Monthly Archives: May 2017
Israeli life-changing technology – Orcam
This incredible Israeli invention is changing the lives of those who are blind and visually impaired. The OrCam, a small discreet camera that attaches to glasses, uses groundbreaking technology to help the visually impaired...
AMIA bombing investigator Alberto Nisman was murdered, new official argentine report concludes
A forthcoming report from one of Argentina’s top security agencies will confirm that Alberto Nisman — the special prosecutor who investigated the July 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires, in...
France: ‘absolute silence’ surrounding Elderly Jewish woman’s murder by Islamist migrant ‘intolerable’
The Algemeiner Journal reports the suspected killer, a 27-year-old Malian migrant with convictions for drug-dealing named Kada Traore, broke into an apartment neighbouring Dr. Sarah Halimi’s at 4:25 a.m., causing the terrified residents to take...
In first-of-its-kind event, Jews and Muslims celebrate together
While local Jews and Muslims have held interfaith events before, they’ve never hosted something as intimate as this, according to Rabbi Jonathan Lubliner and Parvez Ahmed, who organized the event.
Tuesday night marked the beginning...
Bergen county high school of Jewish studies graduates 2017 class
The Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies (BCHSJS) recently held its annual graduation at Temple Emanuel of North Jersey in Franklin Lakes. This year’s 12 graduates are Jessica Baer, Camryn Bolkin, Steven Grossman,...
Sid Jacobson JCC’s Jewish Film Festival opens June 21
Sid Jacobson JCC’s Randi and Bruce Pergament Jewish Film Festival opens on Wednesday, June 21, at 7:30 p.m. with the documentary On the Map. The festival features documentaries, comedies and short films.
On the Map...
Syrian Jewish cuisine: a food in exile
We often draw empathy, not from our imagination, but from seeing our past staring back at us. As the global Jewish community grapples with how best to respond to the Syrian refugee crisis, we...
U.S. Jewish leaders slam massacre of Egyptian Christians
“These brutal acts are criminal and must be stopped,” Malcolm Hoenlein, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said. “The Conference stands in solidarity with the government of Egypt, the...
Celebrating the power of restraint—a Shavuot message
Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky relates the following poignant story:
I once sat on an overseas flight next to a talkative executive who was skeptical about his own Jewish heritage. During the first hours of the flight,...
Sarah Halimi : assassinée parce que juive, par marc knobel
Quelle est cette vilaine propension qui consiste à relativiser, à ignorer, taire autant que faire se peut et/ou balayer du revers de la main le crime et les motivations antisémites d'un crime ? Quelle...