admin | August 25, 2017
Email a copy of "Anti-Israel Extremists Target ADL in New Online Campaign Equating Zionism With Racism" to a friend White supremacist Richard Spencer speaking on Israels Channel 2 after the far-rights violent demonstrationin Charlottesville earlier this month. Photo: Screenshot
richards | August 25, 2017
It was offensive enough when, in the aftermath of the deadly events in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend, the white supremacist leader Richard Spencer called himself a white Zionist, comparing his form of Nazism to the belief in a homeland for the Jews. It was even more distressing to read on these pages a supportive rendering of that assertion by Naomi Dann of the radical group Jewish Voice for Peace. We work hard to reflect a range of American Jewish opinion, which is why the piece and reaction to it was published.
richards | August 25, 2017
Cohoes Fifty years ago this weekend, a former American Nazi Party member killed a 59-year-old Jewish man in Cohoes. Francis Mainville laid in wait for Harry Pearlberg, a door-to-door salesman from Troy, before gunning him down on Saturday, Aug
simmons | August 25, 2017
A Torah scroll.
simmons | August 25, 2017
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Friday, August 25, 2017, 3:47 AM Their prayers were answered. A Brooklyn judge temporarily blocked the demolition of the oldest synagogue in Borough Park after members argued the sale of the building was based on misrepresentations. Chevra Anshei Lubawitz, on 12th Ave.
simmons | August 25, 2017
First Congregation Sons of Israel will host a service and musical sing-along dinner followed by Kiddush Levana (Sanctification of the Moon) at 6:30 p.m. today. According to the Jewish faith, the tradition of Kiddush Levana has taken place for well over a millennia, says Rabbi Joel Fox, who will lead the service
richards | August 25, 2017
Old City of Porto, Portugal iStock Ahead of next months European Days of Jewish Culture project, the Portuguese town of Belmonte has renovated and reopened its Jewish museum, which is the largest in the world about crypto-Jews. The reopening earlier this month followed extensive renovations costing $350,000 at the museum, which was founded in 2005, a municipal spokesperson told JTA.
richards | August 25, 2017
As every working parent will tell you, modern families lead busy lives. Mums and dads findthemselves juggling work presentations with spelling tests, interview preparation with school plays and client calls with science projects. The death this month of Blanche Lindo Blackwell [pictured below] at the age of 104was widely reported in national newspapers
simmons | August 25, 2017
Even if you dont follow pop music, you may have heard pianist and songwriter Regina Spektor singing the catchy Orange Is the New Black theme song, Youve Got Time, covering The Beatles While My Guitar Gently Weeps in the animated feature Kubo and the Two Strings, or in numerous other films and TV shows that have featured her music. But you might never have heard the Russian Jewish immigrant at all had the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society not helped her family settle in New York. At age 9, Spektor entered the United States as a refugee when her parents fled Soviet persecution in 1989
admin | August 25, 2017
Ron Kampeas Husam Zomlot, the PLO envoy to Washington, speaks to reporters in Washington, D.C., Aug. 17, 2017. WASHINGTON (JTA)-The Palestinian Authority expects the Trump administration to commit to a peace deal endgame before the close of this month and prefers it would be the two-state solution.
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