admin | June 28, 2017
Organizers of the Chicago Dyke March on Tuesday defended their decision to eject three participants who displayed Jewish symbolsby claiming thatZionism is an inherently white-supremacist ideology.
admin | June 28, 2017
ANALYSIS/OPINION: As a young man coming from a left-wing pedigree, I embraced a liberal agenda which included most notably, a belief in Israel as a bastion of socialism and democracy. In the 1950s, a good progressive was a good Zionist. Oh, how the world has changed.
richards | June 28, 2017
Anti WoW protest at Kotel 150.
admin | June 28, 2017
Astronomy involves the study of planets and it is a lot easier to pursue when you know the planets names. The Torah does not offer individual monikers for each of the celestial bodies that comprise our solar system. Planetary names, however, were created many moons ago by certain cultures based on Roman and Greek mythology.
simmons | June 28, 2017
New YOrk times/file 2005 Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz helped run ArtScroll for 41 years. NEW YORK Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz, who took a small wedding-invitation print shop and turned it into ArtScroll Mesorah, the leading publisher of prayer books and volumes of Torah and Talmud in the expanding Orthodox Jewish world, books notable for their easily readable typography, instructions and translations, died Saturday in Brooklyn. He was 73
simmons | June 28, 2017
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, June 28, 2017, 9:01 AM When is it ethical for a Jewish institution to use non-union labor? Its up for debate. A renovation of the storied Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan has sparked a heated Rabbinical discourse among students, faculty and alums all using the Talmud as their guide.
simmons | June 28, 2017
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) A group of Muslim girls from Germany said they were prevented from entering a synagogue in Lublin while on a visit to Poland to study the Holocaust. The girls claim they were refused entrance to the synagogue at the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva last week because they were wearing traditional Muslim headgear. The Jewish community of Lublin has denied the claim, saying in a statement thatthe group was turned awaybecause the hotel where the synagogue is located had been rented exclusively for one of Europes soccer teams.
richards | June 28, 2017
KINGSTON, N.Y. > > The romantic comedy Amlie, about a painfully shy Parisian waitress who makes sly incursions into the lives of her neighbors, will be the next Movies With Spirit screening, at 7 p.m
simmons | June 28, 2017
Guests at Bnai Abraham Chabads annual gala enjoy a cocktail hour. | Photo by Rachel Winicov When Jews fleeing czarist Russia arrived in Philadelphia in 1874, they founded Chevra Bnai Avrohom mi Russe, probably with little thought to the synagogues adaptability to 21st-century life. In 2017, however, the temples lay leaders resolved to modernize how the historic synagogue approaches the surrounding community
admin | June 28, 2017
Istanbul Jewish community members Eftali Pinto (L) and Aviel Kohen (9), use shofars, musical instruments made from horns, during the reopening ceremony of the Great Synagogue in Edirne, Turkey, March 26, 2015.(photo byREUTERS/Murad Sezer) Author:Nazlan Ertan Posted June 28, 2017 For the young generation of Sephardic Jews in Turkey,their ancestral tongue, Ladino, is just a few words for Grandma's cuisine, a line or two from old songsand some snappy insults. UNESCO considersLadino, also known as Judeo-Spanish or Judezmo,a severely endangered language
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