admin | May 21, 2024
This article was produced as part ofJTAs Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. (JTA) On a rainy day in late January, senior Natalya McConnell smiled as fellow Jewish teens joined her walkout for Palestine in Seattles wealthy neighborhood of Bellevue.
admin | May 21, 2024
LOS ANGELES (JTA) Todays understanding of Hollywood the glitz, the glam, the red carpets and paparazzi are a far cry from the film industrys humble beginnings, when a group of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe laid the groundwork for what would become an epicenter of American and global culture. Such is the story told by a new exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, which opens Sunday. Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital traces the history and legacy of early 20th century Jewish Hollywood pioneers like the Warner brothers, Louis B.
admin | May 21, 2024
The New Orleans City Council Friday denounced the targeted antisemitic attack on one of its staff members after the front of their home and an Israeli flag hanging on it were splattered with blood red paint. "On the evening of May 16, vandals covered a New Orleans City Council staff member's home in red paint, presumably to represent blood, in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
admin | May 21, 2024
Channel 12 reports that a Jewish father and his daughter were attacked by a group after he removed an anti-Israel sticker at a train station in Brugge, Belgium. The two managed to briefly escape before another attacker is filmed shoving the father, 64-year-old Amnon, to the ground and twisting his leg
admin | May 21, 2024
Middlebury has named Adi Raz as the new co-director of theSchool of Hebrew. She will begin her position on September 1, succeedingYaronPeleg Raz is currently the director of the Modern Hebrew Language Program at the University of Michigan in the department of Middle East Studies
admin | May 21, 2024
DISTURBING CCTV footage shows a man attacking two Hasidic children in Brooklyn unprovoked. The group of children were seen playing on the sidewalk when the man suddenly began his shocking assault. 4 4 4 The two boys who fell victim to the attack, ages 11 and 13, were in their group when the man on a rental bike stopped and started approaching the children
admin | May 21, 2024
Bnai Brith International Portugal and the International Observatory of Human Rights held last week an event to remember the kindness of a nun who made kaddish for a Jewish man when no one else would, and honored the Bishop of Oporto, D. Manuel Linda, to remember individual acts of kindness by Catholics in Portugal towards Jews
admin | May 21, 2024
Amid the increase in antisemitic incidents worldwide since October 7, a delegation of Upper Galilee Preparatory School students set on a journey where they heard from Jews in the U.S.
admin | May 21, 2024
The German Jewish community has been a vital part of Germanys cultural landscape for over 200 years, making significant contributions across business, the arts, medicine, and public service. Actually, substitute Australian/Australia for German/Germany and you have the opening sentence of Australian Jewrys Say No to Antisemitism website that was published in November 2023.
admin | May 21, 2024
The federal government established the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions, led by Justice Marie-Jose Hogue, in September 2023. In Canada, foreign interference is defined as harmful activities undertaken by foreign states or their proxies that are clandestine, deceptive, or involve a threat to any person to advance the strategic objectives of those states to the detriment of Canadas national interests. These threats and activities of state or non-state entities foster polarization, distrust and erode faith in democratic systems.
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