School year dawns with no resolution for Alameda girl targeted with anti-Semitism – Jweekly.com
richards | August 18, 2017
On Monday morning Aug. 21, 14-year-old Natasha Waldorf, who is Jewish, will start her sophomore year at Alameda High School.
New Jewish group in Labour Party backs right to BDS – The Electronic Intifada (blog)
admin | August 18, 2017
Asa Winstanley Activism and BDS Beat 17 August 2017 Jewish members of the Labour Party have founded a new group. Jewish Voice for Labour will launch at the UK main opposition partys conference in Brighton next month. The new initiative presents a challenge to an existing Israel lobby group that positions itself as the representative of Jewish members of Labour
Organizer of Charlottesville’s Unite the Right rally described as onetime wannabe liberal activist – Richmond.com
admin | August 18, 2017
CHARLOTTESVILLE After using his blog and Wes Bellamys Twitter history to make a name for himself last fall, those platforms are now being used against Jason Kessler, the pro-white activist who organized the Unite the Right rally that turned deadly on Saturday. Articles and conspiracy theories about Kesslers past as a supporter of President Barack Obama and wannabe liberal activist who participated in the Occupy movement abound now as President Donald Trump continues facing backlash for his response to the rally that resulted in one woman, as well as two state police officers in a separate incident, dying.
From Rhode Island To South Carolina, 11 Synagogues Whose Architecture Can Wow – Jewish Week
admin | August 18, 2017
Like a lot of Reagan-era children, I was schlepped to a succession of suburban postwar temples. They all had magnificent cantors, lively services and prosaic 1960s and 70s architecture, which to my youthful eyes paled in grandeur next to my friends grand churches.
Former Hasidic School Officials Indicted in Meal-Fraud Scheme, Feds Say – DNAinfo
simmons | August 18, 2017
FBI agents previously raided the UTA Central Yeshiva at 76 Rutledge St.
Why do white supremacists hate Jews? Because we can fight them. – Chicago Tribune
admin | August 18, 2017
Anti-Semitism is again back in the news. Some of the posters at the Charlottesville, Va., white supremacist demonstrations this past weekend featured a man taking a hammer to a Star of David the biggest threat, the thing that needs to be destroyed
Exhibitions | American Jewish Historical Society
richards | August 18, 2017
October 7, 1944 In Cooperation with Yeshiva University Museum. This exhibition is the American attempt to respond to four women, and the revolt in Auschwitz that they helped make possible.
Hidden blueprint leads diggers to ancient ritual baths of Vilnius synagogue – Jewish Telegraphic Agency
richards | August 18, 2017
(JTA) A newly discovered blueprint of the destroyed great synagogue in Vilnius led ateam of archaeologists to unearth the remains of two ritual baths that were used by congregants of one of Europes largest and most prominent Jewish communities before its annihilation. The synagogue, which was at the heart of the large Jewish community in Vilnius for hundreds of years, was destroyed in the Holocaust.
Defiant, Trump Laments Assault on Culture and Revives a Bogus Pershing Story – New York Times
richards | August 18, 2017
Mr. Corker, a sober voice on foreign policy and a frequent ally of the Trump administration, bluntly questioned the presidents ability to perform the duties of his office.
James Murdoch donates $1 million to Anti-Defamation League
simmons | August 18, 2017
James Murdoch, the CEO of Twenty-FirstCentury Fox (FOXA), circulated an email which saidthat in the wake of the recentevents in Charlottesville, Va., he would be making a $1 million donation to the Anti-Defamation League. [W]hat we watched this last week in Charlottesville and the reaction to it by the President of the United States concern all of us as Americans and free people, Murdoch said in a note seen by Yahoo Finance. On August 11 and 12, protestors including white supremacists and neo-Nazis descended on Charlottesville to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E.
