Dvar of the Week by Rabbi Gila Caine: Come back in person if you can
by Rabbi Gila Caine (AJNews) – If you’ve never been to a Zoom prayer service, you might not realize what a honey-trap it is. I…
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op/ed: Jews need to fight white supremacy
by Paige Shoshannah (Hey Alma via JTA) – The past Saturday, a white supremacist murdered 10 people in a supermarket in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo,…
Sacha Baron Cohen to helm ‘Chelm,’ an HBO cartoon about the shtetl of fools
by Andrew Lapin (JTA) – Imagine a village full of Borats, and you’re close to realizing the absurdity of Chelm. The real-life Polish shtetl, a…
B’nai Brith seeking progress report on anitisemitism from the government
OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is seeking a progress report concerning antisemitism from the Canadian Government. In a letter addressed May 11, to Irwin Cotler, Canada’s…
In trying to seize Russian assets, the US is taking a page from Chabad
by Asaf Shalev (JTA) – When the U.S. government announced that it would seek to seize the assets of VEB, Russia’s main development bank, a…