admin | July 29, 2020
Houses of worship are continuing to evolve in their offerings for worship services and programming since Phase 2 of Gov. Charlie Bakers reopening plan that allows them to open their doors.
admin | July 29, 2020
Most events in the Jewish calendar revolve around celebration, but Tisha B'Av this Wednesday and Thursday (July 29 and 30) takes on a more mournful tone. With Surrey's largest Jewish community, Weybridge is home to North West Surrey Synagogue where this event is being marked this year with a live stream alongside other synagogues instead of face to face services.
admin | July 29, 2020
Ten years ago, when my father-in-law, Marcel Adams, turned 90, my wife, Linda, and I decided to film this amazing storyteller in action.As so often happened in the life of this dynamo who turns 100 August 2, he charmed our film crew Guy Sadot and Yuval Nathan the videographers from our sons bar mitzvah. These young Israelis found their roots and understood their Zionism by chronicling Marcels story.Its a larger-than-life tale: born in Romanias Carpathian mountains, surviving forced labor during World War II, making it to Palestine as a pioneer, fighting in the 48 war, eventually landing in Quebec City, then becoming a different kind of pioneer among the first to develop shopping centers in Canada.But as delighted as they were by Marcels perfectly delivered punch lines, the filmmakers started getting frustrated. They couldnt get him to go deep, to admit what made him tick.Marcel, born Meir Abramovici, in 1920, told vivid stories about growing up in Piatra Niamt
admin | July 29, 2020
Near Tulkarem, 1948. (Bettmann / Getty) Heres the script: Criminalize the boycotts, deport the human rights advocates, rebrand anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism, smear the leftist Jews, infiltrate the leftist organizations, defund the aid programs, torpedo the political campaigns, fire the high school teachers and speech pathologists and network commentators, and pinkwash the occupation. The tactics vary today, but the intent remains the same
admin | July 29, 2020
Anti-Racism July 27, 2020 Michelle Weinroth For more than five years, and on numerous occasions, the Jewish anti-racist social justice organization Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) invited the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) Canadas pro-Israel advocacy group to a public debate.
admin | July 29, 2020
By Chris Marsden 29 July 2020 Sir Keir Starmer has launched a witch-hunt against the left, in the Labour Party and beyond, of unprecedented scope. He leads an alliance of Blairite Labour MPs, Zionist groups, the Conservative Party, and the mainstream media, intent on driving out what remains of the official Labour left, expelling hundreds, if not thousands, of members, setting up former party leader Jeremy Corbyn and others for legal prosecution, bankruptcy and worse, and is planning the same for various left-leaning websites.
admin | July 29, 2020
Like many regular readers of the Jewish News, I recently came across what later turned out to be a controversial interview with Rep. Rashida Tlaib published on this very website.
admin | July 29, 2020
(July 28, 2020 / JNS) Words matter.
admin | July 29, 2020
TWO WEEKS AGO, an open letter published in Harpers Magazine and signed by more than 150 public figures, most of them writers or academics, ignited a new round of debate over cancel culture and its discontents.
admin | July 29, 2020
JERUSALEM, July 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Friends of Zion Museum hosted the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus for the relaunch for the 23rd Knesset, which was broadcast worldwide to millions of followers on social media. Speakers at the event included: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Founder and International Chairman of the Friends of Zion Museum Dr. Mike Evans, Israel Allies Foundation President and KCAC Director Josh Reinstein, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset and KCAC Chair MK Sharren Haskel, MK Gideon Saar, MK Bogie Ya'alon, US Congressman Doug Lamborn, Australian Minister for Government Services Stuart Robert, Guatemalan Congressman Fidel Reyes Lee and Nigerian MP N.
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