admin | May 25, 2021
This month marks Jewish American Heritage Month and the start of our year-long celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey in April 2022. This is the perfect opportunity to recognize the contributions and achievements of our own South Jersey community to the Jewish American experience.
admin | May 25, 2021
An overwhelming majority of American Jews, about 83 percent, share the same basic demographic profile but there are signs that American Jewry is growing more diverse.
admin | May 25, 2021
It is almost twelve years since I wrote an article with the title - The Columbus Industry. There have been others - The Columbus Conspiracy, The Columbus Conundrum, The Columbus Improbability - but the one about the industry was more or less where it all started. And by it, I mean the determination to disprove that Columbus came from Genoa, my fascination with which lies with what can seem to border on the obsession of those who wish to do this, and all that there is riding on locating his birthplace somewhere other than Genoa
admin | May 25, 2021
May 28 marks the 70th anniversary of the influential British radio comedy program The Goon Show, which inspired fans from the Monty Python group to John Lennon. The Jewish content of The Goons, comprising comedians Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers as well as the Welsh singer Harry Secombe, is usually overlooked amid the shows comedic chaos and anarchy. Milligan, the presiding genius over the surreal scripts, cherished the Jewish roots of his colleague Sellers, whose mother was of Ashkenazi and Sephardic origin
admin | May 25, 2021
In the fights over the future of Israel and Palestine, in which enmities are often understood to be both ancient and eternal, Peter Beinart is the rare figure to have come unstuck. Having made his name as a stalwart of liberal Zionism and a prominent center-left supporter of the Iraq War, both as an editor of The New Republic and a familiar face on cable news, Beinart has spent much of the past decade reconsidering those positions. Last summer, he made a clean break.
admin | May 25, 2021
Palestinian families are living in limbo as the conclusion of a long-running legal battle against their eviction from East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah district draws near. The fragile truce between Israel and Palestinian militant groups has brought uneasy quiet to the district, where fragrant citrus trees grow in courtyard gardens and cosy terraces overflow with flowering jasmine. The houses the Palestinians have lived in for nearly 70 years are filled with hand-carved furniture, ornate rugs and traditional embroidery.
admin | May 25, 2021
Led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), in the House, and Bernie Sanders (D-VT), in the Senate, progressives in the United States are moving to block a $375 million precision-guided munitionsJoint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs) sale to Jerusalem. The Washington Post broke the story that Congress had been notified of the sale, on May 5. The deadline for the pols to slash the sale, as a sanction, is up May 20
admin | May 23, 2021
New York, NY, April 20, 2021 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) released the following statement regarding the guilty verdict reached today in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd: The jurys decision to hold Derek Chauvin accountable for the murder of George Floyd is acriticallynecessary firststep in securing#JusticeforGeorgeFloyd. And yet, no guilty verdict can change the fact that George Floyd -- and Breonna Taylor, Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, and too many others -- should be alive today
admin | May 23, 2021
Children are being subjected to extensive trauma in Israels bombardment of the Gaza Strip. For some, its trauma theyve seen repeatedly throughout their short lives. (May 19) AP Domestic Five Jewish groups penned a letter to President Joe Biden on Friday expressing concern about the recent surge of antisemitic hate crimes in the U.S.
admin | May 23, 2021
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Harassment, vandalism, assault and even Zoom meetings have been disrupted by graphic and racist messages.
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