London Jewish schoolteachers quit union over pro-Palestinian stance
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Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (JTA) — A Biden administration official said the U.S. government supports restocking Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system after it was depleted by last month’s conflict with Hamas in Gaza. Dozens of House members from both parties have said they would push Congress to appropriate funds to replenish the system should Israel make the request. […]
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM – The elderly grandmother had a fever and felt weak, despite the antibiotics her family doctor had prescribed a couple of days earlier for a urinary tract infection. Instead of feeling better, she was getting worse. That’s when her worried family made an urgent call to Magen David Adom – Israel’s national emergency medical […]
Continue ReadingTisha B’Av (the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av) begins at sunset on Saturday, July 17, and continues until the evening of Sunday, July 18. What is Tisha B’Av? Tisha B’Av is the major day of communal mourning. First and foremost Tisha B’Av commemorates the destruction of both the first and second temples […]
Continue ReadingThis article originally appeared on The New York Jewish Week. Just a few weeks ago, the streets of New York City were filled with thousands of people shouting “intifada” while also claiming “Black Lives Matter.” In that same period, a violent pro-Palestinian mob attacked Jews on the streets of New York. Others violently assaulted Jews […]
Continue ReadingSome 16 new Bnei Menashe immigrants from India were placed in hotel isolation on Thursday after testing positive for coronavirus on arrival in the country, the Health Ministry told The Jerusalem Post. The immigrants were flown to Israel from India despite the Health Ministry’s recommendation against travel to and from the country – which has […]
Continue Reading“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” With this unforgettable observation, Forrest Gump’s mother, played by the inimitable Sally Field, teaches her son (and us) that life can be both delicious and random. Such is the rhetorical power of a good analogy. The rabbis don’t just enjoy analogies […]
Continue Reading(JTA) — My grandpa once told me a story about when my great-grandparents were on a steamship emigrating from Ukraine to Cuba in the 1920s, shortly before my grandpa was born. As the story went, my great-grandmother saw a Black man for the first time and she screamed and hid. My grandpa told the story […]
Continue ReadingOver the last several years, debates over antisemitism and Israel/Palestine have roiled the German-speaking world. In 2019, the director of Berlin’s Jewish Museum, Peter Schäfer, was forced to resign after the museum tweeted about a petition against the German government’s decision to designate the BDS movement as antisemitic. In the spring of 2020, Germany’s (non-Jewish) […]
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