admin | October 6, 2022
The relationship between Poles and Jews is complex and often contentious, historically when Poland was the home to the largest Jewish community in the world, ever more so when it was the site chosen by the Germans for the murder of Jews in death camps, and even today. We both remember a shared history, but often we remember it quite differently. In 2018, Poland passed a law on Holocaust remembrance that the government believed would have benign implications on Polish-Jewish relations.
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admin | October 4, 2022
(JTA) It seemed like a headline out of the 19th century: a warning of Jew-free zones at the University of California-Berkeley. Thats the phrase being employed by some prominent pro-Israel groups this week to describe a dispute at UC Berkeleys law school, where nine student groups recently voted to adopt by-laws that state they will not invite any visiting speakers to campus who hold views in support of Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine.
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admin | October 4, 2022
Brandon Uranowitz, Caissie Levey, Faye Castelow and David Krumholtz in Leopoldstadt.
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admin | October 4, 2022
Photo by iStock Tyler SamuelsSeptember 30, 2022 Im not racist. A Jew is a Jew.
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admin | September 21, 2022
Eyal Haddad, hyd, a Jewish resident of France who was brutally murdered by a Muslim on August 20 was brought to kever Yisrael in Israel on Thursday. He was buried in Beer Sheva, where his family members, who are originally from Djerba, Tunisia, live.
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admin | September 21, 2022
It could almost be an anxiety dream: your name up in lights alongside the word Jews, resplendent on the outside of Londons Royal Court theatre. And yet Ive looked and looked again and I have not imagined it. Its there
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admin | September 21, 2022
The perfect Rosh Hashana gift Featuring well-chosen primary sources, magnificent artwork and memorable infographics provides readers with a magnificent one-volume guide to Jewish history, teachings and practices. Jonathan Sarna, Brandeis University A comprehensive 496page coffeetablestyle book exploring theteachings, observances, and history of Judaism. What is Judaism?
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admin | September 21, 2022
(September 18, 2022 / JNS) Between 2019 and 2020, more than two million Twitter posts regarding Jews or Israel were anti-Semitic, according to a study from the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (ISCA) at Indiana University. In 2019, 849,253 tweets6.9 percent of all conversations about Jews on Twitterwere anti-Semitic. That proportion rose in 2020 to 10.7 percent, meaning 1,531,912 anti-Semitic tweets were posted, 4,197 per day or one every 20 seconds, in conversations that include the word Jews
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admin | September 21, 2022
When professor Jeffrey Lax reported pervasive discrimination against Jews, including harassment of Jewish faculty members like himself, the City University of New York placed the investigation in the lap of Saly Abd Alla, an official in the school's discrimination office but hardly an ally of the Jewish people. Abd Alla came to CUNY from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, where she worked as a civil rights director alongside officials who have promoted anti-Israel agitprop and defended Jew-hating terror groups including Hamas
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admin | September 21, 2022
"'Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew,' is recovery food," writes Michael Twitty in the preface to his latest book. That book, written during the post-Obama years, was meant as a balm for high political tensions, for the seemingly never-ending culture wars. "Each twenty-four-hour media cycle saw an uptick of red-meat policies to punish marginalized, oppressed, and outlier communities," wrote Twitty, who is Black, Jewish, gay and an immensely talented writer
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