Daily Archives: August 24, 2017
Holby storyline gives rabbi her ‘Hollywood moment’
Leading Liberal rabbi Charley Baginsky has enjoyed her “Hollywood moment”, advising writers of the BBC’s medical soap, Holby City, on a Jewish plotline.
In reality, it was considerably more than a moment as her advisory role...
US rabbis protest Trump by dropping holiday conference call
American rabbis critical of President Donald Trump will not try to organize a conference call with him for the Jewish High Holy Days in protest of his response to a white nationalist rally in...
British Jew speaks on the rise of anti-Semitism in Britain
A poll published recently by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism showed that about a third of British Jews considered leaving with 37 percent of Jews feeling they need to conceal their ethnicity in public and only 59...
For Arab citizens, ‘Jewish and democratic’ means demographic war
Israeli citizens who may be feeling doubtful about the efficiency of their country’s institutions should take a hard look at the Jewish Agency’s Settlement Division.
According to Haaretz, the division has set forth a new...
Black-Jewish relations in the U.S. have never been simple
From the Women’s March to the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally, this year has brought divisions between black and Jewish Americans into stark relief. On one side of the issue, we have those who...
Netanyahu: neo-Nazi slogans in the streets of America are ‘no small thing’
People marching in the US chanting neo-Nazi slogans that “Jews will not replace us” is no inconsequential matter, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a Channel 20 interview taped Wednesday in Sochi.
This was the...
Five students suspended after photo of ‘Jews vs. Nazis’ beer pong game appears online
These Atlanta students apparently could not see how wrong they were.
Students from a private school were suspended after a photo posted online showed them playing "Jews vs. Nazis" beer pong at a house party,...
US reform leaders condemn body searches of women at Western Wall
The senior leadership of the Reform Movement in the US condemned the body searches conducted on women seeking to pray in a Women of the Wall service by officials at the Western Wall on Wednesday.
Worshipers in...
Pennsylvania man arrested for racist, anti-Semitic graffiti
Police say a Pennsylvania man who in the past has claimed to be associated with white supremacist groups is jailed on charges he spray-painted graffiti including swastikas and racial epithets in several places near...