admin | April 13, 2020
Photo Credit: Saul Jay Singer During the 1940s, Benzion Netanyahuthe father of Israels current prime ministerserved as executive director of the American wing of the Revisionist Zionists, the movement founded by the Zionist leader Ze ev Jabotinsky. Netanyahu was also editor of its biweekly publication, Zionews. At the same time, Netanyahu was completing his Ph.D.
admin | April 13, 2020
This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, who inherited the leadership of the Novominsker Hasidic dynasty that was founded in Poland by his grandfather and transplanted to Brooklyn a century ago, died on Tuesday at his home in the Borough Park section.
admin | April 13, 2020
When my mom-friends and I were discussing where to do our Passover shopping last weekend, one sheepishly asked, Is it anti-Semitic for me not to want to go to the kosher supermarket because of coronavirus? Yes, I immediately answered
admin | April 13, 2020
Updated April 09, 2020 09:14:21 If you've had a moment to collect your thoughts and breathe after bingeing the truly wild documentary series Tiger King, you might've noticed another Netflix series that has been trending this week that's also based on a true story. Unorthodox is a four-part German-American miniseries and Netflix's first offering to be told primarily in Yiddish.
admin | April 13, 2020
by Nicole Aboodi | 4/13/20 3:00am Have you ever been invited into a space that feels so uniquely intimate and fragile that you observe it as carefully as possible, hoping to not miss a moment?
admin | April 13, 2020
Haredi society has been struck uniquely hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
admin | April 13, 2020
SIBIU, Romania You can almost hear the children clamoring,their voices filling the room with amelngeof Hungarian, Romanian,Yiddish and Hebrew.You can almost see them, clutching notebooks and climbing the staircase, with its Star of David and menorah motifs, on their way to class. You can almost imagine their Sibiu, their Austria-Hungary, their Romania, their Europethatonce was. But this former Jewish school, located next to the citys sole remaining synagogue, has largely been lost to history.Romanias communists nationalized this building in the 1960s, turning it into an apartment complex and stripping it of any meaningful religiosity.
admin | April 13, 2020
Its quite the side-step from Tiger King, but everyones latest Netflix obsession after bingeing on the lives of Joe Exotic et al - is Unorthodox. If youve not seen it yet, the four-part series is inspired by Deborah Feldmans book, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots.
admin | April 11, 2020
A colleague recently posed a very powerful question: How is your yetzer hara manifesting in new and different ways during this moment (of pandemic)? Of course, that question requires some unpacking.
admin | April 11, 2020
A new strain of Coronavirus, COVID 19, is spreading around the world, causing deaths and major disruption to the global economy.
Proudly Powered by WordPress | Theme by The Cloisters | Entries RSS Comments RSS
