Welcome to the Jew-nited Nations
it was fitting that some of the biggest players in the United Nations – including the new Secretary General and Donald Trump’s popular ambassador – dominated the headlines at the World Jewish Congress’ plenary...
The Duality of Jewish Time
Time plays an enormous role in Judaism. The first thing that God declared holy was a day — Shabbat — at the conclusion of creation. The first mitzvah given to the Jewish people as a...
Egypt: Islamic cleric suspended from ministry after denouncing Christians and Jews
Egyptian authorities have suspended an Islamic preacher from public ministry, after he denounced Christians and Jews as “infidels.”
During a television broadcast, Salem Abdel Galil referred to Christianity and Judaism as “corrupt” faiths, whose practitioners...
Move to ban male circumcision alarms Jewish leaders
European Jews are on alert after a political party in Norway voted to propose a bill in parliament to ban ritual circumcision of children under the age of 16.
The Progress Party vote came one...
NYC Jewish Groups Call for Removal of Plaque Honoring Nazi Collaborator
Jewish officials and groups are calling for the eradicating of the name of French Nazi collaborator Henri Philippe Pétain whose name is honored in New York City’s “Canyon of Heroes” in the Financial District,...
Living in the present while building for a future
An open road on a beautiful day, with your kids in the back seat, maybe even a picnic lunch; what could be more perfect?
I will always wonder what Tali Hatuel, eight months pregnant, with...
Knesset moves to make Israel Jewish
With a 48-41 vote in the 120-seat Knesset Wednesday, lawmakers gave initial approval to a bill to redefine Israel as "the national home of the Jewish people." Authors called the bill, which would enshrine...
Lag Baomer
Saludes a todos los oyentes de la emisyon Muestra lingua, la emisyon en djudeo-espanyol fundada por el profesor Haïm-Vidal Sephiha i prezentada agora por vuestro servidor Edmond Cohen, kon Philippe en la kabina.
Por empesar,...
Yosl (Jose) Kozer, from a Yiddish home come the voice of Cuba
I got lost driving through New Hampshire's winding roads going to interview José Kozer, the prize-winning Cuban-born poet who recently visited Dartmouth College as part of the prestigious Montgomery Fellows Residency Program. When I...
Author of controversial ‘Jewish State’ bill insists it’s unprejudiced and fair
n June 2011, Avi Dichter, then an opposition Knesset member with the centrist Kadima party, started collecting signatures for a proposal he had been working on to officially define Israel as a Jewish state...