Category Archives: World
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 » »
Host Sites Keep School in Session for Crane Students
Congregation B’nai B’rith, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Boys and Girls Club open doors to displaced pupils By Elizabeth Karlsberg for Crane School | January 24, 2018 | 8: 15 p.m. After a weeklong hiatus following Montecito’s devastating mudslides and tragic loss of life, Crane Country Day School students headed back to class on Jan. 18. Read more » »
VIDEO VAULT | A look back at 1983’s Top 10 Most Influential Men in Nevada
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — In early 1983, News 3 put together a list of the Top 10 most influential men in Nevada. The story below is how reporter Rob McCoy summed it up 35 years ago, with some footnotes added: „At the top of our list, 83-year-old Moe Dalitz1,” McCoy began. Read more » »
Will New ‘Religious Freedom’ Rules Allow Bias?
Under federal regulations proposed last week, a hospital aide could refuse to wheel a patient to her car after she receives an abortion. A hospital clerk could choose not to process the paperwork of a patient who had her tubes tied after giving birth. Read more » »
After Knesset Speech, Major US Jewish Groups Praise VP Pence for Support of Israel
Email a copy of „After Knesset Speech, Major US Jewish Groups Praise VP Pence for Support of Israel” to a friend US Vice President Mike Pence addresses the Knesset in Jerusalem, Jan. 22, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Ariel Schalit / Pool. Read more » »
Bremer County deeds: Jan. 2-12, 2018
Waverly Newspapers will be publishing its year-end issue that will include the top 10 news stories and subjects from 2017. We have our picks, but we want to hear what you think. Vote for the story or subject that we covered in 2017 that you think is the best by Dec. 23. We will have your picks and our picks in the Dec. Read more » »
Greek News: Third International Leadership Mission of Greek and Jewish American Organizations concluded
Greek News published an article discussing the conclusion of B’nai B’rith International’s three-country leadership mission to Greece, Cyprus and Israel with partner organizations the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (Order of Read more » »
American Hellenic, American Jewish Groups Hail Third Three-Country Leadership Mission
An 18-member delegation of leaders of the American Hellenic and American Jewish organizations completed a third, three-country Leadership Mission to Greece, Cyprus and Israel, to explore the major political, economic and security developments underway in the eastern Mediterranean and to advance the interests of the United States in the region. Read more » »
