Sunday, October 20th 2019
By ALAN SMASON
It’s been a busy week at the National World War II Museum as they officially opened the Hall of Democracy and broke ground on the Liberation Pavilion, which will catalog the history of the liberation of the concentration and death camps by the Allies.
At the Hall of Democracy, the first curated exhibit in the Senator John Alario, jr. Special Exhibit Hall was opened to the public last night, Thursday, October 17.
“Operation Finale: The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann” tells the story of how Mossad, the Israel Secret Service, launched a secret operation to verify...
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By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“)
The partial collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel under construction in New Orleans on Saturday, October 12, sent tons of debris and a crane across the street impacting the historic Saenger Theater building, where the national tour of Wicked was being housed....
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By NICHOLAS HAMBURGER, Exclusive to the CCJN
At sundown on Sunday, October 13, the agricultural festival Succot begins, continuing throughout the week until nightfall on Sunday, October 20. Referred to as “the feast of ingathering” in the Book of Exodus, the holiday celebrates the end of the harvest season, when...
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By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In 2010, Steven Menashi, then a law professor at George Mason University, wrote an article defending Israel from the charge that it’s an ethnonationalist state.
“Ethnonationalism and Liberal Democracy,” published in the University of...
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By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN
(JTA) — Rep. Elijah Cummings, a longtime Baltimore congressman who worked to build ties between the African-American and Jewish communities in his district, died Thursday in his home city. He was 68.
A spokeswoman, Trudy Perkins, said...
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(JTA) — In the latest twist in Israel’s ongoing leadership struggle, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited his chief rival, Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz, to join him in a “broad unity government.”
Gantz declined.
In a video posted...
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Late Friday, October 18, announcements on the passing of two members of the Jewish community were received by the CCJN. Because of the upcoming Shabbat, Hoshanah Rabbah, Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah holidays, it may not be possible to list...
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By ALAN SMASON
A sleepy Shabbat morning was shattered October 12 with a tumultuous roar as tons of concrete, rebar and reinforcing steel shattered to the earth and pancaked floors above, unleashing a cloud of rubble from the Hard Rock...
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