admin | June 19, 2020
WASHINGTON (JTA) It would seem that most of us agree, left and right, that Black lives matter and that policing reform is long overdue. But there are fissures and fractures under the surface, arguments over the solutions and the candidates most capable of leading us to a better day.
admin | June 19, 2020
Rhetorical opposition to Israels annexation plans has gained a rather futile momentum. The clearest example of this came at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva from Adalah, Al-Haw, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, the Womens Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling, and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights. These human rights organisations stated that annexation, Will normalise Israels colonial project and will amount to apartheid via the continued expansion and construction of settlements, displacement and dispossession of Palestinians, and demographic manipulation.
admin | June 19, 2020
(JTA) About 15 years ago, a large synagogue in Northern California installed a set of windows in the religious school engraved with the names of some 175 prominent Jews, from biblical figures to famous actors. One of them, sandwiched between Zionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, was Judah Benjamin, the most prominent Jewish official in the Confederacy. Benjamin, who enslaved 140 people on a Louisiana sugar plantation, served variously as the Confederate attorney general, secretary of war and secretary of state
admin | June 19, 2020
Like thousands of other French Jews, Dan Bocobza had for years been contemplating aliyah, or immigration to Israel, but when coronavirus hit France, he decided to make his move. "France's mismanagement of COVID-19 played a role, but above all it was feeling that suddenly the doors were closed," said Bocobza, an entrepreneur and father-of-seven. In France, a country of 65 million, the virus has claimed over 29,000 lives, with the Jewish community particularly hard hit, according to officials in local organizations.
admin | June 19, 2020
Frontispiece to the 1772 edition of the Encyclopdie by Diderot and d'Alembert.
admin | June 18, 2020
Image by Emmanuel Dyan/Flickr A grave at the Jewish cemetery in Tarnow, Poland. WARSAW, Poland (JTA) A wall of the Jewish cemetery in Tarnow, a city in southern Poland, was spray-painted with the letters AJ, likely meaning Anti-Jude, or anti-Jewish. The walls Star of David was painted over as well.
admin | June 18, 2020
DownloadPrint Singer Eddie Cantor (center) sits next to former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at a dinner of the Massachusetts Committee of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews in Boston, MA, May 25, 1950. Also seated (left to right): Frank Leahy and Paul Devers
admin | June 18, 2020
Videos circulating on social media recently show New York City Parks employees welding shut a playground in the heart of Hasidic Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We have seen footage of the New York Police Department and NYC Parks Police in Boro Park shepherding Hasidic children out of a park and locking it shut behind them. Meanwhile, tens of thousands are allowed to protest in Brooklyn, while a maskless Mayor Bill de Blasio poses for photo-ops, ignoring the social-distancing guidelines his administration ruthlessly enforces against Jewish children and families
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.
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