admin | June 14, 2020
Fashions facades are crumbling. In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, the progressive images of many brands, shops and influencers are being stripped away to reveal what are in some cases toxic internal practices
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admin | June 12, 2020
Even though its remote, you can still keep your connection to the theater strong with a diverse selection of virtual offerings this weekend.
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admin | June 12, 2020
Less than a month after Leslie Nolan was named executive director of Canterbury Shaker Village, the world changed. That meant Nolan had fallen into that unique, scary category, the one that forced new bosses brand new bosses to change strategy on the fly as the pandemic began moving.
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admin | June 12, 2020
This Friday (June 12), Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County is encouraging you to take the day off, if you can, to familiarize yourself with elected officials and to educate yourself on systemic racism in America. Whether that means participating in the Silent March at Judkins Park or taking action from home by donating to antiracist causes, there's tons of ways to show up for your local black and brown communities. Read on for this weekend's BLM-focused protests and demonstrations, virtual events amplifying black voices, and other happenings (like the Seattle International Dance Festival and a Pride Flag-Raising Ceremony in White Center).
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admin | June 12, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trapped in a labyrinth of his own making. He still sees a historic opportunity that cant be missed to go ahead with his plan to do something that no previous premier has dared: To annex territories in the West Bank. The opportunity being the fact that US President Donald Trumps proposed peace plan allows him to annex major chunks of Palestinian land, including the Jordan Valley.
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admin | June 10, 2020
A newly launched nonprofit is calling on worldwide Jewish donors, young and old, to allocate at least half of their charitable dollars transferred at death to Jewish and Israel-related causes. Philanthropist and entrepreneur Michael Leven and longtime Jewish executive AmyHoltz launched the Jewish Future Pledge (JFP) initiative in May, during Jewish Heritage Month, with the aim of securing a vibrant Jewish future and inspiring the next generation of Jews to help support it.
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admin | June 10, 2020
I shed many tears during my year of saying Kaddish.
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admin | June 8, 2020
One Facebook post falsely claimed the killing of George Floyd in police custody last month was a staged event, meant to rile up opposition to President Donald Trump. Another showed a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. next to a banana an established racist trope
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admin | June 6, 2020
NEW YORK CITY - OCTOBER 24 2015: More than one thousand activists marched on behalf of the families ...
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admin | June 1, 2020
Photo Credit: US Air Force Over two months after Americas entry into the war, American troops began arriving at France on June 26 1917. On October 21, the first Americans were in combat. For the next year, over two million American troops fighting alongside the Entente would help change the course of the war.
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