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Just a few days before German citizens were due to go to the polls to elect a new Chancellor, Die Zeit, one of Germany's leading national weekly newspapers, published a farewell tribute to current Chancellor Angela Merkel last Thursday and invited past and present political figures from several countries to share their memories and impressions under the heading of "Auf Wiedersehen" (Till we meet again). Merkel is the first German chancellor to have been born after the Second World War, the first woman to serve in the role, and the third longest-serving chancellor overall, after Otto von Bismark and Helmut Kohl. cnxps.cmd.push(function () { cnxps({ playerId: '36af7c51-0caf-4741-9824-2c941fc6c17b' }).render('4c4d856e0e6f4e3d808bbc1715e132f6'); }); But as it was, the Die Zeit editors did not choose Netanyahu.
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admin | September 28, 2021
In November 1936, Chaim Weizmann the best known Jewish leader of his time observed that for Europe's Jews, "the world is divided into places where they cannot live and places they cannot enter." Regarding the former, Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass") marked Germany's departure from all civilized norms. From Nov. 9, 1938, on, nearly all German and Austrian Jews realized there was no future in their native countries.
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admin | September 28, 2021
Social media users expressed outrage after a video was shared of a Palestinian crowd singing and dancing to Hebrew music at a wedding in Yatta near Hebron on Thursday. Israeli Druze singer Mike Sharif performed at the wedding, with a video on his Facebook page showing him singing the song "Why Not?" with the crowd singing and dancing along
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Community Content| Wicked Local Hebrew Collegerecentlylaunched its centennial programming with the opening ofSeeing Torah: A Visual Midrash,an art exhibit representing the spiritual, politicaland feminist lessons of the Torah by Boston artist and Hebrew College adult learner Anita Rabinoff-Goldman. This visual diary, which will be on display through December, consists of 54 squares filled with patterns, colors and textures that encourage viewers to reflect on what Torah means to them, to relate to it through their own experiences, and to consider how Torah can be a continuing source of learning and discourse
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admin | September 28, 2021
By VALERIE KAUFMAN Grandparents Day is now old enough to be a grandparent itself. But just like the grandparents who reside at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Grandparents Day remains vibrant six decades after first being introduced in the Bronx especially from its Palisade Avenue birthplace. While the ongoing coronavirus pandemic may have dampened some of the hoopla surrounding the special day, many of the Hebrew Homes residents were treated to a luncheon on Sept
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Lesson Overview Featured Article: How Language Classes Are Moving Past the Gender Binary by Molly Lipson Many languages, including Hebrew, French, Spanish, Italian and Arabic, use binary pronouns, such as he/she and male/female, which means that other gender identities are not formally acknowledged in those languages. In this lesson, you will learn about teachers who are finding ways to make expressing gender identity across languages more inclusive.
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admin | September 28, 2021
Israel Independence Day and Jerusalem Day are two of the most recent celebrations added to the Hebrew calendar. Holocaust Remembrance Day is another recent addition mandated by the Knesset
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admin | September 28, 2021
The recent JTA article by Andrew Silow-Carroll No one lost their Jewish last name at Ellis Island. But we gained a safe haven) is accurate, as far as it goes. But there is more to the story, some of which will never be known.
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Anita Rabinoff-Goldman began the work that became the spectacular art exhibit Seeing Torah: A Visual Midrash almost four years ago. She had moved from Albany, New York, to Waltham, Massachusetts, to be closer to family
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