admin | July 19, 2024
Not too long ago, a non-Jewish lifelong New Yorker who grew up on the Upper East Side was asked by a friend to host a screening of the documentary film Israelism. She immediately said no. It wasnt that she necessarily disagreed with the message of the filmwhich bills itself as the story of young American Jews battling the old guard to redefine Judaisms relationship with Israel, revealing a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity.
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admin | July 19, 2024
(July 17, 2024 / JNS) With her German accent, wit and warmth, therapist Ruth Westheimerknown affectionately as Dr. Ruthhelped romantic couples better understand their intimate relationships for more than 40 years. She died in Manhattan on Friday at about 11:30 p.m., aged 96, with her two children at her side, her publicist said
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admin | June 27, 2024
Following the dramatic Supreme Court ruling that ordered haredim to enlist in the IDF, Lithuanian charedi leader Rabbi Dov Landau, who is soliciting funds for the yeshivos in the US, slammed the Supreme Courts justices, accusing them of cruelty towards Torah learners, according to a Kikar Hashabbat report Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email The evildoers there and the government have taken the budgets that the yeshivas and kollels (yeshivas for married students ed.) had, and the yeshivas are in a situation where they do not have the ability to continue, he said during the fundraising trip to the US. There are already kollels which have closed
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admin | June 27, 2024
Taylor Swifts detachment from contentious global conflicts is a hallmark of her superstardom. For some fans in Israel, its also a selling point. Michal Paz-Klapp, the Young Adult editor at Israels prominent Modan Publishing House, snatched the opportunity to publish a Hebrew-language edition of Who Is Taylor Swift?, by Kirsten Anderson.
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admin | June 15, 2024
Three new books written in English by Yael Van Der Wouden, Jessica Jacobs and Toby Lloyd feature Hebrew in them. This article originally appeared in The Forward. In the past few months, I have encountered three new English-language books that all have Hebrew in them.
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admin | June 15, 2024
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) denounced the rise of anti-Semitism in the progressive movement at an event with liberal Jewish leaders on Monday. Weeks earlier, the "Squad" member requested $1.5 million in taxpayer funds for a New York City law group accused of hostility towards Jews and Israel
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admin | June 15, 2024
On May 21, the Brandeis Center and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education filed a lawsuit against Harvard University for allegedly allowing anti-Semitism on campus during the recent pro-Hamas encampment. According to the lawsuit, Jewish students have been discriminated against at the Cambridge, Massachusetts school for years, and especially in the months since the Oct
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admin | June 15, 2024
Amid mayhem and miasma, its easy to get stuck in the moment and forget the broader context. After all, how could we remain indifferent to the sight of hundreds of police officers in riot gear, wielding batons and tear gas and firing rubber bullets to clear the encampments of mostly peaceful protesters demanding that their universities stop doing business with Israeli institutions? How could we not be appalled by the cowardice of university presidents who caved in to the pressure from rich donors and mighty lobbies, and betrayed the fundamental freedoms that they were tasked to protect?
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admin | June 15, 2024
New York Representative and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hosted two high-level Zionist lobbyists on her congressional X account to slander opposition to the state of Israel and the US-backed genocide it is currently carrying out as antisemitic. This cynical lie has been repeated ad nauseam by capitalist politicians and their stenographers in the bourgeois press in a crude attempt to undermine and discredit the mass global opposition to Israels war of extermination
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admin | June 15, 2024
Sign up for our Gay City News email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! The extraordinary 32-year tenure of Sharon Kleinbaum as Senior Rabbi of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) New Yorks LGBTQ synagogue that she led to become a major national force in Judaism, LGBTQ rights, and human rights everywhere was celebrated in words and song at Jazz at Lincoln Center at Columbus Circle on June 3 by political leaders from President Biden on down, performing arts stars, CBSTs Community Chorus, the many rabbis she helped train and inspire, and her spouse, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten. The evening was hosted by veteran lesbian comedian Kate Clinton, who noted that Kleinbaum was the first full-time Rabbi at the synagogue. Hillary Clinton spoke at the celebration and said Kleinbuam made CBST a bold spiritual community of resistance and love.
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