Category Archives: World
BBUK Ukraine Crisis Appeal – please help
By BBUK In Advocacy, Appeals, Kyiv Project On 24 February 2022 To our supporters For many years B’nai B’rith has been involved with our Jewish brethren in Ukraine. In Kyiv, helping to feed the elderly and providing them with medicines has been a mainstay for these very poor people. Read more » »
Stacy Fox is Determined to Preserve and Improve Jewish-Style Bakeries in Metro Detroit
Stacy Fox at Star Bakery. (Glenn Triest) A tasty new chapter for Fox opened last year when she became the president and managing partner at two venerable bakeries, best known as Star Bakery in Oak Park and Diamond Bakery in West Bloomfield. Read more » »
Australian Jewish groups and Indigenous politics: “thin and more of a veneer without depth”
The annual Earle Hoffman Oration was delivered in Canberra by one of the late founders of the city’s Jewish community family, human rights lawyer George Newhouse.He spoke about the relationship between the Jewish community and the First Nations peoples of this land as it stands today. Read more » »
Dutch unis halt probe into Jewish, Israel links
FOURTEEN Dutch universities are suspending their compliance with a freedom of information query from a pro-Palestinian organisation regarding their ties with Israeli and Jewish entities. Read more » »
Global News: Editor of Your Ward News arrested after allegedly breaching parole: police
Feb. 23, 2022 B’nai Brith Canada CEO Michael Mostyn was quoted in a story on Global News about the arrest of James Sears. CLICK HERE to read the full story. Read more » »
Dir. of Legislative Affairs Op-ed in Jewish Journal: The Dangers of Negating Jewish Identity
The Jewish Journal featured an op-ed by Eric Fusfield, B’nai B’rith director of legislative affairs and deputy director of the B’nai B’rith International Center for Human Rights and Public Policy, on the negation of Jewish identity – and the lack of nuance when trying to understand Jewish identity – in America today. Read more » »
Local bowling scores
MENTop GamesJoe Orosz Jr. (Stardust II) 300Tom Peterson (Stardust II) 299Mike Bayless (Olympia) 289Rory Morton II (Stardust II) 288Top SeriesTom Peterson (Stardust II) 764Mike Bayless (Olympia) 763Joe Orosz Jr. Read more » »
Berks coroner’s office seeking next of kin for Reading man
The Berks County Coroner’s Office announced that it is seeking next of kin for Donald R. Bowen, 77, of the B’nai B’rith Apartments, 1026 Franklin St. Officials said he died of natural causes. Anyone with information is asked to contact the coroner’s office at 610-478-3280. Read more » »
Coroner seeks next-of-kin for Reading man
WFMZ-TV 69 News provides news, weather, traffic, sports and family programming for the Lehigh Valley, Berks County, Southeastern Pa., Poconos and Western NJ including Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Reading, Kutztown, Emmaus, Quakertown, Stroudsburg, Philadelphia, Jim Thorpe, Doylestown, Phillipsburg, Flemington, Wilmington, and Newark. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith Helps to Solve Knesset Mystery
(Washington, D.C., Feb. 22, 2022)–The B’nai B’rith World Center and B’nai B’rith Argentina helped to solve what has been described as one of the most curious mysteries in Israel—the identity of the artist who created the large bronze menorah that Read more » »
