Category Archives: World
A Jewish art exhibit at Princeton was canceled over ties to the Confederacy. Jewish scholars are outraged.
(JTA) — Princeton University spent months planning an exhibit of 19th-century American Jewish art before cancelling the show because two of its featured artists had supported the Confederacy. The cancellation has drawn criticism from the exhibit’s Jewish donors and consulting historians. They say the decision “rewrites art history. Read more » »
University of São Paulo: Crimes of genocide are the topic of lecture this week
The International Tribunals: Crimes against Humanity and Genocide in the Dissolution Wars of the Former Yugoslavia is the subject of the lecture that opens the 2022 agenda of the Permanent Forum on Genocide and Crimes against Humanity, organized by Read more » »
Changing Life Behind Bars
“Prisons nowadays still don’t know how to deal with Jewish issues,” said Matthew Perry, a chaplain and executive director for Jewish Prisoner Services International and the Jewish representative to the American Correctional Chaplains Association’s executive board. Read more » »
Opinion: As representatives of Atlanta’s Jewish community, we support passage of HB 1274
Helen Scherrer-Diamond, president of the B’nai B’rith Achim/Gate City Lodge in Atlanta, co-signed an op-ed published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in support of Georgia House Bill 1274, which would add a reference to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of anti-Semitism to Title 50 of the state code. Read more » »
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 » »
