simmons | May 24, 2017
RIO DE JANEIRO Eight Panamanian Sephardic Jews received Spanish citizenship from Spains ambassador to Panama in a ceremony at the embassy in Panama City. In a ceremony Friday, the group swore allegiance to the Spanish Constitution and the king, thelocal news website Telemetro reported.
admin | May 24, 2017
Jewish and black girls have been mocked for their hair, their bodies and their other-ness. But they might be about to get a heroine at Buckingham Palace.
admin | May 24, 2017
Facebook says it does not welcome local law that stands as an obstacle to an open and connected world. Composite: Getty Images Facebooks policies on Holocaust denial will come under fresh scrutiny following the leak of documents that show moderators are being told not to remove this content in most of the countries where it is illegal. The files explain that moderators should take down Holocaust denial material in only four of the 14 countries where it is outlawed, if reported.
simmons | May 24, 2017
Recently I fell into the same old discussion with a close girlfriend. As we talked about work, dating, and all the day-to-day trials of New York City women in 2017, she told me that if I stopped assuming that everything would just repeat as it always had, I might actually be able to break the cycle. Then, when she expressed anxiety over peoples criticism of her, I reminded her that her critics might just have problems with how they see themselves.
richards | May 24, 2017
Yaacov Behrman, director of the drug prevention group Operation Survival, demonstrates how to use naloxone nasal spray, a drug used to prevent fatal opioid overdoses. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Rachel Holliday Smith CROWN HEIGHTS The firstopioid overdoses in Yaacov Behrmans neighborhood happened more than a decade ago, around 2005,he remembers. At the time a period when accidental overdose deaths were rising in New York, according to data from the citys Department of Health he said many in his community of Lubavitch Crown Heights thought the first kids we lost were exceptions
richards | May 24, 2017
When I first met the wonderful American Jewish poet Marge Piercy, she asked me about Shavuot and paper cutting. Someone had sent her a piece of paper cut art and the gift evoked old memories of her grandmothers holiday observances. We both had vague recollections of the association of the spring festival with the folk art form, but it was not an active part of either of our families Jewish traditions
richards | May 24, 2017
Helen Maryles Shankman knows plenty about Jewish history.
simmons | May 24, 2017
Anti-Defamation League does not meet the following 5 Standards for Charity Accountability: Standard 3 - Frequency and Attendance of Board Meetings An organization shall have a minimum of three evenly spaced meetings per year of the full governing body with a majority in attendance, with face-to-face participation. A conference call of the full board can substitute for one of the three meetings of the governing body. For all meetings, alternative modes of participation are acceptable for those with physical disabilities
admin | May 24, 2017
A Dark and Constant Rage: 25 Years of Right-Wing Terrorism in the United States is a comprehensive new report from the Anti-Defamation League,an international Jewish non-governmental organization that combats hate crimes. In March 2017, a white supremacist from Maryland, James Harris Jackson, traveled to New York City with the alleged intention of launching a series of violent attacks on black men to discourage white women from having relationships with black men.
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