admin | March 19, 2020
Editors Note: The 2020 SXSW Film Festival was canceled a few weeks ago due to concerns over the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). This was the right choice, but it has deeply hurt both the financials of the people of Austin who depend on the festival for their livelihood and the filmmakers who would have had their work showcased there. Were doing our part: To the best of our ability, were still covering films that would have played the festival, and all this week, well be bringing you reviews of smaller films that you should be on the lookout for.
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admin | March 19, 2020
Getty Images (JTA) From his frequent denunciations of anti-Semitism to his close friendship with an Argentine rabbi, Pope Francis has long been a friend of the Jews.
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admin | March 16, 2020
Pessimism runs deep in the Jewish psyche, with, tragically, good cause. Anti-Semitism goes back to the very beginnings of Jews as a people. Since biblical days, Jews have been seen as the other, outsiders, victims of conspiracy theories and myths that have no rational source
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admin | March 16, 2020
REVERB is a new documentary series fromCBSN Originals. Watch the latest episode, "Extremists Next Door," in the video player above.
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admin | March 16, 2020
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons. {Originally posted to the JNS website} Burned into the historical memory of the Jewish people is what happened in the period when the bubonic plague swept through Europe from 1347 to 1351. The Black Death was one of the greatest demographic catastrophes to afflict the human race in recorded history
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admin | March 16, 2020
Jewish Atlanta may look back on March 2020 as the beginning of lasting changes in the life of the community. For now, though, the threat posed by the coronavirus, which is responsible for the disease COVID-19, is forcing congregations, schools and communal organizations, not to mention individuals, to be nimble in how they adapt to a new reality. A brave new world is what David Abusch-Magder, The Epstein Schools head of school, called it
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admin | March 13, 2020
Its undeniable: Antisemitism is on the rise.
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admin | March 13, 2020
The ACLUs roots reach back to the National Civil Liberties Bureau, founded in 1917 to assist American conscientious objectors in World War I, which the organization definitely opposed. It also defended persons charged under the Espionage Act of 1917, and the more draconian Sedition Act of 1918, which neutered the First Amendment and was repealed in 1920.
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admin | March 13, 2020
Rep. Rashida Tlaib was photographed promoting controversial activist Linda Sarsours new book while wearing a T-shirt depicting Israel covered in Arabic letters that spell "Palestine." Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib's t-shirt doesn't exactly scream 'two-state solution," Alex VanNess, a fellow at the Endowment for Middle East Truth, tweeted Monday, along with a photo of the Michigan Democrat proudly holding up the book while sporting the shirt with Arabic writing and the colors of the Palestinian flag. The Washington Examiner independently confirmed that the writing translates to the word "Palestine." Tlaib, one of the only Palestinian Americans elected to Congress, has been criticized several times for comments many consider to be anti-Semitic
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admin | March 13, 2020
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) was recently pictured sporting a t-shirt that portrays the modern state of Israel as belonging entirely to Palestine. Tlaib, one of Congress's leadingcritics of Israel,was pictured in thet-shirt while promoting a recently published book by Linda Sarsour, another outspoken critic of the Jewish state who serves as a surrogate for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign.
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