admin | July 5, 2020
An Open Letter to the members of the Portuguese National Assembly I am a Sephardic Jew. Portugal owes me nothing. Yet the Nationality Law as irrational as it is offers a chance of survival for Portuguese-Jewish culture which is on the verge of extinction
admin | July 5, 2020
(RNS) Let us say their names out loud. Who? Althea Bernstein is a biracial Jewish woman in Madison, Wisconsin.
admin | July 5, 2020
(JTA) As a child in Israel, Amir Nathan dined at Sami VeSusu, an innovative restaurant in Beersheba named after a popular childrens television show from the 1960s and 70s.
admin | July 5, 2020
Yair Lapid: Israels choice, between shame and pride Israel today feels like a pressure cooker with no release valve on top. There are so many points of tension: the secular and the religious; Israelis and Palestinians; settlers and those who oppose the occupation; Sephardic Jews from the Arab world and Ashkenazi Jews from Europe; and Israeli Arabs and Zioniststhe list is endless. Yet in over 50 years of mayhem I have never seriously questioned my decision to live here
admin | July 5, 2020
This Saturday, American Jews will light candles for havdalah and of fireworks for the Fourth of July. Most American Jews trace their roots to immigration booms in the late 19th or early 20th century.
admin | July 5, 2020
Pilgrims could spark a coronavirus outbreak in town, mayor says. mvs.gov.ua The mayor of Uman, a Ukrainian town where Hasidic Jews flock every year to visit the tomb of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, has spoken against this year's pilgrimage set to be held in September amid the uncertainty over the coronavirus spread developments.
admin | July 5, 2020
The following story contains slight spoilers for Unorthodox Season 1. There are several scenes in Netflixs Unorthodox that will leave you speechlessand even more scenes that will leave you moved by Shira Haas powerhouse performance as Esther Esty Shapiro. Shira has captivated audiences with her portrayal of Esty, a young Jewish woman born and raised in the Satmar Hasidic community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn who flees her arranged marriage to find freedom in Berlin, Germany
admin | July 5, 2020
Times Herald-Record If you want to inspire change, you need to know where you are, where you want to be and how you want to get there. You also need to define you.
admin | July 5, 2020
Doug Gertner was a typical suburban Ohio teen, uninspired by his Reform Jewish upbringing. With some money he received for confirmation, he bought his first Grateful Dead albums. That soon led to his attending his first show on a Sunday night, June 27, 1976 in Chicagos Auditorium Theatre
admin | July 5, 2020
As new surrogacy bill fails, minister vows to fix discriminatory law by end 2020 Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn says he will work to pass a new surrogacy law that will not discriminate on the basis of religion, race, gender or sexual orientation. In February, the High Court struck down the existing law, which blocked single men and homosexual couples from being able to have children via a surrogate
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