admin | April 29, 2024
When I came to meet Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, Joe Bidens special envoy for combating global antisemitism, in her office at the State Department late last week, she had something she wanted to show me. It was the cover of New York magazine from January 1996
admin | April 20, 2024
Alleging admonishments and threats from both students and staff in an opinion piece published by the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, the executive director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University has left the Worcester institution to join Assumption University.
admin | April 20, 2024
As Jews around the world read the haggadah at their seder tables every year, they encounter a passage instructing them to see themselves as if they personally left Egypt. This year, some of them will also have on their seder tables a symbol of the perseverance of women traumatized in captivity.
admin | April 20, 2024
With Passover beginning on Monday, federal law enforcement say they're concerned about potential threats to U.S. Jewish communities.This is the first Passover since the Oct
admin | April 20, 2024
If you watch the new Amazon Freevee show Dinner With the Parents, based on the British sitcom Friday Night Dinner, you will be delighted, by, well, all of it. But specifically, you will be delighted by Carol Kane as the most extra of Jewish grandmothers, who has a thick Eastern European accent, some of the best unexpected jokes, and who also brings some surprisingly meaningful moments of Jewishness to the fore like a scene in which she chants the Mourners Kaddish in the most impeccable way. According to Dan Bakkedahl, who plays the Langer family patriarch in the series, it was Kane who kept them honest and close to Jewish tradition.
admin | April 11, 2024
DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa (WHP) UPDATE | The Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley area is now confirming specific areas that were also targeted with bomb threats related to the Harrisburg incident. A release was sent out by members of the organization, stating that a threatening hoax email was sent to the Allentown Jewish Federation's inbox, along with branches in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Pittsburgh
admin | April 11, 2024
One of Britains best-known rabbis, Dr Jonathan Romain, is to retire from the pulpit in summer after more than 40 years as spiritual leader of Maidenhead Synagogue. The author of 19 books and a regular voice on broadcast media, he will take up his new position as convenor of the Reform Beit Din at the end of July, before he turns 70 the following month
admin | March 30, 2024
BROOKLYN - Firefighters battled a fire at Stavnitz Synagogue on 60th Street in Brooklyn Friday morning. Witnesses said residents were forced to jump from the second floor in order to escape. The three-story building is a synagogue on the first floor, with apartments on the second and third floors
admin | March 30, 2024
Rabbi Sheldon Rudoff Click herefor a PDF version of this edition of Heres My Story, or visit theMy Encounter Blog. The story I am about to tell happened in the early 1950s, not long after the Rebbe took over the leadership of Chabad Lubavitch. At the time, I was in high school and living in Crown Heights on Carroll Street, which is around the corner from President Street where the Rebbe lived.
admin | March 30, 2024
How do you wrap your head around genocide? As one numb week follows another, our leaders blind themselves to massacre and famine
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