admin | April 11, 2024
Judy Rakowsky Judy Rakowsky When a bill was introduced last month in the Pennsylvania Senate to make Holocaust education uniform and mandatory, a survivor spoke at the Pennsylvania State Capitol about the need for teaching children about the industrialized genocide of 6 million Jews during World War II. The Holocaust must be taught forever and ever, Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann said
admin | April 11, 2024
Aaron Nielsenshultz, the director of religious school and bnai mitzvah training at Beth Or, discusses Israel with high school students. Photo by Allison Levin Leslie Feldman Aaron Nielsenshultz, the director of religious school and bnai mitzvah training at Beth Or in Maple Glen, strongly believes in connecting teens to their Jewish background to offer them a sense of identity, belonging and cultural richness. After the COVID-19 lockdown ended in the fall of 2021, Nielsenshultz was looking to re-engage with teens because they had not been active in the synagogues online pandemic programming.
admin | March 30, 2024
VINNEWS- Tiberias, Israel Every so often there is good news that comes out of the Israeli Court System. On Shushan Purim, another complete victory for the Holy Torah against former mayor of Tiberias, Ron Kobi.
admin | March 30, 2024
As Sam Cooke first sang in 1964, A change is gonna come. Change indeed is approaching for the two Reform communities Rodef Shalom Congregation and Temple Sinai in Pittsburghs eastern neighborhoods. Rabbi Sharyn Henry announced plans earlier this month to retire on June 30, 2025, after 26 years of service at Rodef Shalom.
admin | March 21, 2024
Throughout its history, the Whitney Biennial has often reflected the heated discourse of the art world, welcoming provocative work that might ruffle feathers. But museum officials and curators said they were taken by surprise by a message that revealed itself in the flickering lights of a neon installation
admin | January 22, 2024
Within Biblical Hebrew itself, subdivisions can be made according to the period or stage of the language. The earliest Hebrew texts that have reached us date from the end of the second millennium B.C.E. The Israelite tribes that settled in Canaan from the 14th to 13th centuries B.C.E.regardless of what their language might have been before they established themselves thereused Hebrew as a spoken and a literary language until the fall of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.E.
admin | January 19, 2024
Zionism, Anti-Palestinianism, and the Fall of Harvard's Claudine Gay Informed Comment
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