Category Archives: World
B’nai B’rith Dismayed Over Cancellation Of Event Marking 70th Anniversary Of U.N. Resolution
Sends Letter to Museum Leaders B’nai B’rith International sent a letter to the Queens Museum, dismayed over the cancellation of an event marking the 70th anniversary of the passage of the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181, which endorsed the establishment of a Jewish state. Read more » »
Brian Schiff’s Maccabi Basketball Recipe Still Good as Gold, Even 18 Years Later
Before Brian Schiff became an institution in Maccabi basketball circles, he was a chef, working in various restaurants and even briefly owning a catering business. Read more » »
The President Needs To Show Moral Clarity On Charlottesville Violence
B’nai B’rith International has issued the following statement: President Trump has returned to an indefensible position on the sickening violence that took place in Charlottesville at the „Unite the Right” rally. Instead of asserting leadership and forcefully condemning the alt-right, he is once again equivocating. Read more » »
Klan 2.0
Scholarship on the Ku Klux Klan long ago reached the stage of high granularity, with monographs focusing on the state and local level (there is a book-length study of the Klan in Utah, for example, and one focusing on El Paso, Tex. Read more » »
Fitzgerald: Hate groups’ racist, irrational message shows how far we have to go
It’s so easy to revile them, to regard them with anger, with contempt, yet anyone who links his or her self-worth to anti-Semitism or overt racism is, most of all, flat-out pathetic.Think about it. How do you hate someone you’ve never met?Here’s how illogical that is.Just before Christmas 1993, M.L. Read more » »
Triple J slammed over white nationalist interview
15 Aug 2017, 1: 42 p.m.Triple J’s Hack program and its host Tom Tilley have come under fire for giving airtime to a white nationalist.Triple J’s Hack program and its host Tom Tilley have come under fire for giving airtime to a white nationalist.On Monday night’s program, Tilley grilled one of the organisers of the deadly Charlottesville protests. Read more » »
Rep. Grace Meng Visits B’nai B’rith Apartments; Talks With 70 Low-Income Seniors
Rep. Grace Meng speaks to residents of Nathan I. Nagler Queens B’nai B’rith House in Flushing. B’nai B’rith International President Gary P. Saltzman and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin have issued the following statement: U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y. Read more » »
Daughter of US Ambassador David Friedman immigrates to Israel
Talia Freidman, a trained nurse in her 20s, will become an Israeli but will retain her American citizenshipTalia Freidman, daughter of US Ambassador to the United States David Friedman, will officially immigrate to Israel on Tuesday, taking up Read more » »
A intolerância religiosa no Brasil
Minha avó nasceu em Rachaya, uma vila libanesa que se localiza próxima ao que é atualmente a tríplice fronteira entre o Líbano, Israel e Síria, aos pés do Monte Hermon. Meus bisavós, com ela ainda criança e alguns irmãos, decidiram imigrar quando soldados senegaleses lutando pela França invadiram a vila destruindo casas e mesmo igrejas. Read more » »
