simmons | February 22, 2017
Were you as impressed as I was by Roger Cohens column in the New York Times, last weekend: The One State Two State Blues? Cohen virtually thanked Donald Trump for ending the illusion that there will ever be a Palestinian state
simmons | February 22, 2017
This handout photo provided by the official website of the Center for Preserving and Publishing the Works of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on February 21, 2017 shows delegations attending the sixth international conference in support of Palestinian intifada (uprising), in Tehran. (Photo by AFP) Representatives from 80 countries have attended the Sixth International Conference in Support of the Palestinian Intifada hosted by Irans capital Tehran in solidarity with the Palestinian people in the face of Israeli atrocities
simmons | February 22, 2017
Between the congressional hearing for David Friedman, the visit of Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trumps refusal to address the rising tide of anti-Semitism, its been a tense time within the American Jewish community.
admin | February 22, 2017
Bildner Visiting Scholar Dr. Yakir Englander will deliver two public lectures at Rutgers University. On Feb.28, his talk Post-Holocaust Ultra-Orthodox Theology: A New Perspective will throw new light on responses to the Holocaust within the ultra-Orthodox community, with a focus on the differences in reaction between men and women and between Hasidic and Lithuanian communities.
simmons | February 22, 2017
The executive of the Students Society of McGill University (SSMU) has recommended that the director and councillor now infamous for tweeting punch a zionist today resign from both positions, sparking protest from some students that its doing so under duress from the university administration.
admin | February 22, 2017
What to Know The Anti-Defamation League's national headquarters in New York received a bomb threat Wednesday, and the group says it is working with authorities to determine if it is connected to the rash of threats targeting Jewish community centers across the country in recent months. The bomb threat to the Third Avenue office was anonymous, according to ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. Greenblatt said while there is nothing to indicate the threat is anything more than that, the group is taking it "very seriously." The specific nature of the threat wasn't immediately clear
simmons | February 22, 2017
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaking at the organizations Never is Now conference in New York City, Nov. 17, 2016. (Courtesy of the ADL) (JTA) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo directed state police to investigate an anonymousbomb threat called into thenational offices of the Anti-Defamation League
admin | February 22, 2017
'); //--> The gravesites of more than 170 Jews were vandalized at a cemetery in University City, Mo., sometime over the weekend. And on Monday, the Anti-Defamation League reported a wave of bomb threats directed against Jewish Community Centers in multiple states, the fourth series of such threats since the beginning of the year, it said, a development that elicited comments from a White House spokesman and Ivanka Trump, neither of which used the phrase anti-Semitism or mentioned Jews
admin | February 22, 2017
CEO Jonathan Greenblatt says new order undermines core values of American society The Anti-Defamation league criticized new tough orders issued by the Trump Administration for a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration on Wednesday. The orders put the country's nearly 11 million undocumented foreigners in its cross-hairs. In an official statement released by the organization, the ADL referred to the new rules as "ill-advised" and said they undermined the core values of American society.
simmons | February 22, 2017
A view from the ground shows a more somber reality -- scores of granite and marble tombstones, toppled and damaged in a historic Jewish cemetery at a time tensions in the nation's Jewish communities are already high. A vandal or vandals toppled and damaged more than 100 headstones at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society cemetery in the St
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