Category Archives: World
JBS Coverage of B’nai B’rith Calling Out Ben & Jerry’s Hypocritical, Anti-Israel Boycott
JBS covered our condemnation of Ben & Jerry’s anti-Israel boycott of what the company calls the „occupied Palestinian territories,” as well as the ice cream maker’s noted silence when Hamas fired thousands of rockets into Israel. View coverage here (beginning at 2: 13) or below. Read more » »
Obituaries for the week of July 16, 2021 – J.
Obituaries are supported by a generous grant from Sinai Memorial Chapel. Simmie Baum Dec. 26, 1927-July 8, 2021 Simmie Baum died in Walnut Creek on July 8, 2021 at 93 years of age. She was born in Poland and immigrated to Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 10. Read more » »
B’nai Brith Hails Rejection of Your Ward News Appeal
Your Ward News Editor-in-Chief James Sears (right) and publisher LeRoy St. Germaine (left) attend court on Nov. Read more » »
Mensagens especiais de Tish´a Be´Av neste próximo domingo, às 19h, em nosso Youtube!!!
Mensagens especiais de Tish´a Be´Av neste próximo domingo, às 19h, em nosso Youtube!!! Read more » »
Erdan leads international ambassadors to US and UN on tour of Israel
Israel’s ambassador to the United States and the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, is hosting a tour of Israel this week for his counterparts from around the world, and said Friday he hopes it will help Israel at the UN. The 26-person delegation arrived in Israel Thursday night for the week-long tour, sponsored by the American Zionist Movement. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith Hosts 2-Part Virtual Series, Hezbollah: Sowing Global Terror
Part 1: AMIA in Advance of 27th Anniversary of Deadly Terror Attack in Buenos AiresPart 2: Shared Threads: AMIA, Burgas and Other Global Terror Attacks (Washington, D.C., July 16, 2021)—B’nai B’rith International hosted a two-part virtual series—Hezbollah: Sowing Global Terror—in advance of the anniversaries of two deadly attacks on Jews. Read more » »
B’nai Brith Outraged by Impunity over Openly Pro-Terrorism School Emails
An excerpt from materials sent to TDSB teachers by Javier Dávila (Highlighting added by B’nai Brith) July 16, 2021 TORONTO — B’nai Brith Canada is outraged by the apparent reinstatement without discipline of a Toronto school employee who sent materials to teachers justifying the murder of Israeli civilians. Read more » »
Catastrophic day for the US-Jewish community
By Steve Frank In the face of a recent, dramatic rise in anti-Semitic violence in the United States, virtually all of the mainstream American-Jewish organizations came together to sponsor a rally at the National Mall in Washington on July 11 to protest anti-Semitism. Read more » »
Apple TV+’s ‘Schmigadoon!’: TV Review
My grandmother loved musicals. She loved seeing them and singing along with them, and she loved announcing, when a song came on the radio or came up in conversation, “I wrote that one!” See, my grandmother also loved writing musical parodies. Read more » »
More American Jews are calling Israel an ‘apartheid’ state, and big organizations are struggling to fight the trend – Jewish Telegraphic Agency
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sharon Nazarian has a theory about why a recent Washington, D.C. rally against antisemitism failed to make an impact. Read more » »
