admin | June 19, 2021
Israels international standing improved over the last year, says outgoing Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi at a farewell ceremony with ministry staff and diplomats before Yair Lapid takes over the post.
admin | June 19, 2021
When Sanford and Terry Cohen moved to Prescott in 1985, there wasnt a lot going on in Jewish life. The entire Jewish community met in the living room of a house, Sanford Cohen said.
admin | June 19, 2021
Craig Weinerman| Register-Guard In his guest view from May 23, M. Reza Benham engages in identity politics by falsely framing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in terms of race ("What Black Americans and Palestinians share").
admin | June 19, 2021
Several fires broke out in the Eshkol region in the south of Israel June 16, apparently sparked by balloons carryingincendiary devices launched from the Gaza Strip.
admin | June 19, 2021
Several years ago, a non-Jewish film producer turned to me and announced, casually and with an air of arrogance and ignorance reserved particularly for bigots, Jews control Hollywood. He assured me this was a compliment, as many antisemites are wont, trotting out Neal Gablers seminal text on the subject, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, as evidence. But it was clear that said producer had either never read Gablers book, or missed one of its key points entirely: the founding producers of the film biz were Jewish, most of them Eastern European immigrants, excluded and ostracized from virtually every other industry in America.
admin | June 19, 2021
This weeks Torah reading contains an exceptionally puzzling passage. We are told about the complaints of the Jews, who are thirsty and worried. Moshe and Aharon are told by God totake the rod and assemble the community, and before their very eyes order the rock to yield its water.
admin | June 19, 2021
After a painful year of public violence against American communities of color, the Biden White House is now proposing important changes to how educators should teach the history of racism and the lasting legacies of white supremacy in American schools. Following President Bidens campaign promise to address the growing acknowledgement of racial inequities, a Department of Educations memo released on April 19 proposes that certain curricula take into account the "systemic marginalization, biases, inequities, and discriminatory policy and practice in American history" that have long been overlooked by generations of white Americans. Its time we Jews do the same
admin | June 19, 2021
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to Berlin, Paris, Rome, the Vatican, Bari, and Matera, June 22-29.
admin | June 19, 2021
It's been one year since more than 1,000brands boycotted Facebook in an effort to stop hate speech. Since then, the civil rights groups behind the movement say while progress has been made to better secure social media from racism, some of the issues that initially propelled the protest have actually gotten worse. Over the past year Facebook has made strides in cleaning up the platform, including unprecedented brandy safety tests in New Feed, yet marketers say they are watching the social behemoth closely to make sure it delivers on its promises.
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