Category Archives: World
No Metrô e vários endereços: o Kleztival
Quinta edição do Kleztival – Festival de Música Klezmer – vai de 1º a 9 de novembro, com apresentaçőes nas estaçőes de metro Sé e Paraíso, Museu da Casa Brasileira, Comunidade Shalom, clube A Hebraica, Círculo Macabi, Centro da Cultura Judaica, Fundação Ema Klabin, entre outros espaços. Read more » »
Lançamento do livro „Carta de Chamada”
Dia 15 de novembro, o Núcleo de História Oral Gaby Becker lança o livro „Carta de Chamada – Relatos da Imigração Judaica em São Paulo de 1930 até 1942”, no VI Encontro do Arquivo Histórico Judaico Brasileiro AHJB, que acontecerá no Centro da Cultura Judaica. Read more » »
Kasim Hafeez – A Story of a Miraculous Transformation
Kasim Hafeez (32) could have easily turned into a jihadist terrorist. He was already on the right path. At home, in the United Kingdom (UK) Muslim community, and on campus, anti-Jewish and anti-Israel agitation was constant. Kasim’s own father harbored anti-Semitic sentiments. Read more » »
Brazil reelects Rousseff, Uruguay to hold presidential runoff
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who called Israel’s conflict this summer with Hamas „a massacre,” was reelected in a tight vote. Rousseff of the left-wing Workers’ Party edged Aecio Neves of the center-right Social Democracy Party, 51.6 to 48.4 percent, in a runoff Sunday to gain a new four-year term. Read more » »
Infographic: B’nai B’rith Bagel Brigade Taking A Bite Out Of Hunger
The Bagel Brigade has been in action for two decades, working seven days per week, 365 days a year, collecting bread donated by supermarkets, bagel shops, etc. and distributes it to people in need in Los Angeles.Their primary concern is to see that children do not go to school without breakfast and do not go to bed hungry. Read more » »
Brooklyn Eagle: B’nai B’rith Honors Brooklyn Nets’ Leader
B’nai B’rith International was featured in an article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle , honoring Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark for his humanitarian efforts with the Distinguished Achievement Award.Read an excerpt from the article, below: [… Read more » »
HFJN: B’nai B’rith Denounces Anti-Semitic I.D.C. Hecklers
B’nai B’rith International spoke unequivocally against those that shouted down Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) while he expressed pro-Israel sentiments at an „In Defense of Christians” (I.D.C.) dinner.The fallout from the speech was covered in an article in the Heritage Florida Jewish News , which referenced B’nai B’rith’s statement. Read more » »
Argentina: B’nai B’rith At 76th Anniversary of Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) in Buenos Aires
B’nai B’rith Argentina’s Commission on Interfaith Dialogue helped organize an interfaith event around the 76th anniversary of the Night of Broken Glass, a pogrom against Jews in Nazi Germany and Austria that saw tens of thousands rounded up and sent to concentration camps.The event will be help on Sunday, Nov. Read more » »
Pingpong fan donates table and time for weekly play
For 25 years La Mesa resident Mike Caprio has traveled twice a week to University City to play table tennis with friends. Ahead of a visit last summer from his grandchildren from Texas, the 81-year-old retired Navy captain began thinking about where he could play the game with them in La Mesa. Caprio said he „measured every room” in the Mt. Read more » »
News from the Benè Berith Giovani Rome – Stefano Gaj Tachè Lodge in Italy
The Benè Berith Giovani Rome – Stefano Gaj Tachè Lodge, which President is Mister Angelo M. Di Nepi, regained vitality over the 10 last months and is very active in the field of Tzedakà, training and interfaith dialogue: To encourage the experience of studying and working in the State of Israel, the Lodge promoted a grant of € 500. Read more » »
