admin | September 27, 2021
A number of American Jewish organizations slammed a resolution adopted on Wednesday at a high-level meeting at the U.N. General Assembly that commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA) stemming from a notoriously anti-Semitic World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, in 2001
admin | September 22, 2021
Now, however, thanks to a long-forgotten letter, Jurzyk, 35, has uncovered the truth about how her family rescued and hid two Jewish sisters from the Nazis. Having moved to Stockholm as a baby, Jurzyk grew up hearing from her grandparents about her great-grandfather's bravery -- though details were scant.
admin | September 22, 2021
Cincinnatis Jewish community launches its bicentennial celebration this weekend with the rededication of Chestnut Street Cemetery, the first Jewish cemetery west of the Allegheny Mountains. The fenced-in grave sitelocated at Chestnut Street and Central Avenue in West End wasestablished in 1821 to bury the first Jewish settlers in Cincinnati even before the citys first synagogue, what is now Rockdale Temple, was started. So, the cemetery anniversary is also the anniversary of the Jewish community.
admin | September 22, 2021
A groundbreaking medical procedure was celebrated Tuesday in Louisville.A Kentucky woman received the first of its kind artificial heart implant at Jewish Hospital.According to national data, about 6 million people in the U.S.
admin | September 22, 2021
Editors Note: Sukkot is the annual Jewish harvest festival that commemorates the 40 years the Israelites spent in the desert in the book of Exodus. As part of the holiday, branches from the palm (lulav), myrtle and willow trees and a citrus fruit called etrog are held together and shaken
admin | September 19, 2021
JNS.org Exactly 20 years ago, the egregious proceedings of the Durban Conference illustrated how the international community, and in particular the United Nations had legitimized antisemitism. A conference whose purpose was to oppose racism was essentially hijacked by the Palestinians and their allies, who were eager to revive the United Nations since-rejected libel about Zionism being racism.
admin | September 19, 2021
JNS.org We have witnessed a remarkable development as a result of the publication of an article by Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik in Commentary titled The Real Truth About the Temple Mount, which suggested that the government of Israel owes it to its citizens, and thousands of years of Jewish history, to state unequivocally that the Temple Mount, and not the Western Wall, is the locus of Jewish longing. He also expressed sympathy for those seeking to ascend to the Temple Mount, enclosed within the Muslim Haram A-Sharif compound, so that they could continue to pray, writing, For those who care deeply about the Jewish connection to the Mount, and who desperately desire to pray there, it may well be that today it will be achieved first and foremost with finesse
admin | September 19, 2021
By Philissa Cramer As his fellow Jews around the world prepared to annul their vowsduring Yom Kippur, Colorado Gov.
admin | September 19, 2021
The deli will open next year at 808.5 Main Street in downtown Buffalo near the medical campus BUFFALO, N.Y. A few years ago, a blossoming new food enterprise called Bloom and Rose started carving out a niche for knish in Buffalo. "Knish is basically like a nice flaky pastry on the outside, stuffed full of filling on the inside.
admin | September 19, 2021
Under a perfectly blue sky, the campers gathered around Lillian Feldman-Hill as she showed them how to create a combustible mixture using water, soap and butane. Then she demonstrated how to blow huge fireballs with just cornstarch and a blowtorch. Held on Labor Day weekend just before Rosh Hashanah, the camp drew some 100 adults in their 20s and 30s from throughout North America to have fun, make new friends and do Jewish stuff
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