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Photo credit: CourtesyRabbi Warren Goldstein Like many other South African Jews, Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein's great-grandparents emigrated from Lithuania. Born in 1971, Rabbi Goldstein grew up in Pretoria and…

Arrangements for services are being made by the family and will be at the Temple at 1589 Peachtree St. at 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, a family spokesperson said.Born August 26, 1927, Samuel Alan Massell Jr. spent the first month of his life…

Nazis, genocide, NATO, history: Russia has no shortage of apparent justifications for its war in Ukraine.But are any of them valid? Were Russian speakers in danger in the east of the country? Is NATO expansion a material threat to Moscow?…

Diverse teams are often associated with rapid discovery, but few studies have examined whether and to what extent demographic diversity, such as an individual's gender and race, leads to new ideas and knowledge. "These questions…

Just two weeks ago, days before the unprovoked assault on Ukraine, I found myself in Prague for the opening of the Kunsthalle Praha. The new institution is a monument to all that has been achieved in Central and Eastern Europe…

Various nonpartisan and distinguished sources like PEW research acknowledge more than 4000 established religions in the world — most of whom approve of abortions, especially when the pregnancy would endanger the life of the mother.A recent…

Jefferson City, meet your first female Eagle Scout. Josephine "Josie" Hall, a high school student from Capital City, was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout in February. Many community leaders were able to meet and greet Hall at the BSA…

Colleen Hogan Whether on social media or on protest signs, the fight to permanently legalize abortion has never stopped since the birth of Roe v. Wade in the 1970s. One thing remains the same in the fight: opposition in the name of…

Republican State Senator Wendy Rogers speaking January 15, 2022 at a rally for former President Donald Trump in Florence. Photo of Gage Skidmore (modified) | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0…

The United States is taking immediate action on Monday to ban U.S. dollar transactions with Russia's central bank and completely block Russia's direct investment fund, senior administration officials said, targeting some of the most potent…

Jewish organizations from all walks of life condemn Russia's military invasion of Ukraine on Wednesday.The…

From 1564 to 1966, the Vatican regularly published and updated its famous Index Librorum Prohibitorum; that is, a list of books considered forbidden to any well-meaning Catholic. The church's reasoning on this was simple. And…

For about a decade now, Israel's Environmental Protection Ministry has been working to improve the country's recycling rates, in part by trying to educate and persuade the public to separate their waste and put it in the correct recycling…

At the center of much of the skepticism about America's involvement in the Ukraine crisis is the question "Who are we?"Who are we, with our long history of invasions and interventions, to lecture Vladimir Putin on respect for national…

Wema Bank's Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Oluwayemisi Olorunshola and Mr. Bolarin Okunowo as independent non-executive directors of the bank. The lender disclosed this in a statement signed by Johnson Lebile, Corporate…

America is disjointed. Its inhabitants have divided into factions. The government is dysfunctional and the economy is beginning to deteriorate. Nearly two-thirds of the nation say things are on the wrong track, according to the latest…

After the attack on a Jewish synagogue in Texas last month I read an essay by Deborah Lipstadt, a professor at Emory University in Georgia. She is Jewish and started the play with what is apparently a common Jewish prayer of blessing:…

The Jewish-American refugee agency HIAS and its Ukrainian partner are preparing for a possible humanitarian crisis if Russian troops invade Eastern Europe. A Russian incursion or occupation could result in the mass displacement of…

(RNS) - Rabbi Avi Olitzky was 26 when he started working at the Beth El Synagogue in Minneapolis straight after seminary. Over the past 14 years, he has helped build the synagogue with its distinctive curved roof into one of the largest…

monday 14 february3-4:30 p.m.Rockefeller ParkAll we need is Love! All ages are encouraged to create heart-shaped “love padlocks” to attach to park fences to show your love for BPC. Music, delicacies and a festive atmosphere guaranteed.…

HOW CAN CHRISTIANS support the party of Donald Trump – a man who has bragged about sexually assaulting women, uses the Bible as an obvious prop as he gauzes protesters and lies almost as often as he does breathe? For many progressive…

(February 9, 2022 / JNS) Positive momentum is underway in Israel's regional position, as evidenced by visits by senior Israeli officials - including its previous and current prime minister, and foreign and defense ministers - to Saudi…

