simmons | August 16, 2017
For my new California drivers license photo, I wore my rainbow Star of David necklace. Ive acquired considerable symbolic bling over the yearsmainly because a lifetime of well-meaning folks assuring me I dont look Jewish or look gay frayed my last nerve.
admin | August 16, 2017
German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed horror at the racist marches that roiled Charlottesville, Virginia, this past weekend. It is racist, far-right violence, and clear, forceful action must be taken against it, regardless of where in the world it happens, she said on German television Monday. She might have added that such a thing wouldnt have happened in todays Germany because its illegal.
simmons | August 16, 2017
Sign Up for Our free email newsletters One of the most welcome political developments of my lifetime is the growing suspicion with which attempts to cloak even the most detestable utterances under the mantle of "free speech" is regarded. From the misogynistic obscurantism of #GamerGate (years later I still can't find anyone who can tell me what the "-gate" was) and the painfully unfunny parody of stand-up comedy performed on college campuses by the expatriate employer of ghostwriters known as Milo Yiannopoulos to the latter-day phrenology of the so-called alt-right and the unabashed Holocaust denial of Stormfront, there are expressions that most of us consider on their face unacceptable and undeserving of a platform. The difference is that now increasingly it looks as if people have concluded that it is our duty to make sure they are denied one
admin | August 16, 2017
CENTRAL VALLEY, N.Y. A growing rift between the tight-knit Hasidic communities of New York state and their Gentile neighbors, who increasingly feel threatened by the expansion of the Orthodox Jewish groups, is on full display this week at a pair of town hall meetings to explore what would amount to a municipal divorce. The occasion for the hearings is a proposal to turn a predominantly Hasidic village in the town of Monroe, N.Y., into its own town provided Monroe officials donate 56 acres to what is now the village of Kiryas Joel
richards | August 16, 2017
The mix of fiction and documentary that takes us inside a Hasidic community in Brooklyn in Menashe turns out to be something of a double-edged sword. Director Joshua Z
admin | August 16, 2017
Raise a shout together, O ruins of Yerushalayim! For Hashem will comfort His people, Will redeem Yerushalayim. Isaiah 52:9 (The Israel Bible) The Hurva Synagogue in the Old Citys Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem. Inset: After its destruction in 1967.
simmons | August 16, 2017
By Danya Ruttenberg By Danya Ruttenberg August 16 at 6:00 AM White nationalists staged a torchlit march on the campus of the University of Virginia on Aug.11, ahead of a planned far-right rally.
admin | August 16, 2017
By Ben Sales JTA news service Touro Synagogue, nestled in historic Newport, R.I., is the oldest synagogue still in existence in the United States.
richards | August 16, 2017
Regina Spektor to play in concert on August 19 in Raanana Amphipark. (photo credit:Wikimedia Commons) Life would be a little more dreary without Regina Spektor
admin | August 16, 2017
Mr. Trump borrowed conservatives lingo on Tuesday, saying the alt-left bore responsibility, using a phrase popular with commentators like Foxs Sean Hannity. They think there were 300 or so racists who showed up to a rally, and who got exactly what they wanted: Violence, and violence in a way that inspires the nations elite to double down on iconoclasm in a way they hope grows their movement, said Ben Domenech, the publisher of The Federalist, an online magazine.
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