Daily Archives: September 16, 2017
Jewish New Year starts Wednesday
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, will be Wednesday, and area Jews will be celebrating the High Holy Day.
Chabad of Peachtree City, 632 Dogwood Trail in Tyrone, and Congregation B'nai Israel, 1633 Hwy. 54...
The right Rosh Hashanah call
Like the secular New Year's Day, the upcoming holiday that celebrates the Jewish new year, Rosh Hashanah, is a time for making noise. Its biblical name literally translates as "day of shouting, blasting of...
The 40-year disappearance and resurgence of Polish-Jewish culture
Each of Chuck Fishman’s photos tell a thousand words.
In 1975, Fishman, a photojournalist, traveled to Poland to examine what Jewish life was like in Poland after the Holocaust. While visiting cities like Lodz, Wroclaw,...
Israel and Colombia to deepen bilateral ties following Netanyahu visit
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embarked on a short visit to the Colombian capital of Bogota on Wednesday, to discuss collaboration with leaders of the Latin American country.
Netanyahu was welcomed with an honor guard...
Ivanka Trump misattributed an ancient Jewish proverb to Emma Watson
Who said it: an ancient Jewish religious leader or Emma Watson? The Internet seems to think Ivanka Trump got it wrong.
In a recent Instagram post, Trump shared an image of the quote: "If not me, who?...
UK Jewish leaders condemn terrorist attack on London subway train
Jewish groups in the United Kingdom were united in their condemnation of a terrorist attack on a subway train in southwest London on Friday morning, in which 22 people were wounded by what Scotland Yard’s...