America First: Trump doubles down on a term that makes many Jews queasy
Jewish Journal
June 8, 2016
Donald Trump is doubling down on his America First policy.
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June 8, 2016
L.A. welcomes Israeli Air Force for inaugural dinner
Eitan Arom
June 8, 2016
At dusk on May 26, in the courtyard of Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills, smartly dressed Angelenos sipped scotch and swiped sushi from hors d’oeuvres trays.
Cemeteries initiative has preserved 70 Eastern European graveyards
Jewish Journal
June 8, 2016
A German-funded pilot program for protecting Eastern European Jewish cemeteries has helped preserve at least 70 graveyards since 2015, the effort’s initiators told Council of Europe delegates.\n
The holiday of diaspora Jewry — a suggestion
Avraham Burg
June 8, 2016
Shavuot — the Feast of the Weeks — is a modest holiday.
Swiss Jews oppose punishing students who refuse to shake teachers’ hands
Jewish Journal
June 8, 2016
Swiss Jews spoke out against a regulation that makes it illegal for schoolchildren to refuse to shake hands with their teachers because of religious reasons.
New anti-Semitism definition replaced scrapped EU version, US official says
Jewish Journal
June 8, 2016
The new international definition of anti-Semitism that mentions Israel hatred was adopted in part to replace a similar one scrapped by the European Union, an initiator of the new text said.
The rabbi and the yogi
Jewish Journal
June 8, 2016
My husband, Jeremy, and I first met Rabbi Moshe Greenwald and his wife, Rivky, at a Chanukah candle-lighting ceremony in Pershing Square in 2010, when we were just dating.
The defense of (converting for) marriage act
Kylie Ora Lobell
June 8, 2016
Last July, I converted to Judaism after five years of studying and undergoing major lifestyle changes: I moved to a Jewish neighborhood, started keeping kosher, took off for Shabbat and the holidays, joined an Orthodox synagogue and learned with a chavrusa.
ADL offers $2,500 reward to find perpetrators of assault on Muslim man
Jewish Journal
June 8, 2016
The Anti-Defamation League has offered a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest of people who assaulted a Muslim man in New York City.\n
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