Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By admin on November 19, 2022

EXCLUSIVE: Robin Weigert and Lior Ashkenazi have been cast in series regular roles on the Hulu Limited SeriesWe Were The Lucky Ones that stars Joey King.

Robin will star as Nechuma, theKurcmatriarch who is the beating heart and center of the family. She is a proud and capable business owner.

Lior will star as Sol, the sage and beloved patriarch of the Kurc family. Sol has great warmth and determination and strives toremain level-headeddespite the growing hardships his family faces.

Based on Georgia Hunters New York Times Bestseller We were the Lucky Ones, the limited series is inspired by the true story of a Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, yet determined to survive and reunite. Deadline revealed exclusively in April that King joined the project.

The limited series is executive produced and written by Erica Lipez (Julia, The Morning Show), who also serves as showrunner. Thomas Kail (Fosse/Verdon) directs and executive produces along with Jennifer Todd who will also executive produce for Old 320 Sycamore. Adam Milch will executive produce and Hunter will co-executive produce. The Hulu series is a production of 20th Television, a part of Disney Television Studios.

Weigert is best known for her roles in Deadwood, Sons of Anarchy, and Big Little Lies. Other TV credits include the AMC series Dietland, as well as Hulus Castle Rock. Most recently she can be seen in the Paramount horror/thriller Smile. Shes repped by Marc Hamou and JB Roberts at Thruline Entertainment, and Lisa Lieberman at Innovative Artists.

Ashkenazi starred in Israels original version of In Treatment, which was later adapted in the United States by HBO. He also appeared in HBOs Our Boys and Valley of Tears, and can currently be seen on Netflixs Hit & Run opposite Lior Raz and Sanaa Lathan.Hes repped by Black Bear Management.

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Hakeem Jeffries likely to succeed Pelosi, will be a leader for Indian American diaspora: says Congressman Krishnamoorthi  ThePrint

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Rabbi Lister was born in 1969, and grew up in Manchester where he learned for a year in the Sha'arei Torah Yeshiva before reading French at London University. He graduated with first class honours, before returning to Sha'arei Torah. Rabbi Lister then moved to Israel where he studied in the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem and attained semichah (rabbinic ordination) through the Ohr LaGolah diaspora training programme at Ohr Sameach in Jerusalem. Rabbi Lister returned to England in 1997 with his young family and took up the post of Rabbi in Reading for three years, then served as Rabbi of Muswell Hill Synagogue for seven years.

During this time, Rabbi Lister also qualified as a primary school teacher, specialising in Early Years education.In 2011 Rabbi Lister attained an MA from London University in Jewish Education and his book, Intergalactic Judaism, was published by Urim Publications. He was also appointed honorary principal of Sinai School in Kenton.

In 2013 Rabbi Lister left his role in Sinai School to serve as honorary principal in Rosh Pinah School in Edgware. Since arriving in Edgware, Rabbi Lister has introduced a number of new successful initiatives to the community: the annual Holocaust Memorial Day event run in conjunction with local schools, a popular pre-batmitzvah and barmitzvah Cheder course, the winter Saturday Night activity programme for young families, and the popular monthly Dinner With Dad learning and dinner programme for Dads and children on Wednesday nights.

Rabbi Lister is passionate about sharing the wonderful Jewish heritage with young and old alike, through study, shul services and fun events. He plays the violin and guitar, and enjoys reading about space exploration and quantum physics.

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Posted By admin on November 11, 2022

1. New Jersey man accused of sending online threats to attack a synagogue and Jewish people, federal prosecutor says  CNN
2. New Jersey Man Arrested in Connection With Threat to Synagogues  The New York Times
3. Teen Arrested for Synagogue Threats Wanted to Curb Stomp LGBTQ People: FBI  VICE
4. Prosecutors Charge New Jersey Teen Whose Islamist Manifesto Threatened Synagogue Attack  Jewish Exponent
5. New Jersey Man Arrested Over Synagogue Threat  The Wall Street Journal
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Israel and Lebanon sign US-brokered maritime boundaries deal

By Ron Kampeas

(JTA) After years of negotiation and military posturing, Israel and Lebanon signed a U.S.-brokered agreement that establishes maritime boundaries between the countries, allowing each to explore for fossil fuels unthreatened by the prospect of...

By Jonathan S. Tobin

(JNS) The saga of Kanye Wests antisemitism is not without irony. Even after he had engendered controversy by engaging in anti-Jewish rants, West, who now calls himself Ye, boasted that his status as a rap music star and fashion mogul...

By Clifford D. May

(JNS) Vladimir Putin is slaughtering Ukrainian men, women and children. Xi Jinping is committing genocide against the Muslims of East Turkistan. Ali Khamenei is murdering Iranian girls for wearing their hijabs in what he considers a provocative...

By Jonathan Feldstein

Last week, Jews around the world read the Torah portion about Noah (Genesis 6:9-10). Noah is fascinating. God doesnt say he was a great guy. What happens after the ark comes to rest, after the floodwaters subside, planting a vineyard and getting...

By Dr. Eric R. Mandel

(JNS) This month, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong reversed the previous governments decision to recognize western Jerusalem as Israels capital. The question that should be asked is why that recognition was controversial at all. No...

By Ruthie Blum

(JNS) Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli, the head of Israels falsely dubbed center left Labor Party, doesnt even bother these days to temper the radicalism that makes her indistinguishable from Meretz leader Zahava Gal-On. This...

Dear Editor: I was saddened to read of Tess death. She was a very special lady a true Eishet Chayil. The Orlando Jewish community benefited greatly and will continue to benefit greatly for many future decades from Tesss commitment and...

By Marnie Winston Macauley, Aish Hatorah Resources

Jews have played a major part in inventing, creating, and running companies. Here are three early industry game-changers. Levi Strauss: Jeans from Jewish Genes Bavarian immigrant to the U.S. Levi...

By Andrew Lapin

(JTA) - As rap star Kanye West continually refuses to back down from his antisemitic rants, some of the many institutions he has ties with have begun to jump ship. The fashion tastemakers Balenciaga...

By Richard Levy

Hatred of Jews has been a feature of world history for centuries. But only in the late 19th century did a new specific word emerge to describe it. What prompted the coining of the neologism antisemitism was the perception of an altered...

By Caleb Guedes Reed

(JTA) Two weeks ago, Ariel Elias, then a little-known standup comedian performing at a club in New Jersey, had a beer thrown at her head from a group of Trump-supporting hecklers who discovered she voted for Joe Biden. After the beer smashed...

After reconciling with someone is a good time to sit back and reflect. The journey to forgiveness has shown what doesn't work, but you still may not know what could work. For example, what could be...

David Shif, 84, Bradenton, Florida died Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, at Hunters Creek Nursing and Rehab Center following a brief illness. Shif was born Aug. 20, 1939, in Belarus to the late Shmuel and Rachel (Rodinski) Shif and moved to Florida in 1978...

Stanley J. Becker, 96, died Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, at his Lake Mary home following a brief illness. Becker was born March 28, 1926, in Jacksonville, Florida, and he was a life long resident of the Orlando area. He was a World War II Army veteran...

Elaine Disler, 87, died Wednesday, Oct.19, 2022, at her Sanford home following a brief illness. Disler was born April 16, 1935, in Boston, Massachusetts, to the late Max and Evelyn (Sandler) Palman...

Tess Wise, 99, died Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022 at her Orlando home following a brief illness. Wise was born June 6, 1923, in Szydtowiec, Poland, and moved to the Orlando area in 1946 from Chattanooga,...

