Christmas 2023: Thousands queue up at 121-year-old iconic Jewish bakery shop in Kolkata

Published by ANI News Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], December 25 (ANI): At least 1,000 people queued up to buy Christmas cakes at the 121-year-old iconic Jewish bakery shop ‘Nahoum & Sons’ in New Market Kolkata on Monday. One of the most popular places in Kolkata for Christmas cakes, Nahoum & Sons, was established in 1902 […]

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Travel and Food

NYC synagogues receive disturbing hoax bomb threats, NYPD says

Published by New York Daily News NEW YORK — The NYPD is investigating disturbing bomb threats emailed to synagogues throughout the city on Christmas Eve Day, though the messages appear to be a hoax, cops said Sunday. Police described the threat as “not credible” but added, “we will continue to deploy resources to houses of

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Antisemitism

Pope blasts Israel-Hamas conflict and says Jesus has been ‘rejected’ in favour of war

Published by GB News Pope Francis has slammed the Israel-Hamas conflict for drowning out Jesus’ message of peace with its “futile logic of war”. Speaking during his Midnight Mass sermon, the pope offered his solidarity with the people in the Middle East. Addressing 6,500 people inside St Peter’s Basilica, he said: “Our hearts are in

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International

Remembering Sandy Lakoff, Founder of UCSD’s Political Science Department

Sandy fostered long-lasting connections to friends around the world such as Jacob Goldberg, who had served as an adviser to Israel’s prime minister, Ehud Barak. That 40-year friendship began when the Lakoffs hosted Goldberg’s lecture at their home on behalf of American Professors for Peace in the Middle East. [Eileen Wingard]

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Javier Guerrero: Growing and Distributing Food in Accordance with Jewish Ethical Teachings at Coastal Roots Farm

After four years heading Coastal Roots Farm, first as executive director, and later as the President and CEO of the independent, nonprofit farm, Guerrero can sling around a lot of Hebrew, some of which may be unfamiliar to non-Hebrew speaking American Jews. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Chicago actor Mike Nussbaum dies at 99, the oldest working actor in the country

Published by Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — Mike Nussbaum, acknowledged by the Actor’s Equity union as the oldest professional actor in America and a dynamic and yet steadying influence in Chicago theater for decades, died Saturday at home at the age of 99. He was days short of his 100th birthday. And until his final week,

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Obituaries & memorials

Demographic Study Underscores Need for Hebrew Free Loan of San Diego

Today, HFLSD offers loans for virtually every path of life, from IVF, Surrogacy and Adoption when starting a family, to helping with Education from preschool through college, to Emergency Loans, to Healthcare loans for both mental and physical ailments, to helping someone bury a loved one. We are there every step of the way! [Graeme Gabriel]

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Opinion: How U.S. Universities Became Bastions of Antisemitism

What is not spoken about, and perhaps not publicized very much, is how universities in the 1970s, in a mad rush to balance their debt, began to take in very large endowments and contributions from the oil-rich Arab and Muslim countries. I know this firsthand. I was a doctoral candidate at Boston University in the ‘70s, earning my PhD in sociology in May 1981. I sat in class with Muslim students, who were mostly from Iran and Saudi Arabia. [Amy Neustein]

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