Alex Weisler is a former journalist and the senior video and digital content producer for JDC, the global Jewish humanitarian organization.
Alex Weisler
By Alex Weisler
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News Muslims and Jews From Europe Size Up U.S. as a Model for Coexistence
Can visits to Ellis Island, Yankee Stadium, Manhattan’s 96th Street Mosque, Yeshiva University, the White House and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — among other American landmarks — give Jewish and Muslim leaders from Europe a model that not only will help them combat antisemitism and Islamophobia, but also instill within them a vision…
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News Offering TLC for Jewish Cemeteries
Gary Katz has seen the future, and he desperately wants to prevent it from happening. He predicted that “every cemetery that’s filled with Jews” and “looks nice” now will one day “look like Bayside,” a graveyard in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens that fell into disrepair and has become the focus of a years-long…
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News Claims Conference Picks Executive VP
The Claims Conference announced July 15 that Gregory Schneider will become the group’s new executive vice president. Schneider, 42, succeeds Gideon Taylor, who resigned to return to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Schneider has worked for the conference since 1995. Since 1951, the conference has worked to secure restitution for Nazi victims and their…
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News Accountant For Harvard Hillel Arrested After Nearly $800,000 Disappears
To add to what already has been a bad year for fraud at Jewish organizations, Harvard University’s Hillel announced that it had lost nearly $800,000, and a former accountant has been accused of diverting funds into his personal account. William O’Brien was indicted July 6 on 17 counts in connection with the five-year, $780,000 fraud….
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News Harmony Silenced at Egyptian Music Fest
Wendy Sternberg was thrilled when the organization she founded, Genesis at the Crossroads, was invited to perform at the eighth annual International Music Festival at Egypt’s Alexandria Library. She looked forward to achieving the goals of her group, which seeks to bridge cultures in conflict through the arts and prides itself on stellar musicianship and…
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Life Sholem Aleichem, Internet Star
Sholem Aleichem probably never imagined he’d end up an Internet star. But the noted Yiddish writer is the subject of an episode of the new series Penguin Classics on Air — an online radio show devoted to rediscovering classic literature. The episode, subtitled “Yiddish Classics by the Creator of Tevye from ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’”…
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News Whose Holocaust? Plan to Recognize Gay Victims at Memorial Sparks Row
A plan to memorialize gay male victims of Nazism amid a collection of memorial stones for Holocaust victims in a quiet half-acre patch of Brooklyn has provoked an outcry. New York State Assembly Member Dov Hikind, a Brooklyn Democrat whose many Orthodox constituents include numerous Holocaust survivors, has decried the planned addition as a distortion…
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News Terror Case Stirs Debate On Informants at Mosques: Essential Or Intrusive?
Four men suspected of terrorist activities. Four men arrested, caught in the very act. On the surface, it seemed like a seamless maneuver, a textbook exercise in counterterrorism that nabbed four Newburghß, N.Y. men suspected of plotting to blow up two synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and shoot down military planes. But…
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