The Women’s Philanthropy, part of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, have had a busy November. They planned and spearheaded not one, but two mitzvot (good deeds), or in this case, socially minded philanthropic events – the Thanksgiving Mitzvah and the MakeAHome Mitzvah – just days apart.
The Women’s Philanthropy, part of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, have had a busy November. They planned and spearheaded not one, but two mitzvot (good deeds), or in this case, socially minded philanthropic events – the Thanksgiving Mitzvah and the MakeAHome Mitzvah – just days apart.
Cantor Alane S. Katzew will be the featured performer at Northern Hills Synagogue’s monthly HaZaK luncheon on Wednesday, Dec. 18.
(JTA) — The Jewish man whose family was attacked with anti-Semitic abuse on the London Underground met the Muslim woman who confronted their attacker.
(JTA) — A man shouted “Heil Hitler” and gave a Nazi salute on Nov. 26 to a group of rabbis meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.
(JTA) — Moshe Holtzberg, whose parents were killed in the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai when he was 2, was called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah.
(JTA) — Drake may be singing the blues with the shutdown of his short-lived Toronto restaurant, which is $50,000 in arrears on unpaid rent.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Thousands rallied in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and against his indictment on corruption charges.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An early ledger that documents eyewitness accounts of the deaths of Jews in Nazi camps is being auctioned in Jerusalem next week.
(JNS) Israeli security forces have thwarted an attempt to smuggle a massive quantity of military equipment into the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces revealed on Nov. 28.
(JNS) The Israel Defense Forces confirmed Nov. 28 that it had destroyed the homes of two Palestinians accused of murdering Israeli yeshivah student Dvir Sorek in August.
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A Polish prosecutor has dropped a case against Polish-American professor Jan Tomasz Gross for publishing an article that said Poles “killed more Jews than Germans during the war.”
(JTA) — Three women have accused Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador who provided key testimony against President Donald Trump in the impeachment hearings, of sexual misconduct.
(JTA) — Amazon has come under fire for selling Christmas ornaments and bottle openers featuring images of the site of the former Auschwitz Nazi death camp.
(JNS) Actor and filmmaker Seth Rogen was honored Dec. 2 alongside his father by the Workmen’s Circle, an organization dedicated to promoting Jewish identity based on social justice and the Yiddish language.
(JTA) — A gang of five men attacked two identifiably Jewish teens on the street in Brooklyn.
(JTA) — Legislation with bipartisan support that would restore the rights of Holocaust-era insurance beneficiaries to recover billions in unclaimed payments left behind after World War II has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.
JERUSALEM (JTA) President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone, their second conversation in two weeks.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Bolivia will renew diplomatic ties with Israel a decade after it broke off relations over Israel’s military operation in Gaza.
SYDNEY (JTA) — There has been a 30 percent increase over the last year in serious anti-Semitic incidents in Australia involving verbal abuse, harassment, and intimidation, according to the annual Report on Antisemitism in Australia.
(JTA) — A Jewish candidate for Britain’s Labour Party said she is being bombarded with death threats and that nearly half of them are anti-Semitic.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jewish extremist Rabbi Bentzi Gopstein was indicted on charges of incitement to violence and racism and support for terrorism.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — It looks like Walmart is coming to Israel.
(Israel Hayom) Israel’s next joint scientific research venture with the United States will allow for the participation of Ariel University, Israel Hayom reported Nov. 28.
(JTA) — A personal robot 3-feet tall is among nine Israeli-made inventions that appear on the Time magazine list of the “100 Best Inventions” of 2019.
(JTA) — A new set of Israeli stamps shows the first Torah that was flown in space.
“I was in terrible shape financially, physically, and emotionally, and I was homeless,” said Leah.
Mark your calendars for April 16 when Israeli violinist Guy Braunstein performs at Plum Street Temple.
