Category Archives: World
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 » »
Jewish Teenagers Share Their Summer Plans – Jewish Exponent
From left: Ziva Davis, Dara Hammel and Hallie Jayson at Mount Arbel. Courtesy of Dara Hammel By Leah Snyderman As the world slowly returns to normalcy, the question of what was normal in the first place has arisen. Whatever it was, a new normal is being created, and this summer will likely help shape it. Read more » »
Peter K. Rosedale Obituary (1931 – 2021) The Providence Journal
ROSEDALE, PETER K.of Warwick, died on Wednesday, July 14, 2021 (his 90th birthday). He leaves his wife of 52 years, Beverly (Costantino) Rosedale. Born as Klaus Rosenthal in 1931 in Essen, Germany, he was the son of Otto and Martha Rosedale. Peter arrived in the U.S. Read more » »
Beachwood woman details experience at ‘No Fear’ rally on National Mall
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Baker-Polito Administration Announces $139 Million in Funding and Tax Credits to Produce and Preserve 1,346 Units of Affordable Rental Housing
LAWRENCE — Today, Governor Charlie Baker, Lt. Governor Karyn Polito, Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy and Housing and Community Development Undersecretary Jennifer Maddox joined local legislators and officials to announce affordable housing awards for 28 projects in 21 communities across the Commonwealth. Read more » »
