admin | July 30, 2017
Demonstration in Support of the Right to Boycott and BDS, Albany N.Y. June 15, 2016 There are two claims one commonly hears from people opposed to any serious action taken in favor of Palestinian rights. The first is that old standby, that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.
simmons | July 30, 2017
OPINION Despite their claims of an inclusive space, anti-Semitism still infects the left by Charlotte Lawson | Jul 31 2017 | In late June, thousands from across the Midwest congregated in Chicago to demonstrate their support for legal rights, recognition and cultural heritage of LGBT communities in the citys annual Pride Parade. The event, which typically emphasizes inclusion regardless of ethnic or religious background, left Laurel Grauer feeling discriminated against after being removed from the parade for carrying a rainbow flag adorning the Jewish Star of David.
simmons | July 30, 2017
Rabbi Steinsaltz on the phone Machon Shefa President Reuven Rivlin called Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz Sunday to congratulate the rabbi and wish him good health on his 80th birthday. Rabbi Steinsaltz is considered one of the great rabbinical commentators and scholars of this generation, and has written numerous world-renowned commentaries on the Bible, the Talmud, and many other religious Jewish texts
admin | July 30, 2017
It is forbidden to study Torah. This is one of the surprising Halakhot of the fast day of Tisha BAv, which we will be marking during the coming week. And the reason its forbidden to study Torah, is thatTorah gladdens the heart
simmons | July 30, 2017
Email a copy of "New Report Exposes Scottish Palestine Solidarity Activists as Purveyors of Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism" to a friend A sample of antisemitic social media posts shared by members of SPSC. Image: David Collier/JHRW One of Europes most notorious pro-Palestinian solidarity groups has been unmasked as a home for Holocaust deniers and other hardcore antisemites, a new report revealed on Sunday.
simmons | July 30, 2017
Email a copy of "Irish Journalist Behind Antisemitic Sunday Times Article Unmasked as Holocaust Denier" to a friend Journalist Kevin Myers tells Sunday Times readers that Jews always drive a hard bargain. Photo: Screenshot via Tom Gross Media An Irish journalist fired from his post on Sunday morning after penning an antisemitic attack on two British Jewish TV presenters is a known Holocaust denier, whose article denying the Nazi genocide of six million Jews was removed only today from the website of the Irish newspaper that had hosted it since 2009
admin | July 30, 2017
Phil Mazo, a comedian based in Jersey City, NJ, was reading through the to-do list on his phone when he decided it might be time to check off one item that had been on the list for some time: Buy a take-home genome testing kit from the company 23andMe. After finding a deal on a kit on Ebay a man had bought tests for his whole family, but was left with an extra kit after his brother got divorced Mazo hit purchase. Mazos parents emigrated from Soviet Russia
simmons | July 30, 2017
NEW YORK Once pillars of Jewish life in Europe, hundreds of synagogues across the Old Continent had been destroyed in the period around World War II.
richards | July 30, 2017
New Jersey State Capitol Building.jpg iStock Two New Jersey men convicted in the firebombing of North Jersey synagogues in 2011 and 2012 were each sentenced to 35 years in prison. Anthony Graziano and Aakash Dalal were charged on a 30-count indictment in 2013 with arson and bias-related incidents that occurred from December 2011 to January 2012 in the Bergen County towns of Paramus, Rutherford, Maywood and Hackensack, according to NorthJersey.com, which reported their sentencing Friday. Aakash Dalal, a resident of the New Jersey borough of Lodi was convicted last November for vandalizing and firebombing synagogues and a rabbis home in 2012
admin | July 30, 2017
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was the dominant language of trade in the Balkans. Carried around the world by Jews expelled from Spain, Sephardic Spanish is quickly disappearing as the number of people able to speak it declines
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