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UPenn refuses to reschedule commencement ceremony on Shavuot (JNS) — The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia said it will not move the date of its commencement ceremony, which is set to take place during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot,...
Course in Orlando bucks trend of bleak predictions
At the end of April, Chabad centers throughout metro Orlando will offer "This Can Happen," a new six-session course, running from April 27-June 1, by the acclaimed Rohr Jewish Learning Institute...
Laurie Cardoza-Moore: Get Holocaust education into schools, anti-Semitism out
In 1994 the state legislature mandated that Holocaust education must be taught in Florida public schools. At that time, the Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center was one of 27 members of...
AOC meets with top NYC Jewish group for first time
(JTA) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sat down for a public interview with a top New York City Jewish group, ending what some had considered a snub of Jewish leadership since the progressive New York Democrat’s election in 2019. In her April 1...
US and Iran to join talks aimed at rejoining nuclear deal
(JTA) — Iran and the United States will join talks in Vienna next week that aim to return all parties to the terms of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. There will not be direct contact between Iran and the United States at the in-person meeting,...
- Names being talked about to be the US anti-Semitism monitor
- Learn more about how DNA helps in genealogy research
- Heritage Human Service Award
- Victim's family calls to revoke terrorist's citizenship
- Key witness resumes testimony in Netanyahu corruption trial
- Senior Israeli health official says virus is 'dying out,' credits vaccine
- Biden removes Trump-era sanctions on Court
- Who is Mansour Abbas, the Arab-Israeli who could hold the key to Israel's next government?
- Camp J will be in full swing this summer
- Holocaust Memorial Day observed
- Israeli organization breaks world record for kidney donations
- Grief support resumes outdoors in May
What is right for Israel
President Rivlin tapped Benjamin Netanyahu to form a government. He has 28 days to try to put together a coalition and if he doesn’t succeed, the president can designate another person with a period of two weeks to do so, and then yet another...
Stop pretending that anti-Zionism isn't anti-Semitism
(JNS) — In case you haven’t heard, people who want to eliminate Israel are very interested in stopping anti-Semitism. In other words, the same people who want to deny rights to the Jewish people that they don’t think of trying to deny to...
Writing poetry helps me process the unspeakable evils of the Holocaust
(JTA) — Not long after the gruesome reality of the Holocaust had burst onto the world’s consciousness, the philosopher and social theorist Theodor Adorno famously observed in 1949 that writing poetry after Auschwitz was barbaric — “nach...
Who will bear witness to the Holocaust when the survivors are all gone?
As the Holocaust recedes further and further into the past, the anti-Semites of the future (and for sure they will exist) will have an easier time promoting the falsehood that the Holocaust never occurred. Who will replace the first generation of...
The future of Holocaust remembrance
(JNS) — Yom Hashoah is a day when Jews in their homeland and around the world remember their 6 million brothers and sisters who were so cruelly persecuted, hunted and murdered during the Holocaust. As we contemplate the future of this solemn and...
Jordan's volatility is a wake-up call for the US
(JNS) — Jordan’s recent domestic upheaval reportedly involved members of the royal Jordanian family and prominent Bedouin tribesmen, who were arrested and charged with an attempted regime change. Other Arab countries were also said to be...
The next major Jewish action is on behalf of Uighurs
(JTA) - When Rayhan Asat attended a Passover seder last month, its contours seemed familiar and different at once - especially the tradition of leaving a seat empty at the table. It reminded Asat, a...
Interest in immigrating to Israel from US soars despite pandemic-era challenges
When Aaron Feinblatt moved to Israel in late February 2020, just as the first signs of the worldwide coronavirus outbreak were emerging, only one person wore a mask on his aliyah flight. Feinblatt...
Rabbi Peter Hyman receives world's highest Scouting award
(Crescent City Jewish News via JNS) - Rabbi Peter Hyman was announced as the recipient of the Bronze Wolf Award, the highest Scouting award in the world and the only one given by the World Scout...
New ritual aims to bridge Holocaust remembrance to a post-survivor world
(JTA) - Holocaust remembrance day programs in Jewish communities have stuck to a familiar form for decades, featuring Holocaust survivors sharing their stories followed by the lighting of yahrzeit...
Fauci receives award from Holocaust remembrance group and references Maimonides
(JTA) — Drawing a line between its mission of Holocaust remembrance and the ravages inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic, the March of the Living honored Dr. Anthony Fauci with an award for “moral courage in medicine” on the eve of Yom...
A Muslim and a Jewish woman co-wrote a children's book about standing up to prejudice
"A Place at the Table" tells the story of two middle-school girls, Elizabeth and Sara - one Jewish and one Muslim - whose friendship begins in a South Asian cooking class taught by Sara's mother....
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Once again, I repeat, "getting old is not for sissies ...(me) I am astounded by all the famous folks that I didn't know were Jewish. For instance, WILLIAM SHATNER. I just learned that he was from...
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