admin | March 26, 2022
April 2 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Hermann Rorschach, the Swiss psychoanalyst who propounded the Rorschach inkblot test, still used as a means of evaluating mental conditions. The Rorschach test immediately attracted strong support from Jewish clinicians.
admin | March 26, 2022
Most people can identify the developers of the worlds most important vaccines, including Louis Pasteur (rabies, anthrax), Edward Jenner (smallpox), and Jonas Salk (polio and influenza), but the name Mordechai Wolff (Waldemar) Haffkine, an Orthodox Jew who is credited with the development and use of vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague, has been forgotten, even though he arguably saved far more lives than they did. He was hailed as the Jewish Jenner; he was characterized by Joseph Lister, the pioneer of antiseptic surgery, as a savior of humanity; and, in R. Joseph Hertzs well-known second edition of the Soncino Chumash, the influential chief rabbi of the British Empire noted that he was a famous scientist
admin | March 26, 2022
(New York Jewish Week) Fresh off of a mission on the Ukrainian border, a Messianic group that seeks Jews to accept Jesus is setting its sights on Jewish New Yorkers. Chosen People Ministries is one two Messianic groups that announced plans this week to visit New York and share their gospel this summer, causing alarm for some Jews in the city who say that their practices are disrespectful.
admin | March 26, 2022
On 12 February 2020, with a four-year delay since the adoption of the mandate in 2016, the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) published a database of 112 enterprises[1] doing business in Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Why
admin | March 26, 2022
The UN Special Rapporteurs report echoes recent findings by Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights organisations who analized Israels 55-year occupation of the Palestinian Territory. There is today in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967 a deeply discriminatory dual legal and political system, that privileges the 700,000 Israeli Jewish settlers living in the 300 illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, said Michael Lynk, the UN Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967
admin | March 26, 2022
DETERMINED TO STAYPalestinian Youth Fight for Their Village by Jody Sokolower 240 pps. Olive Branch Press $20 Determined to Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village by Jody Sokolower is one of the rare non-fiction, young adult books that center contemporary Palestinian experiences and voices
admin | March 26, 2022
Maurice Ebileeni's study of Palestinian literary narratives and the imaginings of the Palestinian homeland highlights the need to rethink both. Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World takes the reader on a multifaceted journey through land, continents and languages as these intertwine with Palestinian authors' perceptions, imaginings and affinities to Palestine.
admin | March 26, 2022
Yesterday news broke that yet another organization determined that Israels rule over Palestinians constitutes apartheid, this time a reportfrom the Special Rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council. The Israeli government now fears an unprecedented effort to push the apartheid label, Haaretz says a wave Israels foreign minister predicted a few months ago.
admin | March 26, 2022
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has long been viewed as a hate group on college campuses which isnt to promote education about Palestinians, but make the campus environment hostile for Israel supporters, assummed upby Aviva Slomich, international campus director for CAMERA. On March 14, 2022, Tufts Universitys SJP chapter posted an opinion piece in the student run paper, Tufts Observer, called Justice Through BDS. The article promoted the familiar anti-Zionist propaganda, mislabeling Israel as a creature of European settler colonialism that runs an apartheid regime.
admin | March 26, 2022
Greg Keselman is worried about his wifes family outside Kyiv. Her brother, his wife and kids spend most of their time huddled in shelters to escape the shelling. Theres not much that Keselman, who grew up in Ukraine and now lives in Pleasant Hill, can do other than stay in touch
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