By Donald H. Harrison JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, California – The story is told on this national park’s website that Mormon travelers gave the Joshua Tree its name: “Legend has it that these pioneers named the tree after the biblical figure, Joshua, seeing the limbs of the tree as outstretched in supplication, guiding the […]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USAMore than 70 years after World War II ended, 45 Holocaust survivors in Israel finally got a chance to celebrate their bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies for the first time yesterday, Monday morning, at the Western Wall, Judaism”s holiest site. The survivors reached bar or bat mitzvah age during the war or immediately afterwards, but
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastRacist and pro-Nazi posters were discovered over the weekend at the University of British Columbia (UBC), local radio station CKNW reported. The posters were discovered at the school”s War Memorial Gym on Saturday. The gym is the site of UBC”s annual Remembrance Day events, and students and staff were scheduled to gather there for ceremonies.
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International, Jewish HistoryEight decades ago, Jewish archivists facing death in the Warsaw Ghetto hid a trove of documents they hoped would bear testimony to the sufferings of the Holocaust. Now part of the unparallelled archive has gone on display in its first permanent exhibition at the Polish capital’s Jewish Historical Institute. “This is the greatest Jewish treasure
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International, Jewish HistoryBoris Neshderman, a 90-year-old Jew, was circumcised at the Menorah clinic in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. The veteran rabbi of the city and Chabad emissary, Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, told Arutz Sheva that the man is in good condition and is recovering from the operation. The brit milah was carried out by the chief mohel of Ukraine, Rabbi
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International, Jewish ReligionThe Breslov hassidim who support the Israeli initiative to relocate the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov to Israel are renewing an advertising campaign calling to bring the Breslov leader’s remains to Israel. As part of the campaign, the hassidim have produced a shirt with the message: “Let my rabbi go” above the portrait of
Pavel Filip, the Prime Minister of Moldova, on Sunday visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The visit was part of Filip’s trip to Israel, and he was accompanied by a convoy of security guards, Moldovan and Israeli intelligence officials, and a delegation of government officials and other public figures. At the Western Wall, Filip met
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Eric Cortellessa WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump will host a White House Hanukkah party on December 7, an administration official confirmed to The Times of Israel on Sunday. Maggie Haberman of The New York Times broke the news on Twitter that invitations had been extended for the affair. This year’s event will mark
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Jewish Religion, USAThe heir to the British throne blamed Jewish immigration to Israel for turmoil in the Middle East, and called on the US to confront the “Jewish lobby”, The Daily Mail reported Sunday. Charles, Prince of Wales, the present heir apparent to the crown, blamed Jewish immigration to Israel for Middle Eastern turmoil, writing to a
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By Jerry Klinger LONDON, England — The Royal Albert Hall in London is a magnificent concert and arts venue. The foundation stone of the great hall, capable of seating over 5,700, was laid by Queen Victoria in 1867. The Royal Albert Hall was built upon the land and home of William Wilberforce. Wilberforce, an
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International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Middle EastAn Indonesian museum that allowed visitors to take selfies with a life-size wax sculpture of Hitler against a backdrop of Auschwitz concentration camp has removed the exhibit following international outrage, the manager said Saturday. De ARCA Statue Art Museum in the Javanese city of Jogjakarta drew swift condemnation from rights groups after details of the
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Rich Tenorio As Americans give thanks to their military veterans, a unique Torah scroll aboard the US Navy’s newest aircraft carrier will honor one veteran in particular — and it’s the centerpiece in remembering 100 years of outreach efforts to Jewish servicemembers. On November 29, in Norfolk, Virginia, the JCC Association of North America
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Jewish History, USA35,000 Jews spent Shabbat (Sabbath) in Hevron, commemorating the Torah reading this Sabbath which relates how the Patriarch Avraham bought Me’arat Hamachpela (the Cave of the Patriarchs) from Ephron the Hittite for 400 coins. The streets of Kiryat Arba and Hevron filled with tents and portable caravans, and over 3,000 Jews enjoyed Shabbat meals at
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastVeteran actor John Hillerman who starred on 1980s detective show “Magnum, P.I.” and played stuffed-shirt Higgins to Tom Selleck’s freewheeling detective Thomas Magnum, died of natural causes at the age of 84 Thursday at his home in Houston, Texas, his nephew Chris Tritico confirmed the news. Hillerman had been best known for his Emmy Award-winning
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