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Posted By admin on November 8, 2022

1. How antisemitic rhetoric is impacting the Jewish community  NPR
2. 5 Ways You Can Support The Jewish Community, Now & Forever  Her Campus
3. With Trump, Kanye West and Kyrie Irving remarks, Jewish communities fear rising hate  USA TODAY
4. How antisemitism is affecting Central Coast Jewish community  KSBW Monterey
5. Williams: Black, Jewish Americans have vested interest in fighting racism, anti-Semitism  Buffalo News
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The Khmer Rouge ruled a totalitarian state in which citizens had essentially no rights they abolished civil and political rights, private property, money, religious practices, minority languages, and foreign clothing. Citizens could be detained for the slightest offenses, and the government set up vast prisons where people were held, tortured, and executed. The most infamous of these prisons was known as S-21, located in the capital city of Phnom Penh, where accused traitors and their families were brought, photographed, tortured, and killed. Of the roughly 17,000 men, women, and children who were brought to S-21 there were only about a dozen survivors. There were mass graves throughout the country, areas that became known as killing fields.

The Khmer Rouge based their policies on the idea that citizens of Cambodia had become corrupted by outside influences, especially Vietnam and the capitalist West. The Khmer Rouge referred to people who supported their vision as pure people, and persecuted anyone they deemed impure. Within days of taking power, the regime killed thousands of military personnel and forcibly moved millions of people out of cities, killing anyone who refused or was too slow. They forced citizens into what they called reeducation schools, which were essentially places of state propaganda. The regime forced families to live communally with other people, in order to destroy the family structure. The Khmer Rouge targeted ethnic minorities, especially Chinese, Vietnamese, and Muslim Cham, of whom an estimated 80% were killed. In addition, anyone who was believed to be an intellectual was killed: doctors, lawyers, teachers, even people who wore glasses or knew a foreign language became targets. Specially targeted were the inhabitants of the areas close to the Vietnamese border.

On December 25, 1978 Vietnam invaded Cambodia. The Vietnamese sought to remove the Khmer Rouge from power. At first, survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime considered the Vietnamese to be liberators, but they were soon viewed as occupiers.

Vietnamese troops stayed in the country until 1989, with armed clashes between Vietnamese and Cambodians going on throughout the 1980s. A post-Pol Pot government with some democratic features, led by a reestablished monarchy, took over. Yet the Khmer Rouge did not disappear until much later, and continued to hold Cambodia's seat at the United Nations for twelve years. On October 23, 1991 the Comprehensive Cambodian Peace Agreement (commonly referred to as the Paris Peace Accords) was brokered by the United Nations, ending the twelve year civil war in Cambodia. Cambodia was temporarily governed by the National Council and the United Nations Transit Authority of Cambodia. In May 1993 the first free elections in more than twenty years were held. In January 2001 the Cambodian government established the Khmer Rouge Tribunal to try leadership of the Khmer Rouge for crimes against humanity. Trials began in 2009 but have led to only three convictions, including that of Kaing Guek Eav, the commander of the S21 prison, who was sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity. The vast majority of the perpetrators suffered no consequences for their actions.

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Posted By admin on November 6, 2022

About the IHRA non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism

The IHRA is the only intergovernmental organization mandated to focus solely on Holocaust-related issues, so with evidence that the scourge of antisemitism is once again on the rise, we resolved to take a leading role in combating it. But to begin to address the problem of antisemitism, there must be clarity about what antisemitism is.

The experts in the IHRAs Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial built international consensus around a non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism, which was then adopted by the Plenary. By doing so, the IHRA set an example of responsible conduct for other international fora and provided an important practical tool for its Member Countries.

The working definition has empowered many to address this rise in hate and discrimination at their national levels. Information on endorsement and adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism can be found here.

Countering antisemitism today also means countering Holocaust distortion. Explore the IHRA's Toolkit Against Holocaust Distortion to learn more and to find ways to get involved.

In the spirit of the Stockholm Declaration that states: With humanity still scarred by antisemitism and xenophobia the international community shares a solemn responsibility to fight those evils the committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial called the IHRA Plenary in Budapest 2015 to adopt the following working definition of antisemitism.On 26 May 2016, the Plenary in Bucharest decided to:

Adopt the following non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism:

Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.

