admin | April 14, 2020
It was a lovely spring day when Corporal Ian Forsyth arrived at a place of darkness and death. The 21-year-old wireless operator with the 15th/19th Kings Royal Hussars was among the first British troops to reach the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany 75 years ago this week. We werent expecting to see anything we didnt know there was such a place.
admin | April 14, 2020
A synagogue in Huntsville, Alabama was vandalized on the first night of Passover with neo-Nazi graffiti. Among the graffiti spray painted sometime over Wednesday night on the Etz Chayim Synagogue, a Conservative congregation of about 60 families in South Huntsville, were F Kikes, Gas Em All, White Power, Jew Scum, and Holohoax.
admin | April 14, 2020
With synagogues shuttered indefinitely, Jewish life is evolving to conform with the new home-based reality. When possible, technology is taking a more prominent role, facilitating Torah study, fellowship and more
admin | April 14, 2020
With Passover here and Easter coming up many want to observe the holy holidays with a church or synagogue service. However, in the age of Safer at Home quarantines to prevent spread of the coronavirus, such gatherings are discouraged. Luckily, we live in an age of technology where live streaming and video conferencing of spiritual/religious services is possible.
admin | April 14, 2020
With synagogues shut, a kibbutz has started working on a solution for the new world of cyber-prayer: a home ark for rabbis to use in their webcam services.
admin | April 14, 2020
A number of widely circulated Facebook posts published in early April claimed that the FBI seized a large cache of surgical masks from a synagogue in New York as part of a nationwide attempt to get much-needed medical equipment for the medical personnel on the frontlines against COVID-19.
admin | April 14, 2020
Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qasem stressed that on April 11, 1996, the Israeli enemy wanted to rift the relation between the Islamic Resistance and the Lebanese people by committing massacres, adding most of the world governments conspired with the Zionists after Sharm el-Sheikh summit. In an interview with Al-Manar TV Channel, Sheikh Qasem confirmed that the steadfastness of the Resistance, people and Army in the context of the golden formula led the Israeli enemy to humiliatingly stop its aggression on Lebanon and recognize a written pact that guarantees Hezbollah right to fire rockets in response to any Zionist assault on the Lebanese civilians. His eminence indicated that 1996 confrontation established the principles of the balance of deterrence which subdued the Zionists, stressing that Hezbollah is now ready to confront any Israeli war on Lebanon whenever it erupts
admin | April 13, 2020
MONTREAL -- The global COVID-19 pandemic began in January with China, Italy, Iran and Korea being hit hardest first. The entire world was soon engulfed in the pandemic that forced the shutdown of institutions, businesses, schools and most of society within months.
admin | April 13, 2020
PARIS In the Jewish world, perhaps one of the most controversial outcomes of these unprecedented times is the new restriction on the relationship between Israel and the Diaspora. For the first time since its establishment, the country has shut its doors to non-Israeli Jews living abroad
admin | April 13, 2020
Dont you just hate it when the word hate is tossed around to hide hatred? The Washington Posts A Muslim activist, fearless in the face of hate (April 5 print edition) epitomized this double-speak. The word hate appears half-a-dozen times, including in the headline, in Ausma Zehanat Khans review of Linda Sarsours We Are Not Here to be Bystanders; A Memoir of Love and Resistance.
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