The United States and the CIA have a long history of conducting unethical experiments on people without their consent, writes Dr. Binoy Kampmark. IT HAS BECOME common to read gruesome stories of child abuse in institutions that are…

(February 4, 2022 / JNS) During Barack Obama's presidency, when diplomatic tensions between Israel and the United States reached levels rarely seen, the term "Israel-Prime" was concocted by opponents of the Jewish state as a way to…

BEIJING (AP) — When Madison Chock looks out here in the Chinese capital, the U.S. Olympic ice dancer sees glimpses of herself."Every time I'm on the bus, I look out and study the city and imagine my roots are here, my ancestors are here,"…

Andrew Thompson and Hudson Greer opened a general merchandise store offering groceries, hardware, boots and shoes. Thomas Swanton offered the "best brands of liquors, beers and cigars" in his Liverpool Saloon. There were also carpenters…

In 1966, I was a student at the Boston University School of Social Work when I received a phone call from a college friend. She explained to me in a low voice that she needed an abortion and thought I could help her. At that time, I…

On the January 7, 2022, David Bennett, 57, received a genetically modified pig's heart transplant, the first operation of its kind. In the days that followed, the transplant was widely hailed as a "success" by news outlets, with…

July 22, Jessie Sander was fired from her job as a Hebrew teacher in the education program at Westchester Reform Temple, a top congregation in Scarsdale, New York. According to a legal complaint obtained by Jewish streamsthe…

NEW YORK, January 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council released the following…

WASHINGTON — In addition to the stories already covered by Native News Online, here's a roundup of other news released from Washington, DC that impacted Indian Country over the past week. Department of Transportation announces…

Maya Angelou fought alongside civil rights activist Martin Luther King for equal rights for black people in the United States. Today a quarter dollar coin was minted in honor of the American who died in 2014, making her the first African…

Although the musar (Jewish moral discipline and ethical refinement) classic Sefer Heshbon Hanefesh (Spiritual Accounting Book) has been reprinted numerous times and in many places since its first anonymous publication in 1808, as far…

As Senate Democrats seek ways to confirm Deborah E. Lipstadt's appointment as the State Department's special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, amid Republican objections, experts wonder if the Raising the post to the rank of…

DUBAI: Tehran's proxies have stepped up their activities on the battlefields of the Middle East in recent weeks. In Iraq, Syria and Yemen, forces loyal to the Iranian regime have been busy stepping up attacks against US and Saudi…

In 2021, many countries and peoples have seen demands for the return of cultural artefacts come true. Disputes over the ownership of these artefacts have become increasingly urgent in recent…

(January 7, 2022 / JNS) “How can we as a society just sit back and watch people die when a single gunshot could prevent a deadly disease? That was the agonizing question posed by a group of nine Minnesota health care providers who…

Students and faculty are scrambling to save the University of Nebraska at Kearney philosophy major after state and campus officials offered to cut the program because it is under-enrolled. The recommendation to eliminate the major in…

The corporate crime? Ben & Jerry's announcement last summer to no longer sell its ice cream in the West Bank, or as its residents and the rest of the world also call it, the “Occupied Palestinian Territory” - occupied by Israel since…

United States Representative Lauren Boebert held a tightly-controlled New Years Day press conference in the Community Hall of the Home Loan State Bank in downtown Grand Junction, where she announced her…

AQUARIUS (January 20-February 18): Catherine Pugh has written a series of children's books collectively known as Healthy Holly. Later, when she became mayor of the city of Baltimore, she set up a scheme to sell!-->!-->…

It was recently reported that Jewish students at Tel Aviv University are protesting against a "Christmas Market" event held on December 15 on the university campus. The Christmas market is part of an ongoing series of multicultural events…

Where's the science to shut down entire economies? Leni Riefenstahl was a German filmmaker who in the 1930s was fascinated by Adolf Hitler and by implication his harmful prescriptions for society. She served as a…

(RNS) - Relations between Muslims and Christians are strained around the world, in the United States and even in Congress. But at Christmas, the two faith communities whose combined size represents more than half of humanity can turn to…

Between October 2015 and June 2019, we prospectively recruited 313 consecutive non-transplanted adults with AHI at the University of Medicine in Warsaw, Poland. Pure AIH, along with its cholestatic variants, namely AIH-PSC and AIH-PBC,…

