Category Archives: World

Exposição de Laura Altschul na Hebraica SP

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Orlando teens attend new member convention

More than 60 teens in 8th-12th grade-40 of whom were from the Orlando area-attended a weekend convention in Lake Placid, Fla. Over the Jan. 30-Feb. 1 weekend, 40 Orlando BBYO members attended a weekend retreat in Lake Placid, Fla., with other teens from throughout the state of Florida. Read more » »

BB France- Association Yonathan Nathanyaou organise une soirée sur le thème Mélodies Mêlées

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BB de Grenoble: Conférence de l’historien Tal Bruttman

Le B’nai B’rith de Grenoble et L’association Consistoriale Juive de Grenoble RACHI vous invitent le 25 février 2015 à 20 H , 11, rue André Maginot à Grenoble à une conférence exceptionnelle par l’historien Tal Bruttmann. Read more » »

Jewish camp foundation launching 4 pilot efforts

The Foundation for Jewish Camp is launching two pilot programs to benefit Jewish day camps, as well as two programs for overnight camps. The programs, funded with grants from various foundations, are demonstration projects that the foundation, also known as the FJC, hopes to expand and replicate in the future. Read more » »

B’nai B’rith Writes To Urban Outfitters CEO, Urging Discontinuation of Concentration Camp …

Example of Urban Outfitter’s offensive print. B’nai B’rith International sent a letter to Chairman, President and CEO of Urban Outfitters Richard Hayne to express deep dismay over the inappropriate design used in a tapestry that clearly conjures up Holocaust imagery and trivializes the suffering of the victims. Read more » »

Remembering The Forward’s Jerry Koenig

Activist, Actor, AdMan and More Courtesy of Shulamith Koenig Jerry the Star: Koenig backstage with co-star Jeanne Moreau at a performance in Paris, 2009, for a performance of Amos Gitai’s „The War of the Sons of light Against the Sons of Darkness” By Friends and Family of Jerome Koenig Published February 12, 2015. Read more » »

From the Archive: Jews and the joint

In this scene from Showtime’s “Weeds,” Shane and Nancy Botwin (Alexander Gould and Mary-Louise Parker) pick up a bar mitzvah cake. The program, about a suburban drug-dealing mom, incorporated numerous Jewish details. Read more » »

Black History Month: William A. Reed Jr. was pioneering journalist

The Tennessean 2: 31 p.m. CST February 11, 2015 Bill Reed, the religion news editor, in The Tennessean’s newroom in 1981. (Photo: The Tennessean) Buy Photo William A. Reed Jr. was the first full-time African-American reporter hired by The Nashville Tennessean. Read more » »

B’nai B’rith RS promove Jantar Beneficente de Confraternização

No dia 7 de fevereiro, o Jantar de Confraternização e Beneficente da B’nai B’rith Rio Grande do Sul reuniu amigos e integrantes da instituição na Praia de Atlântida, no salão de festas de Beth e Wremyr Scliar. Read more » »