Monthly Archives: May 2017
The uniqueness of our people
Diversity in Judaism is common in our history and liturgy. One can visit many synagogues and observe that the order of the davening and the actual siddur text are very varied from shul to...
“What can I do?” bringing together Jewish and Muslim moms
Through a Jewish/Muslim playgroup, my sister Beth has found an answer to a question many of us ask ourselves these days when we learn of incidents of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: “What can I do?”
Beth...
Mexico & moral courage: Andrés Roemer’s international sephardic leadership award ceremony
In honor of this year’s Yom Yerushalayim, The American Sephardi Federation awarded its International Sephardic Leadership Award to former Mexican Ambassador to UNESCO Andrés Isaac Roemer Slomianski. The event, “Mexico and Moral Courage,” was...
Lebanon considering banning Wonder Woman due to Israeli lead Gal Gadot
Lebanon’s ministry of economy is seeking to ban the 2017 Wonder Woman movie because its lead actress – Gal Gadot – is an Israeli, though a formal request for a ban has not yet...
Ahead of vote, Jewish groups urge european parliament to adopt antisemitism definition
Jewish groups have called on members of the European Parliament to support the adoption of the international Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism when it's put to vote on Thursday.
“We fundamentally believe that...
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...
Learning the way that machines do
This article focuses on a series of areas in modern technology that are very complex, very sophisticated and very nuanced particularly for a non-technology person like myself. It is in dealing with an area...
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...