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Observers lament lack of wide-ranging views at Federation's General Assembly in Tel Aviv (JNS)-The 2018 annual General Assembly, held this year in Tel Aviv, took on a decidedly different tone to previous conventions. Focused on the theme, "Israel and the Diaspora: We need to talk," calls came for a respectful but serious dialogue on key issues that have been troubling America's Jewish communal establishment. Yet many of the hard questions being asked of Israel by a largely liberal Jewish...
The song ‘101 Jerusalem’ is about a Jewish boy who barely dodged Auschwitz as World War II raged. The music video, written, arranged and sung by Lazar Wall, founder of the rock band One Man Mambo, is based on the real-life story of Freddy Siegfried Glatt. View the video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyHPBeQ5U9I By Lazar Wall Freddy was five when he saw a paving stone shatter his dad’s storefront in Berlin. Next, also in front of the family, the Nazis beat up his father. Adolf Hitler had made life unbearable to the Glatts already in 1933, forci...
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has called for a “reverse Birthright” that would take Israelis to see the American Jewish community firsthand. Rivlin made his remarks Monday at the opening of the General Assembly, the annual conference of the Jewish Federations of North America, in Tel Aviv. Titled “We Need to Talk,” the three-day conference is focusing on the divisions between Israeli and Diaspora Jews. More than 3,000 participants are on hand for the event. The Jewish Federations of North America is the umbrella body for nearly...
(JNS)—I lost my brother, Gabriel, five years ago to an accidental overdose. At his funeral, I told a story about his extraordinary generosity. Gabe was coming home from a night out with friends on the Upper West Side when a homeless man approached him and asked for money. Gabe didn’t hesitate. He put his arm around this man, ushered him in to a nearby restaurant and paid for his meal—with a smile on his face at 2:30 in the morning. Losing a beautiful soul like Gabe was more devastating than anything I could have imagined. Yet the power of hi...
