Indiana Jones: Man of adventure May 22, 2008
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Middle East Israels Mission May 17, 2008
By contrast, "Jerusalem" regards "Tel Aviv s" drive for "normalcy" as a shallow affair, one that is almost criminally indifferent to Jewish memory and the lessons of Jewish history. The Israel of "Jerusalem" is one of yearning for Jewish roots, a deep-seated fear of "the Arabs," and an unyielding distrust of "Gentiles" and their "international community." Israel was born in war and has lived by the sword ever since. (WELT ONLINE)
Israel in 60 Years May 13, 2008
When it comes to Jewish history, it is dangerous to indulge in prophecy ... Only three years after the saddest and cruelest chapter in Jewish history, a sovereign Jewish State was proclaimed: Was it predictable. (Time.com)
Chroniclers of pain May 10, 2008
"If Israel arose on the disaster of the Palestinians," stated MK Zevulum Orlev of the National Religious Party, "it can't be legitimate . . . the Jewish right to Israel is inherent and part of Jewish history, a legacy of our nakba 2,000 years ago." In fact, to acknowledge the nakba is not to de-legitimise Israel, but it does require of the nation a different form of accountability for its own past ... As the narrator lowers his eyes in the face of an Arab woman - "stern, self-controlled, austere... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Olmert 'never took a bribe,' he says May 9, 2008
Executives connected to leading Jewish organizations in New York that have listed Talansky as a major donor or put him on their boards including Yeshiva University's rabbinical seminary and the Center for Jewish History say he has not always carried out his pledges. At least two of the lawsuits involving Talansky contain allegations that he or people he enlisted made threats in the course of collecting debts or resolving business conflicts. (International Herald Tribune)
To Celebrate 60th, Israel Festival to Rock Into Evening May 8, 2008
It will be an Israel Festival unlike others in recent years as Jews across Los Angeles come together in celebration of perhaps the single most important milestone in modern Jewish history. Other officials participating in the Festivities include Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky; City Councilmembers Jack Weiss, Dennis Zine and Wendy Greuel; Sheriff Lee Baca, Congressman Brad Sherman; and Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles Jacob Dayan. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Jews: Don't Boycott The Olympics! May 5, 2008
The Ohel Rachel Synagogue in Shanghai is symbolic in many ways of the Jewish history in China ... American Jewish rabbis and leaders would be well advised to be better students of Jewish history in China before criticizing the country. (Forbes)
RELIGIOUS EVENTS May 2, 2008
Study Torah, Hebrew, Jewish history and traditions and learn about Israeli music, culture and food, arts and crafts and prayers, from a faculty of talented and dedicated Jewish educators. To request a registration form call the synagogue office at 978-263-3061. (Bolton Common, MA)
Bumpy road to Zion: Not your fathers religious fervor May 2, 2008
I will never fathom how someone jumps from loving Jewish history to believing that the Judean foothills are his birthright, from liking the poems of Yehuda Halevi to making aliyah. I once explained how I felt to a rabbi who I thought would understand. (Yale Herald, CT)
Religion Calendar Apr 19, 2008
An exploration of Jewish history and the search for meaning. RSVP necessary. (OregonLive, OR -- Living)
Passover book passes on Jewish history Apr 19, 2008
Durham, Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle Region. By Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan : The Herald-Sun Apr 19, 2008. (Herald Sun)
Religion notes Apr 18, 2008
D from Harvard University, where he studied medieval Jewish history, specifically the history of Jewish mysticism. Sendor received his ordination at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University. (Brookline TAB, MA)
Synagogue marks golden jubilee Apr 17, 2008
"Remembering the past 50 years and celebrating our place in Jewish history. "Jewish life goes back 4,000 years and we're a chapter of that," Grife added. "We are one square of the fabric of the big Jewish quilt. " Groundbreaking ceremonies at the temple's site on Paper Mill Road, Erdenheim, took place in 1958. An addition was built in 1961, and finally, a $1.2 million renovation in 1997 brought the building to its current state. B'nai Jeshurun, originally located in Mount Airy, merged with Beth... (Springfield Sun, PA)
Deal for Holy Land artefacts Apr 17, 2008
If you declare all of Jewish history a myth or fraud, peace is impossible. Ziad speaks for many in the Palestinian community, and illustrates what many fail to realize. (Nature News Service)
Savor the story Apr 17, 2008
