admin | January 11, 2020
WASHINGTON (JTA)-The black-Jewish coalition that has fought for civil rights since the 1960s has the city of Atlanta as its nexus. Folks there cite three reasons for this: a substantial African-American population, a relatively large Jewish community and John Lewis.
admin | January 11, 2020
Were pleased to bring you While You Were OutVerily quick takes on the happenings of this week. Last Sunday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association hosted its 77th Golden Globes award ceremony, and major film awards were taken home by Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and 1917.In some memorable roles from the year, Renee Zellweger took home best actress in a drama for her portrayal of Judy Garland in Judy, and Awkwafina took home the honors for her lead role in The Farewell.
admin | January 11, 2020
Entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist, Dame Stephanie Shirley, will be a keynote speaker at a seminar celebrating the centenary of the Save the Children charity, founded by Ellesmere-born sisters Eglantyne Jebb and Dorothy Buxton. The 86-year-old, who has given away at least 67 million of the estimated 150 million fortune she accumulated after selling her IT company in 1993, is also keen to meet some of her old school friends from her days at Oswestry Girls High School in the late 1940s. Her remarkable life began in Germany in 1933 as the Nazis seized power.
admin | January 5, 2020
Not long ago, Not far away By The Wave | on January 02, 2020 Courtesy of The Office of Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato This past month, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato and her team visited the Museum of Jewish Heritage, located in Battery Park City in Manhattan, New York City. The museum is recognized as a living memorial to those who perished in the Holocaust. Pheffer Amato was greeted by Jack Kliger, President & CEO of the Museum, who shared his familys own personal story of surviving the Holocaust.
admin | January 5, 2020
Hana Kraus and Walter Beer were young middle-class Jews living in the Central European state of Czechoslovakia when Nazi Germany invaded their country in 1939. In the ensuing years, the new genocidal regime robbed them of family and community, but they survived and came to the U.S., where they married and raised a family
admin | January 2, 2020
Today, the word Bauhaus evokes clearheaded, functional design with a vague whiff of revolutionary modernism. In countless ways, the relatively short-lived school gave form to the modern experience from the shapes of the letters we read to the arrangement of the cities we inhabit
admin | January 2, 2020
Theres plenty of reasons to be excited about 2020 in New York City and they have nothing to do with the presidential election. As we close out a year and a decade, and start anew, lets take a look ahead at some of the major events, dates and anniversaries well mark this coming year. Jan
admin | January 1, 2020
Dozens of members of Winnipeg's Jewish community honked their car horns and waved from vehicles on snowy city streets Sunday nightin a parade marking the end of Hanukkah. Police escorts accompanied about 70 people who took part in the celebration on the final day of the Jewish holiday. The joyous parade happened in the shadow of what's being investigated as a possible hate crime on Saturday thattargeted Jews south of the border
admin | December 31, 2019
What a year 2019 has been for, well, everyone, but especially for watchers of Jewish politics and Jews in politics. Two elections in Israel (with a third to come), three Jewish candidates running for the Democratic presidential nomination (Bernie Sanders, Marianne Williamson and Michael Bloomberg) and two of Jewish heritage (Tom Steyer and Michael Bennet).
admin | December 31, 2019
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