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We should never glorify anti-Semitism... I just read this in my new World Jewish Congress (WJC) digest under the heading "Plans for Statue of anti-Semitic Hungarian Minister halted." I pass it along to you in part: "Following an international outcry, including a global petition campaign by the WJC, the city council of Szekesfehervar in Hungary voted against the proposal of the Balint Homan Foundation to erect a statue in honor of the former minister who drafted anti-Jews laws prior to and...
The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida recently received $10,000 from Walt Disney World Resort through Disney Grants. The Holocaust Center will use the funding to support its education programming, particularly the UpStanders bullying-prevention initiative. "We are thrilled with Disney's ongoing support, and honored to be chosen for this grant award," said the Center's Executive Director Pam Kancher. "Their dedication to our community is important to all of us, and we...
NEW YORK (JTA)-For Samir Patel, the term "goy" is no slur. It's a point of pride. Patel is a manager of Suhag Wine & Liquors, a family-owned business in the heavily Orthodox neighborhood of Kew Gardens Hills, in Queens. He's a Hindu immigrant from India, but the vast majority of his customers are religious Jews, and nearly all the wine and spirits he sells is kosher. Saturday is the store's slowest day for sales, but there's another service Patel provides that makes him indispensable: He's a...
(JNS.org) Two 17-year-old Iranian-Jewish teenagers were arrested in Tehran this week after they were caught spray painting the words “Death to Haman” on a building. “Based on the details that came from Iran, the Tehran police promised to release the two boys, both 17, after it was made clear to them that this is not a political act, but a simple Purim prank, but as of now, the boys have not been released,” said an official familiar with the case, according to Maariv. Jewish groups in the U.S. have become involved in advocating for the boys re...
If and when you turn 100 years old don't you want the Jewish Pavilion staff and volunteers there to give you a Mazel Tov? Hazel was delighted to share her 100th birthday celebration with her dear and loving family, neighbors at Atria Park and of course her friends with Jewish Pavilion. Judy Suberman and Emily Newman have been visiting and sharing Jewish holidays with Hazel for the past 10 years during her stay at Atria. Hazel has participated in dozens of Shabbatot, Passover Sederim and...
The Jewish Academy kindergarten students proved to be successful entrepreneurs last Friday as they ran the kindergarten "Awesome Snack Store." The store was a culminating activity to two units: nutrition and money. The children were store employees, offering delicious snacks to the entire student body. The students not only sold the healthy foods, they learned to market the store by creating a commercial for the WJAO news and designing posters. In addition, they prepared items for the store and...
TEL AVIV (JTA)-In the summer of 1942, while Nazi officials in Wannsee were coining the term "Final Solution," Leni Sonnenfeld donned a crisp sundress and smiled into a camera in New York City's Central Park. At her side was her husband, Herbert, dressed in a starched U.S. Army uniform. In the photo he's confident and casual, his hands in his pockets and his legs spread wide. She is elegant and poised, a quiet smile on her lips. They are young and clearly in love. Staring at the attractive pair...
ANATEVKA, Ukraine (JTA)-At the age of 53, Sergey and Elena Yarelchenko fled their native city of Lugansk with three suitcases and moved into a wooden room in a muddy refugee camp outside Kiev. Like hundreds of thousands of refugees from Ukraine's war-torn east, life for this Jewish couple in 2014 went from a normal bourgeois existence to a hellish struggle for survival and flight from a city that within days became the arena for vicious urban fighting between government troops and pro-Russian...
WASHINGTON—The Reform movement harshly criticized Donald Trump’s “hate speech,” but backed AIPAC’s invitation of the Republican frontrunner to speak at its annual conference. Reacting to Trump’s acceptance of the invitation on Friday, the Union for Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis on Monday called his campaign bigoted. “His campaign has been replete with naked appeals to bigotry, especially against Hispanics and Muslims. Previous comments he has made—and not disavowed—have been offensive to women, people of color,...
Police and Shin Bet: New Duma fire not arson attack by settlers JERUSALEM (JTA)—Arson was not the cause of a fire that damaged the Duma home of a key witness in a deadly attack last year in the same West Bank Palestinian village, police believe. Ibrahim Dawabsheh, the owner of the house, and his wife escaped from the burning home early Sunday morning and were treated in a West Bank hospital for smoke inhalation, the Palestinian Maan news agency reported. He is the key witness to the July 2015 attack that killed his relatives Reham and Saad D...
(JTA)—Former Anti-Defamation League director Abraham Foxman will head a new center for the study of “anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. “Unfortunately, anti-Semitism has never gone away and other forms of hatred including prejudice, bigotry, and bullying continue to persist,” museum chairman Bruce Ratner said in a news release Monday. “We believe it remains essential to understand the genesis of these events, and I can think of no one better suited to take this on tha...
(JTA)—Iran said a U.S. court ruling last week ordering it to pay more than $10 billion for its alleged role in the 9/11 attacks is “ridiculous.” “This judgement is so ridiculous... more than ever before it damages the credibility of the U.S. judicial system,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari said, according to Agence France Press. U.S. District Judge George Daniels in New York issued a default judgment Wednesday against Iran for $7.5 billion to the estates and families of people who died at the World Trade Center and Pent...
(JNS.org) The Arab League on Friday designated the Lebanon-based Shi’a Muslim group Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. “The resolution of the League’s council [of foreign ministers] includes the designation of Hezbollah as a terrorist group,” a statement by the Arab League said. The 22-member body, which is dominated by Sunni Arab states, voted overwhelmingly in favor of the decision, with only Lebanon and Iraq—which both have significant Shi’a Muslim populations and close relations with Iran—not supporting the resolution. The Arab Leag...
FLINT, Mich. (JTA)-At 86, Jeanne Aaronson is blind and lives alone, but she has seen a lot over the years. She lived in Flint when it was a manufacturing powerhouse, a center of the automotive business and a symbol of American industrial might and ingenuity. She lived through the city's decline in the 1970s and '80s as the auto factories closed and the population decamped for better opportunities elsewhere. And more recently, she witnessed the beginning of its revival, with the opening of new...
