Category Archives: World
Talbot Fisher: Display an archive of local Jewish history
Talbot Fisher The Register-Mail TalbotFisher16 GALESBURG — On the second floor of Seymour Library at Knox College, nestled and carefully arranged under glass, are artifacts of the Jewish community of Galesburg. Read more »
Oxford University Press Blog: What the House-Senate Conference Committee should do about the Johnson Amendment
The Oxford University Press Blog referenced B’nai B’rith International’s critique of Section 5201 of the recent tax bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Read more » »
Scholarship Available For Jewish Female Graduate Student
B’nai B’rith Announces 2018 Sally R. Schneider Scholarship for New York City-Area StudentB’nai B’rith International will award the annual Sally R. Schneider Scholarship to a deserving Jewish female graduate student in the spring of 2018. Applications are now being accepted. Read more » »
What the House-Senate Conference Committee should do about the Johnson Amendment
The Johnson Amendment is the part of Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) which bans tax-exempt institutions from participating in political campaigns. The US House of Representatives has passed H.R.1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, to revise the Code. Section 5201 of H.R. 1 would modify the Johnson Amendment. Read more » »
Pro-Palestinian Groups Attack Administration Nominee for Opposing Israeli Boycott
Email a copy of „Pro-Palestinian Groups Attack Administration Nominee for Opposing Israeli Boycott” to a friend Kenneth Marcus speaking at the Louis D. Brandeis Center’s fourth annual National Law Student Leadership Conference. Photo: Louis D. Brandeis Center. JNS.org – Leaders of major American Jewish organizations are rallying around Kenneth L. Read more » »
Senate Tax Reform Plan Could Have Dire Implications for Seniors
B’nai B’rith International President Gary P. Saltzman and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin have issued the following statement: The U.S. Senate’s vote in favor of a tax reform package could have a dire impact on our nation’s seniors. Many economists point to a huge increase in the deficit from this bill. Read more » »
Times of Israel: UN marks palestine day with fresh slew of resolutions condemning israel
The Times of Israel included a statement by B’nai B’rith International regarding a United Nations resolution that did not refer to a shared holy site in Jerusalem as the Temple Mount in addition to the title al-Aqsa. B’nai B’rith International’s statement noted, „This rebrands Judaism’s holiest site as solely an Islamic one. Read more » »
UN marks Palestine Day with fresh slew of resolutions condemning Israel
The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday passed six resolutions described by a watchdog group as “anti-Israel,” marking 70 years since the world body’s partition plan carved Mandate Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state that never came to be. Read more » »
Cloud City
Some stories can be devoured time and again. Knowing the outcome is irrelevant. The story is so riveting that each time the reader is tricked into thinking it could end otherwise. I’ve found these in fiction — Gone With the Wind, for example — and also in non-fiction. The rags to riches to rags story of Horace “Haw” Tabor is such a tale. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith Denounces U.N. General Assembly For Passing Six Rote Anti-Israel Resolutions
B’nai B’rith International President Gary P. Saltzman and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin have issued the following statement: B’nai B’rith International denounces the United Nations General Assembly for yet again passing six resolutions singling out Israel Read more » »
