admin | February 24, 2022
Jewish students at the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz have called for the administration to take action after Jewish members of a sexual assault awareness group were excluded for supporting Israel, decrying it as a pure and simple act of antisemitism. Earlier this month, third-year student Cassandra Blotner was told to leave New Paltz Accountability (NPA), a group she co-founded, over a pro-Israel social media post, the New Paltz Oracle first reported.
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admin | February 23, 2022
Four founding mothers who lived in Europe a thousand years ago were the ancestors of two fifths of all Ashkenazi (European origin) Jews.
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admin | February 23, 2022
For good and for bad, Jews tend to be thought of as a single homogenous group. But the Jewish people have always had internal distinctions, and over the years have developed diverse ethnic and religious identities. Since the biblical period, Jews have been divided into three religious groups: The descendants of the sons of Aaron who served as priests in the Temple in Jerusalem; The descendants of the tribe of Levi, who also worked in the Temple as musicians, singers, guards, and gatekeepers; and Those from the other 11 tribes
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admin | February 23, 2022
Gal Gadot is seen casually enjoying her Sunday while watching the famous show Friends. According to the post she shared on her Instagram on Sunday, Gal was seen enjoying Goodles and watching the tv series Friends. Find out how she enjoyed her free time
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admin | February 23, 2022
By Esther Farmer, Rosalind Petchesky and Sarah Sills, in Mondoweiss At a moment when Israeli apartheid, expulsions, and ruthless settler violence have escalated daily throughout 48 Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, another damning report on these atrocities has just been released, this one by Amnesty International. In this context, we are proud to introduce Mondoweiss readers to our new co-edited book, A Land With A People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism. Published by Monthly Review Press at the end of 2021,A Land With A People will help put many of the Amnesty reports legal conclusions into a powerfully felt human perspective
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admin | February 23, 2022
Illustration by Lily Qian. Most writers are content to write a book once; others, after publishing a first version, go back and rewrite it over and over again. Sometimes they do so out of aesthetic dissatisfaction.
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admin | February 23, 2022
The Calcalist business daily's report on police use of NSO spyware apparently only has negligible impact on former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial. Netanyahu knows this, though he called for a state commission of inquiry on the issue anyway, and asked his supporters to fill Tel Aviv's Habima Square to underscore his demand. What happened on the evening of the protest was nothing less than a sociological turning point
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admin | February 23, 2022
Megillat Esther, or the Scroll of Esther, read on the upcoming holiday of Purim, describes the Jewish peoples escape from annihilation in Persia in the fifth century BCE. But really, its a quintessential story of Jewish life in the Diaspora, whereabsent splitting seas and falling mannaJews must rely on their wits and influence to preserve themselves and their way of life
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admin | February 23, 2022
The first group of over 1,000 visitors said their prayers at the tzaddik's grave on Tuesday. Darek Delmanowicz/PAP Around 2,000 Hasidic Jews, mainly from Europe and the United States, are expected to visit the town of Leajsk, in southeastern Poland, to take part in commemorations marking the 235th anniversary of the death of Tzaddik Elimelech Weissblum of Lizhensk. The first group of over 1,000 visitors said their prayers at the tzaddik's grave on Tuesday
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admin | February 23, 2022
(JTA) Members of Lev Tahor, the Hasidic group that is often described as a cult and has been chased across continents in the wake of a child abduction scandal, were sighted in a remote town in Bosnia and Herzegovina last month and in North Macedonia this month, as they bounce around the Balkans in a continual attempt to avoid scrutiny.
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