Daily Archives: July 2, 2017
JPRO Chicago launches new association for professionals working for Jewish organizations
Two hundred professionals from approximately 100 different Jewish organizations came together June 15 to support the launch of JPRO Chicago , an association for professionals working at and with Jewish organizations in the Chicago...
Leading Reform Rabbi: Kotel controversy should spur American Jews to engage more with Israel
A leading American Reform rabbi said that the best approach to the controversy over canceled plans for an egalitarian prayer area at the Kotel, or Western Wall, would be for American Jews to become...
US six-country travel ban takes effect with few exceptions for relatives
US President Donald Trump's ban on refugees and travelers from six mainly Muslim countries went into effect late Thursday, after a Supreme Court decision allowed it to go forward following a five-month battle with...
Indian Prime Minister to visit child victim of Mumbai terror attack while in Israel
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who July 4-6 will become the first-ever sitting Indian head of state to visit Israel, is expected to meet with a Jewish child whose parents were killed in a...
Janet Benton Nods to Jewish Family History, Sexism in New Novel
It’s 1883 in Philadelphia and you are a 23-year-old pregnant woman, turned away by your family, shunned from your community and abandoned by your fiance.
Where do you go?
At that time, there weren’t many places...
This 400-year-old Jewish library survived Hitler and the Inquisition
Livraria Ets Haim is the world’s oldest functioning Jewish library. As such, it is no stranger to the prospect of imminent destruction.
Founded in 1616 by Jews who fled Catholic persecution in Spain and Portugal,...
El Doktor Angel Pulido Fernandez i los espanyoles sin patria
Angel Pulido nasio en 1852 en Madrid en una famiya de kondisyon muy modesta, su padre i madre syendo venidos en Madrid desde Asturias para avrir una botikita de vinos en la kaye de...
Un groupe de médias de l’EI appelle les musulmans en Occident à attaquer leurs...
Le 29 juin 2017, une agence diffusant des contenus de l’État islamique (EI) a lancé des appels, sur ses chaînes Telegram, exhortant les partisans de l’EI en Occident à mener des attaques contre les...
Le gouvernement Trump accepte l’expansion régionale de l’Iran
Par A. Savyon et Yigal Carmon*
On assiste dernièrement à une évolution du conflit entre l’Arabie saoudite et l’axe sunnite d’une part – l’Iran et l’axe de la résistance de l’autre. Ces développements concernent non...
Hommage antisémite à Simone Veil sur un site raciste, misogyne et homophobe : « Cette...
Le site Démocratie participative (1) d’extrême droite affiche des publications à caractère raciste, antisémite, anti-musulman, misogyne et homophobe depuis sa création, début 2017. Le 30 juin, il rend un « hommage » antisémite à Simone Veil,...