Native American Heritage Month Submissions 2021 | Denver …
admin | December 26, 2021
My name is Meadow Contreras and I am Sicangu Lakota and Chicana. I live in a Jewish suburban neighborhood
Celebrating Italian American heritage – The Arlington …
admin | December 26, 2021
Italian American Heritage month wrapped up at the end of October, but for members of the Italian-American Club at Bishop OConnell High School in Arlington, the celebration of Italian culture goes year-round. The clubs dedicated moderator and school counselor, Daniel Stabile, helped students get the club off the ground 11 years ago.
The Armenian Film Foundation Survivor Testimonies Available on USC Shoah Visual History Archive – The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
admin | December 26, 2021
In his lifetime, Hagopian recorded nearly 400 eyewitness testimonies of Armenian Genocide survivors and witnesses on 16mm film from 1972 to 2005 for a series of documentaries. Dr. Hagopian, who passed away in December 2010 at age 97, ultimately produced 17 films about Armenians and the Armenian Genocide
OPINION | CRITICAL MASS: Movie masterpieces the best films of ’21 – Arkansas Online
admin | December 26, 2021
I haven't seen Steven Spielberg's remake of "West Side Story," but it is the subject of my favorite movie hot take of the year. "A rich and famous artist spends $100 million to revive a corpse with the blood of young people," Richard Brody wrote in his online review for The New Yorker. "The creature is still alive, but barely, and the infusion leaves it deader than when it started." Brody has scant affection for the 1961 film, and likes Spielberg's version even less
The Holocaust robbed them of their stories; this artist is bringing them back to life – Forward
admin | December 26, 2021
In his new graphic nonfiction narrative book When I Grow Up, the Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers, author and New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein deftly gives life to the never-told stories of six Jewish teenagers in the lost world of Yiddishuania, formerly Poland/Lithuania.
Albert Bourla Of Pfizer Is The CNN Business CEO Of The Year Greek City Times – GreekCityTimes.com
admin | December 26, 2021
CNN Business has namedPfizer(PFE)CEO Albert Bourla as the CEO of the year. Business considered several other influential CEOs for this years honour, including Lisa Su ofAMD, FordsJim Farley, Marvin Ellison ofLowes, David Solomon ofGoldman Sachs,AlphabetsSundar Pichai
Book on Wilmington’s Jewish history helps raise money for Temple of Israel renovations – StarNewsOnline.com
admin | December 26, 2021
Ben Steelman| StarNews Correspondent Beverly Tetterton spent 31 years heading the local history section of the New Hanover County Public Library, and she's written a shelf of books on county history, including "Wilmington: Lost But Not Forgotten," "MaritimeWilmington" and (with Dan Camacho) "A Brief History of Wilmington." Currently, Tetterton is board president of the Temple of Israel, and as part of its current "Restoration 150" fundraising campaign, she's written a history of the 146-year-old congregation. "A History of the Temple of Israel" is a little pricey at $100, but proceeds go toward the $500,000 the Temple needs to repair damagefrom Hurricanes Florence and Dorian
Police investigating swastikas scrawled on sidewalks around N.J. synagogue – NJ.com
admin | December 26, 2021
Police are investigating and elected officials have condemned the drawing of three swastikas outside a 90-year-old synagogue in West Orange on Saturday. The symbol was scrawled in chalk on the sidewalk in three places surrounding the Bnai Shalom Temple on the corner of Pleasant Valley Way and Woodland Avenue, said Rabbi Robert Tobin. Tobin said it appeared based on security camera footage that the incident took place at about 9 a.m.
The Temple-Tifereth Israel ends in-person worship for 3 weeks due to COVID-19 – News 5 Cleveland
admin | December 26, 2021
CLEVELAND The Temple-Tifereth Israel, a Reform Jewish synagogue in Beachwood, announced Thursday that due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Northeast Ohio and the omicron variant surging, it will be ending all of its in-person programs and switch to online worship and learning for the next three weeks. Beginning Thursday until Jan. 13, the synagogue will only offer online worship and learning opportunities, with Shabbat Services being livestreamed on it's website
Tom Gutherz: Rabbi Fighting the Far Right – Forward
admin | December 26, 2021
This is one of seven profiles of American Jews who fascinated us in 2021. Click here to see all seven and read an explanation of our Forward Shortlist. Congregation Beth Israel in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, was a magnet for journalists who covered the aftermath of Unite the Right, the white supremacist rally in 2017 that included chants of Jews will not replace us.
