By Jerry Klinger DALYAT AL CARMEL, Israel — On Sunday night, in the largest Druze city in Israel, Dalyat al Carmel, a first occurred. The Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation (JASHP) donated a sculpture, the Flame of Friendship, to the community and all of Israel’s Druze citizens. The Druze of Israel, an ethnic Arab […]
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Middle East
(Press Release) — Readers get an up-close look at nine different Jewish day schools across North America — including two in California — in a new book, Inside Jewish Day Schools: Leadership, Learning, and Community, co-authored by Alex Pomson, PhD, Principal and Managing Director at Rosov Consulting, and Jack Wertheimer, PhD, the Joseph and Martha Mendelson Professor of
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Travel and Food
By Ari Morgenstern (JNS) The horrors of Nazi concentration camps did not materialize from thin air. Neither did the shootings in Poway, Calif., or Pittsburgh, Pa.; nor did the hostage-taking in Colleyville, Texas. As the late Holocaust survivor and educator Irving Roth often said: “It began with words.” We must heed that warning now—here in
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Opinion, USA
By Faygie Holt (JNS) Jewish groups in California took out a full-page ad in a local newspaper on Wednesday to voice their displeasure and concern with a school-board decision to engage an ethnic-studies curriculum for high school and middle-school students that they say will lead to hostility towards Israel and Jewish students. Appearing in the
Published by Reuters By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – A school board in Tennessee has voted to remove the Holocaust-themed graphic novel “Maus” from its eighth-grade language arts curriculum, citing profanity and nudity contained in the Pulitzer Prize-winning work by cartoonist Art Spiegelman. The 10-0 vote by the McMinn County Board of Education in Athens, Tennessee,
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USA
By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — There is an old joke that most rabbis probably know: From where in the Torah do we know that God is a great baseball fan? The answer is simple: Bereshit bara Elohim et hashamayim v’et ha’aretz: In the big inning, God created heaven and the
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Opinion, Sports & Competitions
By Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — There are new plays opening in San Diego; I will not see them. I won’t go indoors with crowds, nor have I been to a restaurant or museum in over two years. I have missed and am still missing many of the cultural events in my
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Lifestyles, Natasha Josefowitz
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker needs to suspend his job search for a new pulpit. Instead, he must find a literary agent – if none of them have found him yet – and publish a book recounting his background and the 11 hours that Malik Faisal Akram held him hostage at
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Bruce Ticker, USA
(To the tune of the eponymous song) By Laurie Baron In pre-Trump days we held elections And honored the voters’ selections. Now Bannon knows, anything goes. The loser by the voting tallies Won’t concede and incites rallies. Fraud he’ll expose, anything goes. Biden deserved the plaudits Instead of audits. The mob who fought it. Since
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Maayan Hoffman (JNS) Zehava, 36, developed a rare and life-threatening gynecological disease that spread to her lungs and made it impossible for her to do the most basic tasks, like walk or go to work. The Jewish-Iranian wife and mother of two spent months isolated in a hospital in Iran, with no hope. “It
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
(JNS) Nearly 33 percent of students in elementary and high schools in the United States and Canada who participated in a new survey said they weren’t sure if the Holocaust happened, or if it did, they thought it was “exaggerated or fabricated.” Almost 3,600 North American students from grades six through 12 participated in the
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International, USA
By Kenneth L. Marcus (JNS) On Jan. 27, we commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, honoring the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi genocide, as well as the millions of other victims who were persecuted during that era. This remembrance will be meaningless, however, if we do not seriously consider the gathering threat faced by
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International, Middle East, Opinion, USA
Haftorah reading for Mishpatim is Jeremiah 34:8-22 and 33:25-26 By Irv Jacobs, M.D. LA JOLLA, California — These short passages, entirely in prose, were written in the setting of the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem, begun in 588 BCE. Jeremiah’s words were selected from, out of the order of his writings, by later rabbis, apparently to
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion
(Press Release) — In addition to the long history of collaboration between Repair the World and Hillel International, Jeremy Cronig (he/him), now Hillel’s Civic Engagement and Social Impact Program Manager, says the partnership has helped Hillel navigate questions they faced about the future of the organization and service opportunities. “Even before COVID, we were thinking