Few events in Jewish history are more important than those for which Passover commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. There is an added wrinkle this year because the holiday begins at the close of the Sabbath, a day of rest for observant Jews. (The Daily Reflector)
Bible Park USA developers assemble theologians for advice on attractions Apr 16, 2008
Amy-Jill Levine, professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University, Nashville; Byron McCane, professor of Religion at Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C.; Carol Meyers, professor of Old Testament Studies at Duke University, Durham, N.C.; Eric Meyers, professor of Old Testament Studies, Archaeology of the ancient Near East, and Jewish History of the Greco-Roman period at Duke University, Durham, N.C.; Carolyn Osiek, professor of New Testament Studies at Brite Divinity School at Texas... (Nashville Business Journal, TN)
An emigre from the former Soviet Union driven to succeed Apr 15, 2008
It was an experience common to most of the Jews who fled from the Soviet Union in the 1970s and '80s, according to Jonathan Sarna, a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University. More than 1 million Jews migrated to Israel, the United States, Canada, and other countries via Austria and Italy where they waited in transfer camps for months in a kind of bureaucratic purgatory until their destinations were established and documents processed. (Boston Globe)
Skillfully preserving Jewish ritual Apr 14, 2008
The training program at Temple Shalom in Newton focused on Jewish history as well as the sociological issues facing contemporary Reform Jewish families. Over three 12-hour days of seminars organized by the Berit Mila Program of Reform Judaism, a California-based national training program for mohels, a panel of interfaith couples discussed how foreign and stressful the idea of home circumcision was for their non-Jewish relatives and Levenson offered some from-the-trenches tips on how to... (Boston Globe)
The Mirror of History Apr 14, 2008
(Jewish history, meanwhile, seems to end with Josephus. You don't have to worship at the shrine of political correctness to look aghast at this shrinking of the "European cultural tradition" to stories of white men told by the same. (Slate)
Everything is Illuminated Apr 2, 2008
The Strange Mixture of the Past and the Present. Liev Schreiber directs the story of an American Jew on a journey to understand how his grandfather escaped the Holocaust. (Suite101.com)
Catch defiler of Ohav Zedek Apr 1, 2008
This was not a mere prank. This was an act of hatred and intimidation. (The Citizen's Voice, PA)
Jewishfilm.2008 is coming to Brandeis Mar 23, 2008
Tal spent three years piecing together home movies and old radio recordings from kibbutzim archives to revisit that part of Jewish history and culture, resulting in the documentary "Children of the Sun." Shown in a preview with Tal present earlier this month, the film returns April 12 as part of The National Center for Jewish Film's 11th annual film festival, Jewishfilm. 2008. (Boston Globe)
Smart Traveler Mar 22, 2008
Vacationers Splurge on Private Tours (SmartMoney Magazine) at SmartMoney. Sign up now for FREESmartMoney. (SmartMoney)
Human rights proponents will explore prevention, remedies for genocide Mar 21, 2008
Panelists for this session will be Hasia Diner, the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg professor of American Jewish history at New York University; Gerald Gahima, a judge on the Bosnia War Crimes Panel and former vice president of the Supreme Court of Rwanda; Chuck Meyers, senior program associate of Facing History and Ourselves; and Kathleen Young, professor of anthropology at Western Washington University. Confronting Darfur, the third panel, will address the conflict in the Darfur region of the... (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Living for the 'gasp' Mar 9, 2008
The project, Sherman explained in a recent telephone interview, began as something of a millennium project, an attempt to sum up 100 years of Jewish history. "Originally I had planned it as a multicharacter play, but I became drawn to this one woman. And the other characters fell away.". (Globe and Mail)
Where is the lamb? Feb 25, 2008
This tremendous event in Jewish history is still celebrated today in the Feast of the Passover. Under the law given to Moses on Mt. Sinai, the Jews were instructed that when one sinned he was to bring an animal (a lamb) to the altar, place his hands on the animal s head while confessing his sin (thereby transferring the guilt to the sacrifice), and then slay the lamb. (Ontario Argus Observer, OR)
My history, our history (2/4) Feb 5, 2008
And as MSMS teacher Chuck Yarborough so eloquently put it, as he led us on a trip through history down Catfish Alley, along Martin Luther Drive South and on to Missionary Union Baptist Church and down Second Avenue North where the Penny-Savings Bank once stood I don't like to think of history as white history or African-American history or Jewish history. It's our history. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
