Category Archives: World
Rally for gun control, Parkland victims held in downtown Wilkes-Barre
On Feb. 18, a rally was held on Public Square in downtown Wilkes-Barre to remember the victims of the Parkland shooting in Florida last week, and to demand action regarding gun control. The event was organized by Action Together NEPA, a group dedicated to promoting community action and political advocacy. Dr. Read more » »
Jerusalem Post: Jewish Groups Slam Hosting of BDS Founder at European Parliament
The Times of Israel published an article about the Jewish communal opposition to the European Parliament’s invitation of BDS founder Omar Barghouti to speak there. B’nai B’rith International was a co-signer of the public Jewish communal statement. Read more » »
Jerusalem Post: In Open Letter, Polish Jews Say They Don’t Feel Safe in Poland
The Jerusalem Post names B’nai B’rith International as a signatory among the Jewish organizations that collaborated to write an open letter opposing the burgeoning anti-Semitism in Poland. Read more » »
Teen Essay Targets Hate
Icesha Sanders acknowledges that when she heard the news about the Parkland, Fla., high school shooting Wednesday, Feb. 14, she broke down in tears. Two days later, the Marietta Middle School eighth-grader was bringing tears to adults as she read an essay she wrote months ago that decried the hatred and bigotry behind mass shootings. Read more » »
Klein of BDO USA speaks at B’nai B’rith Real Estate luncheon February 6th
Shown above (from left) are: Stuart Eisenberg of BDO USA; Robert Shapiro of Newmark, Knight, Frank; Gerald Morganstern of Goetz Fitzpatrick; Robert Klein of BDO USA; Amy Rosenthal of BDO USA; Lydia Sklar of Sklar Realty Group; Phyllis Weisberg of Read more » »
A. Bernard Solomon
A. Bernard Solomon Charleston – A. Bernard Solomon, 91, of Charleston, South Carolina, husband of Theresa Banner Solomon entered into eternal rest Sunday, February 18, 2018. His Funeral Service will be held Tuesday, February 20, 2018 in Synagogue Emanu-El, 5 Windsor Drive at 11: 00 a.m. Interment, Emanu-El Cemetery (Maryville). Arrangements by J. Read more » »
Rally against gun violence held on Public Square
WILKES-BARRE — Martha Hart remembers being awakened in the middle of the night with a gun to her head by a husband who was convinced she was cheating on him — a husband who owned the gun legally. Read more » »
Residents rally against ‘weapons of war’ in WB
Article Tools WILKES-BARRE — Olanda Carter is tired of the tears. She cried when her son, Tyzheke Seward, 23, was shot dead in a field behind Interfaith Heights apartments in 2014, in a murder that remains unsolved to this day. Read more » »
Hosting BDS founder at European Parliament encourages anti-Semitism, Jewish leaders say
(JTA) — The Jewish communities of Lisbon and Belgium protested a Portuguese lawmaker’s invitation to a founder of the boycott movement against Israel to speak at the European Parliament in Brussels. Read more » »
