By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization voted on 13th October against the very principles that it was created. UNESCO was founded in 1945 after World War Two to establish humanity’s moral and intellectual solidarity. It says it strives to build networks among nations to enable this
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — The Hebrew Free Burial Association has been burying indigent Jews in the New York area since 1888, and in recent years has been doing its interments in Staten Island. One intriguing aspect is that volunteers from synagogues,and yeshivas in the area and beyond attend the funerals to
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Jewish History, Joel H. CohenThe day before Yom Kippur, my mom and I wander down Flushing Avenue in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, looking for Cohn Live Poultry. We know we have the right place when we hear the clucking. A semi-trailer truck is parked outside the warehouse, piled high with cages, and crammed with chickens — chickens that
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Jewish Religion, USALOS ANGELES — With just minutes remaining before the beginning of the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur at sunset, a federal judge on Tuesday lifted a temporary restraining order that had banned the slaughter of chickens as part of an ancient atonement rite but allowed the lawsuit that triggered the order to go forward. United Poultry
LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) –Holocaust survivor Lou Dunst could have lived life consumed by anger and resentment after his horrific experiences during World War II. He had been left for dead in the Ebensee concentration camp in Austria when United States troops broke through the gates with a military tank. Soon after his liberation
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Jewish History, San Diego CountyBy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, Califoria –With the Judgment pending (perceived as a moral threshold by most Jews, a time for cleansing souls), Yom Kippur is really one of the rare times of the year when our spiritual community actual ponders evil straight on. Most of the year, we’re thinking about good works. We’re just
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Jewish ReligionRabbi Mendel Deitsch, a longtime Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in France and more recently in Israel, was brutally attacked at Zhitomir”s central train station early Friday morning. After the attack, Deitsch was found and transported to a local hospital. The motive for the attack remains unknown. Violent anti-Semitic attacks in Ukraine are rare, and there is no
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International, Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Yaakov Marks SAN DIEGO– The people are about to enter the land. After forty years of wandering and waiting, they have prepared themselves and built a close relationship with G-d. It is now time to enter the land and serve G-d through both the spiritual and physical aspects of man. Before they enter,
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Jewish ReligionKids from Newark club and Kushner day school inaugural visitors Mayor Ras Baraka, right, cuts the ceremonial ribbon with Manischewitz CEO David Sugarman, surrounded by children from the Boys and Girls Club of Newark and students from Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School. PHOTOS BY JOHANNA GINSBERG All decked out in their official touring gear, Mayor
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Seventy-five years later, Lazar Abramovitch finally had his bar mitzvah on Thursday, Oct. 6, at a special ceremony held at Jewish Family Service’s Jacobs Family Campus. Abramovitch, 88, had hoped to celebrate the advent of Jewish adulthood on his 13th birthday, but the German Nazi invasion of the
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyClose For a Palestinian insurgent supposedly determined to see Israel destroyed, Paul Hadweh looks remarkably like his fellow students at the University of California, Berkeley. I met the 22-year-old senior on the rooftop of a campus building, overlooking the expanse of San Francisco Bay, which glimmered in the pure light of late afternoon. He wore
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Jewish History, Middle East, USA“History has had its day in court and scored a crushing victory.” – The London Times, April 14, 2000 If there is anything Dr. Deborah Lipstadt affirms after being sued for libel by a Holocaust denier, it is that there is a vast difference between truth and opinion. The professor of modern Jewish history and
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – In the space of an afternoon, Tifereth Israel Synagogue developed an enthusiastic corps of some 40 shofar blowers ready to sound off during Yom Kippur services Oct. 11 and 12. It all started when Olga Worm, a former president of the Conservative congregation’s Sisterhood signed up to blow
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyNew year’s greetings poured in from around the world Sunday as Jews celebrated Rosh Hashanah — the beginning of the year 5777. President Barack Obama reflected on the “great privilege” of working with the Jewish community in his final Rosh Hashanah message as president. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president, also delivered Rosh Hashanah
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