Through Michel Gryboski, Christian Post reporter | Wednesday 22 December 2021Classroom | Unsplash / Jason SungA Senate committee removed some of the controversial language from the Build Back Better bill that would restrict funding and…

From January 22 to 30, Theater for the New City will present the New Yiddish Rep's production of "Di Froyen" (Women), based on the play "Women's Minyan" by Naomi Ragen, adapted for the Yiddish Rep by Melissa Weisz and Malky goldman. The…

(RNS) - There will be no American church choirs singing Christmas carols in Bethlehem Manger Square to mark the birth of Jesus this year at Christmas. At the end of November, Israel imposed a ban on all inbound travel from the United States…

A diversity and inclusion student senator from the University of Southern California tweeted, "I want to kill every fucking Zionist king" in May, along with several other views considered anti-Semitic.In May, Yasmeen Mashayekh, a diversity…

THE WEEK IN CORONAVIRUS There were a total of 116,892 deaths and 5,382,290 confirmed cases of coronavirus contagion at press time yesterday compared to 116,748 deaths and 5,354,440 confirmed cases the previous Friday. Amid warnings…

The political weaknesses and disorganization of the Biden administration are the unifying denominator of the two national security crises we are currently facing: China's emerging supremacy and Russia's impending takeover of…

"Moral blindness" The opinion piece by rabbis Nancy H. Wiener and Lester Bronstein ("Banning the boycott of Ben & Jerry is a distraction that makes anti-Semitism harder to fight," December 7) reveals its true colors when it refers…

Philosophy for kids is essential for personal growth, expert says at conference in Riyadh RIYAD: An expert speaker at the Riyadh Philosophy Conference believes that philosophizing with children is essential for their personal growth…

Theater producer Emanuel Azenberg likes to tell this story about the time, over 30 years ago, when "Jerome Robbins's Broadway" was in rehearsal. The show, which Azzenberg was co-producing, was a collection of brilliant musical numbers from…

Emhoff hosted a virtual Passover dinner earlier this year, lit the first menorah at the vice president's residence, and was the first to affix a mezuzah to the door.Vacations to the White House and the Vice President's Residence have been…

Enter Wall Street with Street Insider Premium. Claim your 1-week free trial here. Washington, December 6, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Today, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman issued the…

Alabama head football coach Nick Saban takes his team onto the field for the second half against Arkansas at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala on November 3, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst /…

The Chinese Communist Party has taken American democracy to task, sharply criticizing a world summit on democracy hosted by President Joe Biden next week and extolling the virtues of its system of governmentThrough Associated press KEN…

From the point of view of the American left, we should strive for the much more desirable system of socialism. You know, a type of socialism that never worked anywhere in the world. But the kind that only the left can…

WASHINGTON - The Biden administration aims to get people to work together to emerge from an economy hit by COVID. This could explain why the first menorah lit by a Jewish spouse to a vice president came from the home of a businessman…

TEHRAN (IQNA) - A Jewish rabbi in New York says some people are afraid to express their support for Palestine for fear of anti-Semitic labels, but they know there is a difference between Judaism and Zionism. "There are a lot of…

FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA - The challenges facing Iran's small Jewish minority attracted increased attention from US media this month, as the Chief Rabbi of the Islamic Republic ended a five-week tour of American Jewish communities by making rare…

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has tamed his kingdom's ultra-conservative religious establishment and made hyper-nationalism rather than religion a pillar of a new 21st century Saudi identity. But the first…

Views : 28 Posted: Wednesday November 17, 2021 6:19 PM CST. By Rubén Morales Iglesias: "Belize is truly the land of opportunity, and I can assure you that now is the best time to invest," said Minister of Youth, Sports and…

SÃO PAULO, Brazil (JTA) - As you stroll down Rua Martinho Prado in downtown São Paulo, it's hard to miss Beth-El Temple. The small hexagonal building, adorned with Hebrew scriptures on its walls, which has remained almost unchanged…

I have a very good friend who is a conservative Republican. As such, for many years we avoided discussions about politics, preferring to stick to the areas of life that we hold dear in common. This avoidance of politics ended on January 6,…

