admin | May 18, 2020
How do we bear up to lifes most formidable challenges? What is our response to a crisis that affects us as individuals, as communities, as countries, and as a world?This week we celebrated Lag Baomer
admin | May 18, 2020
This column is the 400th appearance of Ethics and Religion Talk in the Grand Rapids Press since we began on July 31, 2012, almost eight years ago. My initial vision, when creating the column, was to model a kind of respectful interfaith dialogue, in which we clearly articulate what defines us as unique religious traditions without disparaging each others faith traditions. The reader, over time, would also see the common threads running through our traditions
admin | May 18, 2020
For Andy Hull, this was the year that a lifelong dream of being a philosophy professor was set to culminate.
admin | May 18, 2020
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb It is a long time since I first heard the term work-study program, something designed to assist young adults with limited financial means to achieve a professional education. Participants were encouraged to continue working while also being paid to enroll in college level courses, to study.
admin | May 18, 2020
Higher education around the world has been shaken to its core by the coronavirus pandemic. But this pandemic, and our responses to it, have much to teach us. Educational leaders, scholars and policy makers should not only take advantage of this unprecedented moment in university history to fund, invest and get trained in the friendly use of instructional delivery platforms, applications and assessment tools.
admin | May 18, 2020
For the third straight year, the number of anti-Semitic incidents reported in Massachusetts in 2019, including the desecration of a Fall River cemetery and the arson of two Chabad houses, were in the triple digits, the Anti-Defamation League said Tuesday. The continuing wave of violent acts in Massachusetts came as the nation overall established a new record of hate-related crimes targeting Jews and Jewish institutions 2,107 acts of antisemitic hate the highest number since the ADL began tracking the data in 1979. There were 114 incidents recorded in Massachusetts, officials said
admin | May 18, 2020
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has decided against removing swastikas from the gravestones of Nazi military officers who died as U.S. prisoners of war (POWs) during World War II
admin | May 18, 2020
The leader of the Berks County Republican Committee is standing behind a pair of party Facebook posts this week that several civil rights groups and the Pennsylvania Democratic Party say are hateful, disturbing, divisive and anti-Semitic. The posts, which were published recently on the committees official Facebook page,first drew sharp criticism from the Anti-Defamation League of Philadelphiaon Friday. That was quickly followed by calls from the The Jewish Federation of Reading/Berks and The Pennsylvania Democratic Party to takedownthe posts and issue an apology.
admin | May 18, 2020
Jonathan Greenblatt is the leading authority on antisemitism, in the eyes of the mainstream media, as the CEO of the pro-Israel organization the Anti-Defamation League, and yesterday morning he reported that a Jewish holy site in Iran had been set afire. Disturbing reports from #Iran that the tomb of Esther & Mordechai, a holy Jewish site, was set afire overnight
admin | May 18, 2020
Some progress is being made towards addressing it, but there is more work to be done Since 1979, the Anti-Defamation League has been auditing antisemitic incidents in the United States. According to its latest report, released last week, 2019 saw a 12 percent rise over the previous year. Inside that number was a massive 56 percent jump in assaults
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