Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By richards on January 24, 2015

To submit items for this calendar, visit news-gazette.com/living and click "Add an event" under the miniature calendar on the page. You must be logged in, then fill in the appropriate fields and submit. Deadline is noon Tuesday before Friday publication.

Events

Schlarman Academy Showcase. 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at Schlarman Academy's North Campus, 2112 N. Vermilion St., Danville; and 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the South Campus, 1307 N. Walnut St., Danville. See the projects of grades 7-12 on Sunday and the projects of pre-kindergarten through grades 6 on Wednesday. Events kick off Catholic Schools Week, Jan. 25-31. Open to the public. Information: schlarmanacademy.com.

Annual Wesley Literary Tea. 2 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Wesley United Methodist Church, 1203 W. Green St., U. Presented by the church and the United Methodist Women. Tea and refreshments while hearing reviews of and participating in discussion about a variety of books that explore the topic of "The American Immigration Experience." Everyone is welcome. You do not have to have read the books to come and enjoy the reviews. 344-1120.

"Communing with Christ in a World of Noise" Half-day Retreat. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Feb. 7, First United Methodist Church, 210 W. Church St., C. Speaker: Peter Spychalla, assistant professor of New Testament and Spiritual Formation at Urbana Theological Seminary. Program starts at 9 a.m. Cost $5, includes continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m. Register by Feb. 4. Information: 356-9078, info@champaignfumc.org.

"A Night Of Love." 6 to 10 p.m. Feb. 7, Urbana Civic Center, 108 E. Water St. Guest speaker, the Rev. Dr. Ronald Baker Sr. Dinner will be served. Prizes for the "Couples Game," formerly known as the "Newlywed Game." Men should wear their best tux or suit and women should wear their best dress or evening gown. For adults only. Tickets $20. Deadline for tickets will be Jan. 31. Call New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church at 344-0440.

Fundraisers/bazaars/food

Catholic Charities' Tolono Food Pantry. 10 a.m. to noon every Friday and 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. every Monday (excluding holidays) at St. Patrick Catholic Church's east entrance; 212 E. Washington St., Tolono. Food distribution. Information: 689-1427.

Workshops/seminars/classes

Sunday Adult Education. Classes resume, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Sinai Temple, 3104 W. Windsor Road, C. Rabbi Alan will offer a series of courses in the North Pod. The next series of classes consist of an introduction to the Talmud. Information: 352-8140.

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Posted By richards on January 24, 2015

Rabbi Miriam Berger, London: We spend a huge part of the synagogues budget on security. Thats ludicrous. We do what every Jewish organisation does. Nobody is going to be the one to say, No, we shouldnt do that.

The guard opens the gate to the grounds of the Finchley Reform Synagogue on Fallow Lane and greets Rabbi Miriam Berger and her three-year-old son, Ben.

The guard is a permanent presence, typical of the kind of security that has long become the norm at Jewish institutions though since the Paris attacks armed police patrols can be seen occasionally in the Barnet borough.

We spend a huge part of the synagogues budget on security. Thats ludicrous. We do what every Jewish organisation does. Nobody is going to be the one to say, No, we shouldnt do that. I would love to be the rabbi who says I dont want to spend money like that, Berger says.

Last week, the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism reported that Britains 260,000 Jews 0.5 per cent of the population are feeling increasingly threatened in the wake of the Paris supermarket attack, and a general rise in anti-Semitic feeling in Britain.

Britain is at a tipping point: unless anti-Semitism is met with zero tolerance, it will continue to grow and British Jews may increasingly question their place in their own country, it warned.

However, the reality on the ground in north London is more complicated, and far more nuanced. The local police in Finchley have been in touch with the synagogue; so, too, has local Conservative, Mike Freer.

It is amazing that they are taking things so seriously but it also perpetuates the cycle of fear, says Berger, after her son skips into the kindergarten downstairs.

Its quite admirable and very kind but it all feeds the perception that the police must know something that we dont.

The home secretarys speech amplified the sense of threat, she says.

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Posted By richards on January 24, 2015

Hija mia mi querida (Traditional Sephardic Folk Song / Sefardische Romanze / Cittern, Darbuka)
A popular traditional Sephardic folk song. Some call these songs "Sephardic Romances" or "Romances Sefard". Instruments: - Darbuka - Cittern / Octave Mandol...

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Posted By richards on January 24, 2015

Kiryas Joel, New York, is a town of about 22,000 people. The village sits between New York City and Poughkeepsie.

Most of the residents are reportedly traditional Hasidic Jews who speak more Yiddish than English.

One of the former townspeople, Frimet Goldberger, claims that she wasn't allowed to drive because she is a woman.

Goldberger recently wrote on PRI.org that "women can't be jailed for driving like they can in Saudi Arabia. But driving is still forbidden. A woman who drives would risk being shunned, and her children expelled from the private Hasidic school. She could be excommunicated from the community."

Goldberger says that when she and her husband left Kiryas Joel to live a less-restrictive lifestyle in nearby Rockland County, her father told her mother, She will kill herself and her children.

Goldberger adds that she got her first driver's license at age 23.

The New York Times described Kiryas Joel in 2006: "A network of sidewalks twirl across the village, so the women, who do not drive, are able to walk to the clinic and supermarket. Baby strollers seem to be everywhere: in the lobbies of buildings, on sidewalks, outside the stores."

The article added that women in Kiryas Joel "are married soon after they graduate from high school, work until they give birth to their second child and then become stay-at-home mothers."

Sources: The New York Times, PRI.org/Image Credit: Daniel Case

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Women Arent Allowed To Drive In Kiryas Joel, New York

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Posted By simmons on January 23, 2015

Renegade Jewish Settlers Israeli settlers have been slowly nibbling away at Palestine #39;s West Bank territory for four decades. 300000 setllers now occupy outposts that range in size ...

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Posted By simmons on January 23, 2015

John Boehner faced a call from the Anti-Defamation League national director, Abraham Foxman, to rescind the invitation. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters The White House is growing more confident it can withstand efforts to frustrate its policy of nuclear talks with Iran, as a furore over the intervention of the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, appears to be encouraging wavering Democrats to rally around their president. In the first White House press conference since the Republican House speaker, John Boehner, sparked controversy by inviting Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress amid calls for a tougher approach to Iran, administration officials claimed there was support for their argument that planned legislation authorising new sanctions, if talks fail, would be counter-productive

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Democrats rally around Obama amid furore over Netanyahu Congress visit

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Posted By simmons on January 23, 2015

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Posted By simmons on January 23, 2015

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Posted By admin on January 23, 2015

B #39;nai B #39;rith International Responds to #SOTU2015 President Barack Obama #39;s State of the Union address merely provides a peek at the White House #39;s top priorities.

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Posted By simmons on January 23, 2015

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