admin | June 16, 2021
I'm an Israeli-American lawyer, Jewish, married to a Palestinian resident of Ramallah, and author of the book, Maqluba Upside-Down Love (Hebrew), which describes how we met and fell in love. This blog is about raising our two children, 7-year-old Forat and 3-year-old Adam, in the West Bank and more recently in the U.S., where were spending a sabbatical year
admin | June 16, 2021
I was reading your May 28 article, Israelis, Palestinians rally support on L.I., and was disgusted by how it normalized far-right extremists and portrayed them as representative of Long Islands Jewish community. Most glaring was when you quoted an attendee at the May 23 Great Neck rally, Karen Lichtbraun, and gave the group she was representing, Yad Yamin, the spartan label New York-based organization. Did you not feel it was worth mentioning that Yad Yamin is a Kahanist organization with strong ties to the FBI-designated terrorist group founded by Meir Kahane, himself, the Jewish Defense League?
admin | June 16, 2021
Thirty-fiveyears in the making, theCongregation Children of Israels Sisterhood recently released their new cookbook, Eat & Be Satisfied,a 350-pagecelebration ofNortheast Georgias vibrant Jewish and Southern culinary heritage.
admin | June 16, 2021
A Jewish student group at Cal Poly opened it's new pavilion as a way to celebrate graduates and future students. SLO Hillel dedicated the new space, designed by students and community members, to the Jewish community on Cal Poly's campus with a graduation ceremony. The new Makom Hillel gathering space, is located at the JCC Federation grounds at Laureate Lane and will serve as a central meeting point for Jewish students throughout the Central Coast
admin | June 16, 2021
"On Monday, I asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken about ongoing International Criminal Court investigations," Omar said in a statement. "To be clear: the conversation was about accountability for specific incidents regarding those ICC cases, not a moral comparison between Hamas and the Taliban and the U.S. and Israel
admin | June 16, 2021
Two Jewish mental health professionals at Stanfords on-campus counseling clinic have filed workplace discrimination complaints after what they call severe and persistent anti-Jewish harassment from colleagues. Dr
admin | June 16, 2021
Irving Howe famously theorized that American Jewish literature would decline as the immigrant experience that informed so much of it became consigned to the distant past.
admin | June 3, 2021
In the first decade of the 1900s, Eastern European immigrants who headed west faced restrictive housing covenants that barred many Jews from relocating in certain areas. In Los Angeles by the 1920s, about 90% of housing stock was governed by restrictive racial housing covenants. But Boyle Heights was one of the few neighborhoods that did not have the covenants.
admin | June 3, 2021
Rabbi Adar, is it dangerous to wear my Jewish star? In 12 years of teaching Introduction to the Jewish Experience through HaMaqom|The Place in the San Francisco Bay Area, no student ever asked me that question in those words.
admin | June 3, 2021
JTA When Eric Lander was sworn in Wednesday as the White Houses first-ever Cabinet-level science adviser, the geneticist also made Jewish history by taking his oath of office on a 500-year-old copy of a Jewish text filled with ethical precepts. Lander chose a 1492 edition of Pirkei Avot from the Library of Congress holdings after searching for a swearing-in volume that reflected his Jewish and professional values, he told Vice President Kamala Harris at the ceremony.
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