admin | July 19, 2024
Considering the surge of Jew hatred in America today, two questions challenge the Jewish community: how did we get here, and where do we go next? No single answer suffices, but a recently published book Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew by Noa Tishby and Emmanuel Acho does an admirable job answering both questions
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 | June 27, 2024
IfNotNow-LA was very upset at what occurred on June 23 at Los Angeless Adas Torah synagogue, horrified by the use of Jewish identity and sacred religious space as shields to promote the sale of real estate on occupied Palestinian land. It wasnt that pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside, with one vehicle climbing the sidewalk; chants of Free, free Palestine from the river to the sea; and long live Intifada, including one person carrying a spiked flag, that bothered them. Nor was it a problem that Zionisms got to go was shouted
admin | June 27, 2024
Amsterdams Stedelijk Museumsaid on Tuesday that it will return a Henri Matisse painting from the 1920s to the heirs of its former Jewish owner, who was forced to sell the artwork in the Netherlands during the Holocaust before being deported to a Nazi camp where he eventually died. The painting Odalisque has been in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum, which is owned by the Municipality of Amsterdam, since July 1941. The painting was sold to the museum by the late Albert Stern, a successful textile manufacturer and art collector in Germany who was born in 1861
admin | June 15, 2024
Sign up for our Gay City News email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! The extraordinary 32-year tenure of Sharon Kleinbaum as Senior Rabbi of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) New Yorks LGBTQ synagogue that she led to become a major national force in Judaism, LGBTQ rights, and human rights everywhere was celebrated in words and song at Jazz at Lincoln Center at Columbus Circle on June 3 by political leaders from President Biden on down, performing arts stars, CBSTs Community Chorus, the many rabbis she helped train and inspire, and her spouse, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten. The evening was hosted by veteran lesbian comedian Kate Clinton, who noted that Kleinbaum was the first full-time Rabbi at the synagogue. Hillary Clinton spoke at the celebration and said Kleinbuam made CBST a bold spiritual community of resistance and love.
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
In a personal tribute, Daniel Eleff of DansDeals.com recounts the impact Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky had on him and his family, and how, despite being very busy, he took the time to listen. By Daniel Eleff Last week, I went to Crown Heights with my mother and grandfather, along with thousands of others topay our final respectsto a great man, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky
admin | June 15, 2024
In December of 1912, Nathan Goldfarb, a Jewish watchmaker in New York, had an affair with a boarder who was staying in his home named Minnie Schechter. After Goldfarbs wife, Lena, caught the wayward couple in the act, the pair absconded, leaving behind Goldfarbs three children
admin | June 7, 2024
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On May 4, as war and famine raged in Gaza, Amsterdam marked Remembrance Day, an annual commemoration of those who resisted the Nazi occupation, with special emphasis from the citys organizing committee on the Jews who perished in the onslaught.
admin | June 7, 2024
Colombo: The brother of Velupillai Prabhakaran has for the first time publicly admitted that his brother and his entire family were killed in 2009 and warned of a bunch of Tamilians defrauding people by claiming that the late LTTE founder and some of his family, especially one daughter, are alive. Velupillai Prabhakaran, his wife and their three children are dead, all of them perishing in the final stages of Sri Lankas war in 2009, Velupillai Manoharan has declared publicly for the first time, according to LankaFT portal.
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