Tuesday, April 30th 2024 |
The Rabbi Sacks Legacy has announced the launch of a new interactive activity designed for Passover, aimed at adults and teens. The activity, in the form of a scavenger hunt, is a creative way for families to celebrate the holiday while exploring its deeper meanings and significance.
Featuring ten thought-provoking challenges and questions, as well as an answer card, the activity is available for download at...
By ANDREW LAPIN
(JTA) – In a major victory for pro-Israel advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal against an Arkansas state law requiring all companies that contract with the state to sign a pledge promising not to boycott Israel.
The Tuesday dismissal allows the Arkansas law to stand, ending its challenger’s effort to overturn one of many state laws that had been crafted in opposition to...
The Naale Elite Academy offers three to four year scholarships for students to attend high school in Israel. Parents interested in finding out more about the program are urged to contact Einat Cohen Nisan-Glen, the Southern US regional director.
Cohen Nisan-Glen and Western World regional director Shoshana Becker will be available to discuss details of the program on Sunday, January 22 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
The event requires...
By LINDA BUCHWALD
(JTA) — Turner Classic Movies admits that capturing the “Jewish experience” in a series of films is a daunting task, but the network is attempting to do so anyway.
Every Thursday night in January, the channel is showing movies spanning from the 1930s through the 1990s on the theme. According to an article on the TCM website, the series aims to show “how filmmakers have attempted to...
By DAVID I. KLEIN
(JTA) — Just a few years ago, Oman was expected to be next in line after Morocco, Sudan, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates to sign onto the Abraham Accords normalization agreements with Israel.
On Friday, the country’s parliament voted to criminalize any relations or interactions with “the Zionist entity.”
While the exact details have not been made public, the new law seems to be broadly...
By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen. Robert Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat who is a stalwart of the mainstream pro-Israel lobby in the Senate, told Benjamin Netanyahu that his partnership with an extremist leader could shatter support for Israel in the United States.
Menendez raised what he said were “concerns” about Itamar Ben-Gvir with the former — and hopeful — Israeli prime minister during a visit to Israel in...
By DAVID RULLO
(Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA) — Andrew Torba, the founder of Gab, a social media platform widely known as an online home for extremist, antisemitic comments and conspiracy theories, reposted an article by the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle about a Jewish Pennsylvania state representative who was hit with antisemitic threats on the platform.
In response, several of Torba’s followers aimed antisemitism towards the Chronicle.
After Pennsylvania state Rep. Dan Miller...
By ASAV SHALEV
(JTA) – Pro-Israel activists are declaring a victory against the Israel boycott movement after a financial services company vowed to make changes to avoid inadvertently steering investors away from Israel.
The company, Morningstar, had endured a two-year campaign by Israel advocates who believed it was waging a “soft” boycott of Israel. The company denied the allegations but asked a law firm to conduct a review of its practices. The...
By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden has reportedly made final his decision not to remove the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps from a list of designated terrorists subject to U.S. sanctions, putting the Iran nuclear deal in jeopardy.
Politico reported Tuesday that Biden informed Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett of his decision in an April 24 phone call. Biden wants to reenter the 2015 Iran nuclear deal but says...
By PHILISSA CRAMER
(JTA) — Among the details that trickled out of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday while the rabbi and three congregants were being held hostage was the fact that a New York rabbi had been conscripted into negotiations.
That rabbi was Angela Buchdahl, senior rabbi at Central Synagogue and a leading figure in Reform Judaism. Buchdahl confirmed her involvement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and...
