admin | July 3, 2021
The Nazis in World War II concentrated mostly on murdering Eastern- and Central-European Jews; the suffering of the half-million Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya under the Nazis is less well-known.
admin | July 3, 2021
MADRID (JTA) Matilde Gini de Barnatn and her daughter Viviana Rajel Barnatn didnt set out to make Jewish history in Spain. In the 1960s and 70s, Matilde, now 85, established herself in Argentina as a prominent researcher, teacher and scholar of the history of Sephardic culture and the Spanish Inquisition in Ibero-America. Her extensive expertise and recognition in Argentine intellectual circles helped her become a close friend of the renowned writer Jorge Luis Borges.
admin | July 3, 2021
Behind every work of art created by Oreen Cohen, a partner at Pittsburghs OOA Designs LLC, is the voice of her mother fused with the influence of Israel. Long before Cohen graduated from the University at Buffalo and then Carnegie Mellon University where her masters work included an allegorical film involving the burial of a gilded casket filled with sunflower seeds in Braddock, Pennsylvania her Sephardic Israeli-Moroccan mother would utter short Hebrew aphorisms.
admin | July 3, 2021
Rabbi Lenny Sarko had a problem that was threatening to derail his career. After spending years as an environmental scientist creating recycling systems for corporations nationwide, Rabbi Sarko realized he was done with all the travel and decided to pursue a job related to his one true passion: Judaism.
admin | July 3, 2021
Updated June 30 at 10:50 a.m. Almost immediately after learning that the unique Jewish adult education center HaMaqom would be closing, Rachel and David Biale Jewish educators with links to the Berkeley institution since its founding in the 1970s knew they had to do something.
admin | July 3, 2021
Shirley Benyas, 93, a resident of Jewish Senior Lifes Meer Apartments in West Bloomfield for the past six years, has been teaching a Yiddish class for other Meer residents for nearly two months. Benyas learned to read, write and speak Yiddish through an afterschool program from the time she was 8 years old until her first year in college
admin | July 3, 2021
In Germanys Neo-Nazis & the Far Right, producer Evan Williams sets out to trace that countrys recent rise in far-right extremism and violence by documenting attacks and plots against Jews, immigrants and political opponents, as well as how the authorities have responded to the threats.
admin | July 1, 2021
ANYONE WHO WANTS TO DROP IN AND TALK WITH A PROFESSION.AL WININTHROP, DAVID BIENICK, WCVB NEWSCENTER 5 MARIA: AUTHORITIES BELIEVE NATHAN ALLEN ACTED ALONE BEFORE HE WAS KILLED BY POLICE.
admin | July 1, 2021
Fact-Check Randy Hillier refuses to identify the source of a quote linking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to a white nationalist conspiracy by PressProgress June 30, 2021 The Claim: Did Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau really say that he has a plan to replace old stock white Canadians? A meme tweeted by independent Ontario MPP Randy Hillieralleges Trudeau said: The very concept of a nation founded by European settlers is offensive to me. Old stock White Canadians are an unpleasant relic, and quite frankly, replaceable.
admin | July 1, 2021
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