admin | March 24, 2022
Zbigniew Meissner/PAP Around 10,000 Hasidic Jews, mainly from Europe and the United States, are expected to visit the town of Lezajsk, in southeastern Poland, to take part in commemorations marking the 235th anniversary of the death of Tzaddik Elimelech Weissblum of Lizhensk.
admin | March 24, 2022
On the day the Russian army invaded Ukraine last month, Anna Niedwied, a citizen of neighboring Poland, noticed a post on Facebook requesting shelter for a family from Kyiv that was fleeing the violence. She responded immediately.
admin | March 24, 2022
Two classes of 10-year-old ultra-Orthodox boys marched in a line down the Tzalmon streambed in northern Israel. Like us, they came to see the Parod Falls. The green expanses thrilled them: they laughed, messed around and were clearly having fun
admin | March 24, 2022
PEPPER PIKE, Ohio Orange High School senior Jessica Brown has been named the Kiwanis of Lander Circle Senior of the Month for March. In addition to serving as the Amnesty International Club president and secretary of the Israeli Culture Club, Jessica is president and founder of two OHS clubs: #Trending Topics and Personal Wellness Club, both of which she created as a sophomore.
admin | March 24, 2022
MEDYKA, Poland It was weeks after the bombs started falling close to her fifth-floor apartment in Kyiv that Irena Sakada began to really worry about her 15-year-old daughter, Sofia. Thats when Sofia put down her paints. Unlike most of their friends, Sakada, a manicurist who is 46, had expected the Russian attack, and had prepared
admin | March 24, 2022
As the world has convulsed in the past few weeks from the calamitous and unforgivable genocide in Ukraine, stories my late mother told about her fifth great-grandfather, Yisroel Friedman, suddenly became more real to me. He was the Ruzhiner Rebbe, from the Ukrainian town of Ruzhin
admin | March 24, 2022
I rifled through my pantry this week hunting for Georgia-Pacific products such as Brawny paper towels or Angel Soft toilet paper. Relief, though it would be short-lived.
admin | March 24, 2022
Owen Jones at the Labour Party conference in 2019. Guardian columnist Owen Jones is notorious on the British left for his lack of principles
admin | March 24, 2022
The Wilma Theater ended a partnership this month with an arts group backed by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich that was supporting the debut of a play in Philadelphia. The break, over a local production of The Cherry Orchard, is another sign of the difficulties of being associated with Abramovich, after the United Kingdom froze his assets there in sanctions issued March 10.
admin | March 24, 2022
Less than a month ago, my biggest concern was finding a dependable job in Brooklyn, where I live. Now Im spending every night listening to the news, hearing all about the ways Ukraine, the country in which the majority of my biological family was born and raised, is being bombed and invaded. During the first few days of Vladimir Putins invasion of Ukraine, when I and most Americans first started learning about what was going on, there was a mix of reactions: outright shock, horror, resignation, and even some disturbing humor, in tweets that were sexualizing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he stood strong in command of his country in peril, or by those who compared what was going on to scenes in Marvel movies
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