Opinion: An inexpensive solution to two problems Palo Alto Daily Post – The Daily Post

| December 22, 2021

The benefits are two-fold supplying more housing and bringing back foot traffic to stores and restaurants. In addition, the city can do this at a minimal cost to the taxpayers. City Council discussed this last Monday and it seemed as if the council members, City Manager Ed Shikada and other city employees didnt know that Burlingame and Mountain View were already turning parking lots into housing at a low cost to their cities

What Is A Sephardic Jewish Person? chicagojewishnews.com

| December 22, 2021

Sephardi Jews are Jews descended from Jews who lived in the Iberian Peninsula in the late 15th century, immediately before the issuance of the Alhambra decree of 1492 by the Catholic Monarchs in Spain, and the decree of 1496 by the Protestant Church.

Was Martin Luther Guilty of Anti-Semitism?

| December 22, 2021

In this excerpt from our 2017 National Conference, Stephen Nichols and W. Robert Godfrey discuss whether Martin Luther was guilty of anti-Semitism. Transcript Stephen Nichols: You know, this is a question you hear a lot, and I think we've got to look at the broad context of Luther and then we need to say, that we need to understand him in that context, but we also need to not give him a free pass.

Is Donald Trump an Anti-Semite? – The New Yorker

| December 22, 2021

When hundreds of hours of tapes from the Nixon White House became public, two decades ago, the full extent of Nixons prejudices, including his contempt for Jews, came into sharp focus. The Jews are all over the government, he told his chief of staff H.R.

‘It’s trivializing the lives who so greatly suffered’: Outrage continues after Holocaust imagery used in anti-mandate rally – CTV News Atlantic

| December 22, 2021

Reaction and outrage continues after a weekend rally in Fredericton, N.B. where some of the participates wore and held the Star of David

The little-known Jewish origins of Boston’s annual Christmas tree tradition – St. Louis Jewish Light

| December 22, 2021

BOSTON (JTA) On an unseasonably warm December night earlier this month, some 12,000 people flocked to Boston Common for the lighting of the citys official Christmas tree: a majestic, 48-foot white spruce. The event marked the 50th straight year that the people of Nova Scotia supplied Bostons tree a tribute to how the city, led by a prominent Jewish businessman, supported the Canadian province at a time of crisis

WATCH: ‘Perceptions of Color’ panelists discuss winter holidays from Black perspective – Hot Springs Sentinel

| December 22, 2021

The Garland County Library's "Perceptions of Color" series will be livestreamed from 6 to 7 p.m. today, with panelists discussing the winter holidays of Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa from a Black perspective

The Indiana senator with a bipartisan streak on the Middle East – Jewish Insider

| December 22, 2021

For years, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) has worked to articulate a progressive foreign policy, building a name for himself among supporters of diplomacy and anti-war activists.

Alex Haley Taught America About Race and a Young Man How to Write – The New York Times

| December 22, 2021

Roots was finally published on Aug. 17, 1976, 12 years after he began it.



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