admin | February 7, 2021
The fourth annual edition of an award for up-and-coming talent honored two artists with sterling credentials. On Saturday night, theLetterOne Rising Stars Jazz Award went to alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, from Philadelphia, Pa., and trumpeter Itamar Borochov, from Tel Aviv, Israel
admin | February 7, 2021
The family of Dr. Albert Bourla of Thessaloniki, Greece, before the war
admin | February 7, 2021
By Ilana Siyance On early Monday morning, police confirmed that an intruder stole six ceremonial crowns from an Orthodox synagogue in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn. As reported by the NY Post, police have video footage showing that at about 1 a.m.
admin | February 7, 2021
This year will mark the 365th anniversary of one of the most remarkable turning points in English history: the readmission of Jews to England. Early History of Jews in England A small number of Jews lived in England since Roman and Anglo-Saxon times, but they only became an organized community under William the Conqueror in 1066.
admin | February 1, 2021
Family is at the core of our food, and our story, Rabiyah wrote on Instagram.
admin | February 1, 2021
Albert Bourla, Chairman and CEO of US pharmaceuticals company Pfizer, shared the story of his parents, Jews from Thessaloniki, and how they managed to be among the 2,000 survivors from a community of 50,000 nearly eradicated by the Holocaust.
admin | February 1, 2021
In recent years, Jewish communal leaders and philanthropists have come to recognize that the American Jewish communitywidely presumed to be white-skinned and Ashkenazi (from Central and Eastern Europe)is far more diverse than they imagined. With the help of philanthropic partners, the Jews of Color Initiative, a Berkeley, California-based fund led by Executive Director Ilana Kaufman, is raising consciousness about underserved Jews of color and working to create a more inclusive and welcoming ecosystem in the organized American Jewish community. Though Jews of color have been undercounted in Jewish population studies for decades, data from several reputable studies point to the fact that Jews of color represent at least 12 to 15% of the American Jewish population
admin | February 1, 2021
Three weeks after the deadly storm of the Capitol, a terrorism bulletin from the Department of Homeland Security shows the country remains on high alert.
admin | February 1, 2021
The United Nations designated 27 January as the annual International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. The date marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the allied powers in 1945. This day is also designated in Greece as Remembrance Day of the Greek Jewish Martyrs and Heroes of the Holocaust
admin | January 20, 2021
The band made a quick splash but within a few years had dissolved, leaving only two albums from its heyday, New York Dolls (1973) and the prophetically titled Too Much Too Soon (1974, the title borrowed from the autobiography of the actress Diana Barrymore). It produced no radio-friendly hits, but its fame grew after the fact. As Mr
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