Rebecca Spence
By Rebecca Spence
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News Showdown Over Divestment Resolution Set for Upcoming Presbyterian Parley
A group of Presbyterian activists is ramping up efforts to reverse their church’s policy advocating divestment from Israel, setting the stage for a showdown over the issue at next week’s General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA). When the more than 500 national delegates convene June 15-22 in Birmingham, Ala., for the 217th General Assembly,…
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News Unions in Britain, Canada Urge Boycotts Against Israel
In a serious setback to Israel’s diplomacy and public relations, two major unions — one in Britain and one in Canada — voted this week to urge boycotts of the Jewish state, with one targeting university professors and the other calling for economic divestment. In England, the country’s largest union of higher education instructors, the…
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News College Chief Hit Over Anti-Israel Events
In the wake of recent recommendations by a federal civil rights commission that university administrators should denounce antisemitic hate speech on campuses, the chancellor of a California state campus is facing harsh criticism for failing to condemn a week of “anti-Zionist” activities at the University of California, Irvine. Last week’s “Holocaust in the Holy Land”…
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News Jay Yoskowitz, American Technion Society Official
Jay Yoskowitz, a Jewish communal leader who most recently served as senior vice president of the American Technion Society, died suddenly May 2 from heart failure. Yoskowitz suffered a fatal heart attack in his Scarsdale, N.Y., home just hours after attending the double funeral of his parents, who had passed away within hours of each…
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News Summer Camps Draw Philanthropists’ Dollars
Situated in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, Eisner Camp and Crane Lake Camp make every effort to provide their campers with a memorable summer experience. But it’s only recently that they’ve honed in on the one thing that will allow those summer experiences to continue for years to come — fund raising. Eisner and…
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Culture Revisiting the Work of the First Emancipated German Jewish Artist
When Max Liebermann premiered “The Twelve-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple With the Scholars” — a historical painting based on the New Testament’s description of Jesus Christ debating with the rabbis in Jerusalem — at the 1879 Munich International Art Fair, the work was assailed by German critics. What right, after all, did a Jewish artist…
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