admin | April 29, 2024
Every time I see the words British Jews trending on social media, I know expressions of flagrant anti-Semitism will follow. And so they were once more, in response to allegations splashed across newspapers and filling the airwaves that the Metropolitan Police had suggested the mere presence of an openly Jewish man at a London pro-Palestinian march was antagonising the crowds.
admin | April 20, 2024
(April 17, 2024 / JNS) Jews have always been fond of answering one question with another. In fact, Golda Meir was once asked by a journalist, Why do Jews always answer one question with another question?
admin | April 20, 2024
How do we as Jews gather at our seder tables when the hostage situation by Passover may be unresolved? Let My people go that they may celebrate a festival for Me in the wilderness Exodus 5:1. Have any words ever sounded more profound and relevant than they do right now.
admin | April 20, 2024
Image by Joshua Frank. As a longtime anti-Zionist and member of Jewish Voice for Peace, it has been a fact of my life that the organized Jewish community has considered me a pariah. When I was president of my Jewish congregation, the executive director of the local Jewish Federation refused to speak with me; when communication was required, he always found a workaround
admin | April 11, 2024
Submitted Photos Area high school students and teachers in the Holocaust and Social Justice Program of Chautauqua County are pictured on the U.S.
admin | April 11, 2024
I remember how our Israeli Prime Minster, Benjamin Netanyahu, told Holocaust survivors at an elderly home,The Holocaust happened because there was no State of Israel. If there had been a Jewish state before, there would have been no Holocaust. Later, he would tell the whole world while speaking from the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum that the Jewish state has learned the lessons of the Holocaust
admin | April 11, 2024
At the beginning of this weeks Torah portion, we learn that a woman who has recently given birth to a boy is prohibited from entering the sanctuary for 40 days and that twice that long if she gives birth to a girl. What did it feel like to be excluded for so many weeks
admin | April 11, 2024
(JTA) On Saturday night, I watched an episode of We Were the Lucky Ones,Hulus new Holocaust series. On Sunday morning, I woke up to a traumatic scene in my own community:a red swastika painted on the bannerthat sits on the front lawn of the suburban Philadelphia synagogue where my husband is the rabbi. Even though it wasnt shattered glass, or broken bones, it was painful to see it there, right there, in our own backyard, on our property, on our beloved banner that advertises our early childhood program and the summer camp my children will attend.
admin | April 11, 2024
By Rabbis Josh Levy and Charley Baginsky Co-Leads of Progressive Judaism In October of last year, together with other communal leaders, we produced a set of principles about how to respond to the emerging crisis in Israel and Gaza.
admin | March 30, 2024
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) isnt known as a Capitol Hill bomb-thrower, making grandiose statements for the publicity
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