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Ulysses S. Grant receives an overdue promotion | Grafton and …

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Soldier’s letters tell story of WWII

Allentown man’s 600 missives home found in family’s attic Charles Fletcher is seen during his Army service in World War II. The letters he wrote nearly daily and sent home to his family were found by his grandson, Joshua Gerstein, and compiled in a book, “Love and Kisses, Charlie. WWII Letters from a Jewish-American Serviceman. Read more » »

Divided Congress to be sworn in next week. What does it mean for Israel? – The Jerusalem Post

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Reading high-rise residents spend the night in shelter after power outage

Armand Maheu was watching television Monday morning in his apartment on the 11th floor of B’Nai B’Rith Apartments in downtown Reading when the TV screen went dark. His first thought was it was time to buy a new TV set. Then he noticed the lights were out in the kitchen. Read more » »

Jake’s Place: The Story of United Radio Service

PHOTO CREDIT: OHA COLLECTION United Radio Service’s founder, Jacob Hyman Rubenstein, was born in Pinsk, Russia in 1903, the oldest of eight children. At the age of eight, he left the Russian Empire with his mother, Freida, two sisters, Belle and Gertrude, and brother, Levi, to join their father, David, in the United States. Read more » »

A Hanukkah Carol

(Our story takes place in December 1954 in theEast Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York. The community is populated almost exclusively by Jewish and Italian immigrants. Read more » »

Eleanor Lipkin Obituary (2022) – Legacy Remembers

NorfolkEleanor „Ellie” Leon Lipkin, passed away at home on December 22, 2022. Proud to have been raised in Berkeley, she then became a lifelong resident of Norfolk. She was the daughter of the late Benjamin and Helen Goodman Leon. She was preceded in death by her husband Paul M. Lipkin and sister Phyllis Green. Read more » »

Reading high-rise without power; tenants bused to warming shelter

READING, Pa. – The American Red Cross said 56 people — all from the B’nai B’rith apartments in Reading were brought to a shelter at Southwest Middle School Monday. Authorities said people at the apartments on Franklin Street have been without power for a day. People have been brought to the shelter to get warm. Read more » »

B’nai B’rith repudia antissemitismo do Sr. Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. e a abstenção dos Srs. Luis Nassif e Pedro Costa Jr.

A B’nai B’rith, a mais antiga instituição judaica de defesa dos direitos humanos do mundo, que está completando 90 anos de existência no Brasil e 180 anos internacionalmente, tem entre seus objetivos o combate ao antissemitismo, assim como todas as manifestações de racismo e de intolerância. Read more » »

David Shribman: Ulysses S. Grant received an overdue promotion

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