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Tradition Today: Are we really one?
Jerusalem :: Israel | about 14 hours ago
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Our sages created a wonderful midrash concerning the last moments of Jacob's life when he called his children to his bedside as he lay dying. They based this upon the story in Genesis 49 and connected it with the verse in Deuteronomy 6:4 "Hear O Israel,...
Tags: Jacob-Israel, Israel-Diaspora, Israeli, Yisrael, Judaism, Israel, Jerusalem, Monotheism, Jew, Beta Israel, Pittsburgh Platform, Netzer Olami, Semitic peoples, Jewish theology, Religion Belief
International symposium to focus on Spain's Jews
Madrid :: Spain | 1 day ago
Credibility ASF is organizing this international initiative with the invaluable assistance of the Consulate General of Spain in New York. The Saturday night opening will feature a Gala Concert and Dessert Reception with Spain's Paco Díez, who brings his voice,...
Tags: Spain, Jacobo Israel Garzón, New York City, historic link, Madrid, Surnames, Jew, Maimonides, Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, Sephardic Judaism, Jewish ethnic groups, Jews by country, Sephardi Jews, Religion Belief
Wedding refugees
Larnaca :: Cyprus | 3 days ago
Credibility Noa and Oded marry in Cyprus Photo: Sarah Stricker Wet kiss. Takis Vovides Photo: Sarah Stricker Another Israeli couple in Cyprus Photo: Sarah Stricker Between five to 10 Israeli couples fly to Cyprus every day because the Jewish state does not...
Tags: Israeli Las Vegas, Amir & Elena, Cyprus Photo, Sarah Stricker Happiness, couple fly, Jewish, civil marriage, Cyprus, Larnaca, Homeland for the Jewish people, Wedding, Interfaith marriage, Jew, Marriage in Israel, Judaism, Religion in Israel, Who is a Jew?, Religion Belief
Philanthropist Mendel Kaplan dies, 73
Cape Town :: South Africa | 3 days ago
Credibility Mendel Kaplan, a prominent leader of the South African Jewish community, died in South Africa on Thursday at the age of 73. "Mendel was the most well-known southern African Jewish philanthropist, and will be sadly missed both in Israel and abroad," said...
Tags: Mendel Kaplan Dead, south african, african jewish, South Africa, Cape Town, Kaplan, Israel, Jew, Zionism, Keren Hayesod, Jewish Agency for Israel, Religion Belief, Yisrael Mendel Kaplan
Guess who did not come to the party?
Berlin :: Germany | 6 days ago
Credibility Symbolism, rather than action, dominated the General Assembly (GA) of the Jewish Federations of North America. Its new logo, new name and new executive and lay leader were a sure sign of hope, the harbingers of a sincere and enthusiastic attempt to revive...
Tags: North America, Israel, Germany, Berlin, United Jewish Communities, Judaism, Jew, Zionism, Jewish charities, Jewish history, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Religion Belief
Germany's resurgent Jews | Alexander Goldberg and Silke Goldberg
Munich :: Germany | 6 days ago
Credibility Germany's resurgent Jews Overcoming the legacies of pogrom and Holocaust, Germany's Jews are beginning to put down secure roots The date 9 November has often been called the Schicksalstag ("day of fate") in German history, marking the day in 1918 Philipp...
Tags: Eastern Germany, Berlin Wall, East Berlin, jewish communities, West Berlin, Berlin Republic, Germany, Munich, Kristallnacht, Secular Jewish culture, Jew, Berlin, The Holocaust, Jewish history, November, November 9th in German history, Religion Belief
Editorial (November 13, 2009)
London :: United Kingdom | 7 days ago
Credibility Call to action THE topic of refugees, boat people and asylum seekers seems to be a perennial hot-button issue. It also ignites uniquely passionate feelings within the Jewish community. Looking back over Jewish history, particularly our local Jewish narrative,...
Tags: peace prize, jewish communal, United Kingdom, London, Jew, HMT Dunera, John Pilger, Hanan Ashrawi, Sydney Peace Prize, Religion Belief
US Jews turn to Israel to escape bleak job market
Tel Aviv :: Israel | 7 days ago
Credibility Israeli government, Jewish organizations offer multitude of scholarships, travel grants in bid to lure Diaspora Jews to make Israel their permanent home. 'I could immigrate if I find my future wife here,' says Adam Hecht of LA Reuters Jewish American...
Tags: Israel Hadassah, Israeli, Goldie Burdetsky, North America, MASA, jewish organization, Israel, Tel Aviv, Zionism, Jew, World Union of Jewish Students, Jewish Agency for Israel, United Jewish Communities, Levant, Republics, Religion Belief
Film tells forgotten Jewish fugitive story
Berlin :: Germany | 9 days ago
Credibility After the end of World War II, the city of Berlin -- from where Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler had ordered and planned the Shoah -- became an unlikely temporary home for some 100,000 displaced Jews...Like tens of thousands of other Jews who survived the Holocaust,...
Tags: Berlin, Rachel Kosowski, dp camps, Schlachtensee, Dueppel Center, West Germany, Germany, Responsibility for the Holocaust, The Holocaust, Concentration camps in France, Jew, Aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish history, Displaced Persons camp
The community leadership we deserve | Antony Lerman
Gaza :: Palestine | 9 days ago
Credibility The community leadership we deserve Jewish leaders too often lose their moral compass over Israel, but we ourselves are to blame if we do not hold them to account There was something both homely and understatedly heroic about the Guardian front page...
Tags: Israeli, jewish leaders, jewish leadership, Michal Kaminski, jewish communism, Palestine, Gaza, Jewish history, Jew, Israel, Zionism, National liberation movements, Nationalism, Religion Belief
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