Daily Archives: July 8, 2017
Faith in the classroom
In April, a group calling itself the Forum of Secular Parents accused the Education Ministry of introducing Jewish faith into secular elementary schools. The forum presented the Education Ministry with a long list of...
American Jewish converts ‘hurt’ and ‘humiliated’ by conversion bill
Growing up in the panhandle of West Virginia, Jen Halpern, born Jennifer Davis, had never met a Jew. She had been raised in what she calls a “typical American Christian household.” Yet at 22...
Earliest mosaic of Jonah and the whale found in Galilee synagogue
Unprecedented depictions of the biblical Jonah and the whale have been found at a fifth-century Roman synagogue in Israel’s lower Galilee. In the recently discovered mosaic, Jonah’s legs are shown dangling from the mouth...
Trust in Crisis in European Jewish communities
For Jewish communities across Europe, the emerging populist, nationalist sentiment of recent times has been a concerning trend.
There is now a creeping intolerance seen on both a national level and in local life.
This is...
Lying like a rug: An artist finds perspective in the carpets of her Druze...
For painter Fatma Shanan, the woven ornamental rug, a fixture of the Druze home, is a symbol of family, tradition and community.
It also features prominently in her body of work, which is currently the...
AIPAC leaders warn Netanyahu of ‘crisis of faith’ among US Jews with freeze on...
Three AIPAC leaders reportedly told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “we have lost the incentive to act for Israel” and of a “crisis of faith” among American Jews in the aftermath of the freezing...
South African ruling party wants to downgrade embassy in Israel
South Africa’s ruling party this week announced its intention of downgrading its embassy in Israel to an “interest office.”
At a major policy conference in Johannesburg, the African National Congress’s international relations committee decided on...
The Jewish songwriter behind Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”
All this week, Jewniverse is honoring Black History Month with some of our favorite stories from the archives.
The song “Strange Fruit,” one of the most haunting jazz ballads of the past century, was made...
Faiths unite around ‘shared social values’ at times of crisis, report shows
A new report from the Cambridge-based Woolf Institute, which studies relations between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, says religion is a unifying factor based on “shared social values” in times of crisis. And the Institute...
The Jewish songwriter behind Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”
All this week, Jewniverse is honoring Black History Month with some of our favorite stories from the archives.
The song “Strange Fruit,” one of the most haunting jazz ballads of the past century, was made famous...