admin | October 18, 2021
Its still hard to believe that with all the breweries in America, there has been only one Jewish beer company in America. And now there are none
admin | October 18, 2021
JNS.org In our bifurcated political culture, most Americans not only have forgotten how to listen to those who disagree with them but have also stopped being willing to credit opponents with good motives. Thats part of the reason why just about anything that someone thinks is awful is quickly labeled by somebody as being morally equivalent to the Nazis.
admin | October 18, 2021
Colin Powell, the former U.S. Secretary of State and first Black person to hold the job, lived on the same South Bronx block as Norman and Amy Brash, friends so close they were considered relatives, and Powell called them Mammele and Papelle. Dont ask me why the Jewish diminutives, Powell, who died Monday at 84, wrote in My American Journey, his 1995 autobiography, since they were also Jamaican
admin | October 18, 2021
Earlier this month Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 101 into law, making California the first state in the nation to add ethnic studies to its list of required high school courses
admin | October 18, 2021
A few years ago a colleague called to interview me for a book he was writing about journalists who worked for Jewish publications.
admin | October 18, 2021
Fan Fiction A Mem-Noir: Inspired by True Events By Brent Spiner St. Martins Press, 256page, $27.99 What is it with Star Trek and the Jews
admin | October 18, 2021
A new illustrated book published in Pittsburgh aims to combat bigotry and hate, while telling the story of what the United States did and didnt do for European Jews during the Holocaust.
admin | October 18, 2021
In April, the language-learning app Duolingoadded its 40th language to its program arsenal: Yiddish.
admin | October 18, 2021
Photo Courtesy of Dana Miller/Mervis Archives A photo of the old Congregation Anshe Knesset Israel Synagogue that stood at 949 N. Walnut St. from 1929-1991 is shown above.
admin | October 18, 2021
The government on Sunday was set to approve a reform that would fast track the immigration of thousands of Jewish doctors to Israel and their integration into the country's health system amid an ongoing domestic row between officials and medial interns. The motion, tabled by Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata, is set to assist the Jewish state's hospitals with their severe manpower shortage - which it had suffered from even before the pandemic
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