admin | February 11, 2022
The Palestinian village of Tantura before the 1948 massacre. (Photo: Matson collection, via Wikimedia Commons) By Ramzy Baroud A succession of events in recent weeks all points to the inescapable fact that nearly 75 years of Israels painstaking efforts aimed at hiding the truth about its origins and its current racially-driven apartheid regime are miserably failing.
admin | February 11, 2022
Ashkenazic Approach Many Ashkenazic yeshiva students wear their tzitzit out, in line with the Mishna Beruras (8:26) powerful exhortation to do so. The Chafetz Chaim famously writes: Those men who tuck their tzitzit in their pants, not only are they ignoring the Torahs direction ureitem oto, you should see the tzitzit and thereby recall all the mitzvot (Bamidbar 15:39), they are degrading Hashems mitzvot and will be held accountable by Hashem for having done so!! The Mishna Berura writes that if one received a special garment from the king with the latters name carved in it, he would proudly display it at all times. How much more so should we show the garment of the King of all Kings, Whose Holy Name is alluded to in the tying of the tzitzit! The Aruch Hashulhan (Orah Haim 8:17), while using milder language, expresses a similar sentiment
admin | February 11, 2022
Lifelong Five Towns resident David Friedman, the former ambassador to Israel under President Trump, along with wife, Tammy, will be honored by the Chabad of the Five Towns as Ambassadors of Light, at the religious organizations 27th annual gala dinner on Feb. 15. While the Friedmans have a deep history of Jewish involvement in the Five Towns, Davids father was Morris Friedman, an iconic figure in the Jewish community, who was one of the founders of the modern Orthodox movement and was the spiritual leader at Temple Hillel in North Woodmere.
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A top UK Jewish body said on Wednesday that far-right Religious Zionism MK Bezalel Smotrich is not welcome in the country, as he tours Britain. The Board of Deputies of British Jews, UK Jewrys mainstream umbrella organization, tweeted in Hebrew that they reject the abominable views and the hate-provoking ideology of Bezalel Smotrich. We call on all members of the British Jewish community to show him the door
admin | February 11, 2022
Good morning, New York. Jewish Bronx-born comedian and actor Robert Klein turns 80 today. I was in the DeWitt Clinton High School marching band, he has joked.
admin | February 11, 2022
(JTA) Some members of Congress are openly hostile to Israel. But it was Rep. Andy Levin, a Detroit-area Michigan Democrat and a scion of a storied Jewish political family, whom a former AIPAC president identified in an email earlier this month as arguably the most corrosive member of Congress to the U.S.-Israel relationship.
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In January, McMinn County, Tenn., made international news for perhaps the first time in its history when the school board voted to remove Maus, the acclaimed graphic novel about the Holocaust, from the 8th-grade curriculum. The board stated that it made the change on account of the books use of profanity and nudity, asking school administrators to find other works that accomplish the same educational goals in a more age-appropriate fashion. This curricular change, affecting a few hundred of the approximately 5,500 K-12 students in McMinns public schools, was quickly amplified on social media into a case of book banning with shades of Holocaust denial
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Comedian and disinformation expert might not seem like two jobs that intersect, but for Boston local Abbie Richards, who has gained over half a million followers on TikTok by fighting conspiracy theories, jokes make the truth go down just a bit easier. Richards joined Boston Public Radio to talk about her work combating conspiracy theories on TikTok, using comedy and charts that explain why information is wrong and how it went viral. TikTok is kind of like the wild west in a lot of ways when it comes to moderating, Richards said
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Brooklyn, N.Y.Number of Stores: 1 Beginning life as a pop-up shop in the summer of 2020 with an investment of just $8,000, Ediths Eatery & Grocery has now grown into a new flagship location, on 312 Leonard Street in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., that carries hard-to-find grocery items, a full dining menu featuring innovative versions of classic Jewish dishes, and a robust house-made program,highlighted throughout the menu and the deli case, andfeaturing such items as smoked fish, breads and pickles.
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Jews from all over the world have their own distinct history, culture and customs. Some countries have large Jewish populations, while in others, the Jewish population is quite small
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