admin | October 4, 2021
On September 29 and 30, 1941, more than 33,000 people, mostly Jews, were executed in the Babi Yar ravine near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv one of the largest mass murders in the Holocaust. FRANCE 24 looks back at this unspeakable event 80 years on, as plans are finally underway for an official museum honouring the victims memory.
admin | October 4, 2021
Surviving a Nazi concentration camp, only to end up in an American neighborhood full of gangsters, might be enough to make anyone fearful or bitter.
admin | October 4, 2021
The Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Initiativeat Penn Statewill present a free three-hour seminar about trauma-informed teaching at 1 p.m. Oct
admin | October 2, 2021
Jewish advocacy groups were dismayed, if not surprised, by the decision of Belgiums Constitutional Court on Thursday to uphold a ban on shechita the Jewish method of slaughtering animals for kosher consumption. The court issued a ruling affirming the legality of the Belgian ban, originally imposed in 2017, bolstered by the decision of the European Unions highest court last December to permit EU member states to ban the slaughtering of animals without pre-stunning, despite the requirements of both Jewish and Muslim religious law on this matter.
admin | October 2, 2021
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks to American Jewish leaders in New York City on Sept. 27.
admin | October 2, 2021
The federal government has awarded seven Bay Area Jewish organizations a total of $1 million in grants to beef up security measures. Local Jewish awardees are the Chabads of the East Bay and Solano County, Temple Sinai in Oakland, Congregation Beth Israel Judea in San Francisco, Congregation Bnai Shalom in Walnut Creek, Palo Altos Kehillah Jewish High School, and the Russian-Speaking Jewish Community of San Francisco Bay Area. Each received between $131,000 and $150,000, the maximum granted
admin | October 2, 2021
The landmark TV series The Sopranos, whose six-season run came to an end in 2007, is getting a brief resurrection with The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel that begins airing in theaters and on HBO Max this Friday, Oct. 1
admin | October 2, 2021
In todays Zoomcast, we will host Michael Masters, the CEO of the Secure Community Network (SCN) - the official homeland security and safety initiative of the organized Jewish community in North America. SCN serves as the central organization dedicated exclusively to the safety and security of the American Jewish community, working across 146 federations. In the conversation, Masters addressed current threats to the community and noted that SCN is training communities for emergency preparedness
admin | October 2, 2021
In 1993, artist and activist Gregg Bordowitz premiered his film Fast Trip, Long Drop, a not-quite documentary that made for a biting critique of media coverage of the AIDS crisis. The film, in which Bordowitz plays a defiant talk show guest named Alter Allesman Yiddish for old everyman was shown widely at LGBTQ and Jewish film festivals.
admin | October 2, 2021
MONSEY Rabbi Moshe (Moses) DovidTendler, a world leader in Jewish medical ethicsand professor at Yeshiva University, has died. The Monsey resident and founding rabbi of the Community Synagogue of Monsey was 95
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