire to pray there, it may well be that today it will be achieved first and foremost with finesse

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and His Partner Have Very Jewish Wedding – Jewish Exponent

| September 19, 2021

By Philissa Cramer As his fellow Jews around the world prepared to annul their vowsduring Yom Kippur, Colorado Gov.

Bloom and Rose will bring Jewish deli to downtown Buffalo thanks to free rent contest – WGRZ.com

| September 19, 2021

The deli will open next year at 808.5 Main Street in downtown Buffalo near the medical campus BUFFALO, N.Y. A few years ago, a blossoming new food enterprise called Bloom and Rose started carving out a niche for knish in Buffalo. "Knish is basically like a nice flaky pastry on the outside, stuffed full of filling on the inside.

Jewish adult summer camp includes color war, fire breathing and shabbat – The Jerusalem Post

| September 19, 2021

Under a perfectly blue sky, the campers gathered around Lillian Feldman-Hill as she showed them how to create a combustible mixture using water, soap and butane. Then she demonstrated how to blow huge fireballs with just cornstarch and a blowtorch. Held on Labor Day weekend just before Rosh Hashanah, the camp drew some 100 adults in their 20s and 30s from throughout North America to have fun, make new friends and do Jewish stuff


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