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
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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
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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.
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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
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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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admin | July 30, 2017
The Summerville and North Area Jewish Community doesn't have a temple or a synagogue, but it still has a meaningful place to meet. The community has partnered with Summerville's Community Resource Center and the Charleston Jewish Community Center Without Walls to offer a series of ecumenical programs exploring faith, history and community
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simmons | July 30, 2017
Pope Francis.. (photo credit:REUTERS) ROME Pope Francis danced with a delegation of Hasidic Jews and discussed with them issues including the protection of Jewish cemeteries in Europe and combating child sex abuse.
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richards | July 30, 2017
Making an independent film on-location in Brooklyns Hasidic community, and almost completely in Yiddish, is not the most obvious way to lure people into a theater. When director Joshua Z
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admin | July 30, 2017
The Hasidim, extremely religious Jews known for their reclusiveness and distinctive clothing, are rarely represented on screen. Their beliefs and values put them at odds with secular culture, meaning they're usually seen from an outsider's perspectiveand when they are seen with an insider's eye, it's almost always that of someone running away from the community. Menashe, written, shot, and directed by Joshua Z
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admin | July 29, 2017
Leslie Renken Journal Star arts reporter @leslierenken PEORIA Bill Nolden got the theater bug in 1957, and it never went away. Nolden was nearing 30 when an acquaintance asked him to help fill out the chorus in Corn Stock Theatres 1957 production of Carousel. I had one small speaking role, but I got the acting bug and decided I would come back the following year, said Nolden.
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