Register now Workmen’s Circle Yiddish classes online, study from anywhere
Dear Friends,
Just wanted to let you know that I will be teaching 3 online Yiddish classes this spring for the Workmen's Circle/Arbeter-Ring starting in late February. Other great teachers are also teaching. To see...
Read Donald Trump’s Speech to AIPAC
Here's a full transcript of the candidate's remarks
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, his party’s front runner for the nomination, addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Monday, discussing relations between the U.S. and Israel....
August 26, 1920: Women’s Suffrage
American women at last won the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted on this date in 1920.
Among the Jewish women involved in the suffrage movement were Gertrude Weil,...
Bet You Didn’t Know About the Jews of Sefwi Wiawso, Ghana
The House of Israel has a one-room synagogue and a miniature Torah that sits in a special wooden box. All work stops on Shabbat, the boys are circumcised a week after birth, and the...
The Workmen’s Circle’s Yiddish classes to begin shortly
The Workmen’s Circle’s Yiddish classes begin next week!
In-person and live online classes feature an all-star lineup of teachers
including Avraham Lichtenbaum, Yitskhok Niborski, Shane Baker and Sheva
Zucker.
Courses offered for all levels. Click here for...
‘Jewish Schindler’ Spearheading Mission to Help Yazidis Stranded in Greece After Escaping ISIS Persecution
A Canadian Jewish businessman is leading efforts to help Yazidis who managed to escape ISIS persecution in Iraq, only to find themselves stranded in Greece, The Algemeiner has learned.
Steve Maman founded the Liberation of...
Paul Rudd Challenges Stephen Hawking in Quantum Chess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi0BzqV_b44
The actor and former Bar-Mitzvah DJ challenges the famous quantum physicist for a dramatic game of quantum chess in this new Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter video, narrated by Keanu Reeves (another...
48% of Israeli Jews Back ‘Expulsion’ or ‘Transfer’ of Arabs, New Pew Survey Says
Almost half of all Israeli Jews are in favor of transferring or expelling the state’s Arab population, a major U.S. survey of Israeli public opinion has found.
That staggering statistic comes from the Pew Research...
Read Hillary Clinton’s Speech to AIPAC
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Monday about the relationship between the United States and Israel.
Here is a full transcript of her remarks.
CLINTON: Thank you so much.
(APPLAUSE)
It...
The Economist: ‘Israelis Seem Especially Susceptible to Hysteria’
A 2012 Economist article claimed that Israelis and their Prime Minister fear Iran because they suffer from "Auschwitz complex" - a “ghetto mentality” evidently based on obsessing over past suffering and reinforced by the Jewish festivals of Purim and...