admin | June 17, 2020
EMET is grateful to Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Elan Carr, who emphasized on our April 23rd webinar the importance of celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM). In a recent poll, the ADL found that over half (54%) of Jews in America have either experienced or witnessed some form of antisemitism in the past five years. In 2006, President George W.
admin | June 17, 2020
Image by Twitter/jckamsterdam Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk AMSTERDAM (JTA) Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk, a Dutch-Jewish woman who saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Holocaust, has died at the age of 96. Goudsmit-Oudkerk, who died Sunday, was the last living member of the small team of rescuers who smuggled Jewish children to safety over several months from a Protestant religious seminary in Amsterdam, the Dutch Het Parool daily reported.
admin | June 17, 2020
Image by Getty Images Hasidic men and women walk through a Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn on April 24, 2017 in New York City. (JTA) Three Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn and two Catholic priests are suing New York Gov.
admin | June 17, 2020
Written by Hannah Tindle, CNN Based on the true story of Deborah Feldman, a Jewish woman who left the Satmar community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in search of a new life, the hit Netflix series "Unorthodox" has brought Hasidic culture -- and its female dress codes -- into mainstream focus. One of the most talked about aspects of the show is the clothing, which shapes lead character Esty's (played by Shira Haas) story from beginning to end. The show's costume designer Justine Seymour spent hours on meticulous research, including a week-long stint within the Satmar community in New York
admin | June 17, 2020
Last year, the journalist Kevin Roose wrote about Caleb Cain, a young, white, twenty-something man who came to sympathize with the alt-right (and then abandon them) simply by watching YouTube videos.
admin | June 17, 2020
Deborah Feldman grew up in a strictly conservative religious community.
admin | June 17, 2020
Menachem Mendel Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe at the Lag BaOmer parade in Brooklyn, New York, May 17, 1987. Photo: Mordecai Baron via Wikicommons
admin | June 17, 2020
If you will it, it is no dream Theodore Herzl Deaf in the IDF? Is that even possible? I would like to tell you the story of a very brave and courageous young lady.
admin | June 17, 2020
When Peter Manseau heard that a former student of his at Georgetown, Kayleigh McEnany, had been named the new White House press secretary, he felt compelled to write about it. His article, published earlier this month in the New Republic, is a warning in all but name, a American religious historian's observations about the underpinnings of his former student's worldview an analysis one could read as sacrificial or suicidal. Manseau taught McEnany in an undergrad memoir-writing class she was interning for President George W
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