admin | July 28, 2021
Every year in summer, over 60,000 Wagner fans from within and outside Germany visit the Bayreuth Music Festival. Anybody who wanders in the park on the festival premises is bound to stumble upon the Nazi history of the place. On one side stands the big bronze Wagner bust by Nazi sculptor Arno Breker, on the other, commemorative plaques for all artistswho were persecuted during the Third Reich
admin | July 28, 2021
Who is a Jew? Since the Jewish people did not start their long journey just yesterday, this is seemingly a question that should have been answered a long time ago.
admin | July 28, 2021
At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, Hungarian Jewish gymnast Agnes Keleti faced challenges on and off the mat. In the competition, she turned in a dominating performance to close her Olympic career with 10 medals over two Summer Games. Yet that year, the Soviet Union invaded her homeland, and by 1957 she had found a new home in Israel.
admin | July 28, 2021
Just a few years ago, at a gathering of filmmakers during the annual Berlin Film Festival, I was asked by a perplexed newcomer to the festival scene why the oldest and largest Jewish film festival in the world took place in, of all places, San Francisco. As a native-born San Francisco Jew and a former executive director of the now 41-year-old San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF) which this year streams nationally through August 1 at http://www.sfjff.org I was tempted to reply, in very Jewish fashion, And why shouldnt it be in San Francisco? But I had to admit: its a very good question.
admin | July 28, 2021
By Charles Jacobsand Avi Goldwasser (JNS) The July 1stabbing attack on Rabbi Shlomo Noginski in front of a Jewish day school inBoston was not a total surprise for those who have studied Jewish history andhave seen the recent consequences of the demonization of Jews in Europe. A growing andpowerful leftist/Islamist (Red/Green) alliance in Europe has led to numerous attacks onJews there. This alliance is fueled by a lethal brew of progressive ideologywhich dehumanizes the West and Israel, and a large influx of Muslims from antisemiticcultures
admin | June 19, 2021
Several years ago, a non-Jewish film producer turned to me and announced, casually and with an air of arrogance and ignorance reserved particularly for bigots, Jews control Hollywood. He assured me this was a compliment, as many antisemites are wont, trotting out Neal Gablers seminal text on the subject, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, as evidence. But it was clear that said producer had either never read Gablers book, or missed one of its key points entirely: the founding producers of the film biz were Jewish, most of them Eastern European immigrants, excluded and ostracized from virtually every other industry in America.
admin | June 19, 2021
This weeks Torah reading contains an exceptionally puzzling passage. We are told about the complaints of the Jews, who are thirsty and worried. Moshe and Aharon are told by God totake the rod and assemble the community, and before their very eyes order the rock to yield its water.
admin | June 19, 2021
After a painful year of public violence against American communities of color, the Biden White House is now proposing important changes to how educators should teach the history of racism and the lasting legacies of white supremacy in American schools. Following President Bidens campaign promise to address the growing acknowledgement of racial inequities, a Department of Educations memo released on April 19 proposes that certain curricula take into account the "systemic marginalization, biases, inequities, and discriminatory policy and practice in American history" that have long been overlooked by generations of white Americans. Its time we Jews do the same
admin | June 16, 2021
Israel and Hamas recently reached an agreement to end 11 days of fighting in the Gaza Strip. But tension remains in Israels mixed Jewish-Arab cities. In Lod, Israeli security forces continue to guard the city weeks after rioters set fire to police cars, synagogues and homes.
admin | June 11, 2021
What did you do during the pandemic? Tzali Reicher, who is 24 and lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, met his future wife, got married, traveled among three continents and embarked on a project to track every Jew who died of the coronavirus. He counted colleagues, neighbors, people he admired, including the rabbi he hoped to pray with at his wedding
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