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The Jewish Pavilion was selected amongst hundreds of entrees to be one of the eight charities to have their logo on the newest Lynx Bus. The theme of the Oct. 31 event at LYNX Central Station Terminal was “Working Together for a Better Tomorrow.” The unveiling ceremony included Orange County Mayor and LYNX Chair Jerry L. Demings and LYNX Interim Chief Executive Officer Tiffany Homler Hawkins. Pictured are Tiffany Homler Hawkins, Elliott Davis, Jewish Pavilion Board Chair, Nancy Ludin, CEO and...
(JTA) - When the New York Times journalist Jodi Kantor was reporting the 2017 Harvey Weinstein sexual assault story that earned her a Pulitzer prize, the powerful Hollywood producer and his team tried to influence her by using something they had in common: They are both Jewish. "Weinstein put [Jewishness] on the table and seemed to expect that I was going to have some sort of tribal loyalty to him," Kantor told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on a video call from the New York Times newsroom. "And...
(JNS) - Robert Clary, a Holocaust survivor best known as the French actor who starred in the CBS-TV series "Hogan's Heroes," died at his home in Los Angeles on Nov. 15 at age 96. Family members did not provide a cause of death. Cleary, who played Corporal LeBeau on the World War II-era sitcom from 1965 to 1971, was the last surviving member of the show's original principal cast. Born Robert Max Widerman in Paris on March 1, 1926, Clary was the youngest of 14 kids born to Orthodox Jewish parents....
(JTA) — It was unseasonably cold on Sunday morning when thousands of rabbis crowded on risers in front of Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Brooklyn to snap a photograph. The group photo is a signature moment during any gathering of the Orthodox movement, allowing the movement to create a visual record of its growth: Unique among Hasidic movements, Chabad is known for sending rabbis and their wives to far-flung locations around the globe to minister to local Jews, regardless of denomination or beliefs. (A picture taken at a smaller gathering o...
(JNS) — The Start-Up Nation is returning to its agricultural roots. The country once famed for Jaffa oranges and Jordan Valley dates, and later cherry tomatoes, is coming full circle, with century-old agricultural know-how meeting 21st-century high-tech. That, at least, is the impression one gets at the pristine offices of the Kinneret Innovation Center, which is emerging as a leading Israeli tech hub for agriculture, water and sustainability. Situated in an area known more for Christian tourism and date trees, this off-grid location is the l...
WALTHAM, Massachusetts (JTA) — The days before Thanksgiving break were supposed to be packed at Brandeis University’s Hillel: There was a talk on Sunday about sexuality in Judaism, a ceremony for students who participated in a study program and a forum for candidates running to help lead the campus Jewish center. Instead, Hillel canceled everything and instead threw open its doors for students and faculty in need of comfort and support after one of their classmates was killed and dozens more injured in an accident involving a shuttle bus man...
US imposes sanctions on Tehran’s IRIB media group (JNS) — The U.S. Treasury Department has placed sanctions on a state-run Iranian media corporation for forcing confessions from Iranians detained by the Islamic Republic. The department is sanctioning the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting group and six individuals associated with it, for its involvement in the Iranian government’s censorship activities. The organization, which has a monopoly on television and radio broadcasts in Iran, forced and broadcast hundreds of confessions from Iranian...
(JTA) - It's a World Cup like no other in recent memory - starting in late November. That's because it'll take place in Qatar, where temperatures won't usually fall under 80 degrees Fahrenheit. The headlines going in are focused on the country's widely-criticized human rights record. The preparations for the first World Cup hosted in the Arab world have taken years to complete, have cost more than $200 billion and, according to human rights organizations, have led to the deaths of thousands of...
