By Juliet Moses AUCKLAND, New Zealand — On a recent Sunday morning, I enjoyed a sleep-in. The one day of the week there’s no school, work, sports, or synagogue to rush off to. Once I had emerged from my soporific state, I switched my phone on and found an unexpected message from a friend. Imagine
Tonge- lashing from a British anti- Semite Read More »
International, Jewish HistorySanctions against Burmese military welcomed American Jewish World Service welcomed the U.S. Government’s announcement Friday that it is imposing sanctions and visa restrictions on Burmese military leaders and divisions responsible for horrific violence against the Rohingya people in Burma,” said Robert Bank, President and CEO of AJWS. “Sanctioning the Burmese military for the atrocities against the Rohingya people
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International, Jewish History, USA
Hadassah Academic College graduates a diverse group of students Earlier this summer, almost 600 students graduated from the Jerusalem-based Hadassah Academic College (HAC), the institution in the heart of the city that boasts a diverse student population and high rate of job placements of students upon graduation. Over 2,000 spectators – including graduates, family, and friends – attended the ceremony
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Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — British Labour leader and potential British Prime Minister, Jeremy Corbyn, may claim amnesia about laying a wreath at the grave of Abu Jihad, but it is impossible to accept that this politician, so steeped in Hamas, Hezbollah, and the “armed resistance” to Israel, was ignorant of whose grave he paid
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Barry Shaw, Jewish History, Middle East
By Goldie Morgentaler LETHBRIDGE, Alberta, Canada — My mother’s best friend when she was growing up in Poland in the 1930s was Zenia Marcinkowska. Zenia would grow up to be an acclaimed novelist in Sweden under the name Zenia Larsson. My mother would also become a writer, the Yiddish novelist Chava Rosenfarb. So this is
Zenia and Chava: Two Lodz survivors – novelists Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish HistoryNorth American rabbis protest Israel’s law forbidding LGBTQ surrogacy Nearly 600 rabbis representing Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist Jewish communities from across the United States and Canada signed an open letter that calls on ultra-Orthodox rabbis in Israel to retract recent homophobic comments and asks the governing coalition of the Knesset to immediately reverse recent
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Steve Kramer YECHIAM, Israel — There’s no end to adventures in Israel, despite it’s relatively small size. The regions of the country are tremendously varied, from the 9,200-foot high Mt. Hermon, to the many valleys nestled between mountains and hills, to the hundreds of miles of beaches at sea level, to the Dead Sea,
Haganah learned an important lesson in Western Galilee Read More »
Jewish History, Middle East, Steve Kramer
Editor’s Note: This is the 22nd in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
Sisters are leaders in Auckland Jewish community Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion
The Cut Out Girl by Bart Van Es, Penguin Random House © 2018; 194 pages plus acknowledgments; $28. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Author Bart Van Es knew about Lien de Jong, the Jewish girl who was provided a home and a new identity with his grandparents during the time the Nazis occupied
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History
By Jerry Klinger MARIETTA, Georgia — It was reported by a member of the lynching party; Leo Frank met his death with unexpected composure. A Georgia court had found him guilty of the murder of 13-year old Mary Phagan. She was an employee at the National Pencil Factory Frank managed in Atlanta. Frank was a
Memorial for Leo Frank and all victims of lynching. Read More »
Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USA
Lawfare Project moves against Holocaust denial posts on Facebook The Lawfare Project filed takedown notices this week against Facebook posts denying the Holocaust and containing anti-Semitic material, successfully leading to several posts being removed or blocked by Facebook in a number of countries. The Lawfare Project’s action followed controversial comments last week by Facebook’s CEO,
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Benjamin Weinthal From InFocus BERLIN — To understand the plight of Jews in Germany, it worth considering a few outbreaks of contemporary anti-Semitism and the largely indifferent response to Jew-hatred from mainstream society. In early June, a Jewish teen named Jonathan was playing an Israeli song — “Tel Aviv,” sung by Omer Adam—in Berlin’s
Increasing peril for Jews in Germany Read More »
International, Jewish History
By Garry Fabian PRAGUE, Czech Republic –Next to my own 147-year-old St. Kilda Hebrew Congregation in Melbourne, Australia, the synagogue to which I am most attached is the Alt Neue Shule here in Prague. It is nearly 900 years old, My family arrived in Prague in September 1938 after that part of Czechoslovakia called Sudentland
Prague’s Alte-Neue Synagogue has memorable history Read More »
International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food
Story and photos by Marcia Tatz Wollner SAN DIEGO — Most people at Comic Con go to the Masquerade on the Saturday night of the five-night convention. But on Saturday evening from 8:30-9:30pm over 50 participants attended the program Lily. This shows their serious commitment to the comics industry, history, women in comics, and to
Comic-Con lauds Lily Renée as women’s trailblazer Read More »
Jewish History, Marcia Tatz Wollner, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA