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Streaming Jewish films and lectures – San Diego Jewish World

| June 26, 2020

Week of June 28, 2020 By Laurie Baron, Ph.D (All times Pacific time) Sunday, June 2811 a.m. Aviva Ben-Ur, Suriname: Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society, Sephardic World 12 p.m.

Unearthing the Bond Between Blacks and Jews – jewishboston.com

| June 22, 2020

Join us for an evening with Joshua Washington, director of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel (IBSI). This organization is dedicated to education about the sacred bond between black Americans and Jews, particularly during the civil rights era to the present day. IBSI realizes that education is the key to a better pathway forward

Israeli rabbis are divided over temperature checks on Shabbat, a tool to stop the spread of disease – St. Louis Jewish Light

| June 16, 2020

JERUSALEM (JTA) Top haredi Orthodox rabbis in Israel and the Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel are split over the use of thermometers on Shabbat as part of health checks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In Israel, the thermometers are used at the entrance to hospitals to make sure that people who enter do not have fevers, one symptom of the coronavirus

Another Jewish perspective on ‘Black Lives Matter’ – San Diego Jewish World

| June 16, 2020

By Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California Even as our nation is convulsing from the unprecedented and converging crises of COVID-19 and the (mostly peaceful) street protests manifested under the canopy of Black Lives Matter, some in our Jewish community have expressed concerns and indignation: there are scattered elements of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism expressed by BLM. The May 30 riotous disturbances that occurred in the Fairfax section of Los Angeles, including the defacing of a synagogue with Nazi symbols, have sharpened these Jewish sentiments and denunciations

Jewish and Black Grandmas Team Up for a Candid Conversation on Race – Jewish Journal

| June 13, 2020

The Jewish Life Television series Bubbies Know Best, where Jewish grandmothers set up singles, paused matchmaking to invite three black grandmothers to discuss how Jews and blacks can build and strengthen their alliances as the floodgates on discussing racism have opened. Joining the normal cast of Bubbies Bunny, Linda and SJ were Granny Angelle (Reverend Doctor Angelle Jones), Granny Beverly (Beverly Daniels) and Granny Dolores (Dolores Petersen)

Shavuot brings out the Jew – Cleveland Jewish News

| June 1, 2020

What is a Jew? That is a question that has baffled thinkers over the course of the centuries. Some claim a Jew is a member of the Jewish religion

I joined a club to read an old book and found a new story – Jewish Journal

| June 1, 2020

wikicommons The Sarajevo Haggadah Geraldine Brooks People of the Book was the inspiration for a creative musical work entitled The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book. Created by Bosnian composer and accordion player, Merima Kljuco, the work uses accordion, piano, and video to trace the unique travels of the haggadah from medieval Spain to 20th century Bosnia. Hidden and rescued during World War II, the haggadah was later restored by the National Museum in Sarajevo.

Virtual Shavuot events around the Bay J. – The Jewish News of Northern California

| May 27, 2020

Shavuot is traditionally a time of year when Jews celebrate the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people by studying Torah all night long and eating lots of dairy foods, especially cheesecake.

Sassouni implores public to vote for experienced candidate ahead of Board of Education election – Great Neck News – The Island Now

| May 27, 2020

Rebecca Sassouni, who is running to retain her seat on the Great Neck Board of Education, said voting for someone with experience serving the public is paramount. Sassouni, a lawyer and Great Neck resident, spoke on the challenges Great Neck and Nassau County residents have faced in the past three years during her first term and said voting for someone who has district residents best interest at heart is of high importance. She is running against John Jahng

The epidemic that brought Jews back to Jerusalem – The Jerusalem Post

| May 26, 2020

A century ago, the Spanish Plague killed tens of millions of people globally.A century before that, communities throughout the eastern Mediterranean were devastated by a bubonic plague outbreak, which reached the ancient Galilean city of Safed in 1812, quickly decimating its population.Just a few years prior, three waves totaling some five hundred followers of the Vilna Gaon one of Jewish historys intellectual and spiritual giants had come to the Land of Israel from White Russia, fulfilling their leaders own dream a decade after his death. It was a significant demographic boost to the relatively small and overwhelmingly Sephardi Jewish community already in what was then Ottoman Palestine.An illustration of the Vilna Gaon.


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