Category Archives: World

Project, Unique in the World, Brings Together Jewish and Catholic Communities in Oporto, Portugal

(Washington, D.C., Dec. 17, 2019)-The Jewish Community of Oporto and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oporto, Portugal, meet today in an unprecedented interfaith gathering between the two Portuguese communities as part of the Global Project in the Fields of Culture and Religion. Read more » »

Tickets on sale to hear Henry Winkler at 2020 OBU Green and Gold Gala

Tickets on sale to hear Henry Winkler at 2020 OBU Green and Gold Gala  Shawnee News Star Read more »

Lost Huntington: Brown’s Apparel | Lost Huntington

Editor’s Note: This is the 318th in a series of articles recalling vanished Huntington scenes. HUNTINGTON — Irvin Polan Brown owned and operated Brown’s Apparel Inc. in the Hotel Frederick building at 946 4th Ave., for more than 50 years. Brown was born in 1904 in East Bank, West Virginia. Read more » »

Hanukai gyertyagyújtás a Budai Várban

Hanuka második lángját 2019. december 23-án, hétfőn délután 5 órakor gyújtjuk meg a Táncsics Mihály utca 23. hátsó oldalán, a Babits Mihály sétányon a várfal mellett. ✡️🕎🎶

B’nai B’rith Statement on Beverly Hills Synagogue Vandalism

(Washington, D.C., Dec. 16, 2019)—B’nai B’rith International President Charles O. Kaufman and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin have issued the following statement:  It is with deep sadness and anger that we condemn the attack on Nessah synagogue in Beverly Hills on Shabbat. Police are classifying the shocking attack as a hate crime. Read more » »

Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019

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Allentown seeks to keep Maingate Night Club open by exempting from state noise regulations

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Bahrain’s National Day celebrations – London

Report by Jeremy Havardi Earlier this week, Jeremy Havardi represented B’nai B’rith UK at an event to celebrate Bahrain’s national day, held in the King’s apartments at Kensington Palace. Dozens of diplomats from the Middle East were in attendance together with representatives from faith communities. Read more » »

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 » »