admin | October 9, 2021
(RNS) Jews are proud of the biblical story from Exodus that recounts their deliverance from slavery in Egypt in the third century B.C. But few U.S. Jews consider that some of their ancestors were slaves in the trans-Atlantic slave trade that ended in the 19th century.
admin | October 9, 2021
When Elana Johnson was shopping for a synagogue three years ago, the mother of four approached a Conservative congregation in Lincoln, Nebraska, to ask about joining.
admin | October 9, 2021
Asher Lovy was expecting a flood of notifications on Monday morning when he posted information about a sexual abuse case to several WhatsApp chat groups devoted to tracking the work of his organization, which provides support to survivors of sexual abuse within the Orthodox community. Instead, he heard nothing. WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging app he uses, was down, along with Facebook and Instagram, three of the most widely used social platforms in the world
admin | October 9, 2021
When Elana Johnson was shopping for a synagogue three years ago, the mother of four approached a Conservative congregation in Lincoln, Nebraska, to ask about joining. For most synagogues, such an inquiry would have been a no-brainer.
admin | October 9, 2021
(JTA) When Elana Johnson was shopping for a synagogue three years ago, the mother of four approached a Conservative congregation in Lincoln, Nebraska, to ask about joining. For most synagogues, such an inquiry would have been a no-brainer
admin | October 9, 2021
After a 22-year run, the bagel as a staple of McDonalds is no more.
admin | October 9, 2021
When Zebulun Simantov, the last Jew in Afghanistan, was evacuated from Kabul, initial reports failed to mention that his wife had been waiting for a get, a Jewish divorce, for more than 20 years. Various rabbis had tried and failed to get him to agree to a get and it appeared that she would remain an agunah, chained to the dead marriage forever.
admin | October 2, 2021
ANALYSIS/OPINION: In Genesis 12:3 the Lord tells Abraham, I will bless those who bless Israel, and I will curse those who curse Israel. It appears that the Democratic Party is trying to get itself cursed. Last week we learned that pressure from Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandra Ocazio-Cortez, and other members of the Squad resulted in the removal of $1 billion in funding for Israels Iron Dome missile system from the budget bill
admin | October 2, 2021
Zebulon Simantov, Afghanistans last Jew, who fled the Talibans rule earlier this month, warned Israel that it cant rely on the United States, as he gave his first interview to Israeli media since his escape. Simantov, 62, who left Afghanistan by trekking across the border to a neighboring country, told the Kan public broadcaster on Tuesday that hed had no option but to leave once the Taliban had taken over. He spoke to the station via an interpreter and the report did not reveal which country he was currently in
admin | October 2, 2021
Rabbi Marc Baker, the newish head of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, seemed to be everywhere this summer. At a vigil in Bostons Brighton neighborhood, denouncing the stabbing of a Chabad rabbi. At a media event for the New England Holocaust Memorial, with the governor of Massachusetts and mayor of Boston.
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