admin | June 6, 2022
TUNIS, Tunisia The annual Jewish pilgrimage to El-Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba has rekindled the popular and political debate over the issuance in Tunisia of a law criminalizing normalization with Israel. The Palestinian cause is an issue that the majority of Tunisians support, even if this backing is often superficial. In a May 26statement,the moderate Islamist Ennahda movement denounced what they claimed was the exploitation of the pilgrimage to El-Ghriba synagogue to officialize forms of normalization with Israel.
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admin | June 6, 2022
Our May 19 editorial was written after the massacre of Black people in a Buffalo, N.Y., grocery store. This is how that editorial ended: One day someone will write a book titled Bury My Heart at Newtown (26 dead); or Bury My Heart at Charleston (nine Black men and women murdered in their church); or Bury My Heart at El Paso (22 dead in a Walmart); or Bury My Heart at Pittsburgh (11 murdered in a synagogue).
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admin | June 6, 2022
On June 20, we celebrate World Refugee Day. My grandparents came to the United States as refugees.
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admin | June 6, 2022
A DJ clicked play on a Lionel Richie song, and the percussive early bars of All Night Long began wafting through the air as people gathered in line to pick up that evenings meal. It was a sunlit weekday afternoon along Jefferson Avenue on Buffalos East Side, where several days earlier, 10 people were shot to death and three wounded at a Tops Markets store. The suspect, a white supremacist, claimed in a hate-filled screed to be targeting Black people.
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admin | June 4, 2022
(New York Jewish Week) This weekend is Shavuot, the major Jewish holiday that occurs seven weeks after the second Passover seder and marks the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Though Shavuot is light on specific rituals besides the custom of eating cheesecake, blintzes, bourekas and other dairy delicacies the holiday has become a celebration of Jewish study, in general, and Torah learning, in particular
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admin | June 4, 2022
Rachel Strugatsky, at Kyiv's Brodsky Synagogue, holds up her identification card for Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces, for which she volunteered days after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. Photo by Rachel Strugatsky By Helen ChervitzJune 02, 2022 Helen Chervitz is an American fashion writer in Kyiv, but since the Russian invasion has been writing about living in a country at war.
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admin | June 4, 2022
Despite what the braying anti-Roe Right wants you to think, America is not pro-life. This country is pro-death
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admin | June 2, 2022
The Deborah Chapel was named to the National Trust for Historic Preservation's 2022 list of Most Endangered Historic Buildings in America. HARTFORD, Conn
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admin | June 2, 2022
GONDAR, Ethiopia (JTA) The atmosphere was festive at this citys only synagogue as the congregations prepared to send off 180 community members who are moving to Israel. Everyone is happy because todays a day of hope, Abraham Zemenu, a 49-year-old regular, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency at the service Tuesday at the Hatikvah synagogue, a corrugated-metal structure with a Torah ark and seats for about 600 people. Hatikvah means hope in Hebrew and it is also the name of the Israeli national anthem
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admin | June 2, 2022
The Kramer family (from left), Michele Kramer Sloane, Charles Kramer, Mark Kramer, and Lynn P. Kramer. On Thursday, June 30, Charles Kramer and his children, Michele Kramer Sloane and Mark Kramer, will host the Lynn P.
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