JEWISH NEWS - Last Generation Network News - Thursday May 4th 2017
JEWISH NEWS - Last Generation Network News - Thursday May 4th 2017
Concerned about growing anti-Semitism and bigotry, Jewish leaders in metro Detroit are hosting an all-day conference Monday called "Hope Against Hate" that they hope will educate and create empathy for all groups.
Imagine sitting down at a Passover seder and receiving a visitor who wants to kill you. That visitor is not the prophet Elijah or the Fifth Son - the one absent from the table - who has a change of heart.
Australian police arrested a teacher from a Jewish day school in Melbourne over alleged child pornography, his employer, the Mount Scopus Memorial College said Thursday in a media statement.
(JTA) - Idra Novey, author of the novel “Ways to Disappear,” won the 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. She takes home $100,000 for winning the prize, which was announced Wednesday by the Jewish Book Council at a ceremony at New York's ...
A day after UNESCO voted to deny Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem, UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby on Wednesday saluted the historic Jewish connection to the city, after praying side by side at the Western Wall.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia rolled out a brand-new website this week. It's not just a fresh look. It's your gateway to the Jewish communities of Greater Philadelphia. Below is a Q&A about the outstanding new features and resources ...
WASHINGTON - After his first face-to-face meeting with US President Donald Trump, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas conveyed a sense of optimism to hundreds American Jewish leaders Wednesday night, according to several attendees.
The annual event that celebrates the rich food culture of the Jewish people will be from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, May 7, at the synagogue at 42 E. Baltimore St. Admission is free; foods are sold a la carte and will be individually priced.
The film can also be a interpreted as a reflection of the American Jewish community and the games of power and money that often come into play.
"I remember in the Jewish community that I was raised in I felt totally alien and othered," he said. "I was the only kid in the entire shtetl that had an English siddur.
A man set fire to several religious texts inside a bus belonging to a Jewish school in Brooklyn, authorities said. The bus was parked near the corner of Division and Bedford avenues in Williamsburg when the suspect forced his way inside through the ...
By most yardsticks, the Holocaust cut its most brutal swath across Poland, western Ukraine and the Baltic states of Latvia and Lithuania.
Rising real estate values, which are generally a sign of economic health, can bring with them upper-income residents who displace lower-income tenants from developing neighborhoods.
Nikki Haley has served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for only a few months, but she's already achieved something virtually no other political figure in recent years has done: She's united the Jewish community. That's saying a lot for someone ...
But on a visit last week to Jewish communities in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Belarus' Minsk and Bobruisk, I came to realize that elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union deserve this recognition as well. In many ways they are the other “greatest ...
For hundreds of years, there has been intense debate among Jewish philosophers on whether the Jewish nation is inherently, or only conditionally, holy.
Not only were Jewish students hurt by the content of this hateful resolution, but we were also extremely disappointed by the undemocratic and unethical manner in which it was proposed.
Ukraine's government has launched a murder probe into the 1952 killing of a Nazi collaborator by Jewish war hero Col. Boris Steckler, Pravda reported.
The study's recommendations include means of utilizing virtual and augmented reality; a user could, for example, experience the splitting of the Red Sea or participate in the rebuilding of Jewish life after the Roman destruction of the Second Temple ...
May 3, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) - On May 13, 1917, the Mother of Jesus began appearing to three shepherd children in Portugal with an urgent message that the human family was in mortal spiritual and physical danger.
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