A nice Jewish doctor may be Hawaiis next governor + What to watch on Amazon, HBO and Netflix this weekend – Forward
admin | August 16, 2022
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OK symbol: "OK" hand gesture added to Anti-Defamation League’s list of …
admin | August 16, 2022
The "OK" hand gesture has been added to an expanding list of hate symbols used by white supremacists. The Anti-Defamation League announced dozens of new additions to its database Thursday.
Antisemitic Boston Mapping Project now hosted on … – masslive
admin | August 16, 2022
Since its release by an anonymous creator in early June, the Mapping Project an illustrated web of purported connections between Massachusetts groups and the state of Israel has faced widespread denunciation by critics who said it represented a dangerous, antisemitic mapping of the states Jewish community that could leave organizations vulnerable to attack. Now, a leading anti-hate organization the Anti-Defamation League wants the Mapping Project removed from its internet server, and it wants help from the government of Iceland in doing so. The project displayed an online map of supposed connections between organizations that its authors said were supportive of Israel or had links to the Jewish nation.
ADL event on CA hate bill affirms Hindu-Jewish solidarity on swastikas J. – The Jewish News of Northern California
admin | August 16, 2022
The Anti-Defamation League strongly supports the right to display a swastika. Not the Nazi symbol thats been an emblem of hate and terror for 100 years, but the ancient Hindu, Jain and Buddhist symbol of peace. The distinction between the two figured prominently in a dialogue between Kendall Kosai, director of policy for the ADLs Pacific Northwest division, and Fremont resident Samir Kalra, managing director of the Hindu American Foundation.
Honoring the Turkish-Jewish Maftirim heritage
admin | August 16, 2022
To many Turkish citizens who are unfamiliar with Jewish religious music, certain Turkish Jewish liturgical hymns would sound like any other Turkish music that originated in the Ottoman Empire. Listening to a record by Hazan Aaron Cohen Yasak, a Turkish-Jewish cantor, brought back memories of my grandfather listening to Trk Sanat Mzii (Trkish classical music). I was fascinated by the resemblance of these Jewish hymns to the music I grew up with.
Voices of European Jewry: Krakow, Poland | The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle – thejewishchronicle.net
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The Evening Shema: The Perfect Place to Begin – Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters – Lubavitch.com
admin | August 13, 2022
Parshat Veeschanan contains probably the most well-known verse of the Torah, the Shema.
‘You don’t want to take my money, do you?’: Mandarin-speaking rabbi fights antisemitism on Chinas TikTok – Yahoo News
admin | August 13, 2022
An American rabbi who lived and worked in China for over a decade is fighting antisemitism on Chinese social media using educational videos. Rabbi Matt Trusch was sharing Jewish parables in fluent Mandarin on Douyin (Chinas version of TikTok) from his Texas home last year when he came across users spouting Jewish stereotypes online
Tisha B’Av: The Arch of Titus an alternative view – The Times of Israel
admin | August 13, 2022
I am writing this piece in the run up to Tisha BAv (the ninth of Av)the saddest day in the Jewish calendar.
At Oakland’s ‘Base,’ rabbinic couple wants you to make connections J. – The Jewish News of Northern California
admin | August 13, 2022
Long before becoming a rabbi, Frankie Sandmel organized events like Havdalah with a social justice slant. Now Rabbi Sandmel and their partner, Elaina Marshalek, will do some of that and more as community-builders at Base, an initiative that aims to reach young Jews outside of the synagogue. Already with nine outposts in places such as Chicago, Brooklyn, Harlem and Miami, Base now has its first Bay Area location in the sunny Oakland home that Sandmel, 32, and Marshalek, 31, moved into last month, next door to the Moishe House in Rockridge (and adjacent to the future home of the JCC of the East Bay).
