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News Transcript Datebook, Dec. 18
• “Fine Feathered Friends: Birds as Mainstay and Muse” will open at the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, on Jan. 4. The exhibition brings the fun of bird watching indoors through nearly 200 rarely seen artifacts and specimens exploring birds as an ecological mainstay and their role as a design-inspiring force, or muse, for New Jersey artisans. Read more » »
Carrying the literary torch from Baku, the ‘Paris of the Caucasus’
In this heady atmosphere, a core group of thinkers focused on cementing an Azerbaijani national identity. By DIANA COHEN ALTMAN DECEMBER 14, 2019 22: 25 THE FLAME Towers in Baku are a symbol of the new and independent Azerbaijan. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith Commends UNESCO For Delisting of Aalst Carnival
(Washington, D.C., Dec. 13, 2019)—B’nai B’rith International President Charles O. Kaufman and CEO Daniel S. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith Outraged by Litany of Anti-Israel U.N. Resolutions
(Washington, D.C., Dec. 13, 2019)— B’nai B’rith International President Charles O. Kaufman and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin have issued the following statement: We are outraged, but not surprised, by today’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adoption of eight resolutions that single out Israel and do not mention any other country by name. Read more » »
UpSide Classic: Jewish volunteers work on Christmas Day so Christians can enjoy the day off.
This article originally appeared in The Inquirer on Dec. 26, 1987. Rowland Rosenfeld has the catechism of Christmas dishwashing memorized. By 9 a.m. yesterday, he faced the familiar litany: a seemingly interminable stack of brown trays filled with breakfast scraps to clean by the time lunch is served. Read more » »
Jewish and Israel-related groups react to Trump’s executive order on anti-Semitism – EJP
By Jackson Richman,JNS WASHINGTON—Jewish and Israel-related groups beforehand expressed mixed reactions to U.S. President Donald Trump signing an executive order that requires the U.S. Read more » »
newsJewish and Israel-related groups react to Trump’s executive order on anti-Semitism
(December 11, 2019 / JNS) WASHINGTON—Jewish and Israel-related groups beforehand expressed mixed reactions to U.S. President Donald Trump signing an executive order that requires the U.S. Read more » »
Eleanor R. Lipnick
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B’nai B’rith Co-Hosts “After Halle – From Words to Action Against Anti-Semitism” Summit With President of the European Commission Ursula Von Der Leyen
(Washington, D.C., Dec. 11, 2019)–“Words should be weighed, not counted.” President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen commenced her speech this way at this week’s high-level conference jointly hosted by the European Parliament Working Group on Anti-Semitism, the European Jewish Congress and B’nai B’rith International. Read more » »
Leonard Goldberg, Producer of Hit TV Shows, Is Dead at 85
His partnership with Aaron Spelling gave the world “Charlie’s Angels,” “Fantasy Island” and many other series. On his own, he created “Blue Bloods.” Leonard Goldberg, left, with Aaron Spelling at the Photoplay Awards in 1978. Together the two men produced hit television shows like “Charlie’s Angels,” “Fantasy Island” and “Family.”Credit… Read more » »
