Your financial support is a lifeline to Jews at home and around the world – Jewish Community Voice
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As we welcome in the new year 5783, we look to our South Jersey community once again for your support.
LA deli exhibit puts a little mustard on the Jewish-American immigrant tale – The Times of Israel
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Creating a successful museum exhibition about the Jewish deli is an order thats taller than well, a pastrami sandwich.
Ive enjoyed working with the community – Australian Jewish News
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AFTER serving since 2007 as the state MP for Davidson which includes suburbs with significant Jewish communities like St Ives and Lindfield Jonathan ODea announced on Tuesday that he has decided not to recontest his seat at the NSW election in March 2023. ODea, who is also the NSW Legislative Assembly speaker, told The AJN, Ive enjoyed working with the Jewish community in my electorate for the past 15 years and Jewish communal leaders across NSW, like former NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBD) CEO Vic Alhadeff, and the current CEO Darren Bark. Ill continue to do my duties for the next six months with diligence, but then its time for someone else to have the opportunity, and the honour, of representing this seat.
With $73 million and counting, this organization is the backbone of the Jewish aid effort for Ukraine – JTA News – Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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Almost as soon as Russias bombs began falling in Ukraine, prompting millions of Ukrainians to flee the war zone, Jewish aid groups sprang into action. Volunteers with the emergency medical services Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah dispatched teams to the area to set up emergency triage centers to treat the wounded, sick and elderly. Tikva Childrens Home, which in normal times cares for neglected, abandoned or abused children in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, began busing kids out of the war zone and into safety in neighboring Romania
They were forced to sell their beloved synagogue. 7 decades later, they finally have a chance to buy it back – Forward
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Members of the Jewish community in Las Vegas, N.M., are trying to purchase Temple Montefiore, the first synagogue in the New Mexico Territory, from the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Photo by Jim Weber/The New Mexican By Sarah NachimsonSeptember 07, 2022 The Las Vegas, New Mexico, Jewish community is determined to buy back its synagogue.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the Bombing of Auschwitz – Jewish Journal
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The Roosevelt administrations refusal to strike Auschwitz was among the issues raised in Wolf Blitzers recent CNN special about the Holocaust, and will be discussed in Ken Burnss upcoming documentary film on Americas response to the Holocaust. During the spring and summer of 1944, as hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being deported to Auschwitz, at least thirty officials of Jewish organizations or institutions urged the Roosevelt administration to carry out air strikes on the railways and bridges over which the deportations were taking place, or to undertake precision strikes on the gas chambers and crematoria themselves.
Do these stats about 21st-century Jewish orgs sound right to you? – eJewish Philanthropy
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No? Thats because they arent right.
The greatest Jewish Hollywood character youve never heard of – Forward
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Maurice Duke was born Maurice Duschinsky in 1910 in Coney Island. Courtesy of Michael Barrie By Michael BarrieSeptember 07, 2022 You hear the name Duke in Hollywood and you picture a mountain of a man in a weathered Stetson firing his Colt from a speedy horse.
‘Four Winters’ Reveals Jewish Womens Armed Resistance to Nazis During World War II – Ms. Magazine
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In the stunning new documentary Four Winters, award-winning filmmaker Julia Mintz shatters myths of Jewish passivity during World War II, highlighting stories of Jews who escaped to the forests of Eastern Europe, Ukraine and Belarus and banded together in partisan brigades to fight back against Nazis and their collaborators. Fleeing from cities and towns, some jumping from trains headed to concentration camps, over 25,000 Jewish partisans, many just teenagers, courageously fought back against the Nazi attacks, all while hiding for four years deep in the forests. All I owned was my camera, leopard coat, rifle and a grenade in case Im captured the pillow was the rifle, the walls were the trees and the sky was the roof, said partisan Faye Schulman.
Federation invites the community to Town Halls with new Houston Jewish Security Director – Jewish Herald-Voice
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Jewish Federation of Greater Houston CEO Renee Wizig-Barrios believes Houstons Jewish community is at a pivotal point when it comes to security. We feel it is impossible to have a fully thriving Jewish community if people feel unsafe, Wizig-Barrios told the JHV
