Category Archives: World
B’nai B’rith International Commends Modern Language Association For Rejecting BDS
B’nai B’rith International has issued the following statement: B’nai B’rith International commends the Modern Language Association (MLA) for rejecting a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) initiative that would have targeted Israel for discrimination. The MLA, founded in 1883, promotes the teaching and study of language and literature. Read more » »
Chasing Dreams Baseball Exhibit Opens In Fort Worth
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook |Twitter FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A traveling exhibit about how Jews and other minorities overcame prejudice to succeed in baseball, is on display in Fort Worth now through March 5. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith Deplores Terrorist Truck Ramming In Eastern Jerusalem
B’nai B’rith International has issued the following statement: B’nai B’rith International strongly condemns the barbaric truck ramming that occurred on Jan. 8 in eastern Jerusalem. The rampage killed four and wounded at least 15. Read more » »
Harry Themal: New Castle County’s gruesome 1903 lynching by fire
Harry Themal 8: 02 a.m. ET Jan. 9, 2017 Harry Themal (Photo: SUCHAT PEDERSON/THE NEWS JOURNAL, SUCHAT PEDERSON/THE NEWS JOURNAL) Buy Photo Sunday is the birthday anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., observed the next day as a federal holiday that honors the minister who spoke for nonviolent activism in the civil rights movement. Read more » »
RASSEMBLEMENT DE SOLIDARITE AVEC ISRAEL & AVEC JERUSALEM
Le B’nai B’rith France appelle à participer au rassemblement unitaire de solidarité avec Israël et avec Jérusalem Dimanche 15 Janvier à 11h Devant l’Ambassade d’Israël à Paris 3 rue Rabelais 75008 Paris « Pour réaffirmer notre soutien à Israël et à Read more » »
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Le B’nai B’rith France et son Président Serge Dahan dénoncent la « Conférence internationale sur la paix au Proche-Orient » qui doit se tenir à Paris le 15 janvier prochain, organisée par la France, et à laquelle doivent participer 70 pays, en l’absence d’Israël. Read more »
County health departments release restaurant inspection scores for November
PEORIA COUNTYInspections conducted by the Peoria City/County Health Department for November have been released. Monthly results with a score of fewer than 80 points and those scoring 100 points are published.100 scorersArby’s Restaurant, 1514 W. Hickory Grove Road, DunlapB’nai B’rith Kitchen, 215 W. Sam J. Stone Ave., PeoriaCorner Inn, 118 S. Read more » »
US Jewish groups welcome House of Representatives vote of resolution opposing anti-Israel UN
WASHINGTON— US Jewish groups warmly welcomed the vote by the House of Representative of a motion expressing opposition to the UN Security Council resolution against settlements after the US abstained instead of using its veto power. Read more » »
The spy who endured his mother’s nagging
I was gripped by the story this week of the Cold War Czech agent Vaclav Jelinek who posed as a Dutchman called Erwin van Haarlem and tried to spy on the Queen. He started by working in the restaurant of the Hilton hotel on Park Lane so that he could see into Buckingham Palace from the 24th floor. Read more » »
Harris Newmark: Jewish Patriarch, Pioneer Businessman, Angeleño
Los Angeles was a city made of mud – of adobe, which is dried mud – when Harris Newmark arrived in 1853. Read more » »
