admin | July 9, 2021
Canadas oppressive residential schools for indigenous children are in the news now because of the discovery of mass graves at two different sites, containing the bodies of children who died out of neglect or worse at the notorious institutions.
admin | July 9, 2021
Yoni Netanyahu, the famed hero of the Entebbe operation, was killed in action 45 years ago on July 4. Benjamin Netanyahus older brother was named Jonathan (Yonatan) and is usually remembered as Yoni.
admin | July 9, 2021
Samuel Hayon, a Venezuelan living in Miami, was shocked when he went to Miamis Jackson Memorial Hospital to try and get the COVID-19 shot in February. I just ran into the entire Hebraica Israeli! he said, referring to Caracass Jewish community. Hayon had noticed a trend that would only grow in the coming weeks and months.
admin | July 9, 2021
Botanical artist Laurie Tennent has had a lifelong passion for the art of capturing images. The Birmingham native, who attended the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and received a bachelor of fine arts degree in photography, has had her work featured in public and private art galleries around the world
admin | July 9, 2021
Andrew Getraer says the college campus has been, for as long as Ive been at Hillel, the fount of antisemitism in America. (Sabrina Szteinbaum Photography via JTA.org) By Ben Sales As he ends his tenure as the director of the largest Hillel in the country after 20 years in the post, Andrew Getraer says Jews at Rutgers University face a reality out of Dickens: the best of times and the worst of times. Jewish life at the school, New Jerseys flagship university, is thriving.
admin | July 5, 2021
Footage showed a man berating a bus driver and then the person filming the video on a bus on Saturday evening, saying to the driver: "He's f**king Jewish. You're Jewish too," and then banging on the window of the bus from the street.
admin | July 5, 2021
July 5 marks the 71st anniversary of Israel's enacting of the Law of Return, legislation that allows anyone who is Jewish to immigrate and obtain Israeli citizenship. Based on Zionist principles, the law was intended to ensure that the State of Israel would be a Jewish state and a home for the Jewish people. The law was later amended twice.
admin | July 5, 2021
Even before its $8.35 million renovation, the Manchester Jewish Museum was a remarkably eye-catching institution.
admin | July 5, 2021
University of Miami demographer Ira Sheskin, whose expertise has been called upon by media covering the Surfside tragedy, has been documenting the changes in South Florida Jewish communities for four decades. A few times a year, professor Ira Sheskin gets a call from a journalist reporting on Jewish people in the United States. But in the past week, Sheskin has been overwhelmed by a number of phone calls and e-mails.
admin | July 5, 2021
July 4 marks the 245th anniversary of the passing of the Declaration of Independence, a watershed moment in US history that marked the 13 Colonies' path toward independence, celebrated annually as US Independence Day.
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