Category Archives: World

Part XXIII: Acknowledging the Truth About the Final Solution  

Photo Credit: Wikimedia CommonsFranklin D. Roosevelt *Editor’s Note: This is part XXIII in a series. Read more » »

Clergy, public gather to pray for Ukraine | The Sunday Dispatch

Fr. Andrii Dumnych of St. Michael Byzantine Catholic Church, Pittston, a native of Ukraine, hosted a praying for peace service for the Ukraine along with members of the Wyoming Valley Interfaith Council on Monday evening. Tony Callaio | For Times LeaderInterfaith service held at St. Michael’s Byzantine Church in Pittston PITTSTON – St. Read more » »

Human Rights Council Starts General Debate on the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and Concludes General Debate on the Human Rights Situation in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories – occupied Palestinian territory

The Human Rights Council this afternoon started a general debate on its agenda item eight on follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, and concluded its general debate under its agenda item seven on the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab Territories. Read more » »

B’nai Brith Canada’s senior counsel David Matas in The Globe and Mail: On Denazifying Russia

David Matas, Globe and Mail Op-ed March 25, 2022 B’nai Brith Canada’s senior legal counsel, David Matas, penned an important op-ed for The Globe and Mail this week. We wanted to share it with you. Read more » »

Leonard Nichol 1927-2022

NORTH JACKSON — Leonard Nichol, 94, of North Jackson, died Tuesday, March 22, 2022, at his residence, surrounded by his family. Leonard was born Dec. 1, 1927, a son of the late Harry and Ann Nichol Nichol and was a lifelong area resident. Read more » »

McGill President Promises “Action” over Illegitimate Anti-Israel Referendum

McGill University, EQRoy/ Shutterstock   March 24, 2022 MONTREAL – Responding to outreach by B’nai Brith Canada, and the many concerned citizens spurred on by it to action, the president of McGill University has come out strongly against a recent student referendum that has dangerous implications for Jewish students. Read more » »

A Guerra Rússia e Ucrânia é tema do encontro híbrido programado para o próximo dia 04 de abril, às 20h00

A Guerra Rússia e Ucrânia é tema do encontro híbrido programado para o próximo dia 04 de abril, às 20h00. O evento, que conta com a apresentação dos cientistas políticos André Lajst e Heni Ozi Cukier, será on-line (poderá ser acompanhado pelo nosso canal no YouTube) e também presencial. Read more » »

Climate tops agenda at plenum

“A phenomenon that is challenging our political system, our environment and our existence on this fragile blue orb” is how Social Justice Committee chair Liam O’Callaghan described climate change at last week’s Jewish Board of Deputies (JBD) plenum. Read more » »

Let’s Celebrate Shari Lewis, the Jewish Mom Who Brought Us Lamb Chop – Kveller

Every once in a while, a perhaps-somewhat-forgotten historical legend finds a strange way to enter the zeitgeist, courtesy of the odd thing that is Twitter. That’s what happened with legendary Jewish ventriloquist Shari Lewis earlier this month, when a tweet by Christopher Fryer went viral. Read more » »

Leonard Nichol, North Jackson, Ohio

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