Category Archives: World
Deaths for the week of April 6, 2018
Regina “Rifka” Dombek born May 7, 1926 to Joseph Sofnoski and Edith Fishman. Passed from this life on March 30, 2018. Loving mother to Bobbie Dombek Lince of Hillsborough, CA, Edward Dombek of Burlingame, CA, and Joseph Dombek. Mother-in-law to Edward Lince and Elda Dombek. Loving grandmother to Eric Levy, Stacy LaRosa and Justin Dombek. Read more » »
Broward Circuit Judge Lisa Porter Announces Resignation
Law.comBroward Circuit Judge Lisa Porter Announces ResignationLaw.comShe received national attention for her work fighting white-collar crime, including her 1995 pursuit of Mutual Benefits Corp. for a billion-dollar insurance fraud. That case forced the company out of business and inspired an episode of CNBC’s “American … Read more » »
B’nai B’rith World Center And Keren Kayemeth Leisrael To Hold A Unique Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony Marking The Heroism Of Jewish Rescuers
Ceremony Dedicated To Rescue Efforts of the Jewish Resistance in FranceThe B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL-JNF) will hold for the 16th consecutive year, a unique joint Holocaust commemoration ceremony on Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah, Thursday, April 12). Read more » »
The Algemeiner: EU and UN Go AWOL on Hamas’ Gaza March
B’nai B’rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin published an op-ed in The Algemeiner about the bias inherent in the European Union’s and the United Nations’ response to the clash between Israeli military and Palestinian protesters at Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip. Read more » »
Song To Book
Andy Gutman started writing poetry when he was a student at Southfield-Lathrup High School. Soon, he began turning those verses into songs. Andy GutmanAt Michigan State University, Gutman continued his expressiveness while pursuing a degree in accounting. Read more » »
Invitation B’nai B’rith UK
REMEMBERING THE SHOAHWednesday, April 11Light a memorial candle for Yom HaShoah in memory of the 6,000,000 Jews murdered by the Third German ReichAlan Miller, President BBUK«The Shoah, along with the World Wars of the 20th century, is now passing into history. Read more » »
Invitation POLIN Loge Warsaw
InvitationPOLIN Loge WarsawWE COLLECT SIGNATURES UNTILThursday, April 5We collect signatures of Jewish people in support Polish NGOs”who do not agree with how current policy casts a pall over the Polish-Jewish relations developed over the years”« Read more » »
JTA.org: Jewish Leaders to Attend Memphis March and Atlanta Funeral Rites (April 8, 1968)
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency published archival documents from April 8, 1968. One of the documents describes the memorial service held by B’nai B’rith at its building in Washington, D.C. after the assassination of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Read on JTA. Read more » »
Philly Faces: A Leader Since Middle School
Serena Shapero | Photo providedWhile most middle schoolers probably think as far into the future as lunchtime, Serena Shapero was already grooming herself for a career with the Anti-Defamation League. Shapero volunteered for the ADL as a preteen and fell in love with the gig. Read more » »
Jeremy Havardi BBLBIA writes to Rt. Hon Jeremy Corbyn MP
04/04/2018| Advocacy, anti-Semitic, BB London Bureau of International Affairs, BBLBIA, BBLBIA News, BBUK| Jeremy Havardi, Director of BBLBIA writes to Leader of the Oppostion Rt. Hon Jeremy Corbyn MP Rt. Read more » »
