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Daily Archives: July 2, 2020

Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin speaks during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, on Aug. 30, 2017. Credit: Kremlin via Wikimedia Commons.

Vatican to US and Israel: Unilateral actions put peace at risk

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The Vatican announced on Wednesday that its top diplomat, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, had met with both the Israeli and American ambassadors to express the Holy See’s concern over Israel’s plan to...
U.S. Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt attends a press conference regarding the water agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Former US Mideast negotiator: World mired in past on solving Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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Ahead of the planned move by Israeli to apply sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria, several leading Mideast experts and former senior officials debated the merits of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Peace to...
In expectation of negative and perhaps even violent reactions to Israel's plans to apply sovereignty to parts of the West Bank, the Jewish organization StandWithUs will be using truck ads with relevant messages to the issue. Credit: Courtesy.

Anti-Semitic, anti-Israel groups to hold ‘Day of Rage’ rallies in US, worldwide

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Anti-Semitic and anti-Israel groups are scheduled to hold “Day of Rage” rallies and vehicle caravans nationwide and abroad, protesting Israel’s plans to apply sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria, also known as the...

July 2, 2016: Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dies at...

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Born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Romania, Elie Wiesel pursued Jewish religious studies before his family was forced into Nazi death camps during WWII. Wiesel survived, and later wrote the internationally acclaimed memoir Night....

Four Yiddish songs to honor The Fourth of July

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Four Yiddish songs to honor The Fourth of July -- English translations provided -- Performed by the Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Yiddish! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkxCkt-HsHw "America the Beautiful" in Yiddish! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UVVNE9wcg4 "America" (Yiddish song about Mount Rushmore) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p__Ggt3XUc0 "Fourth of July" (a.k.a. Zman...

[Live On Zoom] Yiddish Children’s Literature And Jewish Modernity

Thursday, July 2 | 4:30pm (EDT) Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series See all lectures » Admission: Free Registration is required. REGISTER  Miriam Udel | Delivered in English. View the Program & Bibliography Scholars are only beginning to consider the corpus of nearly one thousand extant...