With two degrees in Asian studies and 15 years of his life spent living and working in China everything from acting to the diamond business to real estate Rabbi Matt Trusch has a lot of experience with China. But antisemitism wasnt one of those experiences until he began posting on Douyin, Chinas TikTok, from his home back in Texas in 2021
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By Roberta Silman A.B. Yehoshua was anything but a provincial Israeli writer.
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Since 2015, Jonathan Greenblatt has served as the director of the Anti-Defamation League, an organization devoted to chronicling and fighting anti-Semitism in American society.
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Title: People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted PresentBy Dara HornW.W. Norton & Company, 272 pages Dara Horns newest work, People Love Dead Jews, explores a wide array of topics, all centered around one theme: Why do people seem to love dead Jews so much? Under the surface of this question, she explores whether this love for dead Jews in China, in America, in literature, in our own mythologies and histories devalues the vibrant life of Judaism in its living, breathing, adherents today.
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Breadcrumb Trail Links Opinion: What do Christianity, Judaism and Islam which are all marking holy festivals this week have to offer during the destruction wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Publishing date: Tanks. Missile bombardments
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At the end of December last year, Swiss painter Miriam Cahn made headlines by announcing that she intended to withdraw her work from Kunsthaus Zrich, Switzerlands largest art museum.
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Decades ago, when the performer Caryn Johnson decided her name wasnt interesting enough and dubbed herself Whoopi Goldberg instead, it wasnt because Goldberg signified whiteness. Through the years, shes offered many weird and contradictory explanations for her change in moniker, but it might have seemed at the time that a black person sporting the surname Goldberg would be especially eye-catching and noteworthy (especially in conjunction with that wild first name) because it would represent the proud ownership of her outsider status.
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Puppet of Anne Frank in Compulsion or the House Behind by Rinne B. Groff. Photo by Stan Barouh
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Home Entertainment the key to the anne frank mystery January 21, 2022 Manuel P. VillatoroFOLLOW, CONTINUE Updated:21/01/2022 02:41h Keep mario escobar could not imagine that his new novel, Childrens house (Editions B) was going to be so fashionable these days. In full effervescence of the figure of Anne Frank after it has been revealed who was the traitor who handed her over, the prolific historian a Stakhanovist of letters presents a book that recounts the adventures of a Sephardic Jewess who saved more than six hundred children in Nazi-dominated Holland.
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The Holocaust all but destroyed a centuries-old Jewish civilization, while the war carved up nations and left the Continent divided between the allied West and the Soviet-dominated East.
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