To guide IHRA in its work, the following examples may serve as illustrations:Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic. Antisemitism frequently charges Jews with conspiring to harm humanity, and it is often used to blame Jews for why things go wrong. It is expressed in speech, writing, visual forms and action, and employs sinister stereotypes and negative character traits.Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to:

Antisemitic acts are criminal when they are so defined by law (for example, denial of the Holocaust or distribution of antisemitic materials in some countries).Criminal acts are antisemitic when the targets of attacks, whether they are people or property such as buildings, schools, places of worship and cemeteries are selected because they are, or are perceived to be, Jewish or linked to Jews.Antisemitic discrimination is the denial to Jews of opportunities or services available to others and is illegal in many countries.

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Posted By admin on November 6, 2022

Commemorative month in the United States

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (as of 2009[update], officially changed from Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month)[1] is observed in the United States during the month of May, and recognizes the contributions and influence of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States.[2]

The first Asians documented in the Americas arrived in 1587, when Filipinos landed in California;[3][4] from 1898 to 1946, the Philippines was an American possession.[5] The next group of Asians documented in what would be the United States were Indians in Jamestown, documented as early as 1635.[6] In 1778, the first Chinese to reach what would be the United States, arrived in Hawaii.[7] In 1788, the first Native Hawaiian arrived on the continental United States, in Oregon;[8] in 1900, Hawaii was annexed by the United States.[9][a] The next group of Asians documented in what would be the United States were Japanese, who arrived in Hawaii in 1806.[11] In 1884, the first Koreans arrived in the United States.[12] In 1898, Guam was ceded to the United States;[13] beginning in the 1900s, Chamorros began to migrate to California and Hawaii.[14][b] In 1904, what is now American Samoa was ceded to the United States;[16] beginning in the 1920s, Samoans began to migrate to Hawaii and the continental United States, with the first Samoans documented in Hawaii in 1920.[17] In 1912, the first Vietnamese was documented in the United States.[18]

A former congressional staffer in the 1970s, Jeanie Jew, first approached Representative Frank Horton with the idea of designating a month to recognize Asian Pacific Americans, following the bicentennial celebrations.[19] In June 1977 Representatives Horton, and Norman Y. Mineta, introduced a United States House of Representatives resolution to proclaim the first ten days of May as Asian-Pacific Heritage Week.[20][21] A similar bill was introduced in the Senate a month later by Daniel Inouye and Spark Matsunaga.[20][22]

The proposed resolutions sought that May be designated for two reasons. For on May 7, 1843, the first Japanese immigrant arrived in the United States.[23][24][25] More than two decades later, on May 10, 1869, the golden spike was driven into the First transcontinental railroad, which was completed using Chinese labor.[23][24][26]

President Jimmy Carter signed a joint resolution for the celebration on October 5, 1978.[20]

On May 1, 2009, President Barack Obama signed Proclamation 8369, recognizing the month of May as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.[1][27]

"A joint resolution authorizing the President to proclaim annually a week during the first 10 days in May as Pacific/Asian American Heritage Week." was text in House Joint Resolution 540; this resolution as well as Senate Joint Resolution 72 did not pass.[28] Ultimately, though, Rep. Horton's House Joint Resolution 1007 was passed by both the House and the Senate, and was signed by President Jimmy Carter on October 5, 1978, to become Public Law 95-419.[28] In 1990, George H. W. Bush signed a bill passed by Congress to extend Asian-American Heritage Week to a month;[29] May was officially designated as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month two years later.[23][28][30]

During Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, communities celebrate the achievements and contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans with community festivals, government-sponsored activities and educational activities for students.[31]

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1. Between Kanye and the Midterms, the Unsettling Stream of Antisemitism  The New York Times
2. Why Kanye Wests Anti-Semitism Matters  City Journal
3. Opinion | Kanye West, Louis Farrakhan and Anti-Semitism  The Wall Street Journal
4. Kanye West's Anti-Semitic, Controversial BehaviorHere's Everything He's Said In Recent Weeks  Forbes
5. No excuse for Kanye West's anti-semitism  Oswegonian
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