admin | September 11, 2022
NUR-SULTAN- The seventh Congress of World and Traditional Religious Leaders, scheduled for Sept. 14 15, will hold a special session devoted to the social status of women for the first time in the congresss 20-year history, reported the congresss press service on Sept
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admin | September 6, 2022
Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, the two creators behind the new FX limited series The Patient, talked in a new interview about how their psychological thriller addresses a father-son conflict that stems out of their differences in Judaism and trauma as it relates to the Holocaust. In the series The Patient, which premiered onHulu on Tuesday, actor Steve Carell plays a Jewish psychologist named Dr
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admin | September 6, 2022
Honoring women-focused narratives with thoughts and recipes. Kenden Alfond is an American in Paris whos spent her adult life working for NGOs and the United Nations from India and Afghanistan to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Switzerland, and Cambodia.
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admin | September 6, 2022
How did a Jewish sect start singing local devotional songs? Drop by for a lecture-performance to learn about the revival of the syncretic tradition The clink of hand cymbals, beats of dholak and singers caught in a trance come to mind when we think of kirtans, be it to invoke the blessings of Sherawali Mata or Sai Baba. But in the 1880s, long after the ship-wrecked Bene Israelis had put down roots in the Konkan soil, kirtans were giving voice to the stories of creation, Noah, Abraham and Moses.
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admin | September 6, 2022
Ourworld besieged by war and conflict desperately needs the message of peaceand tolerance. Wars take lives, destroy schools and homes, and devastate fields and factories
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admin | September 6, 2022
Until 1976, the only identity the black Jews residing in the West African nation of Ghana had was that they were a special breed of people who migrated to their present settlement about 300 years ago. The Tirefeth Israel community in Ghanas farming settlementof Sefwi Wiaso believe they descended from one of the lost tribes of Israel. Though the black Jew community is unable to back with documentary proof which of the 12 tribes of Israel they belong to, oral tradition handed over from generation to generation had transmitted knowledge of the observation of Jewish customs with regard to the observance of Shabbat, circumcision of their newborns, refraining from eating pork and abiding by the rituals of purity.
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admin | September 2, 2022
Many years ago, I was asked to speak, on short notice, at a symposium in Geneva about the future of the global climate refugee crises. It was an important opportunity but attending meant I was going to miss my 11-year-old daughter Elianas choir concert, the one for which she had been rehearsing for months. I was crushed, but no compromise was possible Id be on the other side of the globe for every performance
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admin | September 2, 2022
The beginning of Bereshit teaches us a very powerful lesson: And God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
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admin | September 2, 2022
FENSTER: Frankly, I think the job of Judaism is to change the world. We've got to figure out how and who we will work with to do this.
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admin | September 2, 2022
Chabad of Ulster County held their annual Empowerment Breakfast on Sunday, August 28, with honors going to local Kingston elected officials, public servants and residents, including a 101-year-old who recently became a bar mitzvah. The Jewish Press was the only news outlet covering the event. When introducing the Town of Ulster supervisor, Chabad director Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Hecht provided his take on politics.
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