admin | June 15, 2024
The results are in for Indias general election. The countrys prime minister, Narendra Modi, has won enough seats to stay in charge for a third consecutive term. But his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has suffered big setbacks and is gearing up for coalition talks having failed to win an outright majority for the first time in ten years
admin | June 15, 2024
Every year, during the 49 days of Sefirat Haomer, the verbal counting of each of the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot, we recall the sheaves of wheat that our ancestors gleefully gathered in Israel, our homeland. This year, it felt like we were also unhappily harvesting hate. Every day, horrible hypocrites assail Israel and the Jews
admin | June 15, 2024
In the aftermath of the October 7 attacks, many voices in the pro-Israel community took on the mantle of victimhood. They highlighted the atrocities that Palestinian terrorists perpetrated against Israelis in the South, the hostages held in Gaza, and Hamass refusal to own up to its horrific acts and asked the world how they would react had they been victims of this oppression. The strategy was well thought through
admin | June 15, 2024
June 9, 2024 by Susie Day Emmaia Gelman. Since 1897, Zionism has been the religious and political impetus behind what is now the nation-state of Israel, which, like the United States, is settled on the lives, land, and cultures of millions of Indigenous peoples.
admin | June 15, 2024
New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made clear that she and the women she was speaking with held opposing views on the United Statess role in the Israel-Hamas war, but that it was possible to hold space for discussion without excluding one another. Stacy Burdett, former vice president for Government Relations, Advocacy and Community Engagement at the Anti-Defamation League and government and external relations director at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, joined Ocasio-Cortez on Monday afternoon for a webinar on Antisemitism and the Fight for Democracy, when they spoke about antisemitism post-October 7 and coalition building in progressive spaces where Zionists are excluded
admin | June 15, 2024
Sign up for our Gay City News email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! The extraordinary 32-year tenure of Sharon Kleinbaum as Senior Rabbi of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) New Yorks LGBTQ synagogue that she led to become a major national force in Judaism, LGBTQ rights, and human rights everywhere was celebrated in words and song at Jazz at Lincoln Center at Columbus Circle on June 3 by political leaders from President Biden on down, performing arts stars, CBSTs Community Chorus, the many rabbis she helped train and inspire, and her spouse, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten. The evening was hosted by veteran lesbian comedian Kate Clinton, who noted that Kleinbaum was the first full-time Rabbi at the synagogue. Hillary Clinton spoke at the celebration and said Kleinbuam made CBST a bold spiritual community of resistance and love.
admin | June 15, 2024
On Wednesday, May 22, Staff Sgt. Bezalel Zvi Kovach, 20, was critically wounded while fighting in Gaza. Four days later he succumbed to his wounds at Soroka Medical Center.
admin | June 15, 2024
Over 30 rabbis have signed a Northeast Ohio rabbinic statement opposing boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel as of June 11. The statement is in response to a resolution referred to Cuyahoga County Councils committee of the whole at its June 4 meeting, Rabbi Scott Roland of Congregation Shaarey Tikvah in Beachwood told the Cleveland Jewish News.
admin | June 15, 2024
There is a belief, perpetuated by a million stories, that a lifetime considered as a whole has a clear narrative structure: The essential dream or quest of a person is established early; they go through a series of complications that challenge, temper, and change their dream. And ultimately there is resolution.
admin | June 15, 2024
The opening event for the new center of Chabad of Rechavia, was celebrated just in time for Shavuos.
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