The United Nations is \”concerned\” that two national heritage sites approved by the Israeli government are in \”occupied Palestinian territory,\” a statement said.
Who would have thought in this cookie cutter world, a heimishe hamantashen controversy?\n\nLet me tell you the whole megillah.\n\nOut in Anaheim, Calif., where Mickey and Minnie live, in the community where I grew up, there is a changing group of women and men who are a bunch of Purim pixies. Baking in the Temple Beth Emet kitchen for the past 45 years, they have turned out tens of thousands of hamantashen.\n
Opposition leader and Kadima chairwoman Tzipi Livni on Tuesday praised the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai last month, marking the first such comment from a top Israeli official.\n
\”If you want to make something where everybody will come together, focus on things that people have in common, [like] love of music,\” said Rabbi Yonah Bookstein, organizer of the Jewlicious Festival. Indeed, music, art and family took center stage last weekend for the three-day, sixth annual Jewlicious, which brought nearly 1,000 people — including Jews of all denominations — from 22 states to Long Beach\’s Alpert Jewish Community Center.
Leaders of five Jewish student organizations at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) denounced calls by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) for donors to cease contributing to the Orange County campus because of alleged inaction by university administrators in the face of ongoing anti-Semitic and anti-Israel activity. The New York-based ZOA also urged potential students not to apply to the university.
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