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News Gratz College names Zev Eleff new president
As the incoming president of Gratz College, Zev Eleff says he will build on the Hebrew college’s success in attracting students from across the spectrum of Jewish life and developing new programs to expand its national reach. Eleff, a 35-year-old scholar of American Jewish history, currently serves as the chief academic officer of Hebrew Theological…
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Culture Rupture And Renewal — Jane Eisner In Conversation With Jonathan Sarna
Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of the Forward will be appearing in conversation with Jonathan Sarna the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History and Chair of the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program at Brandeis University. The Center for Jewish History will host the event at 7pm on Wednesday May 16. Professor Sarna…
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Breaking News When Jews Came From ‘Shithole’ Countries
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jews were “undesirable.” They were “of low physical and mental standards.” They were “filthy.” They were “often dangerous in their habits.” They were “un-American.” So read a report submitted to the House Committee on Immigration in 1924, written by the director of the United Stated Consular Service and approved by the…
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News Could Grant’s Tomb Be The Next Monument To Go — Over Anti-Semitism?
Statues of Confederate generals are being targeted for removal across the country as “hate symbols” in the wake of the bloody white supremacist riots that rocked Charlottesville, Virginia. But in New York, a monument to an iconic Union Army leader and U.S. president is the latest lightning rod for controversy. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s alleged…
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News May Is Jewish American Heritage Month. Here’s Why You Didn’t Know That.
(JTA) — Only one religious group in the U.S. has a federally proclaimed month celebrating their history: the Jews. In 2006, President George W. Bush officially declared May as Jewish American Heritage Month. Yet Jewish American Heritage Month, or JAHM, hardly seems a priority — not in the government, not in the media, not even within the…
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Culture Jonathan Sarna Thinks Trump Can’t Turn Back the Clock
In Philip Eil’s article “6 Jewish Historians Tell Us What To Expect in 2017 and Beyond,” Jonathan Sarna worries about efforts to reverse progress made on liberal causes. Here’s what he had to say: Jonathan Sarna Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University Author of “American Judaism: A History” Part of me worries that…
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News Donald Trump Sounds ‘War on Christmas’ Battle Cry. Should Jews Be Worried?
“We’re going to start saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again,” President-elect Donald Trump promised a cheering crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on December 9. “How about all those department stores?” he went on. “They have the bells and they have the red walls and they have the snow, but they don’t have ‘Merry Christmas.’ I think they’re…
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