Jewish Rapper Takes On Germany’s Hip-Hop Scene
Source: The New York Times By Andrew Curry May 11, 2018 ESSEN, Germany — A yellow star of David — the sort the Nazis forced Jews to wear — on the […]
‘Haifa is essentially segregated’: cracks appear in Israel’s capital of coexistence
Guardian: For decades, Haifa has been Israel’s model of what a ‘mixed’ Jewish-Arab city could be. But as the country’s 70th anniversary nears, the strain is showing. Haifa is Israel’s third largest city – and its biggest ‘mixed’ one. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Ben-Gurion Boulevard climbs from the bustling port […]
Iraq-born refugee could become first Arabic speaker to head Britain’s Jews
Source: The Guardian Baghdad-born candidate standing for presidency of UK’s most powerful Jewish group says more diverse representation is needed BY Harriet Sherwood Religion Correspondent Edwin Shuker on a trip back […]
Tunisian Islamist party endorses Jewish candidate
Source: AFP Decked out in a striking blue suit and white shirt, matching his political allegiance, Simon Slama rubs shoulders with fellow candidates ahead of Tunisia’s municipal elections. Nothing unusual […]
Israeli minister vows to help Ethiopian Jews move to Israel
Source: Associated Press By MICHAEL ATSBEHA ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Israel’s Justice minister vowed to help Ethiopia’s Jews immigrate to Israel as soon as possible during a rare visit […]
Fury in Germany as Rap Duo With Anti-Jewish Lyrics Gets Award
Source: The New York Times By Melissa Eddy and Andrew Curry April 18, 2018 BERLIN — In Germany’s hugely popular hip-hop music scene, one of the biggest albums of the past year was from two trash-talking rappers who rhymed about their prowess in bed and in the weight room and about violently dominating […]
Poland marks 75th anniversary of uprising in Warsaw Ghetto
Source: Associated Press By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and VANESSA GERA WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Sirens wailed, church bells tolled and yellow paper daffodils of remembrance dotted the crowd as Polish and Jewish leaders extolled the heroism and determination of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fighters on the 75th anniversary of their ill-fated […]
With Jews largely gone from Iraq, memories survive in Israel
Source: Reuters By Maher Chmaytelli, Jeffrey Heller, Stephen Farrell BAGHDAD/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Behind the high concrete walls of Baghdad’s Jewish cemetery, Violette Saul lies at rest under a weathered and cracked tombstone, one of the last memorials to an ancient community that is now all but extinct. A Torah scroll is seen […]
Israeli series exposes raw wounds from ethnic Jewish divide
Source: Associated Press By TIA GOLDENBERG JERUSALEM (AP) — An electrifying new documentary series on the problematic integration of Middle Eastern Jews by Israel’s European founders in the 1950s has reopened old wounds of an ethnic divide within Judaism ahead of the country’s 70th anniversary festivities. While Israel is marking […]
The Jewish State Has a Special Duty to Defend Syrians
Source: The New York Times By Ronen Bergman Mr. Bergman is the author of “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations.” April 12, 2018 TEL AVIV — On Wednesday, Israel observed Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is one of the most important days on the country’s calendar, […]
As numbers dwindle, Jews who fought Nazis recall struggle
Source: Associated Press By ARON HELLER KFAR SABA, Israel (AP) — While most of his fellow Jews were being killed or brutalized in Nazi death camps and ghettos, Baruch Shub and his friends were hiding in the forests of the former Soviet Union, trying to undermine the Nazis by derailing […]
In Bukhara, 10,000 Jewish Graves but Just 150 Jews
Source: The New York Times By ANDREW HIGGINSAPRIL 7, 2018 Photo Bukhara, Uzbekistan, has two synagogues but few Jews. CreditDmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times BUKHARA, Uzbekistan — The ancient Silk Road […]
‘I learned a lot’: Corbyn defends taking part in radical Jewish event
Source: The Guardian BY Jessica Elgot Jeremy Corbyn has said he “learned at a lot” at a Passover event hosted by a leftwing Jewish group highly critical of mainstream Jewish bodies, after […]
Nazis destroyed this Berlin synagogue. A Muslim politician and a Jewish leader want to rebuild it.
Source: The Washington Post By Luisa Beck April 1 at 4:37 PM Email the author A memorial marks the vacant lot in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighborhood where the Fraenkelufer synagogue once stood. There are […]
Major Jewish private donor ditches Labour over antisemitism
Source: The Guardian BY Michael Savage One of Labour’s biggest private donors has said he no longer feels “any affinity or connection” with the party, and accuses its leadership of failing […]
Where the Genocide Museum Is (Mostly) Mum on the Fate of Jews
Source: The New York Times By ROD NORDLAND VILNIUS, Lithuania — During the Holocaust, many Lithuanian Jews were not killed in Nazi death camps, but by their neighbors, usually shot or […]
To Appreciate Freedom, Remember Slavery
Source: Wall Street Journal By Ruth R. Wisse March 29, 2018 7:00 p.m. ET Re-enacting slavery is not everyone’s idea of a good time, but this is how Jews celebrate […]
Johan van Hulst, Dutch schoolteacher who saved hundreds of Jewish children during Holocaust, dies at 107
Source: The Washington Post An inspector from the Dutch education ministry arrived at Johan van Hulst’s teacher training institute in Amsterdam on the morning of June 19, 1943. He noticed […]
German Muslim leader proposes sending imams and rabbis together into schools to combat anti-Semitism
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) — After a public outcry over the bullying of a Jewish schoolgirl in Berlin by Muslim classmates, the head of Germany’s main Muslim association has […]
Christians, Jews and the dubious history of the Passion play
Source: Religion News Service By A. James Rudin (RNS) — Passover and Easter once again coincide this year. The first seder (Passover meal) of the eight-day Jewish festival is on March […]