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
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admin | March 30, 2024
BERLIN Those seeking German citizenship could soon have to answer test questions about antisemitism, Germanys commitment to Israel and Jewish life in Germany. The catalogue of more than 300 questions from which citizenship test questions can be selected is to be amended shortly, the interior ministry said in a statement, pending final approval. New questions, German magazine Der Spiegel reported, are to include: What is a Jewish house of prayer called
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admin | March 30, 2024
On February 18, the Rohr Chabad House at the University of WisconsinMadison, a Wisconsin-based branch of the Zionist student network Chabad on Campus, hosted a talk by Oz Bin Nun, an Israeli Fellow for the Jewish Agency for Israel and a special unit commander in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In a video of the talk posted online, Bin Nun readily admits that the Israeli military is killing Palestinian children in Gaza, which ignited a campus controversy over whether he was bragging about the militarys actions or lamenting them, as reported by student newspaper The Daily Cardinal. But amid this debate, another startling admission in the talk by Bin Nun was buried: Students from the university had apparently helped purchase drones and body armor for the IDF.
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admin | March 21, 2024
Chicago, IL The fight to get permits to march on the Democratic National Convention is heating up. On August 19 to the 22, the Democratic National Convention (DNC) comes Chicago. The massive movement against the genocide in Gaza is preparing to march to the United Center where the convention will be held.
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admin | March 13, 2024
NEW YORK Emeritus Anti-Defamation League (ADL) director Abe Foxman said two things keep him up at night these days. The deteriorating relationship between Israel and its one-and-only most important ally, the United States, and how the Jewish people will react to this explosion of antisemitism at the end of the day, Foxman told The Times of Israel. Were fine now, but what happens if it continues
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admin | March 13, 2024
(March 6, 2024 / JNS) A majority of countries have made no progress on Holocaust art restitution over the last quarter century, a report released on Monday shows. Twenty-four of 47 countries surveyed have made minimal to no progress in art and cultural property restitution, compared to only seven countries that have made major progress in the field
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admin | March 5, 2024
(March 4, 2024 / JNS) The USC Shoah Foundation announced on March 4 that it has partnered with the National Library of Israel to provide Israelis with the first countrywide access to the institutes entire Visual History Archive, including testimonies from more than 52,000 Holocaust survivors and hundreds of survivors of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks
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