A 20-year-old college student in Texas is mapping every Manhattan address that used to be a synagogue – Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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(New York Jewish Week via JTA) Writer Luc Sante calls them the ghosts of Manhattan.
Rabbi explains why fat activism is necessary in Jewish spaces – Jewish News of Greater Phoenix
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Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Rabbi Minna Brombergs work addressing weight stigma in Jewish communal spaces took her to a lot of synagogues. She was often bewildered when organizers provided her a chair that was too small. Getting people to acknowledge her body and their discomfort with it is one reason she founded Fat Torah a year ago.
Passionate about education, Ronald C. Wornick dies at 89 J. – The Jewish News of Northern California
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Ronald C. Wornick got a lot done. He turned an MIT degree in food science into a sterling career as a corporate executive and business owner, creating thousands of jobs.
Never underestimate the power of bandaids Jewish World Watch – Jewish World Watch
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It took 48 hours to get here, but we have finally arrived in Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu. JWW partners with various Congolese non-profit organizations here, all of whom we will be visiting over the next 4 days. We partner with Panzi Hospital in helping rape survivors who have been isolated from their families re-start their lives; we partner with organizations helping build new leaders for a healthier Congo in the future; and we partner to bring rape recovery care to thousands of rural women who have never before had access to medical care at all
How Jewish Women Fought the Nazis – DW (English)
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It is a short day in February 1943. Winter has a cold grip on the Jewish ghetto in Bedzin, a city in Poland occupied by Nazi Germany.Amid overcrowded houses stands a special building:the heart of the Jewish youth organisation Freiheit(English: freedom)- and the headquarters of Jewish resistance against the Nazis. On this day, women and men have come together in this building to make a momentous decision.
As Lukashenko ramps up antisemitism, will Putin save the last Jews of Belarus? – Haaretz
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Belarus Independence Day is celebrated on July 3rd, commemorating the Soviet army's liberation of the city of Minsk from the Nazis in 1944. This year, the countrys dictatorial leader, Alexander Lukashenko, used the official ceremonies to platform antisemitism. He declared that, in contrast to the "tolerant" and "kind" people of Belarus, which allows the world to "spit in their faces" regarding the "holocaust of Belurusians," no one today would "dare to raise a voice and deny the Holocaust" because "the Jews have succeeded in making the whole world bow down to them." Belarus State-linked Media Suggests Jewish Organizations Are Disloyal|Media Empire Heiress Fights Back Against Lukashenko From Tel Aviv The Israeli Foreign Ministry denounced his "unacceptable" comments and summoned the Belarusian charg daffaires in Israel to discuss them.
A Terrain Gardens Wedding With Quaker, Jewish and Muslim Traditions – Philadelphia magazine
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News They met at work, then got engaged during an underwater scuba-diving experience. Wasna Dabbagh and Paul Bookmans Terrain Gardens wedding combined Quaker, Jewish and Muslim cultures
The Jews of Key West: Making a home again in Margaritaville – The Jerusalem Post
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On any given afternoon, hundreds of visitors here patiently line up for selfies next to a brightly painted, 12-foot-high concrete buoy marking the southernmost point in the continental United States. Just behind this landmark, a less obvious monument overlooks the Atlantic Ocean for a few days a year: a menorah erected during Hanukkah by Chabad Jewish Center of the Florida Keys & Key West.
Daily Kickoff: How the Jewish vote could swing Ohio 11 + The Squad targets nonprofit status of several Israel-related charities – Jewish Insider
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Gold Standard:Israeli gymnast Artem Dolgopyatplaced firstin the mens floor routine at the Tokyo Olympics, winning Israels second-ever gold medal. Still In It:Also in Tokyo, Israels national baseball teambeatMexico 12-5 the first Olympic win for an Israeli baseball team. Team Israel thenlostits next game, to South Korea, 11-1
ADL, Hillel Working Together to Document Campus Antisemitism – Jewish Exponent
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A view of the University of Iowa campus. The school was the site of a heated debate over antisemitism and anti-Zionism this year. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA.org) By Ben Sales Over the last year, Jewish college studentstook it upon themselves to combat antisemitismat their schools.
