admin | September 23, 2022
Two years ago, Savion Raz moved from northern Israel to the most expensive neighborhood in the most expensive city in the world, Tel Aviv. She rents an apartment with her partner in one of the 11 towers that make up Park Tsameret, a kind of luxury oasis that once attracted model Bar Refaeli and diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz. She pays 15,000 shekels (about $4,365) for four rooms
admin | September 23, 2022
BSDVolume 36, No. 5028 Elul 5782September 24, 2022 Sponsored bythe Greengart and Lerman familiesin memory of their fatherZvi ben Ben Zion ah (Harry Greengart) Nancy & David Broth and Rona & Aaron Lernerin memory of their motherElinor Cohn ah Manny and Loretta Sadwinon the yahrzeit of her fatherAlter Eliezer Yitzchak ben Litman ah The Shemittah year is about to end. R Mordechai Eliyahu zl (1929-2010; Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel) writes: I have long wondered why the commentators devote more effort to discovering the reasons for the Mitzvah of Shemittah than those of other Mitzvot.
admin | September 21, 2022
The Society for the Advancement of Judaism, a Reconstructionist synagogue on the Upper West Side with the motto Judaism that Stands for All, has refused to rent space to the Upper West Side Republican Club for an event that would have featured former Bill Clinton advisor and current Donald Trump supporter Dick Morris.
admin | September 21, 2022
Eyal Haddad, hyd, a Jewish resident of France who was brutally murdered by a Muslim on August 20 was brought to kever Yisrael in Israel on Thursday. He was buried in Beer Sheva, where his family members, who are originally from Djerba, Tunisia, live.
admin | September 21, 2022
It could almost be an anxiety dream: your name up in lights alongside the word Jews, resplendent on the outside of Londons Royal Court theatre. And yet Ive looked and looked again and I have not imagined it. Its there
admin | September 21, 2022
The perfect Rosh Hashana gift Featuring well-chosen primary sources, magnificent artwork and memorable infographics provides readers with a magnificent one-volume guide to Jewish history, teachings and practices. Jonathan Sarna, Brandeis University A comprehensive 496page coffeetablestyle book exploring theteachings, observances, and history of Judaism. What is Judaism?
admin | September 21, 2022
(September 18, 2022 / JNS) Between 2019 and 2020, more than two million Twitter posts regarding Jews or Israel were anti-Semitic, according to a study from the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (ISCA) at Indiana University. In 2019, 849,253 tweets6.9 percent of all conversations about Jews on Twitterwere anti-Semitic. That proportion rose in 2020 to 10.7 percent, meaning 1,531,912 anti-Semitic tweets were posted, 4,197 per day or one every 20 seconds, in conversations that include the word Jews
admin | September 21, 2022
When professor Jeffrey Lax reported pervasive discrimination against Jews, including harassment of Jewish faculty members like himself, the City University of New York placed the investigation in the lap of Saly Abd Alla, an official in the school's discrimination office but hardly an ally of the Jewish people. Abd Alla came to CUNY from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, where she worked as a civil rights director alongside officials who have promoted anti-Israel agitprop and defended Jew-hating terror groups including Hamas
admin | September 21, 2022
"'Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew,' is recovery food," writes Michael Twitty in the preface to his latest book. That book, written during the post-Obama years, was meant as a balm for high political tensions, for the seemingly never-ending culture wars. "Each twenty-four-hour media cycle saw an uptick of red-meat policies to punish marginalized, oppressed, and outlier communities," wrote Twitty, who is Black, Jewish, gay and an immensely talented writer
admin | September 21, 2022
(September 20, 2022 / JNS) New York Mayor Eric Adams said Monday that he would welcome federal intervention to help fight the citys wave of anti-Semitic hate crimes. Adams held a roundtable discussion at City Hall with a number of Jewish media outlets. He addressed the citys broken justice system, caused by recent state legislation whereby perpetrators of hate crimes, along with most other felonies and misdemeanors, are quickly released after arrest without the need to post bail
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