admin | May 3, 2020
This is a tale of two stories. The first one is a potential tragedy. As many of you know, lightning struck the roof of the Jewish Synagogue in New Iberia on the morning of April 28
admin | May 3, 2020
Last year, together with my co-chair, Yair Meyers, we spearheaded an initiative in our community in Montreal which became known as the Community Mental Health Shabbat. Our goal was to get as many synagogues in our community as possible to dedicate the same Shabbat in May to mental health awareness and destigmatization
admin | May 3, 2020
(JTA) It sounds like an old joke, about a rabbi and a priest walking into a bar. But Keeping the Faith, a romantic comedy released 20 years ago this month, stretched the premise into one of the more clever films of its genre, and the rare Hollywood movie that takes questions of religious faith and obligation seriously. Keeping the Faith was the directorial debut of actor Edward Norton, from a screenplay by the Jewish writer Stuart Blumberg, who had been Nortons roommate at Yale.
admin | May 3, 2020
Both Israeli parties of Likud and Blue and White, regardless of apparent differences, have a common plan for the West Bank, which is nothing more than the use of a new corona virus crisis to annex additional Palestinian territories. Asa Winstanley, a London-based investigative journalist who writes about Palestine and West Asia, says Israels Zionist regime is seizing every minor opportunity including the COVID-19 pandemic to seize more areas from the West Bank to build new illegal settlements.
admin | May 3, 2020
Jeremy Ben-Ami of J Street has a video primer on the history of the conflict that while obviously from a liberal Zionist perspective (the Temple Mount), is good on the unfairness of Trumps deal of the century, showing that Palestinian areas would be connected by a spaghetti of roads. I like Ben-Amis explanation of the British Balfour Declaration of 1917. Its one of those things that is absolutely key to understanding this
admin | May 3, 2020
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admin | May 3, 2020
State officials Wednesday reported another 92 deaths in Illinois related to the coronavirus, as the statewide death toll reached 2,215. Officials also announced 2,253 new known cases of COVID-19, bringing total to 50,355.
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