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I’m on the American Jewish left and I haven’t abandoned Israel – Haaretz

| June 21, 2021

As the AIPAC consensus - the norm for American Jewish political life for decades - recedes, the "American Jewish Left" is becoming increasingly visible and heterodox opinions on the left are proliferating. However, with that profusion comes the need for distinction and nuance about the spectrum and character of that new left, not least in terms of how its constituent camps relate to Israel's statehood and the Israeli occupation.

Diplomat Turned Educator will Head Local University Detroit Jewish News – The Jewish News

| June 21, 2021

Approaches to higher education alternatives as affected by COVID-19 confront Alan Drimmer as he moves into the presidency of Cleary University July 1. Cleary is a nonprofit Michigan school established in 1883.

Holocaust Center presents Jews’ escape to India and Iran after 1933 – The Oakland Press

| June 21, 2021

While fascism was growing in Europe in the 1930s and Jews there were increasingly threatened, the United States under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt emphasized trade cooperation and neutrality to stay out of the conflict that erupted into World War II. As Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, his Nazi party increasingly demonized, imprisoned and attacked residents of Jewish descent, forcing many to flee or die. The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills visits a little-known aspect of this period in Trauma and Adventure in Transit: Jewish Refugees in Iran and India

The Jewish mensch who helped fight racial injustice in the Deep South – Haaretz

| June 21, 2021

A Crime on the Bayou is a horribly generic title. Is it a new James Lee Burke thriller, in which Dave Robicheaux investigates how Alec Baldwin killed a potential film franchise stone-dead with just one performance in 1996s Heavens Prisoners? Perhaps its a buzzy podcast thats sure to spark a fierce bidding war for the screen rights, only to later be disgraced over dubious reporting methods

Jews are the only minority that tolerates the intolerable – The Jerusalem Post

| June 21, 2021

The world will never become a better place until we resolve to fight and resist evil. The globe will never be peaceful until we are inspired to neutralize those who disturb the peace.

Jewish congregations gather at Davenport location – New Haven Register

| June 21, 2021

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) The congregations of Temple Emanuel, Davenport, and the Tri-City Jewish Center, Rock Island, are leaving their respective buildings and moving to a new, single location on Davenports East Kimberly Road to pool resources and make each stronger. The new space will be called Beit Shalom Jewish Community, meaning house of peace, and it is being created in an existing building originally constructed as a Ryans Family Steak House, later a Mel Foster Co. office.

Man arrested after attacking 12-year-old Jewish boy in Los Angeles – The Jerusalem Post

| June 21, 2021

A man was arrested after allegedly attacking a 12-year-old Jewish boy in Fairfax area of Los Angeles, a Jewish neighborhood of the city, as reported by The Daily Forward. The man, Daniel Rankin, was arrested on suspicion of battery, and is known in the neighborhoods.

‘Schitt’s Creek’: Where ‘Jews of no religion,’ facing exile, find redemption – The Conversation CA

| June 21, 2021

CBCs breakthrough comedy Schitts Creek tells the story of the Rose family.The Roses, including parents John (Eugene Levy) and Moira (Catherine O'Hara), and grown children Alexis (Annie Murphy) and David (Daniel Levy), have been conned out of their wealth by Eli, their corrupt business manager. Theyre forced from their lavish home in California to Schitts Creek, a tacky, down-and-out small rural town.

Synagogues and camps are getting help to better support LGBTQ youth – JTA News – Jewish Telegraphic Agency

| June 21, 2021

Over the last year, no fewer than five young people came out publicly as LGBTQ at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, a pluralistic synagogue on Manhattans Upper West Side. Even Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann, SAJs spiritual leader and an active champion of gay rights dating back to her days as a rabbinic intern at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the worlds largest synagogue for LGBTQ individuals, was surprised at the number. Thats a lot in a very small community, Herrmann said

First German Army rabbi in 100 years takes office – Haaretz

| June 21, 2021

The first military rabbi to take office in Germany in 100 years is to be inaugurated on Monday. The rabbi of the state of Saxony, Zsolt Balla, is to be inaugurated at the synagogue in Leipzig as Jewish chaplain to the German military, with others to follow in his footsteps in the coming years


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