richards | June 12, 2017
PFLP statement on the 50th anniversary of the June defeat: struggle to confront Zionism and imperialism Fight Back News Service is circulating the following June 5 statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
admin | June 12, 2017
Ryan Blessing rblessing@norwichbulletin.com, (860) 425-4205 rblessingNB MONTVILLE Descendants of some of the first Russian Jewish settlers in Eastern Connecticut gathered in a wooded clearing Sunday afternoon in the Chesterfield section of town to honor the site where, 125 years ago, their ancestors established what is said to be the first rural synagogue in the state.
simmons | June 12, 2017
(JTA) Three Los Angeles synagogue locations were temporarily closed after receiving bomb threats on Shabbat. The threats were reported in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal on Saturday.
admin | June 12, 2017
Three Los Angeles synagogue campuses were shut down following a series of online bomb threats, disrupting normally scheduled Shabbat activitieson June 10.
richards | June 12, 2017
Share Share Email Print Cathy Sperlings aunt Sherrie Zaft was the only Jewish student in her class during elementary school. Born in 1928, Mrs. Zaft traveled to Toledo each weekend often in the front of a patrol wagon that carried inmates from the correctional facility in Whitehouse to attend Sunday school at Bnai Israel, a conservative synagogue
simmons | June 12, 2017
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) Archaeologists in Western Poland found the foundations of the New Synagogue, which was destroyed in 1938. The ruins found in the Polish city of Wroclaw belonged to the second largest synagogue in pre-war Germany.
simmons | June 12, 2017
Getty Images Barclays Center (JTA) An estimated 15,000 to 20,000 anti-Zionist haredi Orthodox Jews protested in New York against the conscription of haredi yeshiva students and the arrest of draft dodgers.
admin | June 12, 2017
Sixty-nine years after the founding of the state, the hatred between Mizrahim and Ashkenazim is the greatest threat to Israeli society. Instead of properly dealing with it, all our energy is spent on sowing a collective hatred toward Palestinians. By Iris Hefets (Translated by Philip Podolsky) Israeli Border Police search a Palestinian man near Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, October 23, 2015
richards | June 12, 2017
When Matthew Mueller [published an article] entitled, Wonder Woman: There IS A Person Of Color In The Lead Role, arguing that Israeli actress Gal Gadot was the first woman of color to appear in the superhero genre, the question of whether or not Ashkenazi Jews are persons of color became a topic of discussion around Jewish tables and chat-rooms across the country. Noah Berlatsky denounced Muellers characterization of Gadot as absurd, arguing that whiteness itself is a fuzzy racial concept and that Gadot certainly would enjoy white privilege in Israel (relative to her darker Mizrahi and Ethiopian cousins). [On the other hand, blogger Dani Ishai Behan argued that] characterizing Jews as whiteerases Jewish experience across every pogrom, torture table, oven and ghetto that has decorated our painful past.
admin | June 12, 2017
At the companys annual general meeting next week, Amaya will ditch David Baazovs brand and begin a new era as The Stars Group. In the first of a series of interviews with Gaming Intelligence, chief executive Rafi Ashkenazi explains how he will take PokerStars forward. On the last day of March 2017, David Baazov sold 12m shares to lower his stake in Amaya to just 3.8 per cent.
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