admin | September 6, 2022
Honoring women-focused narratives with thoughts and recipes. Kenden Alfond is an American in Paris whos spent her adult life working for NGOs and the United Nations from India and Afghanistan to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Switzerland, and Cambodia.
admin | September 6, 2022
How did a Jewish sect start singing local devotional songs? Drop by for a lecture-performance to learn about the revival of the syncretic tradition The clink of hand cymbals, beats of dholak and singers caught in a trance come to mind when we think of kirtans, be it to invoke the blessings of Sherawali Mata or Sai Baba. But in the 1880s, long after the ship-wrecked Bene Israelis had put down roots in the Konkan soil, kirtans were giving voice to the stories of creation, Noah, Abraham and Moses.
admin | September 6, 2022
Ourworld besieged by war and conflict desperately needs the message of peaceand tolerance. Wars take lives, destroy schools and homes, and devastate fields and factories
admin | September 6, 2022
Until 1976, the only identity the black Jews residing in the West African nation of Ghana had was that they were a special breed of people who migrated to their present settlement about 300 years ago. The Tirefeth Israel community in Ghanas farming settlementof Sefwi Wiaso believe they descended from one of the lost tribes of Israel. Though the black Jew community is unable to back with documentary proof which of the 12 tribes of Israel they belong to, oral tradition handed over from generation to generation had transmitted knowledge of the observation of Jewish customs with regard to the observance of Shabbat, circumcision of their newborns, refraining from eating pork and abiding by the rituals of purity.
admin | September 6, 2022
TEL AVIV, Israel When God wanted to tell the story of His faithfulness through the ages, He chose to do it through the Jewish people. Now, that history is the subject of a new museum in Israel
admin | September 6, 2022
Back-to-school season is well underway. And many children, and maybe even some of their parents, are surely wondering why all this focus on preparing to go back? Aside from the need for stores to sell school supplies and clothes, the answer is both simple and obvious you cant just show up on Day One with no preparation
admin | September 6, 2022
Tree of Life shooting suspect Robert Bowers will go to trial next year. The federal criminal case has dragged on for almost four years since that Saturday morning in October 2018 when Squirrel Hill joined the list of mass shooting locations in the U.S. Eleven people died at the synagogue, which was home to three congregations.
admin | September 6, 2022
The former B'Nai Israel Synagogue is featured on this year's Old Town Cape Christmas ornament. Submitted Old Town Cape has announced the former B'Nai Israel Synagogue in downtown Cape Girardeau is the organization's 2022 Christmas ornament. OTC said the latest ornament is the 26th in a series with only 228 items produced this year, and is available for $30 with a stand or $25 without one.
admin | September 6, 2022
The simple, if slightly tone-deaf, game board of "Gestapo: A Game of the Holocaust." Photo by Gary Rudoren Editor-in-ChiefJodi RudorenSeptember 02, 2022 This is an adaptation of Looking Forward, a weekly email from our editor-in-chief sent on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forwards free newsletters delivered to your inbox. The worn cardboard box unearthed this summer from a chaotic storage room at my suburban synagogue is labeled, in felt tip, Gestapo Game.
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The Voice: You recently called for stronger relations with Ghana; do you see trade and diplomatic links building between Barbados indeed the whole Caribbean region and African nations? Mia Amor Mottley: Yes, I am very pleased to see the growth and the strengthening of trade and diplomatic links between the Caribbean region and the African continent.
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