simmons | July 26, 2017
Maverick Likud MK Benny Begin slammed the coalition on Wednesday for supporting his fellow party member Avi Dichters Jewish nation-state bill, while lamenting the proposed legislations disregard for Israels non-Jewish minorities.
admin | July 26, 2017
Participants enjoy a prior rafting weekend sponsored by Young Jewish Leadership Concepts. | Photo provided When Lou Balcher began running the Young Jewish Leadership Concepts (YJLC) Pocono Rafting Weekend down the Lehigh River 30 years ago, nobody had cellphones and internet use was limited to a few scientists
richards | July 26, 2017
Dreams of becoming a movie star are probably few and far between among Hasidim. Many Hasidic communities tend to be distrustful of the secular and going to the movies or watching television is often forbidden or, at least, heavily discouraged. Thats why Menashe Lustig, a Hasidic performer who hails from New Square, New York, is making waves across film festival circuits as the star and namesake of Menashe
simmons | July 26, 2017
MOVIES HOME MOVIES Menashe Movie Review Published on July 25, 2017 Photo from the film Menashe. MENASHE Director: Joshua Z.
richards | July 26, 2017
In Menashe, which debuts nationally July 28, director Joshua Weinstein has delicately crafted a work that emanates a rarely seen authenticity, tenderness and depth sadly lacking in other mainstream films about Hasidic Jews and their communities. A Hasidic father named Menashe, who works long hours in a small grocery store in Brooklyn, struggling to make ends meet, has lost his young wife Lea to illness.
admin | July 26, 2017
Opposing Views Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Aide Is Arrested (Photos) Opposing Views Wasserman Schultz introduced a resolution, which passed the House of Representatives and called on the President to declare an annual Jewish American Heritage Month ," notes her webpage on the congressional website.
richards | July 26, 2017
NEW YORK Families that receive free Jewish children's books from the Massachusetts-based PJ Library say the program has helped them feel more connected to their Jewish communities, with interfaith families especially saying it has spurred them to celebrate Jewish holidays and Shabbat and to learn more about Judaism, a new study found.
richards | July 26, 2017
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaking at the organizations Never is Now conference in New York City, Nov. 17, 2016
admin | July 26, 2017
Milo Yianopoulos at Rutgers University Nadav Salomon Last week, the Anti-Defamation League released its Alt Right to Alt Lite: Naming the Hate watch list of people it claimed are engaged in the promotion of bigotry and extremism. The list, which was billed as a whos who of white supremacists and fringe right-wing hate group leaders, included neo-Nazi activists like Andrew Anglin and Andrew Auernheimer of The Daily Stormer, Dillon Irizarry of the Vanguard America organization, Matthew Heimbach and Matthew Parrott of the Traditionalist Worker Party, and white separatist Richard Spencer. Lumped in with these notorious promoters of racial animus on the ADLs Naming the Hate list, however, were also members of what the report defines as Alt Lite: right-wing activists who refused to publicly embrace white supremacist ideology, but who the ADL claims hate feminists and immigrants, among others
richards | July 26, 2017
The Anti-Defamation League on Wednesday denounced the decision by US President Donald Trump to bar transgender people from serving in the military, calling the new policy deeply objectionable and blatantly discriminatory. Its a sad day when the President of the United States declares that transgender Americans are unwelcome in the United States military, said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO said in statement.
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