admin | July 16, 2022
Jaap Hamburger I hate the word Holocaust, Jaap Hamburger replies when asked what it was like to be raised in a family of survivors. To me the word represents the Americanization of European history
admin | July 16, 2022
One enters The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do, the updated core exhibit at New York Citys Museum of Jewish Heritage, through a dark corridor. Yiddish and Hebrew songs are piped in as well-lit photographs and bright video screens show moments of domestic life from across the Jewish diaspora from decades ago.
admin | July 16, 2022
Lily Safra never gave an interview on this or any other subject and moved on to other things. After her husbands death, she spent a good deal of her time in London where she set about conquering glamorous society with the same steely determination with which she had once wooed Edmond Safra. As a result of his death, she had become the fifth richest woman in Britain, and she used her considerable wealth to support various charities, including those favoured by the likes of the Prince of Wales and Lord Rothschild, all of whom rewarded her lavish philanthropic gifts with access to their social life.
admin | July 16, 2022
One of the greatest strengths of Ms.
admin | July 16, 2022
A Jewish advocacy group is calling on Icelands government to take action againsta pro-Palestine websiteseeking to dismantle various Boston-area Jewish institutions thats being hosted by an Icelandic internet company. The website is hosted by Reykjavk-based 1984 Hosting Co.
admin | July 16, 2022
Pennsylvania Sen.
admin | July 16, 2022
Date on which former Oath Keepers spokesperson Jason Van Tatenhove testified before the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, in which Oath Keeper members played a lead role: 7/12/2022 Year in which Stewart Rhodes a Yale Law School graduate, U.S.
admin | July 16, 2022
(This article previously appeared in the Jewish Currents email newsletter; subscribe here!) PICTURE THIS: Its the end of the annual state legislative session in New York, a time when backroom deals are made to get legislation passed. Special interests, lobbyists, and activists of all stripes are descending on Albany to cajole lawmakers into acting on their priority issues. One legislator representing a Hasidic community in Brooklyn introduces a last-minute bill that, if enacted, would give Haredi yeshivas near complete autonomy on determining their curriculum, torpedoing the states ongoing efforts to enforce minimum education standards in yeshivas that fail to instruct their students in basic subjects like math, English, social studies, and science.
admin | July 16, 2022
The dance workshop was in full swing, but catastrophe was afoot: Nobody understood how to make a four-pointed star. Im referring to a folk dance pattern that, as one of the less competent dancers in the room, I am ill-equipped to properly describe. Suffice it to say that there are eight people standing in a square, and four of them are supposed to put their arms into the center and pivot clockwise (or was it counter-clockwise?), swinging each of the remaining four dancers in turn.
admin | July 14, 2022
JERUSALEM (RNS) Shmuli looks outside the windows of his cellular phone store fearfully. He pulls at his long beard and swaying sidelocks. Please dont take my picture, he begs.
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