All around the shabbat table, Jews are scared – opinion – The Jerusalem Post
admin | July 19, 2024
Shabbat night dinner is a magical time.
Meet the 6 Jewish baseball players selected in the 2024 MLB Draft – The Jerusalem Post
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.
A Visit to Otvotzk on Yud Beis Tammuz – Anash.org – Good News
admin | July 19, 2024
In a unique account, Ben-Zion Zyserman-Gold, a Polish yeshiva bochur turned Conservative rabbi in America, describes his visit to the Frierdiker Rebbes Yud Beis Tammuz farbrengen 85 years ago in Otvotzk, Poland.
Shema: The Call to Listen to Each Other to Build Brand Judaism – The Times of Israel
admin | July 19, 2024
Listening as the Foundation for Repositioning Brand Judaism Fundamental to any repositioning of a brand is the need to do extensive research and listen to all constituencies and audiences. Often, it is most important to focus on the core usersin our case, us Jews. To successfully rebrand Judaism, we must embrace the principle of Shema: Listen
Zionism: the End of an Illusion – CounterPunch
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
Jury delivers mixed verdicts for the man accused of killing Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll – KTEN
admin | July 19, 2024
(CNN) Jurors returned mixed verdicts Thursday in the trial of a man accused of killing Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll at her home. Michael Jackson-Bolanos, 29, faced four charges. Jurors deadlocked on the charges of felony murder and home invasion.
Suspect in Samantha Woll murder trial found not guilty of first-degree murder – WDET
admin | July 19, 2024
The agonizing month-long trial for the man charged with murdering Detroit synagogue leader Samantha Woll has ended with a partial verdict on Thursday, after jurors failed to reach a consensus in two of the four charges against the defendant. Michael Jackson-Bolanos, 29, of Detroit, is accused of fatally stabbing Woll inside her Lafayette Park townhouse this past October. After five days of deliberations, the jury found Jackson-Bolanos not guilty of first-degree murder and guilty of lying to police, but could not come to a unanimous decision over the felony murder and home invasion charges
Interra Realty Brokers $8.175M Sale of The Synagogue Apartment Building in Chicagos Uptown Neighborhood – Yield PRO magazine
admin | July 19, 2024
Interra Realty, a Chicago-based commercial real estate investment services firm, announced it brokered the sale of The Synagogue, a 40-unit multifamily property at 5029 N. Kenmore Avenue in the citys Uptown neighborhood for $8.175 million, or $204,375 per unit.
ADL charges HispanTV with spreading antisemitism, Islamic Republic of Iran propaganda – The Jerusalem Post
admin | July 19, 2024
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) published a report on Monday accusing the Iran state-controlled HispanTV, a Spanish-language media outlet, of spreading antisemitic viewpoints to its audience of 600 million people. The channel, the ADL charged, shares Holocaust revisionist content and content which is prejudiced against the Jewish state. The ADL also accused the outlet of incitement.
Ita Gordon: A Passion for Testimony – USC Shoah Foundation |
admin | July 19, 2024
As we celebrate our 30th anniversary, we pay tribute to some of the people who helped build the organization. Ita Gordon has worked as an indexer, translator, mentor, and researcher at the USC Shoah Foundation since its founding 30 years ago, channeling her passion for the organizations mission into diligent care and helping to establish the USC Shoah Foundation as a world leader in collecting, preserving, and sharing survivor testimony.
