admin | July 21, 2021
Hello, This is the daily Politics Briefing newsletter, written by Ian Bailey. Menaka Raman-Wilms is filling in today. It is available exclusively to our digital subscribers
admin | July 21, 2021
Nahuel Prez Biscayart stars in Persian Lessons, screening Saturday, July 25, as the in-person opening night selection of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. Photo: Cohen Media Group One of the things San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Program Director Jay Rosenblatt missed most during the long pandemic timeout was live events. A filmmaker in his own right, his latest short, When We Were Bullies, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, but that and subsequent screenings have been virtual.
admin | July 21, 2021
I have not watched the new Netflix series My Unorthodox Life, a show supposedly about how fashion executive Julia Haart lives her life in freedom from the repressive Orthodox Judaism in which she was raised.Im not boycotting the show because it attacks Judaism. This has become weirdly common on Netflix.
admin | July 21, 2021
Local high school students will have a chance to learn about business issues from a Jewish perspective while earning college credits this fall. A new course created by Yeshiva University and Chabad will be offered in person at three local sites beginning in October.
admin | July 21, 2021
Two coins minted about 70 years apart by Jewish rebels during two separate revolts against the Roman Empire have been discovered in the West Bank. The coins may offer insight to what happened during the Bar Kochba revolt against the Romans, researchers say.
admin | July 9, 2021
An ongoing post-Brexit trade dispute between the European Union and Great Britain centered on Northern Ireland has threatened to cut off access to kosher food, raising the possibility that Jews would be forced to leave the province, Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Wednesday. Addressing parliament, Johnson said that Jewish communal representatives had pointed out that because of the problem with the food sector it was becoming difficult for them to have timely access or any access to kosher food"and that they were beginning to speak about the possibility of an exodus from Northern Ireland. Now clearly we want to do everything we can to avoid that and to sort it out, but its going to take our friends in the Joint Committee to make some movement and to make that movement pretty fast, he stated, referring to an EU-UK body tasked with implementing the Northern Ireland protocol, part of the Brexit divorce deal Britain agreed with the bloc.
admin | July 9, 2021
Anyone teaching the past by skipping over the unpleasant parts isnt teaching history. They are engaged in propaganda
admin | July 9, 2021
POIPU BEACH KAUAI, Hawaii, July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- For the first time ever, Kauai has its own progressive rabbi who can perform Jewish ceremonies for visitors seeking an iconic destination Hawaii wedding or life cycle event.
admin | July 9, 2021
Tova Fry| Special to the USA TODAY Network WATCH: North Jersey's most visible Jewish supporter of Palestinian rights Rich Siegel of Teaneck, who is a professional musician and North Jersey's most visible Jewish supporter of Palestinian rights, answers some questions at his home in Teaneck.
admin | July 9, 2021
An exhibition dedicated to the life and legacy of persecuted Jewish art dealer Max Stern will go forward this fall in Dsseldorfdespite opposition from scholars and the dealers own heirs. The show, called Disenfranchised and Deprived: The Art Dealer Max Stern, will open at the Stadtmuseum in Dsseldorf on September 1 (until January 30, 2022), three years after it was initially canceled amid a dispute between local authorities and Sterns heirs over how the German city was handling the project. The heirs, a group of international universities, were concerned that German authorities were not being transparent enough about the works linked to Stern that remain scattered around Germany and have yet to be returned.
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