admin | July 21, 2017
Email a copy of "BBC Ignores French Presidents Comparisons Between Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism" to a friend French President Emmanuel Macron greets Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu at the Elysee Palace in Paris on July 16. Photo: Screenshot
simmons | July 21, 2017
This article is the second in a series by Dr. Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi on a federal complaint filed against her, the California State University Board of Trustees, and the San Francisco State University by the Lawfare Project, a self-described legal arm for the pro-Israel community whose executive director affirmed that its objective is to make the enemy pay
simmons | July 21, 2017
Following the Chicago Dyke Marchs controversial decision to eject pro-Israel participants from last months rally, the SlutWalk march has announced it is also banning Zionist displays from appearing at its August protest. SlutWalk, which describes itself as a an international movement that fights rape culture, victim blaming, and slut shaming, insisted its decision to ban pro-Israel displays during its Aug. 12 march at Lake Shore Park is a decision rooted in anti-Zionism, not anti-Semitism
richards | July 21, 2017
Mansion at 800 West Buena Avenue that Haymarket Books seeks to buy for its headquarters. Photo by Liz Rose.
richards | July 21, 2017
New York Senator Chuck Schumer. (Photo: Sarah E) The big news now is the draconian anti-BDS legislation in US Congress, threatening to make support of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions a federal crime,entailing a possible maximum criminal penalty of $1 million and20 years in prison, which Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Grim have brought to the forefront of attention yesterday in their articleat The Intercept. But there are other machinations at work, beyond the legislative ones
simmons | July 21, 2017
Email a copy of "After Dyke March Scandal, SlutWalk Chicago Bans Zionist Displays From Upcoming August Protest" to a friend A Palestinian flag flies at Chicagos 2017 Dyke March, where Jewish participants were excluded. Photo: Screenshot. After the scandalinvolving the ejection of Jewish women carrying Star of David pride flags at Chicagos Dyke March on June 28, asisterorganization in the city has announced that it will follow suit by banning Zionist displays from its upcoming protest against sexual violence and rape culture
richards | July 21, 2017
HaGaon HaRav David Yosef, a member of Shas Moetzas Gedolei Yisrael, called on Shas Jerusalem councilmen to oppose the planned eviction of the Sephardi Sanhedrin Talmid Torah to make more room for the Seminar HaYoshon as planned.
simmons | July 21, 2017
A scene from Doing Jewish: A Story From Ghana. Photo: Screenshot. Following the loss of itsAmerican colonies in 1783, Great Britain was forced to find alternative locations for its various colonial enterprisesone of which was the mass deportation of convicts to penal colonies in distant geographic locations
simmons | July 21, 2017
Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz, zl As we are about to mark the Shloshim of Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz zl, the founder of ArtScroll, who was born in New York City in 1943 and passed away on June 24, 2017, at age 73, it is appropriate to consider how much ArtScroll has impacted our community and to note some of its history. Imagine a member of the community who wakes up at 5 every morning to learn Daf Yomi from an ArtScroll Gemara.
admin | July 21, 2017
Congregation Kol Tikvah in Parkland will host what is anticipated to be an enlightening and moving Erev Tisha B'Av service on July 31 at 7:30 p.m. Tisha B'Av is an annual holy day commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. It has been called "the saddest day in Jewish history" and it also one of general mourning for the numerous catastrophes that have coincidentally befallen Jews on the ninth of Av
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