Weekly roundup of world briefs
US embassy in Jerusalem issues security alert following Soleimani killing By Marcy Oster JERUSALEM (JTA)—The United States Embassy in Jerusalem issued a security alert on Monday for U.S. citizens in Israel after the assassination of top Iranian...
Susan Bernstein-a woman of many talents
The audience can feel Susan Bernstein's passion as she starts her presentation. She is there to share the knowledge she has gained throughout her life. A lifelong educator, Bernstein loves to tell...
January 2020 proclaimed as 'St. Johns County Jewish History Month'
The St. Johns County Commission will proclaim January 2020 as “St. Johns County Jewish History Month” at its regularly scheduled meeting, 9 a.m. Jan. 21, in the County Commission Chambers, 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine 32084. The...
Premier of Ten-Minute play about Holocaust survivors
The Playwright's Round Table Launch 2020 will feature "Rosa & Leo" as one of eight original, Ten-Minute plays from emerging playwrights at the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre in Loch Haven Park, Jan....
Fuld's killer convicted of murder
Khalil Yusef Ali Jabarin, the terrorist who stabbed to death Ari Fuld, was convicted of murder by an Israeli military court on Monday morning. Jabarin stabbed Fuld outside a shopping center in Gush Etzion in September 2018. Fuld, though mortally...
- Hillel International chooses new CEO
- The importance of playtime in school
- Israeli archaeologists may have discovered 2,000-year-old market in City of David
- Bret Stephens under fire for NY Times column on Jewish intelligence
- Iran seeks to end direct clash with America and return to an asymmetrical comfort zone
- Israeli NGO rushes to provide relief after Puerto Rico quake
- Monsey rabbi who survived stabbing attack gives invocation at New York State of the State address
- Jerusalem Zoo to send aid for animals in Australia fires
- A must see: 'Becoming Dr. Ruth' now at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre
- Black tie premiere of 'Aliyah'
- First empirical evidence shows anti-Israel faculty promotes boycotts in their classrooms
- A constructive way to disagree
- Volunteers-The spirit of the Jewish Pavilion
- Coming up at The Roth Family JCC
- Beth Sholom January schedule
Do not be fooled by their military uniforms
On Jan. 3, 2020, as their motorcade was exiting the Baghdad Airport, Major General Qasem Soleimani, the leader of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, along with other high ranking members of the IRGC were killed by an American...
Not just another Iranian general
(JNS)—For many in the Middle East, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, the Islamic Republic’s elite extraterritorial black-ops arm, embodied Iran’s desires, aspirations and directives with respect to the country’s operations...
Turning BDS into 'Buy Directly from Samaria'
(JNS)—Israel and many Jewish organizations around the world have responded strenuously to counter the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement. They have taken a strong defensive position, arguing that Israel is being unfairly singled out. But how...
After Monsey, it's time to say Jewish lives also matter
(JNS)—A horrific attack on the Jewish community in Monsey, N. Y., took place on Saturday, the seventh night of Chanukah, when a machete-wielding assailant entered and began wildly stabbing at worshippers during a crowded holiday celebration in...
Don't confuse me with facts: It's always about the 'occupation'
(BESA Center via JNS)—Like clockwork, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent observation that “the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not, per se, inconsistent with international law” was immediately...
The NYC anti-Semitism march was incredible, but shouldn't overshadow Judaism's main purpose
NEW YORK (JTA)—On Sunday, I joined tens of thousands of Jews and non-Jews who marched from downtown Manhattan over the Brooklyn Bridge in a show of commitment to fighting the recent violent rise of anti-Semitism. Last week, I stood in Jerusalem...
Jews in the Land of Disney
Spotlight: Rabbi Joshua Neely, Temple Israel, Winter Springs, Florida "The past is never dead. It's not even past."-William Faulkner "My passion is teaching," Rabbi Joshua Neely told me as we talked...
Scene Around
Anti-Semitic violence in 2019... So far, 2019 seemed to be the worst year for anti-Semitism throughout the world. Let's hope 2020 is not as bad (or worse)! I've listed some of the incidents by month...
Quentin Tarantino's Hebrew and other Jewish moments
(JTA)-As always, the Golden Globes was a coming together of some of Hollywood's biggest Jewish talents. There weren't many Jewish award winners at the glitzy ceremony on Sunday night, but here are...
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