admin | March 30, 2024
(JTA) Jewish actress and writer Lena Dunham is the latest Hollywood star to discover that her family has ties to the Holocaust on the PBS celebrity genealogy series Finding Your Roots. Dunham, the sometimes controversial comedian who was born to a Protestant father and a Jewish mother, has previously described herself as very culturally Jewish, and she stars in a forthcoming film, Treasure, that features a family grappling with its Holocaust history.
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admin | March 30, 2024
Yonatan Shapira is an ex-captain and pilot in the Israeli Air Force. In 2003, he helped coordinate the circulation of a letter that was signed by 27 Israeli Air Force pilots expressing their refusal to engage in Israeli military actions targeting Palestinians. Additionally, Shapira has endorsed the domestic Israeli movement supporting Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), which is commonly referred to as Boycott from Within.
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admin | March 30, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled that Israels military will soon launch an invasion of Rafah, the city in the southern Gaza Strip.
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admin | March 30, 2024
I wake up every morning increasingly anxious about the waning support for Israel in America. Why? Because even though I have not personally experienced it yet, there is a rising tide of Jew-hatred, some of it violent, all of it loud, and much of it fodder for clickbait and front-page headlines
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admin | March 21, 2024
Rabbi Jason B. Rubenstein 04 will serve as the next executive director of Harvard Hillel, the organization announced in a press release Monday. Rubenstein succeeds Rabbi Jonah C
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admin | March 21, 2024
Rabbi Yisroel Goldberg, head of the Chabad of Rechavia, has been hard at work for years making a place for people to feel at home in the center of Jerusalem. If theres one place that really needs a Chabad center, its right here in Rehavia, he said. Besides representing one of the worlds largest Jewish religious organizations in the Israeli capital, Goldberg is behind a unique Purim initiative: Azza Zaza.
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admin | March 21, 2024
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. Photo: Mary Altaffer/AP A 46-year-old from Pennsylvania will spend the rest of his life in prison after he burned down three houses in Midwood in an attempt to kill a rabbi.
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admin | March 21, 2024
(New York Jewish Week) An arsonist with a tattoo reading KILL Rabbi Max was sentenced to decades in prison for setting fire to a rabbis home in 2019. Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email Matthew Karelefsky, 46, was convicted last month of charges including attempted murder, arson and assault for the crime in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Midwood. On Monday, he received a sentence in Brooklyn Supreme Court of 25 years to life in prison
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admin | March 21, 2024
NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) -- A 46-year-old man was sentenced to 25 years for intentionally setting fire to the home of a Brooklyn rabbi in 2019, District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced on Monday. Matthew Karelefsky, a former Brooklyn resident, was convicted of first-degree attempted murder, second-degree arson,six counts of second-degree assault, and two counts of fourth-degree arson on Feb
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admin | March 21, 2024
By Paul E. Brody, MD The 13th of Adar, erev Purim, marks the 20th yahrzeit of our dear Rabbi Dr.
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