admin | 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
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admin | 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
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admin | 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.
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admin | December 22, 2021
Roots was finally published on Aug. 17, 1976, 12 years after he began it.
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admin | December 20, 2021
(JTA) The Greek-Jewish community is celebrating the return of a trove of manuscripts and community documents that the Nazis had stolen nearly 80 years ago. The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) announced in a statement earlier this month that Russia, who was in possession of the archives, has agreed to return them to their Mediterranean origin, after a diplomatic process supported by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Nazis looted Thessaloniki, formerly home to one of Europes most vibrant Jewish communities, on July 11, 1942.
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admin | December 20, 2021
The newly discovered synagogue is the second found in the ancient community. University of Haifa and Yoli Schwartz / Israel Antiquities Authority Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old synagogue in the ruins of the ancient Jewish community of Migdalthe supposed birthplace of Mary Magdalene.
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admin | December 20, 2021
STOCKHOLM Jacob Mhlrad used to be a bad student. A very bad student.
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admin | December 18, 2021
In February 2017, asked what the government planned to do about the uptick in threats to Jewish centers and the rise in anti-Semitism since his election, Donald Trump responded, I am the least anti-Semitic person that youve ever seen in your entire life. That claim, like the one he would make a few months later about being the least racist person there is anywhere in the world, obviously was and remains not true at all. How do we know
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admin | December 18, 2021
There has been a lot of discussion lately about the coinage Latinx, which violates the rules of Spanish grammar, and is rejected by 98 percent of Hispanic Americans polled. Our friend and former colleague Matt Yglesias, who is of both Latino and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage, has written a very astute essay suggesting that the imposition of Latinx by well-meaning white lefties doesnt explain most of the Democrats problems with the Hispanic vote, but it sure doesnt help. Not to beat a dead caballo, but imagine if earnest progressive wannabe allies came up with must-use terms for Blacks, Jews, or Asian Americans rejected by those groups themselves
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admin | December 18, 2021
(Credit: Lyric Fest) Lyric Fest presents three performances of Yiddishe Nightingale, a special concert on the history of the American Yiddish Theater.
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