This Day, May 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin - Cleveland Jewish News (blog)

This Day, May 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
Cleveland Jewish News (blog)
2006: An exhibit entitled “Dear Dr. Janzow” opened at the Sydney(Australia) Jewish Museum. “Dear Dr.Janzow is an exhibition of original letters from the Lutheran Archives in Adelaide, curated by Dr Peter Monteath, Senior Lecturer in History at Flinders ...

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Do 'Jewish jokes' need to be updated? - San Diego Jewish World

Do 'Jewish jokes' need to be updated?
San Diego Jewish World
American Jews must evolve. Be nice, all ye who are comedians and humor writers. Respect yourselves. Respect what we have become now in 2012. ”Stop the old, out-dated stereotypes. We can write a new chapter in American Jewish history in the creative ...

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Covering Israel's immigration laws: When anti-Zionism becomes anti-Semitism - Asia Times Online

Covering Israel's immigration laws: When anti-Zionism becomes anti-Semitism
Asia Times Online
First, I argued that from 1948 until 1994, the semi-official bodies representing the Jewish community in South Africa had been consistently mute on the apartheid question, and that this moral failure went a long way towards explaining their unwavering ...

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An Open Letter to Yale History Professor Timothy Snyder - Algemeiner

An Open Letter to Yale History Professor Timothy Snyder
Algemeiner
In the course of the same week, the Lithuanian government repatriated, reburied with full honors and held a series of events honoring the 1941 Nazi-puppet prime minister who signed off on the German order for all Jews in Kaunas (Kovno) to be forced ...

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The agricultural side of Shavuot - Intermountain Jewish News

The agricultural side of Shavuot
Intermountain Jewish News
SHAVUOT may be one of the least understood holidays on the American Jewish calendar. Even though it commemorates the most wondrous day in Jewish history — the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai — for many it has the weight of a footnote.

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The Jews Down Under~News of the Jews of Australia - San Diego Jewish World

The Jews Down Under~News of the Jews of Australia
San Diego Jewish World
The academic, author and lecturer said she would remember her time in Australia fondly. “It's the human warmth, and the directness, and the fact that you guys are very close to us Israelis,” she said. “I consider Australian Jews to be our first cousins ...

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Israel wrestling with identity – NIF chief - Australian Jewish News


Australian Jewish News
Israel wrestling with identity – NIF chief
Australian Jewish News
Using the histories of the US and Australia as examples, the American described Israel as a liberal democracy that's wrestling with its identity. “Our countries were imperfect experiments where the ethnocratic impulse was always up against the ...

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Worldwide migrations correlate with economic opportunity - San Diego Jewish World

Worldwide migrations correlate with economic opportunity
San Diego Jewish World
There may, in fact, be more Irish and Greeks abroad than at home, but nothing approaching the spread of Jews and the meager Judaic population of what they called the homeland from the Roman through the British periods of history.

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Dragon Boat paddler helps bring sport to Israel - Canadian Jewish News


Canadian Jewish News
Dragon Boat paddler helps bring sport to Israel
Canadian Jewish News
Only two were Jewish. Thirty-nine teams, totalling more than 900 paddlers, took part in the festival. Nine of the teams consisted of breast cancer survivors. Twenty of the teams were Israeli and 19 came from abroad – from Canada, the United States, ...

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This Day, May 9, In Jewish History, by Mitchell A. Levin - Cleveland Jewish News (blog)

This Day, May 9, In Jewish History, by Mitchell A. Levin
Cleveland Jewish News (blog)
For more about the history of the Jews in Reno see Jews in Nevada: A History by John Marschall. 1872: The American Society for the Promotion of Christianity Among the Jews held its second anniversary meeting this evening at the Union Presbyterian ...

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