Category Archives: World
Advocacy, Access, Action: B’nai B’rith Spans Three Centuries Doing Good Works
New York’s Lower East Side. 1843. It’s dirty. It’s crowded. Conditions are not great for Jewish immigrants. Into that scene arrives 12 German Jews who meet at a beer hall — Sinsheimer’s Café — to discuss ways to make their lives and the lives of their families and the greater Jewish community, better in their new country. Read more » »
Topsfield’s top dog
The Salem NewsTopsfield’s top dogThe Salem NewsTOPSFIELD — When the Topsfield Fair general manager and board of directors set out to find a special event to mark its 200th anniversary, food seemed like a good theme — it being a country fair and all — so they went with the fair’s first-ever hot … Read more » »
Le Bnai Brith « se réserve » le droit de porter plainte contre le CFTC Loire
L’association juive B’nai Brith France a annoncé dimanche « se réserver le droit de porter plainte » contre la branche locale de la Loire du syndicat CFTC de la Loire. Ce dernier a partagé sur LinkedIn un article du site Démocratie participative, déjà épinglé à plusieurs reprises pour son antisémitisme outrancier. Read more » »
Mark your calendars: These are New York’s top real estate events next week
Mark your calendars: These are New York’s top real estate events next week There will be new real estate events in New York City next week. On Oct. 10, Brownstoner and QNS are hosting their Real Estate Conference event from 8 a.m. to noon at the Brooklyn Expo Center, 72 Noble Street. Read more » »
Rabbi David Fox Sandmel Delivers 25th Annual Monsignor John M. Oesterreicher Memorial Lecture on Christian …
Scholar and interfaith activist Rabbi David Fox Sandmel, Ph.D., will present „Come Let Us Reason Together: Jewish Responses to the Catholic Church’s New Teachings on Judaism” at the 25th Monsignor John M. Oesterreicher Memorial Lecture on Thursday, October 25, 2018, from 7 to 9 p.m. in Jubilee Hall Auditorium. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith is relocating to Beth Weizmann Jewish Community Centre
Browse > Home / Have You Heard? / B’nai B’rith is relocating to Beth Weizmann Jewish Community Centre October 5, 2018 by Community newsdesk Read on for article After eight years in rented office premises in Kooyong Road, B’nai B’rith Victoria’s Read more » »
JNS: State Department: No ‘Jerusalem, Israel’ on US Passports
Despite the United States recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December and relocating its embassy from Tel Aviv in May, Americans born in Jerusalem are still unable to list “Jerusalem, Israel” on U.S. passports. Read more » »
Bulgaria Defends Decorating Controversial War Veteran Despite Protests
Bulgarian Defense Ministry sees nothing wrong in its decision to award a 96-year-old former ‘legionnaire’ and World War II fighter, despite Jewish organisations in Bulgaria saying it glorified ‘people with a Nazi past and present’. Bulgarian Legionaries commemorating the death of controversial War Minister and general, Hristo Lukov. Read more » »
3 Sports, Championships
Gary Klinger has won a B’nai B’rith sports triple crown over the past several months. His team won the championship of the Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson bowling league this spring. He was a member of the Temple Israel No. 6 squad that won the Greenberg Division title in the Inter-Congregational Men’s Club Summer Softball League. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith to Celebrate 175 Years of Service to the World at Anniversary Gala Dinner
B’nai B’rith International President Gary P. Saltzman and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin have issued the following statement: We are pleased to announce our 175th anniversary gala dinner will take place on Oct. 15 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. Read more » »
