French National Assembly approves $60 million Holocaust reparations fund
The French National Assembly voted to approve the creation of a $60 million fund to compensate Holocaust victims transported to Nazi camps by the state railroad SNCF.\n
The French National Assembly voted to approve the creation of a $60 million fund to compensate Holocaust victims transported to Nazi camps by the state railroad SNCF.\n
The Palestine National Orchestra performed for the first time in the Palestinian Authority and in Israel. The orchestra made its debut in Ramallah, and then performed in eastern Jerusalem over the weekend and in Haifa on Sunday night. \”Today an orchestra, tomorrow a state,\” Suhail Khoury, director of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, wrote in the program, according to the French news agency AFP.
National and world briefs, news.\nIsraeli and Palestinian ambulance services signed an agreement they hope will ease Israel\’s accession to the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement.
National, International, World briefs, news. The Reform movement passed a resolution criticizing the handling of the Iraq war and seeking a partial troop withdrawal.
Youngsters across the Southland and beyond banded together April 17 to participate in J-Serve 2005, the first-ever national day of service for Jewish teens. J-Serve, designed to correspond with Youth Service America\’s National Youth Service Day, offers Jewish teens a way to get involved in tikkun olam projects in their local communities.
El Al, Israel\’s national airline, is the only airline that keeps kosher, observes Shabbat and even gives out doughnuts on Chanukah, but recently it has been doing other mitzvot as well.
Local and national Jewish organizations have mobilized to help tsunami victims and invite the community to participate, as well.\n\n
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Letters from Jewish summer camps have not changed much since 1963, when Allan Sherman recorded the classic song, \”Hello Muddah! Hello Faddah!\” Kids still write about what they had for lunch, what their cabin is like and their bunkmates. Though a national Web site allows one-way e-mails from parents to kids, Jewish summer camps still expect campers to write their folks the old-fashioned way — with pen, paper, stamps and envelopes.
Amid the troubling statistics of the 2000 National Jewish Population Survey, there is one genuinely positive trend. The percentage of children in Jewish day schools is the highest it\’s ever been. Twenty-nine percent of Jewish children today have attended a day school at some point.
Many Jewish parents have recognized that a day school education can give their kids the strong identity and sense of rootedness that they need to navigate an increasingly complex world.