JEWISH NEWS - Last Generation Network News - Thursday May 4th 2017

JEWISH NEWS - Last Generation Network News - Thursday May 4th 2017 

'Hope Against Hate' event by Jewish groups seeks to educate, empathize

Detroit Free Press - ‎11 hours ago‎
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.

The occupation that saved Israel

Jewish Journal - ‎15 hours ago‎
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.

Melbourne Jewish school teacher arrested over child pornography

Jerusalem Post Israel News - ‎2 hours ago‎
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.

Idra Novey wins Sami Rohr prize for Jewish literature

Jewish Telegraphic Agency - ‎12 hours ago‎
(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 ...

UK's top Anglican cleric, rabbi hail Jewish ties to Jerusalem

Jerusalem Post Israel News - ‎9 hours ago‎
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.

Jewish Federation Launches New Website

Jewish Exponent - ‎17 hours ago‎
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 ...

Abbas tells US Jewish leaders meeting with Trump was 'good'

The Times of Israel - ‎8 hours ago‎
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.

Festival celebrates Jewish food culture with community

Herald-Mail Media - ‎May 3, 2017‎
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.

New Film Reveals The Perils of Jewish Power

Forward - ‎14 hours ago‎
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.

Jewish comedian Moshe Kasher tackles the most 'problematic' issues

Jerusalem Post Israel News - ‎4 hours ago‎
"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.

Man burns religious books on bus owned by Jewish school

New York Post - ‎22 hours ago‎
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 ...

'Beyond the Forest' exhibit focuses on Jewish life in Poland and Ukraine

The Recorder - ‎18 hours ago‎
By most yardsticks, the Holocaust cut its most brutal swath across Poland, western Ukraine and the Baltic states of Latvia and Lithuania.

Is This Really Happening in NYC?

Jewish Exponent - ‎17 hours ago‎
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's chutzpah

Jewish Journal - ‎13 hours ago‎
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 ...

The war never ended for poor, elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union

Jewish Telegraphic Agency - ‎May 2, 2017‎
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 ...

Afterthoughts on Yom Ha'atzmaut: The Unchallenged Holiness of the Jew

The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com - ‎3 hours ago‎
For hundreds of years, there has been intense debate among Jewish philosophers on whether the Jewish nation is inherently, or only conditionally, holy.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Jewish Problem

Algemeiner - ‎15 hours ago‎
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 to Prosecute Jewish Colonel, 94, for Killing Nazi Collaborator

The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com - ‎4 hours ago‎
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.

New Study Advances Digital Future of Jewish Learning

Algemeiner - ‎21 hours ago‎
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 ...

Fatima's prophetic message connects Satanic attacks on Jewish people, the Church and the unborn

Lifesite - ‎18 hours ago‎
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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