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Powerful new song speaks about inequality around the world.

Ecuadorian-Jewish, Latin Grammy winner and World Vision Ambassador Paulina Aguirre dedicates new single ‘La...

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Ecuadorian-Jewish, Latin Grammy-winning artist and World Vision Ambassador Paulina Aguirre has released her new single and accompanying video “La Tierra Llora,” a new and powerful song that draws attention to climate change of the earth and inequality...

Friendship between Basques and Jews fuels novel

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While the Basque people of Vitoria, Spain, were Christians, like the Jews, they were outsiders, not quite like the other Christians of Castile or other parts of newly united Spain.  So, when King Ferdinand...

Cantor, comics headline entertainment options in Palm Beach County

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Two Jewish comedians will perform in a night of stand-up comedy on June 30 at 8 p.m. at Mizner Park Cultural Center in Boca Raton in a fundraising event for the Jewish Association for Resident Care...

Buffalo International Jewish Film Festival kicks off at Taste of India

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The 33rd annual Buffalo International Jewish Film Festival -- the third longest festival of its kind in North America -- is back with a dozen films from around the world, including Israel, India, Hungary,...

A Workbook for fighting antisemitism that falls short

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How to Fight Anti-Semitism. Bari Weiss. Published by Crown, 2019. 15.29 Bari Weiss, author of How to Fight Anti-Semitism ( Crown, 2019), is a seasoned writer. She learned her trade at Tablet, the Wall Street Journal, and The New...

‘Pray Away’ Reveals Religious Fraud

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John and Anne Paulk were the public faces of the “ex-gay” movement. Married with children, they did the talk-show circuit (Oprah, Springer, 60 Minutes) asserting that Divine Intervention had “delivered” them from their “sexually...

“Vu di velt hot nor an ek” (Through an Endless Stretch of Land), by...

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"Vu di velt hot nor an ek" (Through an Endless Stretch of Land), by Kadya Molodowsky. Children's poems in Yiddish and English. Yaira Singer has collected, translated, and illustrated her favorite children's poems by legendary...

The Jewish Annotated New Testament, by Amy-Jill Levine

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Although major New Testament figures–Jesus and Paul, Peter and James, Jesus’ mother Mary and Mary Magdalene–were Jews, living in a culture steeped in Jewish history, beliefs, and practices, there has never been an edition...
Dick DeMarsico, New York World Telegraph & Sun / Public domain

Streaming movies about American racial violence

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The Birth of a Nation: Not to be confused with the racist silent film of the same title, this is a reconstruction of the Nat Turner rebellion.  Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube Black Wall...

Charlie and Nana Help Celebrate Chanukah: The Charlie and Nana Cookbook Series

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Charlie wants to learn all of his grandma, Nana’s, recipes so he asks her to teach him more recipes. Nana continues the cooking adventure by teaching Charlie how to make delicious Jewish recipes for their...