Hadassah lobbies Congress on antisemitism, Middle Eastern and women’s issues

“Hadassah has never sat on the sidelines and we are not going to do so at this pivotal moment,” said Hadassah National President Carol Ann Schwartz. “We are bringing the combined strength of nearly 300,000 members, donors and supporters directly to Congress to stand firm against antisemitism, to uphold the strategic US-Israel alliance and to safeguard the health and well-being of women everywhere.” [Press Release]

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CyberWell alerts social media administrators to spike in antisemitic postings

Monitoring English, Arabic and Farsi-language content, CyberWell identified several antisemitic narratives and trending content glorifying violence against Jews and celebrating attacks on Israeli civilians. [Press Release]

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Review: Helene Schjerfbeck retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

In Fête juive (1883)—also titled Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles)—Schjerfbeck depicts a moment of Jewish ritual dwelling emptied of festivity. An older man sits beside a young girl on a thin, red-edged mattress placed directly on the floor of the sukkah, the temporary shelter mandated by the festival. [Sam Ben-Meir]

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Playing Shylock, playing Saul Rubinek: It’s all in the telling

Rubinek’s scheduled performance on March 25 at The Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan should prove memorable. He will read from All in the Telling; show clips from his documentary film, So Many Miracles, about his 1986 trip with his parents to Poland to reunite with the farmers who hid them for two and a half years during the Holocaust; and hold a discussion with Professor Annette Insdorf, who teaches film at Columbia. [Susie Rosenbluth)

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Why are the media and mob so anti-Israel? 

That there is a huge bias against Israel is beyond argument. It is backed by data but also obvious: a Western style democracy with full rule of law is painted as a “genocide” state by the great uneducated, and often unwashed, from the campus to street demos, to riots and in all types of media. [David Anderson]

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The global resurgence of the ‘Jewish Question’

After World War II, it seemed that an answer to the Jewish question had been found: the creation of the State of Israel and the positive attitude of Western civilization towards the Jewish people in its diaspora. [Alex Gordon]

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‘The Optimist’: Troubled teenager brings out Holocaust survivor’s hidden story

An independent film, The Optimist, opens on Wednesday, March 11, in over 700 theaters nationwide.  It tells the story of Theresienstadt-and- Auschwitz survivor Herbert Heller (Stephen Lang) recounting his Holocaust experiences after 60 years of keeping silent. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Shakespeare, Hasidic sage Zusya, shared belief in unique purpose of each human being

Shakespeare and Rabbi Zusya lived more than a century apart and in very different worlds, yet together they illuminate a deeply Jewish idea: tafkid, the belief that each soul enters the world with a particular purpose. [Betzy Lynch]

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