Ask the Rabbi, JewishAnswers.org Hasidic Life Today
richards | July 10, 2015
Question: I have recently been assigned to complete a project on Hasidic Judaism.
10 Weird and Wonderful Things About Living Among Hasidic …
richards | July 10, 2015
Unite the Beards is a new and remarkably nave organization that wants to bring hipsters and Hasidic Jews together. Theyre based here in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where the Hasidic community has made it very clear they hate hipsters way more than everybody else does.
Ex-Hasidic Mother Loses Custody of Children – By Shulem …
richards | July 10, 2015
Judge orders custody switch, citing concerns that the mother's influence might jeopardize the children's religious upbringing. A 32-year-old mother from Monsey, N.Y., has lost custody of her children due largely to what a judge described as the mothers inadequate religious observance
Power, Ignorance, and Anti-Semitism: Henry Ford and His …
simmons | July 9, 2015
Power, Ignorance, and Anti-Semitism: Henry Ford and His War on Jews by Jonathan R.
The Deep Roots of Anti-Semitism in European Society …
simmons | July 9, 2015
The Deep Roots of Anti-Semitism in European Society*1 The resurgence of European anti-Semitism after the Holocaust suggests that it has deep roots in society. It has been fostered in a great variety of ways by so many, for such a long time, in all European countries that one might consider this form of hate and discrimination as inherent to European culture and a part of European "values." New European anti-Semitism often originates from a young age, which indicates that it is an anti-Semitism of the future rather than of the past. The European Union's attitude toward anti-Semitism is double-handed
Holocaust | European history | Britannica.com
simmons | July 9, 2015
Holocaust,Hebrew Shoah, Yiddish and Hebrew urban (Destruction), Smoke Pucker Gallerythe systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. The Germans called this the final solution to the Jewish question
Home of the Jamaican Diaspora Out of many one people
simmons | July 9, 2015
Irie, mon! Ganja is now decriminalized in Jamaica after the Caribbean islands Parliament voted to lessen the penalty for those caught with two ounces or less of marijuana.
Gaza Strip: Blitzed, caged and broken, Palestinians …
simmons | July 9, 2015
The 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict began on 8 July. By the time the bombardment ceased 50 days later, around 2,200 Palestinians had been killed, the majority of them civilians, including an estimated 500 children
West Bank – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
simmons | July 9, 2015
West Bank Area Total 5,640km2 (2,180sqmi) Population Total 2,345,107 Demonym Palestinians, Arabs, Samaritans, Israeli Settlers The West Bank (Arabic: a-affah l-arbiyyah; Hebrew: , HaGadah HaMa'aravit or Cisjordan[2][3] is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, forming the bulk of the Palestinian territories. The West Bank shares boundaries (demarcated by the Jordanian-Israeli armistice of 1949) to the west, north, and south with the state of Israel, and to the east, across the Jordan River, with Jordan. The West Bank also contains a significant coastline along the western bank of the Dead Sea.[4] The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has a land area of 5,640km2 and 220km2 water, the northwest quarter of the Dead Sea.[4] It has an estimated population of 2,676,740 (July 2013).[5] More than 80%, about 2,100,000,[4] are Palestinian Arabs, and approximately 500,000 are Jewish Israelis living in the West Bank,[4] including about 192,000 in East Jerusalem,[6] in Israeli settlements.
Holocaust | Define Holocaust at Dictionary.com
simmons | July 9, 2015
Historical Examples And at every chamber was a door in the forefronts of the gates: there they washed the holocaust.
