JEWISH NEWS - Last Generation Network News for Sunday April 30 2017

JEWISH NEWS - Last Generation Network News for Sunday  April 30 2017

Offended By 'Greedy Jewish Landlord' Remark? 'Too Bad.'

Forward - ‎2 hours ago‎
“Only now am I realizing that Jewish people can't seem to separate themselves from each other,” he told JTA in an interview Friday.

Why is Eli Clifton Writing for a Major Jewish Publication?

The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
Clifton is best known for his own alt-left anti-Semitism that includes frequent contributions to the virulently anti-Israel and anti-Jewish Electronic Intifada, along with numerous other sources expressing comparable views. The Obama Administration and ...

This Is How Israel Inflates Its Jewish Majority

Haaretz - ‎3 hours ago‎
This year the bureau counted 8.68 million people in Israel, 74.7 percent of them Jewish, 20.8 percent Arab and the rest “other” (mainly non-Arab Christians).

German FM in Hot Water over Equating Social Democrat, Jewish Holocaust Victims

The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com - ‎4 hours ago‎
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, who recently was entangled in a tiff with Prime Minister Netanyahu over his meeting with anti-Zionist NGOs during his visit to Israel, is now being criticized for equating Social Democrat victims of Nazism with ...

Names revealed of Jewish targets of South African twin terror suspects

Jerusalem Post Israel News - ‎6 hours ago‎
The names of several alleged Jewish targets were revealed as part of legal proceedings for South African twin terror suspects Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie's, local media reported last week.

Trump declares May as Jewish Heritage Month

i24NEWS (press release) (registration) - ‎Apr 29, 2017‎
May was proclaimed Jewish Heritage Month by US President Donald Trump on Friday. Trump will mark the occasion with his family and extended family according to a statement he released on Friday.

Watch: 'Home' – Nefesh B'Nefesh on Yom Ha'atzmaut 2017

The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com - ‎5 hours ago‎
As Israel is set to celebrate its 69th Independence Day (Yom HaAtzmaut) on Monday night, May 1, Nefesh B'Nefesh (NBN) has released an emotionally charged video to accompany the joyous occasion and celebrate the millions of Jews for whom Israel is ...

New Jewish Center to 'demistify' Judaism | WANE

WANE - ‎15 hours ago‎
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - The Fort Wayne Jewish Community is opening a new $1.25 million dollar resource center on Sunday. The Madge Rothschild ...

More Boston Jews Applying For German Citizenship

Forward - ‎Apr 28, 2017‎
The number of Jewish descendants of Holocaust survivors who have applied for German citizenship has nearly quadrupled this year in the part of the United States served by Germany's Boston consulate, radio station WBUR reported Thursday.

Trump proclaims May Jewish American Heritage Month - JTA

Jewish Telegraphic Agency - ‎8 minutes ago‎
“During Jewish American Heritage Month, we celebrate our nation's strong American Jewish heritage, rooted in the ancient faith and traditions of the Jewish ...

Bakersfield Jewish Food Festival set for Sunday

Kern Golden Empire - ‎Apr 28, 2017‎
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - If Willy Wonka is the king of candy, we paid a visit to one of the kings of Jewish baking in Bakersfield, all to give you a taste of what this Jewish community has to offer. Richard Shiell is married to Rabbi Cheryl Rosenstein of ...

Seventy Years and Forgotten

The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com - ‎6 hours ago‎
To me, Tzfat is simply about living Jewish history and I feel it in my bones as I enter the city. A very common thing to do when visiting Tzfat (before Shabbat), is to pray at the holy graves of the amazing Tzaddikim who are resting there.

In 100 Days, A New Jewish Elite Rises In Washington

Forward - ‎Apr 28, 2017‎
Had they been open, the lists would reveal the profound change 100 days of a Trump administration had brought about to the Jewish community's power structure. “The atmosphere has changed, at least for us. There's a sense of familiarity and greater ...

Jewish member of India's Nehru dynasty dies at 108

The Times of Israel - ‎5 hours ago‎
Shobha Nehru, born Magdolna Friedmann in 1908, originally hailed from a family of wealthy assimilated Jews in Budapest, before moving to India after marrying BK Nehru, a cousin of Indian independence movement leader and the country's first prime ...

Why Pride And Courage Are The Keys To The Jewish People's Future

Huffington Post - ‎Apr 26, 2017‎
On the radical Right, Jewish and pro-Israel journalists are targeted and harassed by neo-Nazis. In the international arena, Iran, with P5+1 approval, continues to develop the very nuclear weapons it has threatened to use to eradicate the State of Israel.

Jewish, Christian Educators Protest Tuft's BDS Endorsement on Passover

The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com - ‎Apr 28, 2017‎
A group of 45 Jewish, Christian, education and civil rights organizations has sent Tufts University President Anthony Monaco a letter expressing grave concern over the student government's planned exclusion of Jewish students from an anti-Israel decision.

French Jewish leader: Investigate killing of Paris woman as murder, not insanity case

Jewish Telegraphic Agency - ‎Apr 28, 2017‎
(JTA) - A French Jewish leader wants the killing of a Jewish woman earlier this month to be investigated as a murder, not an act of insanity.

Following earlier snub, Ukraine's Jewish PM to visit Israel in May

The Times of Israel - ‎2 hours ago‎
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman speaks to the press during his visit to the International Exhibition Center in Kiev on April 28, 2017.

500 Years After Expulsion, Sicily's Jews Reclaim a Lost History

New York Times - ‎Apr 24, 2017‎
“The Jewish community is a part of Palermo, part of its history; Jews were here for 15 centuries,” said Evelyne Aouate, an Algerian-born, Parisian-raised transplant whose deepening exploration of her own roots drove the efforts to find the community a ...

VIEWPOINT: Defeating Jewish Disempowerment

Georgetown University The Hoya - ‎Apr 27, 2017‎
Like all types of bias, anti-Jewish speech takes different forms. Acts we have seen on campus this year, like the swastika carved onto an elevator door and white nationalist flyers strewn on campus, are among the more blatant forms and clearly deserve ...

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