admin | October 12, 2022
(JTA) In 1892, an Oklahoma preacher born into slavery received a series of divine revelations that compelled him to launch a new church and, with it, a new religious movement in the United States: Black Israelism, better known as the Black Hebrew Israelite movement.
admin | October 12, 2022
Hip hop star Kanye West made antisemitic comments in portions of a Fox News interview that were edited out of the program before it was broadcast earlier this week. The statements espousing antisemitic conspiracy theories and stereotypes came amid an uproar over a series of other anti-Jewish comments from West in recent days.
admin | October 12, 2022
At Red City Hall, Berlins Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey signed a declaration entitled Mayors United Against Antisemitism today, in the presence of the American Jewish Committees Remko Leemhuis. The document says that antisemitism is an assault on the core values of democratic societies. Berlin, October 12th, 2022 (The Berlin Spectator) Early this morning, Remko Leemhuis, the Director of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Berlin, appeared at Red City Hall.
admin | October 10, 2022
Grant Miller A final vote will come before the Cutler Bay Town Council at the October 19th council meeting regarding an application by Chabad of Cutler Bay to amend the zoning of a parcel of land to Institutional, so the Chabad can at last have a more fitting location.
admin | October 10, 2022
With the final sounding of the Shofar at the end of Yom Kippur, the holiest season of the Jewish year will end Wednesday night. It began on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. For this 10-day period, we have been urged by our tradition to search our moral and spiritual ways, change our direction, and determine to be better people in the new year
admin | October 10, 2022
Tarf (distortion) is an Arabic term used by most Muslim Scholars to refer to the alterations they believe have been made to the previous revelations of God in Tawrat (Torah), Zabur (Psalms) and the Injil (Gospel). It is sometimes also used to describe Biblical metaphors. For example, Professor Rabbi Andrea L.
admin | October 10, 2022
BYOBs galore, great Middle Eastern food, and happy hour spots where you can bring a group. Beef suya platter with jollof and plantains at Suya Suya / Photograph by Ted Nghiem In recent years, Northern Liberties has become home to a ton of younger Philadelphians who want to have a great time. And that great time takes many forms from a whole lot of neighborhood bars to the variety of BYOBs.
admin | October 10, 2022
(JTA) Couscous lovers who frequent the grocery store Trader Joes may have noticed a change in the grain aisle: The chains brightly colored purple boxes of Israeli Couscous are now simply known as Pearl Couscous. The Nosher, a sister website to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, first reported the label change after word of it spread on the popular Facebook group Kosher Trader Joes. The move raised questions in the group about whether Trader Joes was trying to distance itself from Israel, a move that some companies have made for political reasons
admin | October 10, 2022
Like many on the internet this past week, the Eater staff had (to put it mildly) strong feelings about the Great British Bake Offs latest episode, the so-called Mexico Week. Even before the show aired in the U.S., it was clear Mexico Week would be offensive to many viewers. In teasers, hosts Matt Lucas and Noel Fielding, dressed in sombreros and serapes, made unfunny puns, which were then reiterated by the official GBBO Twitter account
admin | October 10, 2022
Nestled along the shores of Lake Michigan, Rogers Park is known as a charming north side neighborhood. But its also a bastion of diversity, blending cultures and religions from all over the world. It is, in fact, the most diverse neighborhood in Chicago: a rare quality which has earned the area national distinction.
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