admin | April 11, 2024
Norfolk Southern announced on Tuesday that it had agreed to pay $600 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a February 2023 derailment of a train carrying hazardous materials in East Palestine, Ohio. The settlement, which requires approval by Judge Benita Y. Pearson of U.S.
admin | April 11, 2024
American University has placed the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine on probation, following a disciplinary conference about a silent indoor walk during a Feb. 8 campus demonstration, SJP announced in an Instagram post Monday. The University banned indoor protests when it updated speech and expression policies in a Jan
admin | April 11, 2024
Dozens of antisemitic flyers, many of which were placed in bags with what is suspected to be rat poison, were found in Chicagos Lincoln Park area on Monday morning, 43 Ward Alderman Timmy Knudsen said in a statement. A resident of his ward had alerted his office about the flyers, and the Chicago Police Department had begun an investigation, he said
admin | April 11, 2024
(JTA) The rabbis of the Talmud are famous for their disagreements. But they presented a united front on eclipses, calling the celestial event a bad omen for the whole world.
admin | April 11, 2024
The organization representing the largest American Jewish denomination is pledging to divest from the fossil fuel industry as a response to the climate crisis. Citing the biblical teaching of till and tend the earth, the Union for Reform Judaism announced on Wednesday that it has committed to ensuring its investment and pension plans, as well as mutual funds, are free of direct ties to oil, gas, and coal companies
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 | April 11, 2024
Go back to Auschwitz!... Were coming for you!...
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 | April 11, 2024
Dr Ed Kessler MBE, the Chair of the Progressive Judaism Advisory Board, appeared on The Rest is Politics to discuss the war in Israel and Gaza and what happens next both there and for interfaith work in the UK. Ed is Founder President of the Woolf Institute and a leading thinker in interfaith relations. He told Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, who host the award-winning podcast, that he remains optimistic, despite the very difficult situation.
admin | April 11, 2024
By Alan Jay Gerber With the onset of Pesach, I find the study of the historical and philosophical side of our religious tradition to be of great inspiration in getting myself into the holiday mood.
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