Category Archives: World
The inevitable politicization of International Holocaust Remembrance Day
When President Donald Trump left Jews out of his remarks for International Holocaust Remembrance Day last year, he inadvertently gave the relatively new commemoration an unprecedented amount of publicity. Read more » »
Nous vivrons, parce qu’eux ne vivent plus
Demain 27 janvier, triste anniversaire de la libération du camp d’Auschwitz, nous vivrons à la Mémoire des six millions de nos frères et sœurs martyrisés, assassinés, exterminés parce que juifs. Nous vivrons pour rester les témoins des témoins de l’indicible et de la nuit. Read more » »
Rassemblement devant la Cour d’Appel de Metz Lors de l’audience devant la cour d’appel
Les Loges de la région Est du B’nai B’rith France ont organisé un rassemblement devant la Cour d’Appel de Metz le Jeudi 18 janvier 2018 à l’occasion du procès en appel contre l’incitation au boycott du président de BDS 57. Read more » »
This Jewish man saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazis
B’nai B’rith confers Jewish Rescuers Citation on 98-year-old who saved hundreds of escaping Jews from the Nazis. Read more »
Amir Benayoun finally receives visa to perform at UN ceremony
January 26, 2018 09: 58 2 minute read. The Last Survivor to be performed at the UN in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2018 At the very last minute, Israeli singer and songwriter Amir Benayoun received a visa to the United States and will appear at the UN on Monday. Read more » »
Falsely Accused Terrorism Suspect Released After 10-Year Ordeal
January 25, 2018 Sociology professor Hassan Diab, who was accused of a terrorist attack in Paris over ten years ago, and who Canada extradited to France three years ago, was just released. Diab talks to TRNN about his ordeal in one of his first interviews upon his return Members don’t see ads. Read more » »
Bulgarian Ambassador To The U.S. Addresses B’nai B’rith Diplomatic Encounter Series
Bulgarian Ambassador to the United States Tihomir Stoytchev addressed the B’nai B’rith Diplomatic Encounter Series luncheon on Jan. 24 and talked about Bulgaria’s history of cooperation and friendship with the Jewish people. Read more » »
Kohn makes pitch to Accelerate 2018
Katie Kohn will be among 25 civic visionaries in Cleveland who will pitch their ideas to create positive change within the community at Cleveland Leadership Center’s Accelerate 2018: Citizens Make Change event Feb. 21. Read more » »
Hydrofracking and Jewish Summer Camp
Now it is freezing and snowy, but summer camp enrollment is taking place. Parlor meetings often feature a video tour of the camps’ facilities. Read more » »
More than 12000 Philadelphians died in the flu pandemic of 1918. My aunt was one of them
In the fall of 1918, Elizabeth Conway was 3 years old, but knew she had a big job to do. Her twin brothers, then 6, were so sick they couldn’t get out of their beds in the family’s home in the Olney section of Philadelphia. So were the children’s Irish immigrant parents, Patrick and Margaret, who just months earlier lost a baby to stillbirth. Read more » »
