admin | July 19, 2024
If the only history-making Jewish feat in baseball this week had been a historic grand slam, it would have been enough. But then a half-dozen Jewish ballplayers were picked in the MLB Draft eclipsing 2023s group of five. Jewish players still make up only a tiny fraction of those selected during the draft, held during the All-Star break this week in Arlington, Texas.
admin | July 19, 2024
In recent decades, Haredi society in Israel has stood firm against the winds of change, resolutely defending its traditional way of life. However, in recent years, we are witnessing a surprising and fascinating phenomenon: it is the Hasidim, always perceived as the most conservative, who are leading a quiet but profound revolution at the heart of Haredi society
admin | July 19, 2024
Photograph Source: Hossam el-Hamalawy CC BY 2.0 One of the oddest arguments made by self-declared friends of Israel is that anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism. That assertion is comprehensible if the person making it believes that God Himself gave the Jews property rights from the river to the sea butTheodore Herzl and the founders of modern Zionism embraced no such belief. On the contrary, that movements largely secularized leadership defined Zionism from the outset as a form of ethnic nationalism a claim to the same right of self-determination as that asserted, say, by the Irish or the Serbs
admin | July 6, 2024
Jewish comedian Natan Badalov doesnt like matzah ball soup no joke. The Uzbek-American comic, who also detests gefilte fish, quipped that he took an Ashkenazi friend out for Bukharian cuisine.
admin | June 27, 2024
Mona Golabek is a woman on a mission. The word she has been spreading through her music and her mothers life story for the past two-plus decades is of a decidedly uplifting, emotive, and inspiring nature
admin | June 27, 2024
A protestor looks toward downtown Memphis while walking off the I-40 bridge during a protest in February. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 I never thought about Palestine. I never thought about Palestinian people
admin | June 15, 2024
On Friday, May 31, alumni descended on Columbia University's Manhattan campus to celebrate their class reunions. In addition to eating and drinking, the festivities included several panel discussions featuring professors and administrators.
admin | June 15, 2024
Sandra Lawson, one of the first openly queer Black women to be a rabbi, spoke at the 2024 Pride Keynote Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University in the Simmons Auditorium at theTepper School of Business(opens in new window). The event was held on June 11th to celebrate Pride month(opens in new window) at CMU and around the world. Lawson is a thought leader and anti-racist policy and training advocate who has been the inaugural director of racial diversity, equity, and inclusion atReconstructing Judaism(opens in new window) since early 2021.
admin | June 15, 2024
Josef Sorett (college.columbia.edu) The dean of Columbia College, Josef Sorett, issued a private apology on Friday for the text messages he and other administrators exchanged badmouthing panelists who participated in a talk about Jewish life at Columbia, writing that the dismissive and vitriolic remarks do not "indicate the views of any individual or the team." In an email to Columbia's Board of Visitors, an alumni body that advises the dean, Sorett apologized for the "harm" the exchange caused and pledged that "it will not happen again"though he did not acknowledge his own texts were captured in the exchanges. "I have already spoken to each person involved and we understand that, as leaders, we are held to a higher standard," he wrote. Sorett also took a swipe at the "unknown third-party" who photographed the messagessent in real time during the paneldecrying the "invasion of privacy" and suggesting that the exchange, while "upsetting," had been taken out of context
admin | June 15, 2024
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