Hiring Reputation Management Co. Made Rabbi Limited Public Figure, Making It Harder for Him to Win Libel Case – Reason
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FromKrawatsky v. Avrunin, decided Friday by Judge Christopher Fogleman (Md.
Opinion | July 13: Thanks, Rabbi Baskin, stop Hwy. 413, use the schools and other letters – Hamilton Spectator
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Leadership behind bars, Lev Tahor cult now seeking to move to Morocco, opponents say – The Times of Israel
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Beleaguered ultra-Orthodox cult Lev Tahor is seeking to move to Morocco, and recently received the blessing of a prominent Moroccan-Israeli rabbi with an international celebrity following, as the extremist group seeks footing after fleeing other countries and having its leadership imprisoned, an activist opposed to the group said. Uriel Goldman, one of Lev Tahors leaders, met recently with Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto in Morocco to win his favor to support the move, according to Lev Tahor Survivors, an organization supporting defectors who fled the group.
How American Jews (stayed) white | David E. Bernstein | The Blogs – The Times of Israel
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Among progressives, there is a bitter debate over whether American Jews whose ancestors immigrated to the US from Europe should be deemed white (and thus beneficiaries of white privilege), or non-white, given their vulnerability to antisemitism, including violence from white nationalists who deem them to be non-white. I believe that this debate misses the mark; it tries to fit antisemitism, which has myriad origins, most of which have nothing to do with whiteness such as Jews being Christ-killers) into the American black-white paradigm. This reaches an absurd apex when people assert that the Nazis killed Jews because they thought Jews werent white, as if the Nazis didnt have their own bizarre racial hierarchy one that didnt match that of the Jim Crow South
At a Yiddish music festival in bucolic Massachusetts, tradition is everything and nothing – Forward
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Audience members jump up to dance during a concert at Yidstock. Photo by Ben Barnhart 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
Redefining Sonic and Safety Standards in the Music Industry: The New Diaspora Music Experience – BrownGirlMag
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5 min read The bass is loud and each time the beat drops, sound waves ripple through the audience and the sea of concert-goers moves like a single-bodied organism swimming through the soundscape.
Vic Mensa’s ‘SKIN + MASKS’ Exhibit Puts a Spotlight on the Diaspora’s Most Talented Artists – OkayAfrica
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With the curation of his debut exhibition, rapper Vic Mensa is imagining creativity, expression, and identity free of the white gaze. Presented by the Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago, Mensa's SKINS + MASKS features art pieces by a collective of visual artists from the diaspora. The group exhibition, which opened last month, is inspired by Frantz Fanons 1952 book Black Skin, White Masks and centers on Black experiences with the goal of decolonizing Black art beyond the politics of visibility
HIAS: An important step for the networking of the Greek scientific diaspora with Greece – Hellenic News of America
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The inaugural symposium of the Hellenic Institute of Advanced Studies(HIAS) was held on Friday July 7, at the Eugenides Foundation. The audience included distinguished scientists and engineers from Greece and the Greek diaspora, as well as entrepreneurs, university rectors and policy makers. In a written statement, the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou stressed the importance of Greece becoming outward-looking in science and innovation to achieve brain gain
SendSprint launches in the UK with a $5 flat fee for international transfers – TechCabal
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SendSprint, a payments and money transfer startup, launched yesterday in the UK with a service that will target Africans living in the diaspora.
Jamaicas Opposition Tour of the Diaspora begins this Wednesday (July 13) – South Florida Caribbean News
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[KINGSTON, Jamaica] Jamaicas Leader of the Opposition Mark J.
