It’s been over a year since Vic and Linda Milhoan were in a museum. This week, they were some of the first visitors to step foot in the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco since the pandemic forced it to close last year. “It’s such an opportunity,” said Linda Milhoan, who’s been a member of…
(JTA) — Last year at this time, the message out of Jewish summer camps was one of doom and gloom. In April 2020, the Union for Reform Judaism announced that COVID would force a closure of its camps for the summer, affecting some 10,000 kids. In May, the Conservative movement’s Ramah camps across the country followed…
Dianne Morales, one of the leading candidates for mayor of New York City, called Israel an apartheid state in a private event last December, according to an audio obtained by the Forward. Morales, a former non-profit executive who is polling at around three percent in the most recent poll, described Israel as an “apartheid state”…
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“This just seems to be the after-party of the overreaction to BDS,” said one professor
Over two decades, Birthright Israel delivered more than 750,000 free-of-charge trips to young Jews, but amid the COVID-19 pandemic, like so many organizations, its programming came to halt. More than a year of inactivity and cancellations later, the group is now beginning to think about what a return to normalcy might look like. For Birthright,…
When I lived in Boston, much of my Jewish life took place in people’s living rooms and kitchens; though I also had a synagogue I loved, most of the young, engaged Jews of Somerville orbited through various monthly gatherings of egalitarian minyans and niggun singing and Shabbat meals. The coronavirus has decimated this aspect of…
A group of law students is demanding that Berkeley Law reject a recent $10 million gift from the Helen Diller Foundation to a university institute focused on Israel and Jewish studies. The gift was announced in February and, with it, the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies was renamed the Helen Diller Institute…
CHICAGO (JTA) — Just three stories high and hemmed into a small 5,000-square-foot lot, the building at 16 S. Clark St. is a small jewel box situated amid this city’s dense urban fabric. Exuding an aura of cool simplicity, the structure’s facade is composed of glass, metal and concrete planes. Its name is etched in…
(JTA) — Seven months after being asked to kick out a group over allegations of racism, the board of directors of Boston’s leading Jewish coalition has come to a conclusion: Yes, the group’s president “elevated white supremacist voices” — but it shouldn’t be ejected. That’s the recommendation of an internal report issued last month by…
When Bernie Madoff was arrested in December of 2008, the panic in the Jewish philanthropic world was palpable. “We are shocked at this revelation,” Yeshiva University said at the time to the Jewish Telegraph Agency. It had lost $100 million. “This one just leaves me breathless,” Mort Zuckerman told NPR. He lost $30 million. “I…
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