Category Archives: World
Bibby Financial Services Appoints Kastner to Head of Business Unit
Bibby Financial Services announces the promotion of Barry Kastner to Executive Vice President, Head of Business for the company’s large business unit after being hired to lead the company’s asset-based lending platform just four months prior. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith to Honor Boston Red Sox and President/CEO Larry Lucchino with Community Achievement …
B’nai B’rith International has selected the Boston Red Sox and club President/CEO Larry Lucchino to receive its Community Achievement Award, which recognizes the positive impact of key corporate leaders in their respective communities. The award ceremony will take place on Nov. 17, 2015, at historic Fenway Park in Boston. Read more » »
Natalie Portman: Jewish Community Should Focus Less On The Holocaust
This time, her critics aren’t film reviewers. Natalie Portman, the Israeli-born, Harvard-educated, Oscar-winning actress, is being called on the carpet — gently, that is — for comments she made last week about the Jewish community’s emphasis on Holocaust education. Read more » »
Thumbs up, thumbs down
Thumbs up to U.S. Army Capt. Kristen Greist , of Orange, one of the first two females to ever complete the Army’s elite Ranger School. The other who finished the grueling 62-day combat training program is 1st Lt. Shaye Haver , of Texas. The 26-year-old Greist is a military police officer who graduated from West Point in 2011. Read more » »
Jewish Groups Want ‘Religious Freedom’ Discrimination Exception Reversed
More than a dozen Jewish organizations signed on to a letter urging President Barack Obama to instruct the Justice Department to reverse a legal opinion that allows religious organizations to avoid religious nondiscrimination laws in hiring. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith Disappointed By Natalie Portman’s Questioning Of Holocaust Education Emphasis
B’nai B’rith International has issued the following statement: B’nai B’rith International is disappointed by Israeli-born actress Natalie Portman’s questioning of Holocaust education’s emphasis within a Jewish education, especially in comparison to other genocides. Read more » »
Rabino Schlesinger avalia os 50 anos de diálogo católico-judaico
À luz do encontro com o Papa Francisco, Michel Schlesinger, rabino da CIP e representante da Conib para o diálogo inter-religioso, avalia os 50 anos de diálogo católico-judaico. Leia abaixo seu depoimento: „Tradicionalmente, os textos judaicos são estudados em duplas. Duas pessoas leem juntas a mesma passagem e a debatem. Read more » »
UAlbany’s off-campus ambassadors aim to ease town-gown relations
UAlbany students part of effort to improve town/gown relations By Jordan Carleo-Evangelist Updated 7: 33 am, Monday, August 24, 2015 gallery thumbnails photo|photo-8525063|article-gallery-6461118|1 gallery thumbnails Read more » »
Greater Huntington Wall of Fame 2015 inductees announced
Lori Wolfe/The Herald-Dispatch The 2015 inductees to the Greater Huntington Wall of Fame will be honored with a ceremony Thursday, Oct. 15, at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena. Submitted photo Troy Fitzgerald Brown Submitted photo Nancy Jane Carter Submitted photo Dr. H. Darrel Darby Submitted photo David A. Read more » »
The False Choice Between Diplomacy And War (being advanced by supporters of the nuclear deal with
By Eric Fusfield the B’nai B’rith International director of legislative affairs and the deputy director of the B’nai B’rith International Center for Human Rights and Public Policy „Let’s not mince words,” President Obama told an audience at American University on August 5, in defense of the Iran nuclear agreement. Read more » »
