Manuel Noriega, former dictator of Panama, dead at 83
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, who spied for the United States before his drug trafficking and brutality triggered a U.S. invasion to oust him in 1989, has died at 83.
President Juan Carlos Varela announced...
Hadassah honors 21 students for academics, activities
Hadassah Greater Atlanta recognized the recipients of the Marian F. Perling Hadassah Chesed (lovingkindness) Student Awards on Sunday afternoon, May 7, at Temple Emanu-El.
The awards recognize students in Jewish day schools and synagogue schools...
Shavuot is God’s gift to the Jewish people
Shavuot reminds us that the Torah is G-d’s gift to the Jewish people. Shavuot is one of the three pilgrimage festivals (the others are Pesach and Sukkot) in the Jewish religion and its observance...
The Six Day War and its aftermath
120 years ago, the First Zionist Conference under the leadership of Theodor Herzl was held in Basel, Switzerland. Before his untimely death, Herzl predicted that the modern State of Israel would emerge within 50...
Biafran Jews mark 50 years since failed bid for independence
Nigeria on Tuesday marks 50 years since the declaration of an independent Republic of Biafra plunged the country into a civil war, amid renewed tensions and fresh calls for a separate state.
The main pro-independence...
Film review: ‘A Jew must die’ appearing at the Washington Jewish film festival
I have seen many World War II films that focused on either the battles that were fought, or the horrors of the Holocaust. Only a small number of films touch on the level of...
Landfill dig reveals ancient Jewish dietary habits
When archaeologists dig through ancient ruins, they find remnants of such things as city walls and roads, palaces and ordinary homes, cisterns and cemeteries, coins and jewelry. They also find garbage. Sometimes on purpose.
That’s...
Remember the six days — and the soldiers — that saved us
y mother said: “No one expected Israel to survive.”
The Straits of Tiran were closed to Israeli ships, strangling the 19-year-old country from its much-needed oil supply. Egypt and Syria had amassed troops on the...
Sunday Times: Rising anti-Semitism among migrants in Germany highlighted in case of Jewish teenager...
Ferdinand, 14, who was born in London to a British mother and a German father, told the British paper’s reporter Bojan Pancevski he feared for his life after being repeatedly kicked and punched by...
Florine Stettheimer’s vision of equality
Along with Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Archibald Motley, Arshile Gorky, and Horace Pippin, Florine Stettheimer is one of the great American painters in the first half of the 20th century. There are lots of...