Monthly Archives: April 2020
Yiddish Poetry Beat to Live Klezmer Music
A special day of Yiddish poetry and Klezmer music with Miri Koral and Klezmer Juice!
For more information, visit the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language website on http://www.yiddishinstitute.org, and check out Klezmer Juice's...
Streaming films about the Haredim
For a long time most films dealing with Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox Jews sided with individuals whose choice of lifestyle, partners, or vocations conflicted with the expectations of their families and community. While that is...
Michigan’s Holocaust center goes online to host annual Yom Hashoah event
For the first time to date, the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus will host its annual community-wide Yom Hashoah commemoration online at 2 p.m. on April 26 while the museum is closed to...
Christians and Jews meet online to probe Israel’s response to pandemic
Early this month, more than 35,000 Christians and Jews from around the world gathered virtually to learn about Israel’s response to the coronavirus and rising anti-Semitism. Organized by the international grassroots organization Combat Anti-Semitism Movement (CAM)...
Biden needs the Bernie Bros. Will he give them a say in policy?
In a flight of fancy and an almost superfluous reminder of his irrelevance, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman suggested this week that a dream cabinet for Joe Biden should he win in November would include...
Corona curfew, coalition deadline
As the clock was ticking on Monday evening towards his midnight deadline to form a government, Blue and White Party leader and temporary Knesset Speaker Benny Gantz addressed the Israeli people.
Ostensibly explaining to the...
Coronavirus and coalition politics dominate Israeli news
They say it’s like a war, but it isn’t.
Our wars are shorter, more dramatic, with something like an end coming after days or weeks. And those running them are more regimented and united.
It’s possible...
Unity talks resume after Rivlin approves 48-hour mandate extension for Gantz
After being granted a 48-hour extension of his mandate to form a government late Monday night, unity talks resumed between Blue and White Party head Benny Gantz and incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...
Estonian teen ‘commander’ of global neo-Nazi group behind threats to US synagogue
A 13-year-old boy in Estonia was a key figure in an international neo-Nazi group that has been linked to plots to attack a Las Vegas synagogue and detonate a car bomb at a major...
Israeli coronavirus cases near 12,000; death toll reaches 118
As of Tuesday morning, 11,868 Israelis have tested positive for coronavirus, which has so far killed 118 people in the country. According to the country’s Health Ministry, 181 patients are currently listed in serious...