admin | February 23, 2020
BASKING RIDGE, NJ It's been a busy third week of February and staying on top of all the local news can be tough. No worries, we have put together the top stories of the week for the Basking Ridge area. BASKING RIDGE, NJ Three incidents of hate, extremism and anti-Semitism were reported in Basking Ridge in 2019, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League.
admin | February 23, 2020
BASKING RIDGE, NJ Three incidents of hate, extremism and anti-Semitism were reported in Basking Ridge in 2019, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League. In 2019, there were 216 incidents reported in 112 towns in New Jersey, which decreased from the 452 incidents reported in New Jersey during 2018. But the incidents were no less concerning, the report says.
admin | February 23, 2020
The mass shootings targeting two bars in the German town of Hanau appear to be the latest in a series of global attacks motivated by white nationalist ideology, experts said. The 43-year-old German man identified by authorities as the gunman also appeared to be obsessed with America, and with American conspiracy theories, according to online video and documents German police are investigating in connection with the attack. One video, posted to YouTube under the same name as the website containing the gunmans manifesto, described a conspiracy about the abuse and torture of children in secret locations in America.
admin | February 23, 2020
Law enforcement in America and Europe is failing its people. For decades, Western security forces have wilfully ignored the rise of far-right white supremacist movements. Instead, as the Guardian of the United Kingdom puts it, they have focused their resources on Muslim extremists at their peril.
admin | February 23, 2020
Right-wing social media personality and trollKaitlin Bennett was the focus of a protest on Feb.
admin | February 23, 2020
The lawyer for a former Hasidic couple suing the province for failing to make sure they got a seculareducation says the judge hearingtheir case has an opportunityto help children attending religious schools today by urging the government to act. The plaintiffs, Yohanan and Shifra Lowen, want Quebec Superior Court Justice Martin Castonguay to issue a declaratory judgment. They're seeking to compelthe province to take additional steps to ensure children attending religious schools receive an adequate secular education
admin | February 23, 2020
The authorities have restored an old synagogue. But do they want it filled? WHEN IT COMES to Egypts Jewish community, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi says all the right things.
admin | February 21, 2020
The sound of silence gives way to the sounds of the 60s at the Segal next week, as a musical show starring husband-and-wife team Louise Pitre and W. Joseph Matheson moves in just as the silent-retreat drama Small Mouth Sounds moves out. The Times They Are A Changin, which plays from March 1 to 22, and which originated at Torontos Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company in 2017, is a celebration of protest songs from songwriters of Jewish heritage such as Carole King, Paul Simon, Mama Cass, Arlo Guthrie and, of course, Bob Dylan
admin | February 21, 2020
In recent years the British Labour party has grown rapidly to become one of the largest political movement in Europe, numbering more than half a million members, many of them young people who had previously turned their backs on national politics. The reason was simple: a new leader, Jeremy Corbyn, had shown that it was possible to rise to the top of a major party without being forced to sacrifice ones principles along the way and become just another machine politician. But as Corbyn prepares to step downafter a devastating election defeat, statements by the three contenders, Lisa Nandy, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Keir Starmer, for his crown suggest that his efforts to reinvent Labour as a mass, grassroots movement are quickly unravelling.A politics of cynicism dressed only loosely in progressive garb -has returned to replace Corbyn's popular democratic socialism.
admin | February 21, 2020
(JNS)Even before the Trump administrations Middle East peace plan was revealed earlier this month, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas was planning his trip to New York City, where he plans to address the United Nations and protest the plans outline, which the P.A. has rejected outright. That has been the Palestinian leaders modus operandi for the past 17 years, and it has kept him on the wrong path of sparing no effort to fight Israel in the international arena, which at times seems to be his primary goalsomething far more important to him than promoting Palestinian interests that could facilitate statehood.
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