Daily Archives: July 27, 2017
Tisha Be’Av: A Failed Holiday?
The year 403 BCE was momentous for the city-state of Athens. In the previous years, a bloody civil war had devastated the city and caused it to fall under the yoke of its arch-rival,...
Let Justice be Served. Sue the Murderer For His Assets
After the murder of three members of the Salamon family at their Sabbath table on Friday night, July 21st, analyst Dr. Aaron Lerner wrote that the murderer made a calculated financial investment. In Dr. Lerner’s...
Cantor Joshua Finkel named spiritual leader of Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Community
Cantor Joshua Finkel has joined Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Community as its new spiritual leader. Finkel’s first official day was July 1. He succeeds Rabbi Lane Steinger, who retired in June 2016 and continues to participate...
Orthodoxy should be able to evolve
We all know that joke about the captain who saved Robinson Crusoe being shown around his island. Crusoe shows him his two synagogues. Two synagogues? For one person? “Yes. That one, that one I...
Friends of Zion Museum sheds light on non-Jewish Zionist heroes
In today’s day and age, with anti-Israel sentiments floating ubiquitously through the press and social media, many Jewish Zionists are forced to adopt an us-against-the-world mentality, believing that they are the only group who...
In a bid to promote diversity, Egypt plans to restore Alexandria synagogue
A $2 million restoration of Egypt’s largest synagogue is the start of a government effort to keep alive the legacy of the Jewish community, whose members have largely left for Israel, France and elsewhere...
New representative of ex-Soviet Jewry is billionaire once jailed in Putin’s Russia
Eight years after his release from wrongful imprisonment in Russia, the Israeli billionaire Mikhael Mirilashvili was elected to lead the World Jewish Congress Euro-Asian affiliate representing communities from Ukraine to Singapore.
Mirilashvili, who was released...
26 Venezuelan Jews fleeing crisis arrive in Israel
Twenty-six Jews from Venezuela immigrated to Israel this week as part of a surge of Jews fleeing the South American country’s political, social and economic unrest.
After years of discontent with their government under former...
Netanyahu eyeing way to shut down Al Jazeera in Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would seek to pass a law to shut down the Jerusalem bureau of Al Jazeera if law enforcement will not do so after his multiple requests.
“The Al...
ADL condemns sermons by California imams that called for destruction of Jews
The Anti-Defamation League decried as “dangerous” sermons by two California imams that included prayers for the annihilation of Jews.
On Friday, Sheikh Ammar Shahin of the Islamic Center of Davis called for the liberation of Jersualem’s...