admin | June 27, 2024
When Lily Nahmias was liberated from Ravensbrck concentration camp in 1945, she weighed only 44 pounds. Five years earlier, the Greek Jew from Thessaloniki was working in the Resistance movement in Belgium with her parents. (The family emigrated there in 1930.) But in 1944, she was caught by the Nazis and deported to Auschwitz.
admin | June 27, 2024
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal of a controversy between Hungary and Holocaust survivors over Hungarys confiscation of their property during World War II. This will be the second time the US Supreme Court is hearing this case. Republic of Hungary v.
admin | June 27, 2024
(June 25, 2024 / JNS) A 102-year-old Holocaust survivor and Berlin native is the face of Vogue magazine in Germany. Margot Friedlnder, one of the oldest and most prominent Holocaust survivors in the world, graces the cover of the July-August edition of the fashion and beauty magazine which has hit the newsstands in Europe. Respect for life and the responsibility of being human are the core messages of #MargotFriedlnder, the magazine wrote on X promoting the story.
admin | June 27, 2024
Considered the Father of the Indian Nation, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi(1869 1948), akaBapu(a Gujarati endearment for father), was a lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist whose use of nonviolent resistance led the successful campaign for Indian independence from British rule and inspired worldwide movements for civil rights and freedom. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability and, above all, achieving self-rule.
admin | June 27, 2024
Mona Golabek is a woman on a mission. The word she has been spreading through her music and her mothers life story for the past two-plus decades is of a decidedly uplifting, emotive, and inspiring nature
admin | June 27, 2024
Moral framework vital Re: A Poster Wont Help Students need moral instruction, not unconstitutional Ten Commandments signs, Tuesday editorial. Thank you for your beautifully expressed editorial on the importance of moral education in our schools
admin | June 27, 2024
Ive been advocating for 15 years for Hebrew Union College to admit rabbinical students in interfaith relationships. As the founder of organizations that advocate for interfaith families Jewish engagement, I heard the voices of interfaith couples who wanted to feel that they could belong in Jewish settings and were discouraged by policies and statements that demeaned their relationships. I have shared papers with the administrators stating their caseand privately lobbied HUC faculty members and administrators to adopt a policy based on the inclusion that liberal Judaism needs to thrive in a future that is already here
admin | June 27, 2024
Responding to the news that the High Court of Justice is set to rule this morning on a petition requiring the immediate military conscription of previously exempt yeshiva students, senior United Torah Judaism lawmaker Moshe Gafni preemptively slams the judicial system for anti-Haredi bias. There has never been a ruling by the Supreme Court in favor of yeshiva students and in the interest of the ultra-Orthodox public, Gafni declares in a statement. There is not a single judge there who understands the value of studying the Torah and [yeshiva students] contribution to the people of Israel in all generations.
admin | June 27, 2024
As Isaac Bashevis Singer takes the microphone, he greets roaring applause in his Polish accent, ready with prepared remarks about his personal relationship with religion, philosophy and mysticism. After he speaks, he reads a short story Shiddah and Kuziba about two demons who encounter humans for the first time, and answers questions from the audience about his life and research.
admin | June 27, 2024
How long do I remain a Reform Jew if the institutions of Reform Judaism stray into territories that are untenable for me ideologically? This past week, the Reform movements seminary, the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, decided to overturn a long-standing ban and barrier and ordain students who are in committed relationships with non-Jews. That decision was not surprising, given the growing tendency of the Reform movement to prioritize universalism over peoplehood and the needs of the individual over those of the larger community.
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