JEWISH NEWS - Last Generation Network News - TUESDAY MAY 2 2017
JEWISH NEWS - Last Generation Network News - TUESDAY MAY 2 2017
(JTA) - Jewish federations lauded a proposed increase in security grant funding that helps protect Jewish institutions.
“During Jewish American Heritage Month, we celebrate our nation's strong American Jewish heritage, rooted in the ancient faith and traditions of the Jewish people. The small band of Dutch Jews who first immigrated in 1654, seeking refuge and religious ...
Labour has selected the head of the Jewish Labour Movement to be its candidate in Finchley and Golders Green, the consituency with the highest percentage of Jewish voters in the country. Jeremy Newmark, who has chaired the JLM since 2014, made the ...
(JTA) - Prosecutors in Ukraine initiated a murder investigation against a Jewish former Soviet officer who is suspected of killing a nationalist in 1952.
The Hebrew word “mitzvah” translates to “commandment” and is often used to refer to the 613 commandments G-d gave to the Jewish people on Mount Sinai. What I was taught through my religious education was a mitzvah was a good deed or action.
There's more to Jewish food than bagels and matzah ball soup. And the first Jewish Toledo Food Festival is determined to prove it.
This upcoming Israeli Independence Day, UNESCO is supposed to vote on a resolution rejecting Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem, the eternal capital city of the Jewish people since antiquity. This will be the first time that UNESCO will vote to reject ...
The Jewish population in Broward County has declined in 2016 from 1997, although Broward County still is the largest Jewish community in Florida and the eight largest American Jewish community, according to Dr. Ira Sheskin of the University of Miami.
The J Street U chapter decided to go forward with the exhibit, to be held Tuesday and Wednesday, in another campus space, despite the possibility of causing a rift with the Center for Jewish Life, or CJL, which is affiliated with Hillel International ...
While the founding charter was filled with anti-Jewish references, the new document stresses that Hamas bears no enmity toward Jews. It says its fight is with those who occupy Palestinian lands. Mr Mashaal is to step down as Hamas leader later this month.
(JTA) - Ezra Schwartz, who was killed in a West Bank terrorist attack in November 2015, was inducted posthumously into Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish fraternity, at Rutgers University. The induction ceremony was held Sunday night, at the start of Yom ...
A Palestinian boy surveying the damage at a home in the West Bank village of Duma burned by Jewish extremists, August 6, 2015.
Riveting Jewish-themed cinema once again comes to local big screens with the 15th annual Windsor Jewish Film Festival, May 1 to May 4.
What is interesting, and perhaps even counterintuitive, is that the percentage of Arabs who said that the country is in good or very good shape was significantly higher than the Jewish respondents who said so. Among Arabs, fully 66% said that Israel's ...
The statement further condemned Israel for its nuclear policy, and accused the Jewish state of abusing the rights of Arabs across the Middle East.
The Iranian-Jewish brothers behind a global fashion company talked last Wednesday about antisemitism as they received a leadership award at the American Friends of the Soroka Medical Center's fifth annual gala in New York.
JNS.org - The Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) decision to count a teenager's alleged spate of bomb hoaxes targeting American Jewish institutions as antisemitic incidents has prompted criticism from some Jewish community officials. Rabbi Abraham Cooper ...
When world leaders met at the Evian Conference in France in 1938 to seek solutions for the growing numbers of Jews desperately seeking to escape the Nazis, only one country was willing to provide refuge to a substantial number: the Dominican Republic, ...
But this second Jewish Food Festival was more than an excuse to loosen your belt for brisket. "We are showing our faith to the community," explained Greg Broida, the event's chairman.
People stand still as a two minutre siren sounded across Israel, marking Memorial Day which commemorates the fallen Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem on May 1, 2017.
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