The decision by a Mississippi school district board to pull Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird from approved school reading lists has drawn widespread criticism. The 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Alabama native Harper Lee explores racism and injustice in a small town, however according to Kenny Holoway, the vice president of the Biloxi […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USAThe Jewish population of Ireland rose by 573 people to 2,557 since 2011, according to the 2016 census, the Irish Times reported on Friday. Some 56 percent of the Jews of Ireland, or 1,439, live in Dublin. Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up
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InternationalA sukkah erected on the campus of Kansas State University was damaged by severe weather and not vandalism as first reported. The sukkah was found bent, destroyed and wrapped around a car on the night of October 6. It was initially believed that the sukkah had been vandalized, since its pieces were found around the
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USANEW YORK — To sit on a polished wooden pew in the upstairs sanctuary of the Eldridge Street Synagogue is to take a seat alongside history. Built in 1887, the synagogue, which is also a museum, is one of 180 Orthodox houses of worship featured in Michael Weinstein’s new book “ Ten Times Chai: 180
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Jewish Religion, USANoy Sheetrit’s conversion to Islam on the Temple Mount to accommodate her partner Alla Abu Sajir incensed the Israeli public and sparked an Internet storm. The Lehava anti-assimilation organization entered the picture in vigorous protest and led Noy to return to the fold of Judaism, at least temporarily. Today the two live together, but they
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Middle EastZionist Union chairman Avi Gabbay declared on Saturday that he would not sit in the same coalition as the Arab Joint List party. “We will not sit with them, unequivocally. I do not see anything that connects us to them,” Gabbay said at a cultural event in Be’er Sheva. He added, however, that his party
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Middle EastHagi Ben Artzi. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel) BEIT El, West Bank — With an indictment against his sister looming over her misuse of public funds, the brother of Sara Netanyahu is not shying away from criticizing her and her prime minister husband over what is seen as their less-than-modest lifestyle. Sipping coffee in the West
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Middle EastThe Conference of European Rabbis (CER) welcomed the victory of Sebastian Kurz, the head of the center-right Austrian People”s Party, in the Austrian national elections Sunday, but expressed concerns over the rise of a far-right party. CER President Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt expressed his satisfaction that Kurz would be the next chancellor of Austria, but addressed
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InternationalRabbi Benjamin Papermaster and his eight sons and first grandson in Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1908. (The Jewish Museum of the American West) After Kristallnacht and the Anschluss, Felix and Margarethe Steiner fled their native Vienna for the warm embrace of a decidedly chillier destination: Fargo, North Dakota. The Jewish couple crossed the Atlantic Ocean
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USAThe United States’ National Portrait Gallery has announced that two up-and-coming African-American artists, Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, have been selected to paint the official portraits of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. The Smithsonian Institution, parent organization of the National Portrait Gallery, said Friday that President Obama had specifically requested to
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USAAn activist against fascism who sued a Ukrainian municipality for naming a street for a Nazi SS officer has come under a campaign of intimidation, he said. Mikhail Voroniak, a Red Army veteran, in summer sued the western municipality of Kalush near Lviv for deciding to name a street for Dmytro Paliiv, a commander of
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InternationalSteve Bannon has a message for “the good folks at Vanity Fair”, stating Donald Trump will “not only finish his term” but gain a landslide 400 electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election. Speaking at the controversial Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit, Bannon hit back at a report from Vanity Fair that suggested he
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USAA Vatican court convicted Saturday the former head of the pope’s children’s hospital for diverting funds to the costly renovation of a top cardinal’s luxury apartment. Giuseppe Profiti, the former president of the Vatican-run Bambino Gesu Pediatric Hospital Foundation, was given a one-year suspended prison sentence for “abuse of power” over diverting 422,000 euros ($500,000)
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InternationalReince Priebus, President Trump’s former chief of staff, was interviewed Friday by members of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team of investigators as part of the Justice Department’s sprawling probe centered around last year’s election, according to his attorney. “Mr. Priebus was voluntarily interviewed by Special Counsel Mueller’s team today,” William Burck, a lawyer for Mr.
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