admin | July 14, 2022
On March 27, 1942, the first issue of the Detroit Jewish News was published. Eighty years later, the JN is still published every week. It has been a remarkable run for one of Americas prominent English-language Jewish newspapers
admin | July 14, 2022
Elizabeth Bleiman, 101, is a Holocaust survivor and part of Jewish Family and Childrens Services Holocaust Survivor Support program | Photo by Sasha Rogelberg If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Holocaust survivor Elizabeth Bleimans photo album is worth an autobiography. Among photos of her Hungarian childhood home, husband and daughter and concentration camp paperwork is also a clipping from a June 29, 1951 Jewish Exponent article, detailing her time as a cottage parent for a group home for children through the Association for Jewish Children, a precursor to Jewish Family and Childrens Service. Seventy one years later, Bleiman, 101, is still involved in JFCS as a client for its Holocaust Survivor Support program.
admin | July 14, 2022
In the days after the attack on the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, that killed seven people and left many more wounded, some grievously, we got emails from two prominent local people Rabbi Cathy Felix of Teaneck and William Lipsey of Livingston who had grown up there.
admin | July 14, 2022
Ive been thinking a lot about community this week.
admin | July 14, 2022
Jul 13, 2022, 9:44pmUpdated 26m ago By: News 12 Staff Young Israel of White Plains held an event Wednesday to honor the life and legacy of Holocaust survivors.
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A Jewish Israeli man was sentenced on Monday to three years and two months behind bars for his part in a mob assault of an Arab man last year during a wave of intense intercommunal violence in the country.
admin | July 14, 2022
Pressure on Russias Jewish institutions has stoked fears of retaliation over Israels support for Ukraine. The reality is more complex
admin | July 14, 2022
(July 13, 2022 / JNS) U.S. President Joe Biden met with a warm welcome when he arrived at Jerusalems Ben-Gurion International Airport on Wednesday and spoke of his long relationship with the Jewish state. Speakers on the tarmac included Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Israels President Isaac Herzog, both of whom recalled Bidens first visit to the country in 1973, just days before the start of the Yom Kippur War
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Chile's Jewish community was outraged this week by the publication of an advert for cut-price alcohol that displays an offensive depiction of Jewish people. Chilean alcohol distributor Arbol Verde published an advert for its discount booze featuring an image of a hook-nosed Jew with a hunchback in Mondays edition of the Chilean national newspaper, Las ltimas Noticias.
admin | July 14, 2022
We were sitting down to dinner under the stars in the palm and citrus tree-filled courtyard of Si Said, a riad in the medina of Marrakech, when manager Luc Fougre appeared through one of the arches and purposefully placed a chanukiah, with all of its nine candles alight, at the end of the table. We were a small band of Jewish journalists, being whisked through Jewish Morocco at breakneck speed. Fougre was the genial general manager of Angsana Marrakech, a collection of six luxury riads (large private townhouses) in the ancient heart of the city, complete with trickling fountains, limpid pools, exquisite zellij tilework and an exotic atmosphere straight of One Thousand and One Nights
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