JEWISH NEWS - Last Generation Network News - MONDAY MAY 1 2017

JEWISH NEWS - Last Generation Network News - MONDAY MAY 1 2017

Murder investigation opened against 94-year-old Jewish former ...

Jewish Telegraphic Agency - ‎5 hours ago‎
(JTA) - Prosecutors in Ukraine initiated a murder investigation against a Jewish former Soviet officer who is suspected of killing a nationalist in 1952.

Princeton Jewish student center denies space for exhibit criticizing Israeli military

Jewish Telegraphic Agency - ‎2 hours ago‎
(JTA) - The Center for Jewish Life at Princeton University denied the local chapter of J Street U space to hold an exhibition created by the left-wing Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence.

Jewish Food Festival a chance to learn about Judaism - Story

Kern Golden Empire - ‎14 hours ago‎
There were many satisfied stomachs and minds Sunday at the second Bakersfield Jewish Food Festival.

Belgium focus of Israeli ceremony to Jewish victims of terror

Jerusalem Post Israel News - ‎3 hours ago‎
Ambassador of Belgium to Israel Olivier Belle laid a wreath in memory of Jewish victims of terror attacks in his country, during the annual Memorial Day ceremony hosted by the Jewish Agency for Israel at the main plaza of its Jerusalem headquarters on ...

Sebastian Gorka reportedly leaving White House

Jewish Telegraphic Agency - ‎6 hours ago‎
... of Nazi Germany. Following the Forward's investigation, Democratic Reps. Eliot Engel and Nita Lowey, both Jewish lawmakers from New York, sent a letter to Trump urging him to fire Sebastian Gorka.

Jewish community leader calls for German anti-Semitism commissioner

Deutsche Welle - ‎19 hours ago‎
Jews in Germany need a clear signal that their worries and warnings are being taken seriously amid a recent spate of anti-Semitic incidents in the country, a leading Jewish figure said on Sunday, calling for an "anti-Semitism" commissioner in the ...

More Than 800 Reform Jewish Movement Leaders Gather in Washington, DC to Organize and Advocate for Social ...

Religious Action Center (press release) - ‎20 hours ago‎
Washington DC - More than 800 Reform Movement leaders, clergy and activists from across North America are convening today for the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism's (RAC), Consultation on Conscience: Building the World We Want.

Ed Asner Receives Lifetime Achievement Honor at 12th Annual Los ...

Parade - ‎10 hours ago‎
The 12th Annual Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival kicked off April 26, and the opening night gala was a tribute to Hollywood icon Ed Asner.

Jewish music concert touches on numerous themes in finale of Greeley's week of Holocaust remembrance

Greeley Tribune - ‎13 hours ago‎
Sam Henline, frontman of the Jewish five-piece folk music group Shmuel and the Mentshn, told that story Sunday afternoon at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greeley, 929 15th St. The band was on the tail end of an hour-long set of Jewish music ...

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.

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

Forward - ‎Apr 30, 2017‎
“Only now am I realizing that Jewish people can't seem to separate themselves from each other,” he told JTA in an interview Friday.

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.

Jewish Labour donor pledges to stand against 'blinkered' Corbyn

Jewish News - ‎17 hours ago‎
The agent was later suspended by the party after comparing Mr Corbyn's allies to Hitler's stormtroopers, alleging in a newspaper article that he had been smeared as a Jewish donor to the party. Shadow chancellor John McDonnell called for action to be ...

Holland has first Jewish military wedding since Holocaust

Jewish Telegraphic Agency - ‎Apr 30, 2017‎
AMSTERDAM (JTA) - The first Dutch Jewish military wedding since the Holocaust was held in Amsterdam. Air Force 1st Class Cpl.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Jewish Home primaries: View the full results

Arutz Sheva - ‎3 hours ago‎
The Jewish Home party's voting committee on Monday the full results of the party's elections, including details about which candidates were more popular at various voting booths.

Jewish resistance to Nazis focus of talk in Kingston May 21

The Daily Freeman - ‎13 hours ago‎
“The sheep-to-slaughter narrative remains too dominant in discourse about the Holocaust,” said Lawrence Bush, the editor of Jewish Currents magazine, who will interview Mordicai Paldiel, a former curator at Yad Vashem, Israel's center of Holocaust ...

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 ...

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