admin | March 27, 2022
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken travels to Israel, the West Bank, Morocco, and Algeria March 26-30 to consult with partners on a range of regional and global priorities, including the Russian governments war on Ukraine, Irans destabilizing activities, the Abraham Accords and normalization agreements with Israel, Israeli-Palestinian relations, and preserving the possibility of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, among other topics
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admin | March 27, 2022
Courage to Remember is the Simon Wiesenthal Center's 40-panel traveling exhibition on the Nazi Holocaust, which has been seen on six continents by millions of people and has proven to be an effective educational resource on this vital history. The exhibition will be on display in the Legislative Office Building till Friday, March 25th.
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admin | March 27, 2022
It seems that many people feel that the Staten Island St. Patricks Day Parade organizers are not with it or old fashioned for not including the LGBTQ community to be recognized in the parade. I look at the Jewish community and I see that there are Hasidic, Orthodox and Reformed Jews.
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admin | March 27, 2022
Watch as the RAGBRAI 2022 route is announced RAGBRAI announced the main towns on the route for its 2022 edition, which will run from July 24-30, in a celebration Friday at the Iowa Events Center. Kelsey Kremer, Des Moines Register The hometown of the man who set the world record for the longest bout of hiccups.
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admin | March 26, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on March 17, 2022.
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admin | March 26, 2022
Through her organization Jew in the City (JITC), Allison Josephs has been advocating for accurate representations of the Jewish community in the media since 2007. Shes now opening an official Hollywood bureau to elevate JITCs efforts, something Josephs said she would have done earlier, but she had no idea such a thing even existed until last year. We had been using social media, op-eds and relationships with reporters, Josephs said, until she learned about other minority Hollywood bureaus created by the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), NAACP and the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE).
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admin | March 26, 2022
The broad wooden trunk with floral engravings looks impossibly heavy. But in the early 1900s, Rachmiel Robert Shapiro carried it with him as he sneaked out of Russia and made his way to the United States.
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admin | March 26, 2022
(JTA) A new museum about the history of Hollywood will have a permanent exhibition devoted to the contributions of Jews after early criticism that Jews were omitted. The change was announced this week in the lead-up to this years Academy Awards, which features a slate of nominees more diverse than in the past
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admin | March 26, 2022
(JTA) Elliot Steinmetz knows something about firsts: last July, his son Jacob became the first known Orthodox baseball player to get picked in the MLB draft. The elder Steinmetz is also the head coach of the Yeshiva University mens basketball team, a squad of Modern Orthodox players that shocked the sports world with an unlikely 50-game winning streak that spanned multiple seasons. The teams leader was Ryan Turell, a 6-foot-7 guard who has entered the NBA draft, hoping to become the leagues first Orthodox player
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admin | March 26, 2022
A Milwaukee Jewish organization has released an annual audit of reported antisemitic incidents in Wisconsin.
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