admin | February 25, 2021
The images were stark: men and boys fleeing from a synagogue into the night as Montral police gathered outside the building. In the video taken on Jan
admin | February 25, 2021
People think of Hasidism as a movement that was mostly a movement of men; men left their families behind and went to be with the Rebbe, and the audience for whom the Rebbe wrote was an all-male audience. Women were really left out of Hasidism.
admin | February 25, 2021
Outside of government, two things known to be big in Sacramento are soccer and tango. Both passions will be represented among the films this year at the 22-year-old Sacramento Jewish Film Festival with a Jewish angle. A Common Goal is a 2020 documentary about Israels national soccer team and the fact that about half the players on the squad are Israeli Arabs, including the teams first-ever Muslim captain
admin | February 25, 2021
There aren't many Jewish horror films out there. Other than a handful of films and TV episodes about golems (a mud or clay creature that follows instructions written on paper and slipped into the creature's mouth), there isn't much in the horror genre that takes place in the Jewish religion.
admin | February 25, 2021
The Foothill College Theatre Arts Departments virtual performance readings of Lynn Nottages Intimate Apparel are scheduled 7:30 p.m. Friday through Sunday.
admin | February 25, 2021
Back in the 90s, Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, was a brash New York City police officer whose public statements often seemed custom-made to incite controversy. He attacked Herman Badillo, the Puerto Rican-born former Bronx representative, for marrying a white Jewish woman rather than a Latina, and, during a failed congressional run, praised the antisemitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan
admin | February 18, 2021
It may be tempting to describe The Vigil as The Exorcist meets Borough Park. But making the comparison can be glib and detract from the originality of this one-of-a-kind Jewish horror film. Tickets for the film, screening through Feb.
admin | February 18, 2021
Martha Gendonou receives communion from Deacon Tony King at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Atlanta. REUTERS/Chris Aluka Berry Kimberly Hendricks will usher in the somber Christian period of Lent on Ash Wednesday from the parking lot of her Sacramento church instead of its sanctuary thanks to COVID-19 restrictions
admin | February 18, 2021
JTA Three times on Sunday, January 31, Orthodox men carried the body of a beloved Torah scholar wrapped in a black and white prayer shawl through the streets of Jerusalem to a freshly dug grave. First there was Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, the 99-year-old heir to a vaunted tradition of Talmud study. A few hours later it was Rabbi Yitzchok Sheiner, the 98-year-old leader of a prominent yeshiva
admin | February 16, 2021
Press release from Congregation Tifereth Israel: Feb. 15, 2021 Deborah Feldman leads a virtual talk on her book, "Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots" Thursday, March 11 at 1 p.m.Free
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