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ADL, AEN decry American Studies Association’s anti-Zionist conference agenda

Sessions titled “Dezionizing the U.S. University,” “Zionism Is Racism: Introducing the Critical Zionism Studies Syllabus,” “Against Zionist and White Nationalist Attacks on the Academy,” and “Resisting Zionism: Anticolonial Feminist Pedagogy and Practice” are particularly troubling. Collectively, they portray Zionism as racist, dangerous, or an ideology to be dismantled, with little apparent opportunity for competing perspectives. (Press Release)

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Antisemitism, Israel, Jewish History, Press Release, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Today’s Jewish birthday: Gummo Marx

Gummo Marx (October 23, 1892 – April 21, 1977) was an American vaudeville performer, theatrical agent and businessman. He was the fourth-born of the five Marx Brothers. Born in Manhattan, he worked with his brothers on the vaudeville circuit, leaving the act when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1918 during World War I and replaced by his brother Zeppo. [Wikipedia]

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Misery loves Lamplighters company

The celebrated author has written a series of books about a heroine, Misery Chastain.  Though the novels have brought him success and acclaim, he is eager to write something fresh, a complete departure from his 19th-century epic. Leaving the Victorian era behind, Sheldon writes a novel about life in Manhattan, filled with obscenities and graphic descriptions of New Yorkers. (Eva Trieger)

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AJC leadership meets in the Vatican with Pope Leo

During the papal audience, the delegation presented Pope Leo with Honoring a Sacred Relationship, artwork commissioned by AJC and created by Rabbi Matthew Berkowitz, Izzy Pludwinski, and Yair Medina in Jerusalem. The piece depicts a powerful excerpt from Nostra Aetate—the 1965 Vatican declaration that revolutionized Catholic-Jewish relations by rejecting antisemitism, affirming Judaism’s eternal covenant with God, and building new bridges of understanding—in both the original Latin and the official Hebrew translation… (Press Release)

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Examples of the Jewish Folk Song Society’s output to be played Oct. 29 at the JCC

Engel’s music and that of five of his fellow composers in the Jewish Folk Song Society (JFSS) will be heard, as well as the music of one of the Russian teachers who inspired the group, Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov. In addition, we will hear the music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a Holocaust-era Polish-born Jewish composer, who settled in the Soviet Union. [Eileen Wingard]

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Shanda: Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers, American photographer, European diplomats

On Friday, a 63-year-old Boston-born woman who is a  Washington Post photographer was severely beaten by settlers. The next day, settlers assaulted two Arabs in another village in front of diplomats visiting from France, Poland, and Belgium. (Bruce S. Tocker)

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Israeli police briefly arrest 90 international olive harvesters

“Harvesting olives is not a crime. Detaining peaceful volunteers who are helping Palestinian farmers access their own land is an outrageous misuse of Israel’s authority in the West Bank. These detentions are part of a system whose purpose is to make life harder for Palestinians in the West Bank to stay on their land, to make a living, and simply live….” (Press Release)

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Holocaust exhibit opens at San Diego Central Library. It’s the forerunner of a permanent museum at Liberty Station

The opening of the exhibit, presented by Remember Us the Holocaust, drew Holocaust survivors, community leaders, elected officials and supporters who gathered to honor those who perished, recognize survivors and celebrate progress toward establishing a permanent home for Holocaust education in San Diego. (Cailin Acosta)

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Havis’ novel on Oct. 7th offers no definitive insights

Havis is attentive to the ways earlier political commitments become inadequate once concrete violence has occurred. Several characters discover that language they once used without much cost now requires defense or revision. The novel records these moments of discomfort—awkward family calls, a lecturer choosing silence, a podcaster recalibrating tone—but does not press very hard on what the discomfort produces. (Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel0

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