Daily Archives: June 26, 2017
Jewish leaders rethink ties with Netanyahu, Israeli government
The Jewish Agency, the world's largest Jewish nonprofit group, will reevaluate its relationship with the Israeli government after two decisions that have sparked outrage in the Jewish world, according to the organization's new chairman of...
Israel’s prime minister is keeping gender segregation at Judaism’s holiest site
At the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism’s holiest site, women and men pray in sharply divided separate sections. There is no intermingling. That separation has long rankled progressive Jews in Israel and around the...
Jews barred from LGBT march for carrying Star of David pride flags
A parade in Chicago celebrating the lesbian community barred three Jewish women for carrying Jewish Pride flags.
Organisers of the 21st annual Chicago Dyke March told the women that the rainbow flags with a white Star...
Ben Gurion feedback to the Reform Movement 47 years ago was prophetic
In 1970, during my first months in Israel, I lived with two fellows who were learning at HUC, the Hebrew Union College.
They very much wanted to live in Israel.
Yet they and their fellow Reform...
Concentration Camp: The Eichmann trial and the origins of Punk Rock
It’s 3 a.m. in The Blue Room and the audience is sweaty with joy.
The Modern Lovers’ high-strung leader, Jonathan Richman, has just left the stage, his Nice-Jewish-Boy songs about being “in love with the...
Las Kuarenta Kazas de los Djudios de Bejar
Kon la puja del intereso enverso la istoria de los djudios de Espanya, en munchos lugares de este paiz son echos esforsos, estos ultimos anyos, para deskuvrir, i en la mizura del posible restorar,...
L’application Israélienne Waze va contribuer à accélérer les secours
Ce dernier comporte trois volets. D'abord, les incidents signalés à Waze seront transmis aux services d'urgence et intégrés dans leurs cartographies opérationnelles. Dans l'autre sens, les secours pourront transmettre aux utilisateurs de Waze des...
Politique étrangère de la Russie post-soviétique : à la recherche d’une identité
En janvier 2017, le magazine russe Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn, officiellement associé au ministère russe des Affaires étrangères, comportait un article intitulé “La politique étrangère post-soviétique : à la recherche d’une identité”, rédigé par le diplomate...
Le refus de l’équipe nationale de football saoudienne d’observer une minute de silence pour...
Le 8 juin 2017, l’équipe nationale de football saoudienne a rencontré l’équipe nationale australienne lors d’un match à Adelaïde, dans le cadre des qualifications en vue de la Coupe du monde de la FIFA...