admin | May 10, 2020
Photograph Source: Delegates to the San Remo conference in Italy, 25 April 1920 Public Domain One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera.
admin | May 10, 2020
WASHINGTON (JTA) Elan Carr, the State Departments anti-Semitism monitor,wants to get people in other countries to love their Jews more as a means of countering anti-Semitism. In a press call Monday to mark Jewish American Heritage Month, Carr outlined steps the United States was taking worldwide to advocate for defending Jews as violent anti-Semitism spikes, including security measures, prosecuting hate crimes and condemning anti-Semitic speech. In addition to all of those important defense measures, we are determined also to work with our allies in developing and driving Philo-Semitic narratives for their country, in the hope that we can reach the day when every society dedicates itself, as the United States has, to embrace and to treasure its Jewish community, he said.
admin | May 10, 2020
Imagine you can open your eyes to see only the good in every person, the positive in every circumstance, and the opportunity in every challenge. The Lubavitcher Rebbe This year, as we count 49 days between the holidays of Passover and Shavuot, the global pandemic makes us feel vulnerable and uncertain about our future
admin | May 10, 2020
By Rabbi Haim Jachter | May 07, 2020 Rav Ovadia on Electric Shavers Many of Shaarei Orahs male congregants are concerned about Rav Ovadia Yosefs ruling (Yabia Omer 9 Yoreh Deah 10:15) regarding electric razors.
admin | May 10, 2020
MAY 9, 2020 THE LEVY FAMILYS roots connect them to a place and a community that no longer exists. The place was the port city of Ottoman Salonica, present-day Thessaloniki, Greece, one of the few cities in modern Europe ever to claim a Jewish majority.
admin | May 10, 2020
The Jewish community recently held a blood drive, urging people who recovered from the deadly novel coronavirus to donate. Oholei Torah in Crown Heights and Flatbushs Sephardic Community Center were two of the sites that stretched from the tristate area to as far away as Detroit. The Crown Heights community, which has many residents who have contracted and recovered from the coronavirus, now has enormous potential to save lives by donating plasma! an article in the Crown Heights-based Collive said, calling on residents to join its Plasma Save A Life Initiative.
admin | May 8, 2020
In this quarantine time Ive been yearning for some light, entertaining TV to occupy my time. And yet, somehow, Ive ended up watching mostly holocaust movies
admin | May 8, 2020
Israels "national emergency government," forged in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, is on the verge of creating an even greater national emergency if its annexation plan for the West Bank is implemented, as expected, this summer. Only massive international pressure can stop it. In teaming up with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz has not only reneged on his campaign pledge not to serve in a government headed by an indicted prime minister, but he also has caved to Netanyahus demands on annexation of Area C of the West Bank, against hisprevious, andbetter,judgment.
admin | May 8, 2020
How can we draw meaning from the remnants of past generations be they photographs, candlesticks, documents or letters and squeeze out the stories they tell? Its a challenge that only increases over time. Hadley Freeman grew up feeling distant from her paternal grandmother, who carried an air of sadness and mystery
admin | May 8, 2020
The Knesset voted on Wednesday evening to enforce restrictions regarding Lag BOmer which falls out this year on Monday, May 11, rejecting a National Security Council recommendation to impose a nationwide lockdown for the day. Instead, the Knesset voted to ban virtually all bonfires, including private ones, and to close off the entire town of Meron to visitors from Thursday of this week until May 13, with the exception of residents of the town of Meron and workers and visitors to three exclusive bonfires on Lag BOmer.
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