Daily Archives: March 19, 2021
The exodus under Hitler’s rule
After many years of trying to locate the postcards written by the parents of Rabbi Chaim Meir Bukiet during the war, they were finally in my hands. As I flipped through them, several names...
Wiesenthal Centre at UN Human Rights Council Inquisition Against the Jewish State
The Wiesenthal Centre Director for International Relations and Observer to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Dr. Shimon Samuels, today sat through three excruciating hours of defamation of the State of...
March 19, 1933: Philip Roth, one of America’s most powerful and celebrated novelists, was...
Philip Roth, one of America’s most powerful and celebrated novelists, was born in Newark, New Jersey on this date in 1933. Roth’s twenty-seven novels range from out-and-out political satire (Our Gang, about Richard Nixon being...
After Pittsburgh and Atlanta, Senate Rules Still Threaten Gun-Control Bills
It is a relief to learn that the nearly 10 million Americans who live in Arizona, Montana and West Virginia feel safe from gun violence.
Three Democratic senators from these states will not take all...
Canadian Jewish groups urge political party to reject push to overturn IHRA definition
Canadian Jewish groups are urging the New Democratic Party (NDP) to reject a push by members to overturn the party’s support for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism.
In a letter spearheaded by the Centre for...
A profession where results don’t matter
Should we really care whether Colin Kahl becomes undersecretary of defense for policy? Some friends of Israel think that defeating his nomination for the third-ranking civilian post in the Pentagon matters a great deal...
The Collector Robert B. Feldman Donates Major Aerial Sculpture Installation by Mira Lehr to...
Dr. Robert B. Feldman, the New York-based art collector, has promised this large-scale installation by Mira Lehr as a gift to the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU.
The artwork, titled Sacred Dreams, is comprised of 183 aerial...
Jewish, pro-Israel groups express mixed reactions to adoption of California’s ethnic-studies track
Jewish and pro-Israel groups expressed mixed reaction to California’s approval of the state’s ethnic-studies curriculum that had become a flashpoint over concerns about anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias.
On Thursday, the State Board of Education unanimously approved the...
Watch “Who Knows One?” Yiddish-style: “Mu adabru, mu asapru” in 4-part harmony
Traditional Yiddish Passover song with Aramaic title
Akin to the English “Who Knows One?”
Choral arrangement: Binyumen Schaechter (2017-18)
This choral arrangement was funded by a grant from The Marinus and Minna B. Koster Foundation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq4RUs27Eas
Jewish People’s Philharmonic...
Anti-Semitic graffiti spray-painted on synagogue, JCC in Belarus
A swastika and the letters “SS” in the shape of lightning bolts were spray-painted on the building of a synagogue and Jewish community center in Gomel, Belarus, the European Jewish Congress (EJC) announced on Monday.
According to...