admin | January 27, 2023
Jewish doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto secretly documented the effects of Nazi-imposed starvation, and the knowledge is helping researchers today podcast The Conversation
admin | January 27, 2023
Leo Frank, in full Leo Max Frank, (born April 17, 1884, Cuero, Texas, U.S.died August 17, 1915, Marietta, Georgia), American factory superintendent whose conviction in 1913 for the murder of Mary Phagan resulted in his lynching. His trial and death shaped the nascent Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and spurred the first resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Frank was pardoned in 1986
admin | January 27, 2023
The Abduction Site: Milledgeville Prison On August 16, 1915, nearly two months after the June 21, 1915, commutation, Leo M. Frank was abducted from prison by a group of men from the State of Georgias highest social, legal, and political strata. They anointed themselves as the Knights of Mary Phagan
admin | January 27, 2023
The success of the Broadway musical Parade has rekindled interest in the Leo Frank case.
admin | January 25, 2023
In the fall of 2006, Sony Pictures chairman and CEO Michael Lynton and his pal Gary Ginsberg, now an executive vice president of Time Warner Inc., began working on a list of the 50 most influential rabbis in the U.S. The friends devised the following unscientific criteria to rank the leaders, whose specialties range from kashrut to Kabbalah: Are they known nationally/internationally?
admin | January 23, 2023
At no point in history have there been more ways of learning Hebrew. Thanks to modern technology, there are many, many options out there, even for those with limited budgets, schedules and mobility ranging in price from absolutely free to thousands of dollars. In addition to the traditional route of consulting books or signing up for an in-person class through a synagogue, Jewish community center or university or traveling to Israel where there are myriad in-person courses and programs you now can choose from an array of online courses, apps and software
admin | January 23, 2023
Yahweh, name for the God of the Israelites, representing the biblical pronunciation of YHWH, the Hebrew name revealed to Moses in the book of Exodus. The name YHWH, consisting of the sequence of consonants Yod, Heh, Waw, and Heh, is known as the tetragrammaton. After the Babylonian Exile (6th century bce), and especially from the 3rd century bce on, Jews ceased to use the name Yahweh for two reasons.
admin | January 23, 2023
Orthodox pilgrimage to the grave of Kabbalah rabbi buried in Istanbul picks up after COVID slump JTA News - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
admin | January 23, 2023
Science News Roundup: Meat cultivated from cow cells is kosher, Israel's chief rabbi rules; Space startups funding halved in 2022 as investors shift to safer bets and more Devdiscourse
admin | January 21, 2023
Wheres the outrage? The silence of New Jerseys Peruvian diaspora to recent state violence is palpable. | Op NJ.com
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