richards | August 2, 2017
The New York Times has laid down a red line: anti-Zionism is hate speech. This is the message of an article by one of its staff opinion editors, Bari Weiss, about the Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour. When Progressives Embrace Hate.
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richards | August 2, 2017
(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that a New York Jewish congregation is the rightful owner of the nation's oldest synagogue, in Rhode Island, along with a set of bells worth millions. The decision by the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston marks the latest turn in a long-running legal battle that began when members of the Touro Synagogue in Newport tried to sell a set of ritual bells, called rimonim, worth some $7.4 million
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admin | August 2, 2017
The Epstein School is welcoming students back this month with a new logo, which communications director Coleen Lou said represents the institutions fluidity in moving forward while remaining rooted in its heritage, symbolized by the blue Star of David in the logos center.
Category: Jewish Heritage Month |
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richards | August 2, 2017
Jews are not generally noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest price possible writes Kevin Myers for the Irish edition of the Sunday Times. Shocked
Category: Jewish Heritage Month |
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simmons | August 2, 2017
NEW YORK Ikeda Yataros body was cremated today. May his soul be forever damned. The flames claimed his corpse and his roses all that was left of the man.
Category: Jewish Heritage Month |
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richards | August 2, 2017
GETTY Sir Peter Bazalgette, chairman of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation, said the horrifying stories of survivors remained incredibly powerful.
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admin | August 2, 2017
CommonSpace Sammy Stein: The aim of the Shalom Festival is to build cultural bridges - let's welcome it CommonSpace The report is an explosive 160-page expose of the SPSC as an organisation riddled with individuals who openly post information about antisemitism and holocaust denial .
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admin | August 2, 2017
BOSTON (JTA) With more than a decades worth of experience in the film industry, mostly in documentaries, director Joshua Weinstein has released his first feature-length narrative film. Whats surprising is that Weinstein, a secular Jew, has made a movie entirely in Yiddish.
Category: Hasidic |
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richards | August 2, 2017
Atara Foods employee Enrique Torres, a 25-year-old Pikesville, Md., resident, slices freshly slaughtered kosher meat at the downtown Baltimore facility on July 26. | Shana Medel By Shana Medel Yaakov Levi is fixated on working his way to the top of the food chain in Charm City, otherwise known as Baltimore. The Israeli native, who was introduced to the glatt-kosher meat industry by his father, quickly became an integral part of the family business at 8 years old
Category: Ashkenazi |
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richards | August 2, 2017
August 2, 2017 by Felicity Boardman, The Conversation Credit: gopixa/Shutterstock The ability to cheaply and quickly sequence entire genomes is changing the way diseases are identified and treated. But it is also likely to change the way we make some of the most important and personal decisions of our lives: how, and with whom, we have children.
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