Posts Tagged: Jewish Immigrants
Anzia Yezierska: The Tenement House ‘Cinderella’
Applied to American Jews, the “white privilege” concept oversimplifies and misstates a complicated history. Anzia Yezierska -- once romanticized by Hollywood publicists as America’s "Cinderella of...
Without America, I Wouldn’t Be Here
For my family, America meant, quite literally, rescue, salvation, and rebirth. Nothing less. In our case, we don’t have to go back several generations or multiple...
208 New Jewish Immigrants From Ukraine Celebrate First Hanukkah in Israel
JNS.org - More than 200 new Jewish immigrants from Ukraine arrived in Israel this week and celebrated their first Hanukkah in the Jewish state. The flight of...
200 New French Immigrants Arrive in Israel
JNS.org - Two-hundred new Jewish immigrants from France arrived in Israel on Monday in the largest aliyah flight from Europe this summer. The group of immigrants includes...
Israel Declassifies 200,000 Documents Relating to 1950s Missing Jewish Children From Yemenite Background
Israel has declassified reams of documents related to a decades-old mystery of young children who disappeared in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Some 200,000 documents...
The Atlantic Investigates the Jewish Origins of Kentucky Bourbon
JNS.org - If when you think the history of whiskey in the U.S. your mind conjures up images of cowboys and the Wild West,...
Aliyah — If Not Now, When?
More than 5,000 Jewish immigrants are expected to arrive in Israel from France in 2014, and more than 1,000 olim arrived from the U.S., France...
RCA Says it Has Reached ‘Historic’ Deal With Israeli Rabbinate
JNS.org - The Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) announced that it has reached a "historic" deal with the Israeli Rabbinate on determining the "Jewishness"...
Forbes Investigative Journalist Rips NYU President Over ‘Vanilla’ Response to ASA Boycott
In a 15,000 word tour-de-force, Forbes Contributing Editor Richard Behar on Tuesday slammed the president of New York University, where he graduated from, in 1982,...
Jews Becoming Major Targets for Whiskey Industry
Whiskey producers have identified a valuable market, and it might come as a bit of a surprise: Jews—and in particular observant Jews. Writes the New York...
Thoughtful Adventures of Jewish Identity
"Union Square Park in Manhattan was the scene of a nighttime festival," author Theodore Ross excitedly remarks, as he seeks out the 2010 "Sukkah City"...
Jewish Comic George Burns Lives on in One-Man show
Born in Cleveland—where George Burns and Gracie Allen were married—Alan Safier keeps the legendary comedy duo alive. Made up to look like Burns and holding a...
Where Jewelry and Charity Meet
What's the highest level of charity according to Jewish tradition? It's giving someone in need a job or training for a career so they can...
Conventions Produce Unconventional Insights Into Parties’ Changing Views on Israel and Islam
National party conventions produce balloons, hot air and many conventional wisdoms, but this year, the conventions highlighted the changing way Republicans and Democrats treat Jews, Israel,...
