richards | March 3, 2017
Synagogue spreads message of hope in response to hate Updated: 11:05 PM EST Mar 2, 2017 The congregation of Ohev Shalom was joined by people of many synagogues across Central Florida, as well as people who practice other faiths, to answer words of hate with songs of love and joy.
richards | March 3, 2017
Danya Shults Photo by Bridget Badore Julianne was raised by Catholic and Presbyterian parents, while Jason grew up culturally Jewish. At first, it was simple to mark their different backgrounds
richards | March 3, 2017
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richards | March 3, 2017
by Ellie Cohanim Special to NJJN March 2, 2017 If the Jewish community is to unite during these troubled times, bridge-building is necessary between the Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities around policy issues and the election of Donald Trump. What I am finding as someone with a foot in each of these communities is that while a significant majority of my liberal Ashkenazi friends are horrified by the election results, and feel part of the resistance movement, many of my Sephardi friends and family are equally passionate in celebration of Trumps win and the implementation of his campaign promises.
richards | March 3, 2017
Ratatouille, as you most likely know, is a Pixar film about a French rat who longs to cook fine food. The climax arrives when the most famous, influential, and reputedly cold food critic in Paris samples the rats cooking. Rather than serve an ornate dish of the kind the critic is accustomed to disparaging, the rat elects to serve ratatouille, the humble vegetable stew
richards | March 3, 2017
Amid a surge of bomb threats and vandalism at Jewish institutions nationwide, members of Atlanta's Jewish community have felt a familiar wave of apprehension about what may come next. Because all of that, and worse, has happened there before. Six decades ago, during the civil rights era's turmoil, 50 sticks of dynamite blasted a ragged hole in Atlanta's largest synagogue
simmons | March 2, 2017
Email a copy of "Zionism Is a Racist Political Ideology, Says UK Professor Who Chaired Anti-Israel Event" to a friend University College London. Photo: website. A UK professor who moderated a panel that kicked off Israeli Apartheid Week at University College London (UCL) this week toldThe Algemeinerwhy he considers Zionism a racist ideology
simmons | March 2, 2017
The leader of the Anti-Defamation League said President Trump's steps to combat the recent spate of anti-Semitism should include not changing the mission of thecountering violent extremism program to exclude white supremacists. As of Wednesday, 122 bomb threats have been called into 97 Jewish institutions in 36 states and two Canadian provinces. Twelve Jewish day schools have received threats
simmons | March 2, 2017
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richards | March 2, 2017
A window is pictured with the Star of David in a new synagogue in Cottbus, Germany. (photo credit:REUTERS) A regional court in Germany has decided that a brutal attempt to set fire to a local synagogue in 2014 was an act meant to express criticism against Israels conduct in its ongoing conflict with Hamas.
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