SOUL SURVIVORS Jan 13, 2008
January 13, 2008 -- The survival of the Sarajevo Haggadah is one of the marvels of modern Jewish history. In People of the Book," Geraldine Brooks uses fiction to re-imagine the amazing history of this illuminated 14th century Hebrew text, which survived the political and religious wars and upheavals that ravaged Europe and the Near East from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Unfortunately, the novel doesn't live up to its inspiration. Brooks examines this strange, eventful history... (New York Post -- Opinions)
Exploring Jewish-America Jan 5, 2008
" Even when it falters, "The Jewish Americans" remains both informative and engaging. Most viewers, no matter how well acquainted they are with American Jewish history, are likely to learn things. You may already know about Hank Greenberg, the slugger for the Detroit Tigers in the 1930s, or Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America (1945). But did you also know that it was a couple of Jewish kids in Cleveland who invented "Superman. " One of their amusingly twerpy voices is heard in the show.... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Jewish series mirrors American immigrant story Jan 4, 2008
His favorite segment in the whole series is part of Cleveland s Jewish history: the story of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who created the Superman character. Two young guys, frustrated in their hopes and dreams, were reflecting on their own lives. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Last matzo factory on New York's Lower East Side moving out Dec 29, 2007
But in a sign of the times, the building will serve a dual purpose as an American Jewish history museum and a functioning synagogue. "After the 1980s, you got this continual increase of property values and rents and it just never stopped or went down again," said Clayton Patterson, a local preservationist. (Boston Globe)
More of this story Dec 28, 2007
Chronicling 350 years of Jewish history in America, deciding what to omit and what to include, is an ambitious undertaking. Jewish Americans seeks to illuminate the American story through comprehensive treatment of one immigrant group, whose impact on life here far outweighs its tiny size. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Experience an hour of medieval wonder in Germany Dec 12, 2007
The town is also known for its Jewish history, with Judaica in the Imperial City Museum; and Judengasse (Jews' Lane), a street billed as Germany's only intact ghetto from the Middle Ages. Perched high above the Tauber River, Rothenburg, offers stunning views, especially for those who climb atop its 20-foot-high covered wall to walk the circumference of the town, officially known as Rothenburg ob der Tauber. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Art & architecture offerings for the holidays Dec 12, 2007
So "Monuments" is a welcome backward look at 38 commemorative sites, from the Alamo, Statue of Liberty and Washington Monument to more obscure ones such as North Side-based artist Diane Samuels' "Luminous Manuscript" monument to Jewish history at New York's Center for Jewish History. The introductory essay, which explores the meaning and purpose of memorials and monuments, is followed by one tracing their evolution from ancient pyramids and obelisks to the spontaneous and temporary memorials of... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Journeying to faith: Adults prepare for bar, bat mitzvah ceremony Saturday Dec 7, 2007
DuCloux said she worked in retail management for years and never found the time for the weekly lessons and study of Jewish history, liturgy, philosophy, rabbinic literature and theology required for her own bat mitzvah. "It wasn't that important to me at the time," she said. (North County Times)
Synagogue celebrates restoration Dec 4, 2007
While that lower floor will continue to function as an Orthodox synagogue, the building will now serve as a nonsectarian museum dedicated to American Jewish history and the history of the Lower East Side. The Museum at Eldridge Street will host programs about vaudeville music, Yiddish literature, family history research and other topics. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Historic NYC Synagogue Is Reborn Dec 3, 2007
While that lower floor will continue to function as an Orthodox synagogue, the building will now serve as a nonsectarian museum dedicated to American Jewish history and the history of the Lower East Side. Barry Yood, a retired health administrator whose great-grandfather served as Eldridge Street's rabbi, said he was looking forward to being a docent at the new museum. (CBS News -- US)
U.S. Jewish population isn't declining Dec 1, 2007
Jewish summer camps, schools, charities and Web sites form a network of institutions that has no equal in all of Jewish history. The myth of the disappearing Jew can be traced in large measure to a single, well-publicized study recording 5. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Karkar: Partition of Palestine Nov 30, 2007
8] Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish religion: The weight of 3000 years, Pluto Press, 1 December 1994. 9] 415. (Zmag.org)
Editor's mailbag: Let’s help delivery people Nov 28, 2007
- - This comes AFTER 2 years of studying Hebrew, Jewish history, scriptures, etc. - - Isaiah also mentions that one MUST observe Sabbath. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
* Police, 'anti-fascists' block planned neo-Nazi march Nov 12, 2007
"We came here to show our support for the Czech Jewish community, why we're against all these anti-Semites and neo-Nazis. They're picking a very holy day, a very sad day in Jewish history and we felt we need to support the Czech community against anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism." ... "They're picking a very holy day, a very sad day in Jewish history and we felt we need to support the Czech community against anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism," Silverman said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Neo-Nazis Clash With Prague Protesters Nov 11, 2007
"They're picking a very holy day, a very sad day in Jewish history and we fell we need to support the Czech community against anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism.". MMVII The Associated Press. (CBS News)
Young blades for hire Nov 3, 2007
Christopher Tayler sets off in pursuit of Michael Chabon's tale of 10th-century Jewish adventurers, Gentlemen of the Road. Saturday November 3, 2007. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Nauman lights up exhibition at Warhol Oct 31, 2007
Samuel's "Luminous Manuscript," permanently installed in 2004 at the Center for Jewish History, New York, is among 38 sites and/or commemorations in the book. Others include the Statue of Liberty, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, The Alamo, and 9/11 temporary memorials. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
R.B. Kitaj, 74; paintings conveyed historical, literary themes Oct 25, 2007
Mr. Kitaj often made wild use of collage, fragmentary design, and bright colors, along with a thematic concern with modern Jewish history, particularly the Holocaust. His art highlighted historical and social commentary and obscure literary references. (Boston Globe)
Claude Miller's 'Un Secret': A Jewish history lost and found in France Oct 25, 2007
Claude Miller's 'Un Secret': A Jewish history lost and found in France - International Herald Tribune ... Claude Miller's 'Un Secret': A Jewish history lost and found in France. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Professor discusses anti-Semitism Oct 21, 2007
Paula Hyman, a professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University and the president of the American Academy of Jewish Research, lectured in "Anti-Semitism, Gender and Jewish Identity in Europe" at Drayton Hall. The lecture, part of the Solomon Tenenbaum Lectureship in Jewish Studies, focused on the pervasiveness of European stereotypes of the Jewish male and female in the 1890's and 1900's. (Gamecock Online, SC)
Ann Coulter Wants Jews to Become Christian -- So What? Oct 16, 2007
I say this as a committed Jew, a religious Jew, a Jewish writer and lecturer, a past college instructor in Jewish history, co-author of a widely read book on anti-Semitism, recipient of the American Jewish Press Association's Prize for Excellence in Jewish Commentary, instructor in Torah at the American Jewish University, and a man who has fought anti-Semitism all his life ... I say this as a committed Jew, a religious Jew, a Jewish writer and lecturer, a past college instructor in Jewish... (Townhall.com)
Israel: Archeology and the Propaganda War of Lies Oct 16, 2007
Tissue of Lies: Archeology and the Propaganda War Against Israel - HUMAN EVENTS. In one of those ironies of questionable scholarship, just as a battle over a Barnard scholar s book about Israeli archeology had inflamed her application for tenure, heavy equipment was tearing away at the ancient crown of Jerusalem s 36-acre Temple Mount, Judaism s holiest site. (Human Events Online)
Around Town Sept. 26 -- Neighbors take care of trash employees Oct 2, 2007
Gabrielle is one of 16 interns this semester who will learn how to teach 20th-century Jewish history and the Holocaust to young people. The daughter of Lorie and the late David DiLorenzo, Gabrielle is studying liberal arts with concentrations in anthropology, psychology and history at Hofstra University. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
UPDATED: Governor Rendell's Public Schedule, Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2007 Sep 29, 2007
Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is Governor Rendell's public schedule, Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, 2007: Sept. 29, 2007 No public schedule Sept. 30, 2007 11:00 a.m. -- Governor Rendell to attend National Museum of American Jewish History groundbreaking ceremony and reception Independence Visitors Center, 2nd floor 6th and Market Streets Philadelphia 12:00 p.m. -- Governor Rendell to attend Puerto Rican Day Parade Parade Starts 21st and the Parkway Philadelphia October 1, 2007 No public... (PR Newswire)
The books that changed our lives Sep 26, 2007
The book, Brothers, by the late Bernice Rubens, was a fictional trawl through Jewish history, beginning with the build up to the pogroms in the late 1800s. It followed the fate of two brothers named Bindel, and their descendants, in order to question how certain groups of people become oppressed. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Buch: Israel's Ethnic Cleansing Sep 25, 2007
Something like that already happened in the Jewish history, some 1940 years ago - see the "The Jewish War", by Josephus Flavius. And just like in those days, most of Israeli public does not realize, that they are being dragged to disaster by their own leaders. (Zmag.org)
Judith Zucker, 73; shared knowledge of Jewish history Sep 13, 2007
Today's Globe Local Politics Opinion Magazine Education NECN Special reports Obituaries. In 1944, when she was 10 years old, Judith Clara (Balassa) Zucker was among a group of 50 people, led by her father, who escaped the Nazi threat in their Slovak town by hiding in the Tatra Mountains. (Boston Globe)
Holocaust Survivor Will Recall Treblinka Escape in Kent Talk Sep 7, 2007
Three hundred years of Jewish history in the town had ended. Mr. Weinstein, his brother, Israel, and his mother were among those rounded up in the first wave of deportation. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
Barcelona - Capital of Catalonia Sep 4, 2007
Sandy beaches, fine food, La Rambla, Gothic Quarter, Roman walls, Jewish History and the architecture of Antonio Gaudi i Cornet - Barcelona offers all this and more. At the heart of Barcelona is Pla;a de Catalunya and most of Barcelona's main attractions are located within a twenty minute walk or a short ride by bus or subway. (Suite101.com)
For longtime ADL leader, a rare reversal of course Aug 22, 2007
His style has also molded the ADL. Foxman's approach was to use the kind of discipline more often seen in the military than in a nonprofit organization, said Jonathan Sarna, a professor of Jewish history at Brandeis University. But Foxman could not maintain his hold on the ADL's position as pressure mounted. (Boston Globe)
Museum pursues state's vanishing Jewish history Aug 16, 2007
Preserving Museum pursues Georgia's vanishing Jewish history. By MARK DAVIS / mrdavis@ajc. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
With passion for Israel, he labors to unify God's chosen people Aug 15, 2007
Throughout its existence, the Conference has played a key role in American and world Jewish history ... For him it summarized the polarity of Jewish history ... Hoenlein says that he is blessed to have a job that allows him to work for the things he cares most about and to help shape Jewish history in some measure. (WorldNetDaily)
Himmler's neice confronts nation's conscience in family history Aug 15, 2007
"Every time he is asking more and I try to explain a little bit more, but you can't explain the whole story at once. He knows about Jewish history ... he knows about the mass murder already but he does not know the connection to my family.". Other coverage. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Gary Sredzienski is not just the polka guy Aug 14, 2007
A recent show focused on Jewish history. There's an annual one on yodeling. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Chris Schwarz, 59; photographer who honored Polish Jewry Aug 12, 2007
When he first arrived in Krakow from England in the early 1990s and wandered through Kazimierz, the city's Jewish quarter since medieval times, Mr. Schwarz "felt that the streets were saturated with centuries of Jewish history," he said in the BBC interview ... In keeping with a movement among Poles to revive the nation's Jewish cultural heritage, the museum also offers seminars on Jewish history, classes in Yiddish and Hebrew, and klezmer music concerts. (Boston Globe)
Hebron settlers evicted Aug 9, 2007
Noam Arnon, a spokesperson for the Hebron settlers, called yesterday's evacuation a "crime against justice and against Jewish history.". When the mayhem was over, other police stripped the apartments, putting furniture on moving vans and then dismantling walls, windows and doors to try to prevent a reoccupation. (Toronto Star)
Squatters Refuse to Leave Hebron Aug 7, 2007
"This is a crime against justice and against Jewish history," said Noam Arnon, a spokesman for the Hebron settlers. "I am sure we will return. Hebron has a long history and we will return.". (Fox News)
Jewish History Simplified Aug 3, 2007
He gives a good introduction to Jewish history and the progression of Jewish thought within Jewish society making every theory presented very clear and logical. (Suite101.com)
