Category Archives: World
ONU aprova resolução contra a glorificação do nazismo
Proposta pela Rússia, a ONU aprovou – por 131 votos contra três e 48 abstençőes, entre as quais a de Portugal – resolução que condena a „glorificação do nazismo e outras práticas que contribuem para alimentar formas contemporâneas de racismo, discriminação racial, xenofobia e intolerância”. Read more » »
Exposição Women and Their Olive Trees
A WIZO-SP apresenta a inspiradora exposição artística Women and Their Olive Trees, que fala de dentro do coração para todos os coraçőes. Read more » »
Muss upbeat as market keeps firm busy
Jason Muss, principal of Muss Development, discussed four of his company’s biggest and best known properties before an audience of real estate professionals at the monthly B’nai B’rith Real Estate luncheon at the Cornell Club.Each property was defined by one of four themes: renovate, retenant, build and buy. Read more » »
‘The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016’ Takes a Different Approach, This Year
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) US: Oct 2016As a teenager, while my classmates attended B’nai B’rith Youth Organization meetings or played afterschool sports, I read. My reading was indiscriminate and often uncomprehending: Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William S. Burroughs, Paul Bowles, Herman Hesse. Read more » »
MAHONEY: The unforgettable Antonietta Zupcic
Some people deserve especially to be remembered, so that the example they represented in the past can help rescue a future they’re no longer able to light the way into.Not everyone can be like Antonietta Zupcic, but if even two out of three or four of us were, this world would have better than fighting odds of being the paradise it could be. Read more » »
Indigenous activist is new ‘face’ of B’nai Brith Canada
JTA — Activist Ryan Bellerose sees Israel as not just „a light unto nations” in a general sense — it’s a prescription, too.Specifically, the State of Israel, whose establishment Bellerose considers the „greatest human rights story ever,” can offer a blueprint for securing land and rights for indigenous tribes around the world. Read more » »
„Sharansky, o dissidente, vem a SP”
Natan Sharansky, um dos ícones da dissidência russa, o primeiro prisioneiro libertado por Gorbachev ao assumir o poder, veio ao Brasil onde cumpre extensa agenda nas cidades de São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro. O presidente a Agência Judaica falou em São Paulo para jovens de 18 a 35 anos, sobre: „Democracia é Liberdade?”. Read more » »
„STF, vaquejada e abate religioso”
Artigo do Dr. Hédio Silva Jr., na Folha de São Paulo No julgamento em que examinou a regulamentação da vaquejada, o Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) concluiu acertadamente que essa manifestação cultural implicava crueldade e maus-tratos aos animais. Na vaquejada o boi é enclausurado, açoitado, instigado a correr e tem sua cauda retorcida até cair. Read more » »
