admin | September 21, 2022
It could almost be an anxiety dream: your name up in lights alongside the word Jews, resplendent on the outside of Londons Royal Court theatre. And yet Ive looked and looked again and I have not imagined it. Its there
admin | September 21, 2022
The perfect Rosh Hashana gift Featuring well-chosen primary sources, magnificent artwork and memorable infographics provides readers with a magnificent one-volume guide to Jewish history, teachings and practices. Jonathan Sarna, Brandeis University A comprehensive 496page coffeetablestyle book exploring theteachings, observances, and history of Judaism. What is Judaism?
admin | September 21, 2022
(September 18, 2022 / JNS) Between 2019 and 2020, more than two million Twitter posts regarding Jews or Israel were anti-Semitic, according to a study from the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (ISCA) at Indiana University. In 2019, 849,253 tweets6.9 percent of all conversations about Jews on Twitterwere anti-Semitic. That proportion rose in 2020 to 10.7 percent, meaning 1,531,912 anti-Semitic tweets were posted, 4,197 per day or one every 20 seconds, in conversations that include the word Jews
admin | September 21, 2022
When professor Jeffrey Lax reported pervasive discrimination against Jews, including harassment of Jewish faculty members like himself, the City University of New York placed the investigation in the lap of Saly Abd Alla, an official in the school's discrimination office but hardly an ally of the Jewish people. Abd Alla came to CUNY from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, where she worked as a civil rights director alongside officials who have promoted anti-Israel agitprop and defended Jew-hating terror groups including Hamas
admin | September 21, 2022
"'Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew,' is recovery food," writes Michael Twitty in the preface to his latest book. That book, written during the post-Obama years, was meant as a balm for high political tensions, for the seemingly never-ending culture wars. "Each twenty-four-hour media cycle saw an uptick of red-meat policies to punish marginalized, oppressed, and outlier communities," wrote Twitty, who is Black, Jewish, gay and an immensely talented writer
admin | September 21, 2022
(September 20, 2022 / JNS) New York Mayor Eric Adams said Monday that he would welcome federal intervention to help fight the citys wave of anti-Semitic hate crimes. Adams held a roundtable discussion at City Hall with a number of Jewish media outlets. He addressed the citys broken justice system, caused by recent state legislation whereby perpetrators of hate crimes, along with most other felonies and misdemeanors, are quickly released after arrest without the need to post bail
admin | September 21, 2022
The massacre of European Jews occurred during World War II in Europe. To historians, the question has always been, how was this possible? And more important, from an American perspective, it is: What was Americas response to that event?
admin | August 30, 2022
Whether or not Nancy Pelosi decides to retire if the Democrats lose their House majority in the November midterms thereby costing the 18-term member of Congress her position as speaker is anybodys guess.
admin | August 30, 2022
Steve Carell as Alan Strauss, Domhnall Gleeson as Sam Fortner in FX's "The Patient." Photo by Suzanne Tenner/FX By PJ GrisarAugust 29, 2022 A few weeks ago, the creators of The Patient defended their decision to cast the non-Jewish Steve Carell as a Jewish therapist. Having just binged all 10 episodes of the FX thriller, I can see why
admin | August 30, 2022
(August 30, 2022 / JNS) 600 million? A billion
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