admin | March 24, 2022
MEDYKA, Poland It was weeks after the bombs started falling close to her fifth-floor apartment in Kyiv that Irena Sakada began to really worry about her 15-year-old daughter, Sofia. Thats when Sofia put down her paints. Unlike most of their friends, Sakada, a manicurist who is 46, had expected the Russian attack, and had prepared
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admin | March 24, 2022
As the world has convulsed in the past few weeks from the calamitous and unforgivable genocide in Ukraine, stories my late mother told about her fifth great-grandfather, Yisroel Friedman, suddenly became more real to me. He was the Ruzhiner Rebbe, from the Ukrainian town of Ruzhin
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admin | March 24, 2022
I rifled through my pantry this week hunting for Georgia-Pacific products such as Brawny paper towels or Angel Soft toilet paper. Relief, though it would be short-lived.
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admin | March 8, 2022
Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai set off Monday for Poland, where he was set to view Europes largest refugee crisis since World War II from the border with Ukraine. Shais trip is the first public visit by an Israeli minister to Eastern Europe since war broke out last month with Russias invasion of Ukraine. The Russian offensive has triggered a massive outflow of refugees; according to the UN, over 1.5 million people have fled the country since fighting began on February 24.
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admin | March 8, 2022
Sara Burnett| Associated Press Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was one of the more high-profile targets of political violence when prosecutors say a group of men who were angry about restrictions imposed because of the pandemic plotted to kidnap the Democrat and hold a trial accusing her of what they called treason. MORE: Whitmer plot underlines growing abuse of women officials But the case didnt surprise many women lawmakers or people who track such attacks
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admin | March 8, 2022
All weekLast chance to see Your Ship Has Landed. Image: NOW Gallery At time of writing, a large tube strike is planned for Tuesday and Thursday this week, with "major disruption" expected. Disruption could have a knock-on effect on Wednesday and Friday too, with all modes of public transport expected to be busier than usual just something to bear in mind when planning your week
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admin | March 3, 2022
In recent months, the phone lines between Ankara and Tel Aviv have been unusually busy. In November, following the release of an Israeli couple that had been detained while vacationing in Istanbul, Israeli President Isaac Herzog rang his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoan, thanking the leader for his role in resolving the crisis. Shortly after, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett followed suit in what was the first official conversation between Turkish and Israeli heads of government since 2013.
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admin | March 3, 2022
(JTA) If I have learned anything over the past month, it is that racist tropes are not harmless words. They must be actively and consistently challenged.
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admin | February 11, 2022
Good morning, New York. Jewish Bronx-born comedian and actor Robert Klein turns 80 today. I was in the DeWitt Clinton High School marching band, he has joked.
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admin | February 11, 2022
(JTA) Some members of Congress are openly hostile to Israel. But it was Rep. Andy Levin, a Detroit-area Michigan Democrat and a scion of a storied Jewish political family, whom a former AIPAC president identified in an email earlier this month as arguably the most corrosive member of Congress to the U.S.-Israel relationship.
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