admin | May 27, 2022
"Basle Congress" redirects here. For the 1869 4th General Congress of the International Workingmen's Association, see Basle Congress (1869). The First Zionist Congress (Hebrew: ) was the inaugural congress of the Zionist Organization (ZO) held in Basel (Basle), from August 29 to August 31, 1897.
admin | May 27, 2022
As faculty and officers of Harvard University who oppose racism and colonial violence in all its forms, we stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom and self-determination. Israeli state violence has devastated Palestinian life through a combination of warfare, territorial theft, and violent displacement
admin | May 25, 2022
Its hard to find a poster promoting early 20th-century Zionism that doesnt depict a tanned, chiseled man toting a shovel or a gun. The posters were visual reinforcement of the Muscle Jewry valued by Max Nordau and other early Zionist leaders, who felt the land would redeem a physically depleted Jewish people and the people would renew a neglected land. One early Zionist thinker defied this macho image, and then some: While Zionism celebrated strong and healthy bodies, Jessie Sampterspoke of herself as crippled from polio and plagued by weakness and sickness her whole life
admin | April 29, 2022
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- A Jewish civil rights organizations annual tally of antisemitic incidents in the U.S
admin | April 29, 2022
This week, Jews in Israel and around the world will commemorate Yom HaShoah, a Holocaust Remembrance Day that marks a somber time for remembrance and reflection. On Thursday, thousands of Israeli and diaspora Jews and supporters will walk silently from Auschwitz to Birkenau in Poland in a procession called the March of the Living, designed to highlight Jewish resilience and survival along the path where thousands of Jews were killed during Nazi death marches in the 1940s. Progressive Jewish activists such as ourselves have long expressed discomfort over the nationalist, militarist version of Holocaust memory on display at the March of the Living
admin | April 20, 2022
Jesus was a bastard conceived when an evil spirit slept with Mary (Kallah 1b, 18b). Mary, who was dung, was a prostitute and committed adultery (Sanhedrin, 67a). Jesus was a fool who practiced Egyptian magic (Sanhedrin, 67a)
admin | April 20, 2022
LIVE EVENT - War, Conflict, and Academic Freedom (21 April) Wellesley College Freedom Project PresentsNew University in Exile Consortium fellows from Ukraine, Syria, and Manipur, India reflect on how war silences academic freedom.21 April 20224:00 PM EDT War silences academic freedom. Scholars are being uprooted once again as the war in Ukraine escalates.
admin | April 20, 2022
Another Ramadan, another attack on Palestinian worshipers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. In explaining the Israeli attacks, the majority of Euro-American politicians, media analysts, and commentators, exemplified in this predictably inane CBC report, are emphasising the high tensions that come along with the confluence of three major religious events, and framing Israeli actions as a response to the Palestinian terrorist attacks in four Israeli cities. Palestinians are accustomed to hearing these types of explanations that basically present a distorted picture of a religious conflict that is caused by political Islamist ideologies and their bigotry, intolerance, and hatred towards Jews
admin | April 20, 2022
Is any name more synonymous with Jewish genius than Albert Einstein? By speaking out against anti-Semitism and lending his brand to institutions like the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Einstein became a standard-bearer for the Diaspora
admin | April 20, 2022
In this session, Dr. Samantha Meinrath-Vinokor of the Jewish Education Project will take participants through the top 10 items to know, in this arena, in order to be more informed as they navigate Jewish college life. Never miss the best stories and events for families, children and teens! Get JewishBoston Plus Kids.
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