richards | July 2, 2017
Getty Images (JTA) Women who read aloud from the Torah at a synagogue in Marseille were subjected to threats and insults by congregants after local rabbis condemned the event. The dozens of threats and insults, made on social networks and in emails, started coming in Saturday night after the group of half a dozen women read the Torah at the Fleg Jewish Center that morning, the French community centers president,Raymond Arouch, and director, Martine Yana, wrote in a statement Monday. The threats were of all kinds of assaults and were intolerable, Arouch and Yana said in the statement, which neither identified the women nor contained examples of the abuse
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admin | July 2, 2017
A group of rabbis in London have called for the countrys top Sephardic rabbi to be fired over his comments welcoming growing acceptances of homosexuality. Rabbi Joseph Dweck, who serves as senior rabbi at Londons S&P Sephardi Community, came under fire after saying at a lecture last month that societal acceptance of homosexuality is a fantastic development because it opens the door to a more loving society
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richards | July 2, 2017
Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz Recreation of chocolate making at Colonial Williamsburg. Chocolate was a Jewish immigrant food to the American Colonies, so you can build on those chocolatey Jewish roots when planning your 4th of July menu starting with the Colonial Jewish-American Chocolate Cake recipe below.
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simmons | July 2, 2017
BERLIN (JTA) Germanys top Jewish leader praised a new lawdesigned to curb Holocaust denial on social networks. The German Parliament passed the lawFriday in its lastmeeting before summer break.
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admin | July 2, 2017
Left, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California, when she was a toddler, with her mother Shyamala Gopalan Harris, who came to study in America and decided to remain here and marry Donald Harris
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admin | July 2, 2017
Greenblatt is CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League. Last weekend, organizers of a gay pride parade in Chicago ejected three people carrying pride flags emblazoned with a Jewish Star of David. Subsequent bizarre statements attempting to rationalize their action, claiming that Zionism is an inherently white supremacist ideology only exacerbated the sense that the organizers were deaf to the concerns of the Jewish community and engaged in anti-Semitism denying Jews the same rights that were extended to other participants, basically to celebrate their identities as Jewish queer women.
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richards | July 2, 2017
The White House. (photo credit:REUTERS) NEW YORK The Trump administration has a responsibility to appoint a special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, as has been done by every administration since 2004, those who held the position under president Barack Obama say. The former envoys at the US State Department, Hannah Rosenthal and Ira Forman, who occupied the position during the first and second terms of the Obama presidency, spoke on Monday during a briefing held by the Anti-Defamation League to discuss the Trump administrations failure to name their successor.
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admin | July 1, 2017
The Balfour Declaration, currently accepted by many as the founding legal statement for the establishment of Israel is really nothing more than a letter. It was a letter of policy between government personnel and became a major part of foreign policy then, and its shadow effects have continued on rather effectively to now.
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simmons | July 1, 2017
One hates to give a provocateur the negative attention he seeks, but sometimes theres no help for it. For example, when said provocateur occupies the space that hosts ones blog
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richards | July 1, 2017
Britain's chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. (photo credit:TOBY MELVILLE/REUTERS) The United Kingdom's Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has been warned by a number of British rabbis that if he fails to remove a controversial rabbi from his position "he will be responsible for the splitting of Anglo-Orthodoxy." Mirvis reportedly received a letter from several Sephardi as well as Ashkenazi Rabbanim of London Friday morning urging him to sack Rabbi Joseph Dweck following controversial comments he made regarding homosexuality, according to The Jewish Chronicle. The letter stated that If Joseph Dweck is maintained in office as a rabbi, whether it is fully or even partially, in spite of all the letters received from highly respected Orthodox Rabbinical authorities in Gateshead and in Israel and worldwide, Chief Rabbi Mirvis should realize that he will be responsible for the splitting of Anglo-Orthodoxy and lose his credibility as a Chief Rabbi to a large consensus of Orthodox communities." Dweck, leading rabbi of the S&P (Spanish and Portuguese) Sephardi Community in London, found himself at the center of a communal tumult last month after delivering a lecture in which he argued that Judaism allows for two men to love each other despite its prohibition in the Torah
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