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Mammon In Light of Torah – The Commentator – The Commentator

| May 6, 2022

I read the recent essay Torah Umammon by my friend Rabbi Yitzchak Blau with great interest, as I do his writings in general. In fact, I have been enthusiastically sharing one of his previous articles, Rabbinic Responses to Communism (Tradition, Winter 2007), with my students at the Sy Syms School of Business for more than 12 years

Jewish summer camp veterans are opening a camp for trans kids. It was filled within weeks. – JTA News – Jewish Telegraphic Agency

| May 6, 2022

(JTA) Shira Berkowitz was building a career in Jewish camping when a camp told them not to return. It got around that I was that was queer, and that that wasnt appropriate for me to be a program director for girls, Berkowitz said.

The frozen bagel and the synagogue | Avi Liberman | The Blogs – The Times of Israel

| May 6, 2022

It usually takes years to get to the point where you can make a living as a standup comedian. That applies to many other professions in the arts, but its widely known that youre probably not going to be very good for a long time.

‘This is not a joke:’ Rabbis at the center of Texas synagogue hostage-taking share details of that day – Forward

| May 6, 2022

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, left and Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, center, in a conversation moderated by author Abigail Pogrebin at Manhattan's Central Synagogue on May 3, 2022.

A Greys Anatomy writer falsely claimed to have lost a friend in the Tree of Life synagogue shooting – JTA News – Jewish Telegraphic Agency

| May 6, 2022

(JTA) Elisabeth Finch claimed to have survived a rare and fatal form of cancer.

Daily digest: Theaster Gates’ Chicago art incubator breaks ground, design unveiled for Studio Libeskind’s Tree of Life project in Pittsburgh, and more…

| May 6, 2022

Happy Humpday, and welcome to todays roundup of notable news in the worlds of art, architecture, urbanism, and design.

Algeria: Arbitrary Travel Bans on Diaspora Activists – Human Rights Watch

| May 6, 2022

(Beirut) Algerian authorities have imposed arbitrary travel bans on at least three activists from the Algerian diaspora, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. Although one of the three was finally permitted to leave on May 5, 2022, after being blocked for three months, the authorities should immediately lift the bans on the other two. Between January and April 2022, the authorities have prevented at least three Algerian-Canadian citizens, only one of whom has been charged, from returning to their homes in Canada and interrogated them about their links to the Hirak, a mass protest movement calling for political change

Artist explores the African diaspora in new exhibition – AroundtheO

| May 6, 2022

The UOs Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art highlights the photography of Lewis Watts in the new exhibit Likeness or Not: Reflections from the African Diaspora, which is on view through Sept. 4 in the J Focus West Gallery. On Thursday, May 19, at 4 p.m., the artist will present Faces and Places in the Diaspora, a visiting artist lecture, in Room 177, Lawrence Hall

Diaspora urged to strengthen investment in Jamaica – Jamaica Gleaner

| May 6, 2022

Jamaica's Global Diaspora Conference was officially launched today. The conference will be held June 14-16. In his address at the virtual event, Prime Minister Andrew Holness renewed his call for Jamaicans in the Diaspora to invest more in the country

Hundreds of thousands of Diaspora Jews Share in Masa’s virtual and in-person Yom HaZikaron ceremony – JNS.org

| May 6, 2022

(May 4, 2022, Jerusalem, Israel, JNS Wire) Yesterday, on the eve of Yom HaZikaron, a day of remembrance for Israels fallen soldiers and victims of terror, Masa Israel Journey hosted its 14th annual Yom HaZikaron Ceremony in Latrun, Israel. The event was held in person and was live-streamed on Masas Facebook and Instagram pages


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