Daily Archives: December 8, 2017
L.A. Synagogue Takes In 23 Torah Scrolls From Shuls In Path Of Raging Wildfires
A Conservative synagogue in Los Angeles has taken in Torah scrolls from other Jewish institutions that are in the path of a major fire sweeping through the city.
Scrolls from Leo Baeck Temple, Stephen Wise...
Why Trump is right in recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is a perfect response to President Obama’s benighted decision to change American policy by engineering the United Nations Security Council resolution declaring Judaism’s holiest places...
The US now has time to include “sovereignty” in the Jerusalem Embassy Relocation Act.
President Trump did Israel a favor that most people do not know about when he delayed the US embassy move to Jerusalem.
There is much work to be done.
Current wording of the US Embassy Relocation Act...
Rutgers to discipline professor who made anti-Semitic Facebook posts
Rutgers University is disciplining Dr. Michael Chikindas, the Rutgers professor of food science who posted anti-Semitic cartoons to his Facebook page.
In a letter sent today to Rutgers faculty members, University President Robert Barchi and Chancellor Deba...
Eight days, countless ways to celebrate Hanukkah
You’d be hard pressed to find a Hanukkah entertainer with as unlikely a background as Jane McNally.
McNally, 72, will be the one-woman show at the Jack Satter House, the Hebrew SeniorLife independent living residence...
Why Jewish songwriters wrote the soundtrack to the world’s most musical holiday
What's the connection between Silver Bells, Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow, A Holly Jolly Christmas, The Secret of Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and White Christmas?
They were all...
Ha-ha-Hanukkah! Jewish comedians host a ‘Chanukahstravaganza’
It’s a Jewish festival of laughs.
Two Jewish comediennes will open the first night of Hanukkah with a gift of laughter. The second annual “Chanukahstravaganza: Night of a Thousand Jews” on Dec. 12 at Union...
Palestinian who vandalized Amsterdam kosher eatery says he’s not anti-Semitic
A Palestinian immigrant who smashed the windows of a kosher restaurant in the Dutch capital while holding his national flag said the attack was neither over Jerusalem nor anti-Semitic.
The 29-year-old man, who was not...
Palestinian man killed, 300 wounded in West Bank and Gaza rioting over Trump Jerusalem...
A Palestinian man was killed and hundreds were wounded in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as Palestinians protesting the Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital clashed with Israeli troops.
The fatality, a...
Holocaust drama ‘The Camp’ among productions being presented in Boca Raton
Both current Boca Raton productions, "The Camp," a drama set in the Holocaust-era, running now through Dec. 17 at the Levis Jewish Community Center and the musical "She Loves Me," running now through Dec. 23 at...