The Men’s Club of Northern Hills Synagogue will continue its own many-year tradition and a tradition of American Jewish life by preparing a kosher Chinese dinner for the congregation and the community on Tuesday evening, Dec. 24, beginning at 6 p.m.
Before a crowd of nearly 200, Mark Oppenheimer co-host of Unorthodox “The World’s Leading Jewish Podcast” claimed The American Israelite as the Best Jewish Newspaper. The podcast was taped on Sunday, Nov. 17, at the Mayerson Jewish Community Center. It was a lively way to begin the Cincinnat…
Jewish National Fund honored Dr. Dean Kereiakes and his wife Anne Kereiakes at the annual Tree of Life Award Dinner in the Ohio Valley on Nov. 11, 2019, at Cincinnati Music Hall.
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(JNS) Pieces of Jewish gravestones used for street-paving in Prague’s pedestrian areas will be returned to the Old Jewish Cemetery in the Czech Republic’s capital as a result of an agreement between Prague City Hall and the Jewish community, BBC News reported.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Benjamin Netanyahu has been charged in three corruption cases, marking the first time a sitting Israeli prime minister has been indicted.
(JNS) A machine that makes safe, clean drinking water out of ambient air—manufactured by the Israel-based company of Watergen—was included in Time magazine’s list in 2019 of the top 100 inventions published on Nov. 21.
(JNS) Likud Knesset member Gideon Sa’ar formally appealed to Likud Central Committee chairman MK Chaim Katz on Sunday to initiate a party primary in the event of a third round of elections. Doing so would be “for the good of the movement and the state,” he said in his appeal.
(JNS) Jews from around the world made a pilgrimage to the city of Hebron in Judea and Samaria over the weekend to pay homage to the Jewish biblical matriarch Sarah, whose death led to the purchase by her husband Abraham of a burial plot in Hebron, a transaction recounted in last week’s Torah…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Satmar Rebbe distributed $5 million to 150 anti-Zionist institutions
(JNS) Israel completed its fourth international air exercise in southern Israel, Blue Flag 2019, earlier this month—a drill that planners have described as being the most advanced of its kind to date.
(JNS) Likud MK and former Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat suggested a plan to hold elections for a Likud Party “deputy leader,” who would automatically assume the “most senior post in the government or the Knesset after the chairman of the party” and take over the premiership should the prime min…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) – The Dutch government has cut funding for the Palestinian Authority over its salaries to terrorists serving time in Israeli jails.
(JNS) Approximately one in four Europeans holds anti-Semitic views, according to a global 2019 poll released by the Anti-Defamation League.
(JTA) — Britain’s Labour Party reiterated in an elections policy manifesto its intention to stop selling weapons to Israel if it comes to power.
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The death of Henry Sobel, Brazil’s iconic rabbi and human rights activist, was mourned by Jewish and non-Jewish groups across Latin America’s largest nation.
(JNS) “The Jordanian-Israeli relationship is at an all-time low,” Jordan’s King Abdullah said on Nov. 21 at an event in New York City hosted by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
(JTA) — Austria will turn the house where Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was born into a police precinct.
(JTA) — A professor at Syracuse University was threatened by an anonymous email containing anti-Semitic language and Holocaust references.
(JNS) An anti-Israel group at York University in Toronto, Canada, disrupted a evening event on Nov. 20 organized by Jewish students that featured talks by reservists from the Israel Defense Forces, who came to speak about their experiences in the army and offer information about Israel.
(JNS) An amendment to enhance security at synagogues and other houses of worship was added to a bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Nov. 19 to reauthorize the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act for seven years.
(JNS) The Vatican said on Nov. 21 that the announcement on Monday by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the United States would no longer view Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria as illegal under international law puts at risk the prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
(JNS) At the U.N. Security Council’s monthly Mideast meeting on Nov. 20, the council’s 14 other members strongly condemned the U.S. administration’s announcement on Monday that it no longer considers Israeli settlements to be in violation of international law.
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