Posts Tagged: Jewish News
Where the Wild Things Were
Where will the wild things go now? More than children's literature lost out with the death of Maurice Sendak, a world-famous artist and...
One Year Later: The Case of Yanky Ostreicher, Held in Bolivia Without Charge
Yanky Ostreicher , an American-Jewish citizen from New York state was arrested in Bolivia nearly one year ago and has been held by federal authorities...
New Brooklyn Gallery Features $175,000 Hassidic Art
A new fine art gallery in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn will display work by Hassidic artists. Although the Betzalel Gallery will focus on...
Israeli Medical Advances to Showcase at BioMed 2012
Tel Aviv will be hosting the BioMed 2012 conference May 21-23 to display advancements in the biotechnology industry, including in stem-cell research. Sixty...
Israeli Could Become World Chess Champion
Boris Gelfand, originally from Belarus, could become the first Israeli to win the World Chess Federation championship. He will attempt to defeat the...
How Not To Succeed
The Economist of May 5th has a fascinating piece on why the Mormons, a relatively small USA religious sect, with a very strange history,...
The Rights of Indigenous People and the Rest of Us
In early 2011, President Obama announced that the United States would sign the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Now the U.N. wants...
The Myths of Past Middle East Peace Negotiations
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was interviewed last Friday by CNN's Christiana Ammanpour and sought to give his audience the impression that ...
Anti-Semitism & Its Antidotes
Tonight I begin teaching an eight-week course called "Anti-Semitism and its Antidotes: From Talk to Action" as a part of a Limmud-inspired, cross-communal...
Abbas Denies Jerusalem’s Jewish History
Palestinian Authroity President Mahmoud Abbas recently called Israel's presence in Jerusalem "Judaization," accusing Israel of stealing "cultural, human, and Islamic-Christian religious history," Palestinian...
Polanski to Bring “Dreyfus Affair” to the Big Screen
The iconic and controversial French-Polish director Roman Polanski is about to bring The Dreyfus Affair, one of the most famous cases of anti-Semitism in modern...
U.S. Court Upholds New York “Kosher Law”
A U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that New York's "Kosher Act" does not violate the constitution, upholding a previous ruling by a lower court. The...
Drake and Jones, Hollywood’s New Jewish Power Couple?
Drake, who made no secret of his love for Judaism in a recent hip-hop video, is rumored to be in a relationship with another famous...
New Kadima Chairman Blasts Livni for Failure
Shaul Mofaz, the Israeli Kadima party's new chairmain who recently entered a unity government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud, said he...
