admin | July 5, 2021
(Corrects acronym in second paragraph) LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -Europe will celebrate its first continent-wide Jewish LGBT+ Pride on Saturday against a backdrop of rising concern about anti-Semitism and homophobia in countries such as Hungary, Poland and Germany.
admin | July 5, 2021
UW and the community | UW Notebook June 29, 2021 Recent news from the Jackson School of International Studies includes a new endowed scholarship for study of India made possible by two alumni, and a book on angels in ancient Jewish culture by Jewish Studies professor Mika Ahuvia.
admin | July 5, 2021
Since the early 2000s, Yael Bartana has brought the remnants of the Jewish question into sharp relief. Redemption Now, a survey at Berlins Jewish Museum on through October 10, includes early videos that simultaneously detail and estrange the rituals of Israeli Orthodox Jewish and settler communities. In recent years, her work has grown more formally elaborateand provocativein its choreographies and pre-enactments
admin | July 5, 2021
Roger Pinto and his son David speaking on Israeli television shortly after their ordeal at the hands of an antisemitic gang in 2017.
admin | July 5, 2021
WESTPORT, Connecticut A year after Easy Rider came out, Bruce Ente bought his first motorcycle. It was 1970 and Ente, then aged 19, decided what he needed was a Honda CB350. So he spent his bar mitzvah money to make the purchase.
admin | July 5, 2021
There are many Jewish athletes competing in the Tokyo Olympics this summer.
admin | July 5, 2021
A Jewish elderly couple was confirmed to be among those killed in the building collapse in Surfside, Florida, last week. The bodies of Leon Oliwkowicz, 80, and his wife Cristina Beatriz (Rus) de Oliwkowicz, 74, were recovered by rescue workers on Sunday and identified later that night. The couple was laid to rest in a traditional Jewish ceremony on Monday
admin | July 5, 2021
Two major moves in progress dramatize the six-year success of the Detroit Public Theatre (DPT) the move into a larger space and the move of its first commissioned play from Motown to Broadway. Sarah Winkler, a longtime New York stage professional who partnered with local stage professionals and community leaders to establish DPT, mustered through the pandemic by collaborating on plans for the new 7,000-square-foot facility and proudly tracking the development of Broadway-bound Birthday Candles
admin | June 21, 2021
Michigan has been home to Jews since 1761, when the first Jewish settler, Ezekiel Solomon, came as a fur trader and supplier to the British troops in the strategic wilderness outpost at Fort Michilimackinac. Chapman Abraham, one of Solomon's partners, is the first known Jewish resident in Fort Detroit, held by the British. By 1762 he was bringing furs and needed goods in flotillas of voyageur canoes back and forth on the hazardous water route from Montreal.
admin | June 21, 2021
Jeffrey Lax says his nostrils are flaring.
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