admin | May 8, 2022
In 1938, New York City had a Nazi problem. At the time, there were about 12 million German immigrants in the US, and most were happily assimilating. But about 1 in 500 were members of the German-American Bund, a national organization that avidly supported Adolf Hitler and pledged allegiance to Germany
admin | May 8, 2022
(JTA) The series Heirs to the Land that dropped on Netflix last month looks, at first glance, like just another installment in the fast-growing genre of Spanish period dramas. In some ways it is, featuring the familiar mix of romance, violence and a liberal dramatization of key historical events in medieval Spain that have made international hits out of several recent Spanish productions such as Isabel and El Cid
admin | May 8, 2022
Those are our values, and they must be rigorously safeguarded. When these values are under attack, our community is under attack. For this reason, I want to addressThe Harvard Crimsoneditorial boards recent endorsement of BDS
admin | May 8, 2022
A new terror has risen in Eastern Europe and the Jewish community must stand against it. From the almost forgotten corner of Europe from which the Soviet and Czarist empires once menaced so many others, absolute dictator Vladimir Putin has led Russia down the path of destroying the peace and proved, once again, that the policy of appeasement does not work.
admin | May 8, 2022
JERUSALEM, Israel On Thursday, millions of Israelis stood still for two minutes to honor the victims of the Nazi genocide on Holocaust Remembrance Day. People stopped their daily work and drivers stood by their parked cars in the middle of the road to remember the six million who were murdered.
admin | May 8, 2022
(May 6, 2022 / JNS) American Friends of the Hebrew University held its annual SCOPUS Award Gala on April 28, where two politically involved couples from opposite parties were given the prestigious award in a show of bipartisanship and unity on behalf of the universitys mission. Nearly 200 people filled the ballroom of the Four Seasons Hotel in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., where, earlier in the day, the Republican Jewish Coalition held its annual leadership meeting.
admin | May 8, 2022
The oldest text in ancient Hebrew ever found in Israel happens to be a curse. It is dated around the year 1200 BC and was found at Mount Ebal in the West Bank (the biblical Schechem, the first capital of the Kingdom of Israel following the split of the United Monarchy).
admin | May 8, 2022
Whos that person who makes you groan when they walk up the driveway? Political canvassers, maybe? Where I live, in the green and pleasant land of Northern Ireland, its election season.
admin | May 8, 2022
Over baked pasta casserole last night, I told my kids I was writing a book about being a mom. Any stories you want me to include?
admin | May 8, 2022
The Cosmic Library explores massive books in order to explore everything else. Here, books that can seem overwhelmingbooks of dreams, infinity, mysteriesturn out to be intensely accessible, offering so many different ways to read them and think with them. Season one considered Finnegans Wake; in season two, it was 1,001 Nights.
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