Tag: Conference
After Orthodoxy: Cultural Creativity and the Break with Tradition
Conference Sep 15 9:00am-10:00pm and Sep 16 10:00am-1:30pm
Co-sponsored by the University of Toronto, the Jewish Studies Center at Hunter College, Footsteps, and Hillel (Israel)
In Person:
Admission: Free
Registration is required.
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There is a widespread fascination with stories about leaving the Orthodox...
Tkhines: women’s prayers
OUR SUMMER OF TKHINES
Welcome to the enchanting world of tkhines, those beautiful individualized Yiddish prayers that connect us to our heritage! This online event is a golden opportunity to hear from esteemed speakers Rabbi Marna Sapsowitz and Yiddish...
Hadassah adopts policy positions on Jew-hatred, reproductive rights, wartime sexual violence
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, has adopted three new policy positions inspired by Hamas, anti-Israel activists and the 2022 Supreme Court decision reversing Roe v. Wade.
The group announced on Monday that attendees of its midyear...
Announcing the 2024 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series, beginning June
June 25 - July 25 | On Zoom
This summer's Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series takes place on Tuesdays and Thursdays from June 25 to July 25. Featuring some of the field’s leading scholars, it will cover...
Entrepreneurs, executives pitch Israeli resilience at Mind the Tech conference
For some, though, their thoughts are not about the events of October 2023 but about next October … and the Octobers to come after that.
At this year’s Mind the Tech conference that was held in...
In historic first, Israeli minister delivers speech in Riyadh
Israeli Minister of Communications Shlomo Karhi spoke at a conference in Saudi Arabia's capital on Wednesday, marking the first speech by an Israeli minister in the country.
"As demonstrated by the Abraham Accords, when nations...
Moms for Liberty summit rescheduled to avoid Rosh Hashanah
Moms for Liberty, a parents-rights group and Orthodox Jewish ally that the Southern Poverty Law Center has called a hate group, announced recently that its third annual Joyful Warrior Summit has been rescheduled to Aug. 28-31,...
Israel on Campus Coalition summit in DC has its staff talking about the weather
So much for the conspiracy theory of Jews controlling the weather.
Some intending to go to the Israel on Campus Coalition National Leadership Summit this week had difficulty getting to Washington, due to intense storms and even...
‘Act of cowardice,’ French Jewish leader says of judge reversing ban on speaker with...
First, a Palestinian-French lawyer, with ties to a terrorist group, was slated to speak in Lyon. Then the French city’s mayor canceled the conference. Following that, a judge intervened and reinstated it.
In the end,...
United Nations to hold meeting in Spain to examine internal antisemitism
Miguel Moratinos, charged with monitoring antisemitism and enhancing a system-wide response with the United Nations, told JNS that an intergovernmental group would hold a meeting in Cordoba, Spain, in June to discuss an action and response...