Category
March 17, 2011
Omri Casspi could rejoin Maccabi Tel Aviv
Sacramento Kings forward Omri Casspi said he might rejoin his former Israeli pro basketball team if the NBA imposes a player lockout next season.
Boycott marring Peace Team visit to Sydney
A joint Israeli-Palestinian Australian Rules football team due to visit Sydney is embroiled in a row over a local government council’s boycott of Israel. Marrickville Council, in inner Sydney, voted last December to support a Green Party-led ban on all commercial, academic, governmental, cultural and sporting exchanges with Israel. But the same council voted unanimously Tuesday night to allow the Peace Team — co-sponsored by the Peres Center for Peace and the Al-Quds Association for Democracy and Dialogue — to appear at a welcome function at the Marrickville Town Hall on Aug. 18.
Religious groups in German city fighting Israel boycott
Pro-Israel and Jewish organizations in a German city are fighting back against a local group that used images of bloody oranges to call for a boycott of Israeli products. Jewish leaders in Bremen, in northwestern Germany, as well as the interfaith German-Israel Society, Christian-Jewish Society and Friends of Israel in Bremen, are proposing to work with local mainstream political and religious leaders to take a stand against the Bremen Peace Forum and its political agenda.
Greek Jewish leader awarded top French honor
David Saltiel, the head of Greece\’s Jewish community, was honored by France with its highest civil decoration. Saltiel, president of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece and head of the Thessaloniki Jewish community, was awarded the title of the Chevalier of the Order of the Legion of Honor during a ceremony Tuesday at the French Embassy in Athens.
Tikkun editor Michael Lerner’s home attacked again
The northern California home of Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of the progressive Tikkun magazine, was vandalized for the third time in less than a year. Tuesday\’s attack came a day after Lerner presented the Tikkun Award for ethics to South African Justice Richard Goldstone at a celebration of Tikkun’s 25th anniversary attended by more than 600 people at the University of California, Berkeley.
Palin heading to Israel
Sarah Palin, who is believed to be considering a presidential run in 2012, will visit Israel. The former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008 will stop in Israel for two days next week on her way back to the United States from a speech she is giving a business group in India.
New Articles
The Braid Showcases Stories of Asian American Jews for Double-Heritage Month
‘Killing America’ and The Evolution of Hate
What We Should Know About the Dueling Definitions of Antisemitism
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.