This month, large parts of Tel Aviv's Rabin Square will be closed to the public to allow the municipality to move forward with the construction of the new Tel Aviv-Jaffa tram. The square, which has witnessed some of the most…

Dilawar Syed, President Biden's choice to serve as a deputy administrator of the US Small Business Administration (SBA), is obviously qualified for the position. He has had a successful career as an entrepreneur managing software,…

Looking for something to do this week? Check out these events. Here are some of the events taking place in the Mahoning Valley this week. For more events, check out our events calendar and sign up here for our Weekend Matters…

Imagine CSR as your corporate conscience - that little voice that looks over your shoulder - reminding you of your evolving role in society and on the planet. We wrote about the different faces of CSR in these pages last year:…

Your homeland, or simply a nation-state deemed relevant to your identity, has become the cable news villain. Its conflicts and socio-political dynamics have become an obsession for millions of Americans who have little or no personal…

JERUSALEM: Israel on Wednesday put forward plans to build more than 3,000 settler homes in the occupied West Bank, an initiative condemned by the Palestinians that came a day after the United States strongly criticized such construction.…

Breadcrumb Links Opinion Chroniclers Author of the article: Lise ravary • Special at the Montreal Gazette Quebec Education Minister Jean-François Roberge said the new curriculum to replace ethics and…

Mahalo for his support of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story! While growing up in New York City, Jennifer Weiner decided she would become a rabbi. Weiner graduated from Barnard College of…

Vatican City, Oct 22, 2021 / 4:10 pm You probably know that Pope John Paul II was the second oldest pope in modern history with 27 years as a pontificate, and he was the first non-Italian pontiff since Dutch Pope Adrian VI in 1523. But did…

Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and UAE Minister of State Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber attend Saudi Green Initiative Forum to discuss efforts of the world's largest exporter oil to fight climate change in…

Almost three decades after Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao broke with the past and normalized relations with Israel in January 1992, India took an important step in framing the Jewish state in its broader Middle East…

The Center for the Study of Law and Religion (CSLR) received a seven-figure donation from the MirYam Institute to fund a new program called The MirYam Project in International Ethics & Leadership: Law, Religion, Health & Security.…

Jewish inmates in Michigan prisons entitled to kosher food plus cheesecake for Shavuot, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Last week.The decision, written by United States Circuit Court Judge Baylor Nalbandian, noted that the…

CARACAS, Venezuela (JTA) - The collapse of the Champlain Towers building in Surfside, Florida has been hit a range of communities whose members lived in the diverse Miami-Dade region: immigrants from all over Latin America, retired…

Ben Cohen has stayed cool like the ice cream that bears his name. But as his interview last week with Axios on HBO drew to a close, he revealed that his thinking about Israel and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement was as…

October 15, 2021 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org Read the article…

Aleksander Shul, Rabbi Shnior Zalman Denciger and the owner of the building, University Realty LLC, filed a…

Hot Take: Iraqi Sunnis Claim Their Rights The surprise of the elections in Iraq. The Iraqis went to the polls on October 10 to elect the 329 members of the Council of Representatives (parliament). One of the headlines of the…

Rabbi David Novak Prominent bioethicist, philosopher and theologian rabbi David Novak, who at 80 chairs the Jewish Studies program at the University of Toronto, will speak at a free community program in Tampa on Thursday, November 4 at 7…

Rarely do the demands of history and the fate of leaders historically fit to meet historical challenges coincide - let alone at a time of such urgency facing the Jewish world. This is also the case today, as the Jewish Agency,…

A majority of Jewish Israeli parents - 57% - would agree to vaccinate their children aged 5 to 11 against the coronavirus if the FDA approves a vaccine for that age group, according to the results of an investigation released…

Israel is set to launch a new initiative to reach expats living in the United States, seeking to strengthen Jewish and Israeli identity within a growing community that has traditionally had little formal contact with the government in…

LONDON: In the winter of 1973, Anwar Sadat was enjoying his time in the sun. He was "batal al-ubur" - the "hero of the crossing". The 1973 war against Israel was a huge propaganda success, no matter how much different the reality…

Many Americans don't realize the large number of adults with autism across the country who routinely struggle with suicidal thoughts and self-injurious behaviors. Compared with the general population, people with autism are up to…