Boris Nayfeld, the Jewish Gangster-Survivor, and the Birth of the Russian Mob in Brooklyn – CrimeReads
admin | July 6, 2022
I shouldnt be alive today. That was one of the first things Boris Nayfeld told me when I met him four years ago.
Meet the student rabbi who will join a New Haven-area pro-Palestinian Jewish group – New Haven Register
admin | July 6, 2022
While her German grandfather was incarcerated at Dachau concentration camp by the Nazis, Ye is half Chinese-American, and that led many to reject her as a Jew. When I began rabbinical school is when I observed my first Shabbat, is when I observed my first Rosh Hashana, my first Yom Kippur, my first Passover, she said.
NYC’s Holocaust museum uses personal objects to tell the story of lives lived and lost – Jewish Exponent
admin | July 6, 2022
An enamel bowl, on display at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan, was carried through three concentration camps by the Burbea family from Libya, even serving as a vessel to carry their youngest son to his circumcision when he was born in Bergen-Belsen in 1944. (Museum of Jewish Heritage) By Julia Gergely (New York Jewish Week) A young childs diary, a favorite doll, a cookbook of family recipes, a report card, a Torah scroll smuggled to the United States and a silver spoon found among the rubble at a concentration camp
Where to See Art in Philly This Summer – Philadelphia magazine
admin | July 6, 2022
Guides From grand celebrations of movement forefathers to up-and-comer shows to puppets, heres what to see at the citys galleries and museums this summer.
DNI Haines Welcomes 15 New Americans at Town of Vienna Naturalization Ceremony – Office of the Director of National Intelligence
admin | July 6, 2022
DNI Haines Welcomes 15 New Americans at Town of Vienna Naturalization Ceremony Story and photos by Annika Moody, ODNI Office of Strategic Communications Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines welcomed new U.S.
Yom Kippur: History & Overview – Jewish Virtual Library
admin | July 4, 2022
IntroductionOriginsLiturgy Yom Kippur is one of the most important holidays of the Jewish year. Many Jews who do not observe any other Jewish custom will refrain from work, fast and/or attend synagogue services on this day
The rise of the anti-Zionist Jews and heretical messianism – JNS.org
admin | July 4, 2022
(July 4, 2022 / JNS) Anyone involved in the discourse on Israel and Zionism is aware of the fact that the words as a Jew always presage something distinctly monstrous. As a Jew is inevitably followed by ferocious denunciations of Israel, Zionism, the Israel lobby, the pro-Israel American Jewish majority and more or less everything elseexcept, of course, for hardline Palestinian nationalists, left-wing anti-Semites and Muslim pogromists
To Erez, my bar mitzvah teacher | Arie Hasit | The Blogs – The Times of Israel
admin | July 4, 2022
Dear Erez, today you became my bar mitzvah teacher.
Bearing the torch of Filipino cultural identity across the diaspora – Philstar.com
admin | July 4, 2022
At a time when globalization has successfully homogenized the nations of the world, one finds the value of preserving ones heritage intrinsic to the integrity of national identity given the osmotic tendencies of diasporas in acclimatizing to the culture they are immersed in at the present time. Such is the case with the Filipino American community born and residing on USsoil, with its ties to the motherland growing weaker with the passing of time due to their proximity from the motherland and their heavily-westernized upbringing, making it harder to touch base with their Filipino roots, let alone speak their mother tongue.
Liberation: How the diaspora is making its mark in nation building – The New Times
admin | July 4, 2022
In March this year, a group of Rwandans living in China, most of whom are students,contributedUSD 8,215 to connect 561 vulnerable families in Rwandato solar power through the #CanaChallenge, an initiative established by the Rwanda Development Bank (BRD) with an aim ofproviding solar energy to 10,000 familiesin remote areas. In the same month, the Rwandan Community in Tanzania also reached out, raising USD 7,500 towards the cause, and this amount was estimated to be sufficient to light up 500 more households.
