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The Jewish Olympics: Local Adaptive Sports Advocate Michael Rosenkrantz Is Heading to Israel to Coach in the 21st Maccabiah Games – Coachella Valley…

| March 8, 2022

Since 2009, Michael Rosenkrantz has championed the development of wheelchair basketball and other adaptive-sports programs in locations around the world, including India, Nepal, North Carolina and Arizona. Shortly after his arrival in our desert community in 2019, he linked up with the Desert Ability Center and began working with local adaptive athletes

Is It Funny for the Jews? – The New York Times

| February 19, 2022

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. In the climactic scene of the musical Caroline, or Change, an 8-year-old Jewish boy, Noah, and his African American maid, Caroline, living in the Jim Crow South, get into a heated fight and end up trading ugly insults. Noah says he hopes a bomb kills all Black people, and Caroline responds that all Jews will go to hell

Arizona Jews Sue to Stop the State from Executing People with Zyklon B – Jewish Exponent

| February 19, 2022

Empty poison gas cans of the pesticide Zyklon B are exhibited in the museum of the former concentration camp Auschwitz I. (Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA.org) By Nicole Raz and Mala Blomquist Leaders of Arizonas Jewish community are suing the state to prevent it from using hydrogen cyanide, the same lethal gas that was deployed at Auschwitz, to carry out capital punishment. During the Holocaust, the Nazis used pellets of Zyklon B, a hydrogen cyanide formulation, in the gas chambers at Auschwitz and other death camps.

How the few Jews left on the Greek island of Corfu hold onto their history – Forward

| February 19, 2022

CORFU, Greece The door of the Scuola Greca synagogue on the island of Corfu is painted emerald green with two Stars of David in the middle.

In France, women found a school of their own to study ancient Jewish texts – Forward

| February 19, 2022

These French Jewish women felt left out.

Montreals Holocaust Museum relocating to new $80 million site in historic Jewish quarter by 2025 – Forward

| February 19, 2022

A view of the future site of the Montreal Holocaust Museum on Saint-Laurent boulevard.

A podcaster explores her own Black and Jewish identities in a series about the Crown Heights riots – Forward

| February 19, 2022

Collier Meyerson, creator of Love Thy Neighbor, grew up in Manhattan but spent eight years living in Crown Heights as an adult.

Who were the most (and least) Jewish presidents? – Forward

| February 19, 2022

What do we think of when we think about our presidents? The courage of George Washington crossing the Delaware

Wake the sleeping dogs! The Jewish world needs journalism without fear or favor – Forward

| February 19, 2022

This is an adaptation of Looking Forward, a weekly email from our editor-in-chief sent on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forwards free newsletters delivered to your inbox. Download and print our free magazine of stories to savor over Shabbat and Sunday.

Two suspects arrested for arson of Jewish familys home in Sheikh Jarrah – Haaretz

| February 19, 2022

Two more suspects in the arson attack on the home of a Jewish family in East Jerusalems Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood were arrested Wednesday by the Israel Police and the Shin Bet security service. The two were taken in for questioning and the security services are expected to seek a court order extending their detention


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