Category Archives: World
Queens Museum Reinstates Israel Event After Outcry
NEW YORK (JTA ) — The Queens Museum will host an event commemorating the United Nations decision to establish a Jewish state, reversing a decision to cancel it. The museum, run by the New York City borough of Queens, is housed in the same building where the General Assembly vote partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab states took place on Nov. Read more » »
Johnny Cash’s family slams neo-Nazi who wore fan shirt: ‘We were sickened’
www.jta.org/wp-content/uplo… 156w, www.jta.org/wp-content/uplo… 350w, www.jta.org/wp-content/uplo… 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px”> Johnny Cash on his television series, “The Johnny Cash Show,” circa 1968. Read more » »
Art, history converge in Grunwald archive
On an early May morning in the mid-1930s, Gestapo officials barged into Fred Grunwald’s apartment building near Düsseldorf, demanding of the landlady, „Where is the Jew?”Once inside the businessman’s home, the officers declared that because he was a leader of the local B’nai B’rith lodge, they would search his apartment and arrest him. Read more » »
Swampscott project facing final Appeal
Rendering for Senior Residences at the Machon. (Courtesy Photo) SWAMPSCOTT — Plans for the affordable senior housing redevelopment of the shuttered Machon Elementary School continue to move forward. Read more » »
Silence Unacceptable When Nazis Are Marching in America
In the wake of Charlottesville, in the wake of the hate language spewing online and offline, in the wake of hate crimes that led to the vandalization — twice — of the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, in the wake of people of color and Read more » »
Region mit vielen Gesichtern
Im August, denkt man, ist nichts los, alle sind im Urlaub. Doch das stimmt nur bedingt. Denn für die Idee eines Tagesausflugs nach Nürnberg – angeregt von Bernhard Purin und Rachel Salamander – trommelten die B’nai-B’rith-Loge München und die Mitzwe Makers auf Anhieb fast zwei Dutzend Interessierte zusammen. Read more » »
Israel entrega ajuda alimentar à Serra Leoa
O país da África Ocidental ainda está se recuperando de um deslizamento de terra devastador que matou mais de 300 pessoas e deslocou mais de 3.000, números que tendem a aumentar. Read more » »
Instituto Weizmann de Ciências: 6º. lugar no ranking Nature Innovation Index 2017 (1º. lugar de fora
A revista Nature publicou o índice Nature Index 2017 do suplemento Innovation (Inovação) no qual o Instituto Weizmann de Ciências ocupa o sexto lugar no ranking internacional das melhores 200 instituiçőes de pesquisa. Read more » »
Professor de esquerda ligado a Israel aborda o antissemitismo nas esquerdas
„Convivo com gente da esquerda há décadas e, tendo uma relação muito forte com Israel e um conhecimento grande sobre a história israelense e judaica, observei muitas vezes comentários bastante infelizes sobre Israel e os judeus, feitos até mesmo por Read more » »
