admin | May 25, 2021
Led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), in the House, and Bernie Sanders (D-VT), in the Senate, progressives in the United States are moving to block a $375 million precision-guided munitionsJoint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs) sale to Jerusalem. The Washington Post broke the story that Congress had been notified of the sale, on May 5. The deadline for the pols to slash the sale, as a sanction, is up May 20
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admin | May 8, 2021
From its start in 1906, A Bintel Brief was a pillar of the Forward, helping generations of Jewish immigrants learn how to be American. Now our columnists are helping people navigate the complexities of being Jewish in 2020. Send questions to bintel@forward.com
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admin | May 8, 2021
Jewish Journal-Massachusetts via JTA Its been nearly a decade since Phillip Weiner last lived in Sarajevo, where he served as an international war crimes judge. But Weiner has remained in touch with the Bosnian Jews he met there, and when he heard about their plight during the COVID-19 pandemic, he knew he had to do something.
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admin | May 8, 2021
To measure was to apprehend and be made accountable, and nowhere was this more resonant than in the identification and classification of criminals. Doris Abravaya stood just over five feet tall and weighed less than 100 pounds when she graduated from Manhattan Technical High School in 1933. Her time there was documented on a single oversized card, preprinted with basic data entry fields school attendance logged in pencil, family facts registered in ink alongside cryptic acronyms and earnest equations, matriculation dates, and at least seven different addresses.
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admin | May 8, 2021
Matt Baron/Shutterstock Alber Elbaz in 2016 - Matt Baron/Shutterstock Alber Elbaz, who has died of Covid-19 aged 59, was the affable creative director of Lanvin from 2001 to 2015, transforming one of the oldest fashion houses in France into one of the 21st centurys most exciting luxury labels, defined by classic cuts and lush fabrics, offset by striking costume jewellery and a romantic, off-kilter aesthetic. Elbaz created the gold dress worn by Meryl Streep when she accepted her Oscar for Best Actress in 2012 for The Iron Lady, while Kate Moss wore an Elbaz dress on her first night out after giving birth to her daughter, Lila Grace, and Tilda Swinton wore an Elbaz black bias-cut skirt and fawn chiffon blouse at the 2009 Oscars ceremony. Elbazs creations for Lanvin came with astronomical price tags (2,000 to 6,000 for an evening dress) but his designs were always practical, easy to wear and highly desirable
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admin | March 10, 2021
Tender red cabbage and golden sauted onions make a savory bed for meatballs drizzled with tahini sauce in this Shabbat dinner dish that mixes Jewish culinary traditions. Cabbage has been cultivated since ancient times. Several of todays most popular varieties (including red cabbage) were developed in medieval Germany.
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admin | March 10, 2021
Twenty years ago, Marjorie Sandor chanced upon a performance of 15th-century music attributed to Spanish Jews who fled the Inquisition. She was instantly captivated by the melodies, which sounded familiar though shed never heard them before. The experience was so powerful, she told The Times of Israel, that it propelled her on a nearly two-decade journey resulting in her debut novel, The Secret Music at Tordesillas.
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admin | March 10, 2021
Dr. Fohrman also suggested that singing may serve as a diversion.
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admin | March 10, 2021
Just before the American Revolution, a woman whose name I may never know disembarked a ship in the harbour of Charleston, South Carolina, destined for a rice field. She was a member of the Mende people of Sierra Leone
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admin | March 10, 2021
One of the most expensive Israeli series ever made lands in Australia this week on Foxtel*, a gritty war drama born out of a national trauma. But the series singularly focused story misses the opportunity to look at a conflict from the myriad perspectives which drove a consequential battle in global history
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