admin | April 29, 2024
In Embrace Pluralism over Racialism, Manhattan Institute president Reihan Salam rightly observes that we are living through a disturbing rise in anti-Semitic violence. From the nations first days, he reminds us, America has welcomed the Jewish people, who, in turn, have helped make America the most dynamic, productive, and creative nation in the world. I would go further.
admin | April 29, 2024
When I came to meet Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, Joe Bidens special envoy for combating global antisemitism, in her office at the State Department late last week, she had something she wanted to show me. It was the cover of New York magazine from January 1996
admin | April 20, 2024
(JTA) - As Mary Jane Rein prepared to publicly exit her role as executive director of Clark Universitys Holocaust center, she attended a local fundraiser for Catholic schools. After 20 years, she was leaving her job at Clark on bad terms. A member of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Ph.D.
admin | April 20, 2024
How do we as Jews gather at our seder tables when the hostage situation by Passover may be unresolved? Let My people go that they may celebrate a festival for Me in the wilderness Exodus 5:1. Have any words ever sounded more profound and relevant than they do right now.
admin | April 20, 2024
WASHINGTON (JTA) Shortly after Hamas Oct.
admin | April 20, 2024
(New York Jewish Week) When Jewish comedian Michael Hirsch took the stage in the Catskills last month, he quickly realized that the crowd was much older than his typical audience people who may have gone to shows back when the area was a hotbed of Jewish comedy. It was really people who were there for the original run of that, when it was in its heyday, Hirsch told the New York Jewish Week about the audience at Shadowland Stages in Ellenville, New York
admin | April 11, 2024
(JTA) On Saturday night, I watched an episode of We Were the Lucky Ones,Hulus new Holocaust series. On Sunday morning, I woke up to a traumatic scene in my own community:a red swastika painted on the bannerthat sits on the front lawn of the suburban Philadelphia synagogue where my husband is the rabbi. Even though it wasnt shattered glass, or broken bones, it was painful to see it there, right there, in our own backyard, on our property, on our beloved banner that advertises our early childhood program and the summer camp my children will attend.
admin | April 11, 2024
Understanding Zionism: Historyand Perspectives By Anne Perez Fortress What exactly does it mean to identify oneself as a Zionist or to call someone else one?
admin | March 30, 2024
As the UK's Chief Rabbi prays for the recovery of the Princesses of Wales, due to cancer, The Jerusalem Post has revisited a conundrum about Kate Middleton's religious background. "Now that Shabbat has concluded, I join people throughout the UK and across the globe in expressing my sadness in learning that the Princess of Wales is battling cancer and I extend heartfelt wishes to her for a refuah shelema a swift and complete recovery," Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis wrote on Saturday night on social media. Kensington Palace revealed on January 17 2024 that Middleton had undergone planned abdominal surgery for a non-cancerous condition, leading to the postponement of her public engagements until after Easter, amid widespread speculation and media attention regarding her health.
admin | March 30, 2024
(JTA) More than two decades ago Rabbi Shai Held was lecturing to a class of fifth-year rabbinical students when he remarked in passing, Judaism revolves around the claim that God loves us and beckons us to love God back. Said one skeptical student: That sounds Christian to me. Held recalls thinking, I was just quoting the morning liturgy: bechol levavacha You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, as it says in the Veahavata section of the Shema.
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