Monthly Archives: July 2020
Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain dies after contracting COVID-19
Businessman and former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has died at age 74 as a result of the coronavirus, his website posted on Thursday.
While it wasn’t certain how he contracted COVID-19, he did attend U.S. President...
Israelis in the US to show solidarity with Israeli protesters!
San Francisco & New York – A group of Israeli activists who relocated to the US has decided to be pro-active and to support their brothers and sisters in Israel, demonstrating against the Anti-Democratic regulations...
Jews and Blacks: Failure to communicate
Movie fans should recognize this line from Cool Hand Luke: “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.”
Such a sentiment aptly describes relations between the Black and Jewish communities, as Rodney Muhammad, president of...
July 31, 1919: Primo Levi, Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor, was born
Italian Jewish chemist Primo Levi survived a year at Auschwitz against all odds. He is best known for his moving memoirs 'If This Is a Man' and 'The Periodic Table.'
Synopsis
Born on July 31, 1919,...
Operation Hallel
The Last Secular Jew in Israel
It’s no secret that a tremendous spiritual revolution is approaching in Israel. Even the secular Jews know it, and that’s why they’re so uptight. In a big way, it’s...
“A bayshpil”, sung by Jacob Gorelik
Jacob (Yankev) Gorelik was born in Schedrin (Shchadryn, Scadryn) Belarus, and came to the US in the 1920s. This performance was recorded at a concert in New York City on November 10th, 1990, organized...
The community-relations outreach trap
Maybe everything would be better if we could all go for walks in the woods with people who say or tweet hateful and deeply offensive things. Then again, maybe the Jewish community would be...
The new normal of Jewish education and engagement
Many discussions taking place right now about a “new normal” for Jewish education and engagement that assumes that the organizational infrastructure of the North American Jewish community will look very different on the other...
The progressive world: An antechamber to evil
After days of anti-Semitic rants on social media, the “Grime” rapper Wiley has finally been barred from Twitter and Facebook following outrage by Jews and others that he was allowed to use these platforms for his...
Twitter to Knesset Committee: Khamenei’s calls to destroy Israel don’t violate our guidelines
A Twitter official said on Wednesday that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s calls for the genocide of the Jews do not violate the social-media platform’s rules.
Speaking with Israel’s Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and...