admin | June 16, 2021
Irving Howe famously theorized that American Jewish literature would decline as the immigrant experience that informed so much of it became consigned to the distant past.
admin | June 16, 2021
Even though he tries to maintain a cool, scientific demeanour, Israeli director Raanan Alexandrowicz finally lets slip a twinge of despair at the end of this interesting geopolitical Rorschach test.
admin | June 16, 2021
Recently Michelle Donelan, minister of state for universities, went on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the governments new and much vaunted higher education (freedom of speech) bill. According to the accompanying press release, the bill would bring in new measures that will require universities and colleges registered with the Office for Students to defend free speech and help stamp out unlawful silencing. If passed, the bill would entail fines for universities and compensation for speakers if events were cancelled, thereby essentially bringing an end to the no platform tactic
admin | June 16, 2021
The trend seems to be going in the direction of requiring and approving compulsory vaccinations as a condition of employment. A Texas federal judgerecently requireda nurse at Houston Methodist Hospital either to be vaccinated or to lose her job.He correctly characterized as reprehensible the nurses argument that a vaccination requirement is akin to medical experimentation done during the Holocaust. The medical experimentation done byDr
admin | June 16, 2021
Each year Jews and non-Jews around the world recite the mantra Never Again to remember the six million Jewish lives and tens of millions of other victims murdered by the Nazis. And then, each year, we continue to see Jew-hatred and antisemitic violent attacks continue soar all over the world.We have a responsibility to remember the Holocaust, honor those precious lives lost, and elevate the voices of survivors.
admin | June 16, 2021
In Brussels, the European Parliament and the European Council have adopted strict regulations to combat anti-Semitism in recent years, but the EUs host country does not feel affected. It is time for this to change, and the EU institutions must play an essential role in this and more with deeds than words
admin | June 16, 2021
Sukkot Sukkot Find the date for Sukkot 2014 in the multifaith calendar Sukkot commemorates the years that the Jews spent in the desert on their way to the Promised Land, and celebrates the way in which God protected them under difficult desert conditions. Sukkot is also known as the Feast of Tabernacles, or the Feast of Booths. The word sukkot means huts (some translations of the bible use the word booths), and building a hut is the most obvious way in which Jews celebrate the festival
admin | June 16, 2021
Morag MacRae has long sought a sense of belonging and acceptance. Over the last few years, she has found it by immersing herself in Montreal's Reform Jewish community. Born in Grand Falls, N.B., MacRae was adopted in infancy and raised in a French Catholic family.
admin | June 16, 2021
AMSTERDAM (JTA) Jewish leaders in Europe say the European Union is not only banning some methods of kosher and halal slaughter, but telling Jews and Muslims how to practice their religions.
admin | June 16, 2021
After the Olympics, Jordan Mann starts a new job at a Jewish nonprofit organization. Jordan Gershon Mann is an Ivy League Olympic hopeful, has an MBA and likes to dress up as anime characters for comic book conventions. The 28-year-old Rhode Island resident will be competing in the Olympic track and field steeplechase trials in hope of joining Team USA on June 21 and 24 in Eugene, Ore
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