admin | May 14, 2021
Read this article in Yiddish When Schneur Zalman Newfield studied at Chabad yeshivas, everyone thought he was a pious young man who had little knowledge of the outside world. They couldnt have imagined that Newfield had secretly assembled a stash of contraband books - modern Yiddish literature, science and history texts and even Russian novels - which he feared would lead to his expulsion. The scenario might sound like something youd read in the memoirs of a Jewish intellectual raised before the Russian revolution.
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admin | May 12, 2021
By: KDKA-TV News Staff PITTSBURGH (KDKA) Pittsburgh Steelers Offensive Tackle Zach Banner once again got involved to support the local community.
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admin | May 12, 2021
For the SNF Paideia Program course, Jews, Race, and Religion, Steven Weitzman, the Ella Darivoff Director of the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, designed curriculum and public lectures to address the overarching questions: What is the history of the category of race; how has religious identity been racialized; how do Jews fit into the racialized culture of the U.S.; and what is the history of how immigrants to the U.S. came to embrace whiteness in their self-understanding? In describing the impetus for taking on an ambitious topic, Weitzman, also a professor in Penns Religious Studies department, explains, The last two years have seen the most violent attack against a synagogue in American history, protests for racial equality across the country, and a resurgence of white nationalism.
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admin | May 10, 2021
(RNS) If you ever doubted the remarkable appeal of the Netflix series Shtisel, consider this. There is now a Facebook group that has devoted itself to ongoing discussions of the series, of which I am a member
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admin | May 10, 2021
The current situation in West Asia is deteriorating; even there is a new administration in the U.S., which many thought would be promising for the peace process between Israel and Palestine and the stability for peace in Syria, and Iraq. The renewal of the JCPOA agreement with Iran, or at least a new initiative, has been proven disillusioned
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admin | May 10, 2021
The US, Canada, and Australia, three countries that emerged from white-settler colonialism, claim that the international conference on racism and xenophobia hosted by the UN 'unfairly' targets Israel.
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admin | May 10, 2021
Abu Ali al-Ansari, a political analyst and Islamic scholar based in London, tells the Tehran Times that the ArabIsraeli normalization is a betrayal by Arab monarchies and it will not lead to the disappearance of the Palestinian cause.
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admin | May 10, 2021
Hungary, India, Turkey and BeyondThursday, 13 May 202112:00 PM CDT Co-sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), the Chicago Center on Democracy, the University of Chicago's Department of Political Science, and the Arab Studies Institute Widespread democratic backsliding is raising alarm bells about the future of academic freedom in democratic and autocratic regimes. Such fears are not unwarranted.
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admin | May 10, 2021
When I was very young, what motivated me to go to shul on Shabbat morning was the fire station two houses away from the synagogue.
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admin | May 10, 2021
PITTSBURGH -- For more than two years the Tree of Life - Or L'Simcha synagogue, on a hilltop corner in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh -- has sat heavy with memory but empty of worshippers.
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