Sailors sue U.S. Navy for religious exemption to have beards – UPI News
admin | May 23, 2021
May 19 (UPI) -- Four sailors have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the U.S. Navy from forcing them to shave in violation of their religious beliefs.
The Rituals of War: Reflections on Israel and Gaza – Jewish Journal
admin | May 23, 2021
Maybe its because my wife is a therapist. Or maybe its because my favorite religious literature is the writings of Hasidic masters. Both psychology and Hasidic thought aim to understand how our inner thoughts and impulses drive our perceptions of the world
How Andrew Yang Won Over Ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn – News Nation USA
admin | May 23, 2021
We shouldnt interfere with their religious and parental choice as long as the outcomes are good, he told The Forward, a Jewish publication, in February.
Final Account Review: The Banality of Evil – The New York Times
admin | May 23, 2021
In Final Account, the filmmaker Luke Holland interviews a series of erstwhile Nazi functionaries: older men and women who seem to have spent a lifetime perfecting the use of the passive voice.
Gaza, Apartheid Israel and the Last Stand of Settler Colonialism – The Wire
admin | May 23, 2021
The current crisis of Palestine/Israel deepens and widens as casualties mount, smoke from destroyed buildings fills the air in Gaza, rioting on the streets of many Israeli and West Bank towns, Israeli police disrupting worshippers in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound and protecting extremist Jewish settlers shouting genocidal slogans death to the Arabs in inflammatory marches through Palestinian neighbourhoods of Jerusalem. Underlying this entire eruption of tensions between oppressor and oppressed were the flimsy legalised evictions of six Palestinian families long resident in the Sheikh Jarrah, which for Palestinians epitomised their long ordeal of persecution and banishment in what psychologically remains their homeland
First Thoughts: Some speech is freer than others, the danger of the desk, and sex resumes – New Statesman
admin | May 23, 2021
Will Boris Johnson legislate to protect Holocaust denial on university campuses? Labours shadow equalities minister Charlotte Nichols raised the question in the Commons last week, after the universities minister suggested the governments free speech bill would do just that.
‘Final Account’ Holocaust documentary is the searing last mission for late director Luke Holland – USA TODAY
admin | May 23, 2021
Over 6,000,000 Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust. USA TODAY Luke Holland's last mission to bring his "Final Account" to the world has beenfulfilled with the Friday release of the late director'ssearing Holocaust documentary
‘Final Account’ explores the memories of Germans who lived through the Holocaust – CNN
admin | May 23, 2021
The film bears a dedication to Holland's murdered grandparents. The British filmmaker died last year, at the age of 71, adding a poignant coda to this extraordinary undertaking. The documentary presents starkly shot interviews with elderly Germans, some of whom were civilians, while others served in the army, as camp guards and as Hitler Youth during the 1930s and '40s.
Synagogue bleachers COLLAPSE in Israeli settlement …
admin | May 23, 2021
Bleachers collapsed at a Hasidic synagogue in the Israeli settlement of Givat Zeev, just northwest of Jerusalem, with dozens being reported as injured some in serious condition and two dead. Magen David Adom, Israels emergency service, has reported that around 54 people were injured, with some becoming trapped under the rubble after the collapse. Of the dozens injured, five are in serious condition, and Fire and Rescue Services Commissioner Brig.
Man Charged in Arson at Brooklyn Synagogue and Yeshiva, Officials Say – The New York Times
admin | May 23, 2021
A Brooklyn man was charged with setting fire to a building housing a synagogue and a yeshiva, and federal prosecutors said on Saturday that it was the second time in less than a week that the man had sought to damage a religious institution.
