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Category Archives: Jews
AJU Professor Yitzchak Kerem Interview Part II
Part One Luke: "How does your activism fit with your scholarship?" Yitzchak: "It complements each other. I try to be objective. I’m critical of Sephardic organizational life. I received a lot of resistance when I tried to organize a Sephardic … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Ashkenazim, Greece, Jews, Sephardim, Turkey, Yitzchak Kerem
Tagged active world, area specialists, encyclopedia judaica, gaon, jewish communities, loan fund, march of the living, sephardic world
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WJC: ‘Shut the Anti-Semitic Mouths of Extremists’
Ronald S. Lauder, Honorary Chairman of the Board of the World Jewish Congress Foundation, emails: In September 2001 the U.N. hosted the World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa (Durban I). Venomous libels, demonstrations and hate-filled invectives like "Hitler … Continue reading
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Tagged apartheid state, ban ki moon, durban south africa, moon time, repressive regimes, world jewish congress
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The Last Days Of Irv Rubin
From The Enterprise Report: Never-before-seen FBI documents obtained by The Enterprise Report reveal Jewish Defense League Chairman Irv Rubin, while jailed on federal terrorism charges in 2002, claimed he admitted his role in a plot to bomb a mosque and … Continue reading
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Tagged enterprise report, fbi documents, irv rubin, metropolitan detention center, palestinian prisoners, terrorism charges
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Jewish Life In Europe
From The Jerusalem Post: Widespread assimilation is the greatest threat to Jewish existence in Europe, the continent’s top rabbis concluded at their meeting in Paris last week, calling for a return to traditional Jewish family values and major rabbinical intervention. … Continue reading
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Tagged chief rabbis, european jewish congress, kosher slaughter, shlomo amar, traditional jewish family, yona metzger
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Latin America Jewry’s Bernard Madoff
Joe emails: The collapse of Stanford Financial is becoming the Madoff Event of Latin American Jewry, and in particular Mexico City’s community, and in particular some major philanthropic and leadership names that maintain one foot in Mexico City and the … Continue reading
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Tagged american jewry, Bernard Madoff, fraud allegations, jerusalem post, securities and exchange commission, stanford financial
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The Week In Review
With Steven I. Weiss:
Special Yoga Class For The Current Astrological Pattern
I’ve always thought astrology a bunch of nonsense. I don’t deny its validity, I just don’t believe. It all seems very strange to me. Guru Singh was teaching a special Friday night class. I was of mixed mind. On the … Continue reading
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Tagged jewish thing, lunar eclipse, saturn uranus, shabbat dinner, soggy mess, solar eclipse, yoga center, yoga class
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