בנימין שעכטערס אַראַנזשירונג, אויסגעפֿירט דורכן „ייִדישן פֿילהאַרמאָנישן כאָר“, האָט מען אַרויסגעלאָזט לכּבֿוד דעם פּאָעטס 120סטן געבוירן־טאָג.
As the Israel-Hamas conflict was raging last month, a program assistant at the University of San Francisco forwarded an email to a group of students in the School of Education promoting a Palestinian protest taking place the following day. The email, sent to students in the International and Multicultural Education master’s program, included details about…
סײַמאָן סטאַרס קאָמפּאָזיציע צו ה. לייוויקס „אייביק“ גיט איבער דעם טרויער פֿונעם ליד אָבער אָן אַ שווערן געמיט.
(JTA) — One of the first things the Jewish Federations of North America did in the days after George Floyd was murdered was offer a job to Isaiah Rothstein. JFNA is a multibillion-dollar nonprofit working to represent hundreds of local Jewish community organizations across the United States and Canada. And Rothstein is a Black rabbi…
Last February, Gal Uchovsky said something provocative. So far, that’s not really news – since Uchovsky, who’s a very well known publicist, filmmaker and gay-rights-advocate, is also very well known for his eccentricity, his though provoking columns and television appearances. But this time, things have gotten a bit out of hand. On a Friday-evening family…
(JTA) — For years, Chava Shervington would connect informally with other Black Orthodox Jews to celebrate Black history that often wasn’t discussed in their communities and to offer and receive advice on a range of topics – from what communities were the most inclusive to how to deal with their children being bullied at majority-white…
די פֿרויען בײַ אים רעדן אַ לאָקאַל־היימיש אידיאָמאַטיש לשון, פֿול מיט פֿרומער דיאַלעקטיק און דעם לשון־קודשדיקן קאָמפּאָנענט.
(JTA) — A high school football coach in Ohio and seven of his staff have been suspended for punishing a Hebrew Israelite student-athlete by forcing him to eat a pepperoni pizza in violation of his religious commitment to keep a kosher diet, according to a report from Cleveland 19 News. The 17-year-old student at McKinley…
The pandemic seems to have changed the world so that it now looks a lot more like the one artist Jacob El Hanani has always lived in. The 74-year-old Moroccan-born, Israeli-raised, New York-steeped “grandfather of micro-drawing,” has been tending to his intricate and painstakingly drawn canvases for over 45 years, in the same Soho loft…
Tali Farhadian Weinstein, one of the leading candidates for Manhattan district attorney, dismissed questions Wednesday about how her past contacts with the Trump administration might complicate the office’s inquiry into the former president if she’s elected. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Farhadian Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor, was interviewed by former Trump…
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