Jewish Newsletters
AllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 43 – August 15, 2012
Pro-Israel education and advocacy group StandWithUs launched a new program aimed at training teenagers from around the United States to become leaders on their future college campuses. Founded in 2001, StandWithUs has been working with high school students and the new StandWithUs-MZ Teens Internship Program will break new ground by taking an individualized approach.Jewish-American gymnast Aly Raisman expressed her support by doing a ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 42 – August 8, 2012
Exclusion of women reaches another level. A local shopper at a Tel Aviv pharmacy was surprised to discover that a simple Oral B toothbrush with pictures of women on the package was covered up with stickers. The stickers were not mistakenly placed on the box, but was intentionally put on the package in order to cover a picture of a woman and ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 41 – August 1, 2012
Rabbi Yisroel Rubin introduced futuristic Halachic research on Digital communications at Albany’s communal Siyum. Even suggesting that Digital fluidity may be the ideal medium to expand and broadcast Oral Torah.The new concept on digital communications reflects Albany’s Maimonides School emphasis on integrating Torah with Technology.20,000 people in various venues in London attended the Minute for Munich of the British Zionist Federation’s. ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 40 – July 25, 2012
Where do Israelis find community? They can find it among their extended family, their friends from childhood and the army, their various clubs, sports or hobbies, or their kids’ school activities. The question is whether rabbis should be encouraging Israelis to also find community in synagogue life.Rav Yosef Shalom ben Chaya Musha Elyashiv, the great Torah Sage, head of the worldwide ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 39 – July 18, 2012
Dutch Jewish author Berthe Meijer, whose life intersected with Anne Frank’s, died of cancer July 10. Before the war, Meijer lived on the same Amsterdam street in a Jewish neighborhood where Frank attended a Montessori school. Both were imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen at the same time.Naomi Zirkind, a mother of eight and electrical engineer who does research on robotics for the U.S. ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 38 – July 11, 2012
The Simon Wiesenthal Center a human rights organization and the only Jewish organization accredited to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, proposed that the Argentinian Jewish settlement of Moises Ville for inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Since Moises Ville is a successful example of immigrant absorption.The Tal Law, which was passed in 2002 and provided a legal framework for haredi men ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 37 – July 04, 2012
Jewish and Muslim leaders in Germany unite last Wednesday in their condemnation of a German court’s decision to outlaw the circumcision of boys. The representatives of the two religious communities called the ruling insensitive and discriminatory, and an attack on centuries of religious tradition.A Russian ice cream company produced a special kosher line of the frozen dessert just in time for summer. Stavropol-based company ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 36 – June 27, 2012
Forty years ago this past week, Rabbi Sally Priesand was ordained as a Reform rabbi,thus making her the first woman rabbi to be ordained after the Holocaust. And in the years that followed, the Conservative movement continued to ordaining women, Recently Modern Orthodoxy has given women new leadership roles.While the government tries to find a way to accommodate Jewish and Muslim ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 35 – June 20, 2012
New York City health officials proposed that Orthodox Jewish parents must sign a consent waiver before they can take part in a circumcision ritual. Introduced at a Board of Health meeting, the proposal represents an escalation of the city’s efforts to curtail the ancient Jewish procedure of metzitzah b’peh.London is all ready to host the UK’s first-ever Israeli film festival with a ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 34 – June 13, 2012
At least for one day, all ethnic tensions played second-fiddle to Harmony Day, at Hamilton-Metz Park. As the summer is nearly upon us in its official capacity, we soon will mark the legal-age since the infamous 1991 Crown Heights riot. The day’s activities commenced with a march down Empire Boulevard in the morning, and ended with a soccer tournament at the ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 33 – June 6, 2012
One of the oldest operating synagogues in California the Wilshire Boulevard Synagogue, is set to receive a Hollywood makeover after a 10 pound piece of plaster fell from the ceiling which damaged the building. The congregants, whom many are Hollywood executives, have helped spearhead a $150 million renovation, which is set to be completed in time for Rosh Hashana of 2013.A population ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 32 – May 30, 2012
Two bronze sculptures created by artist Sigalit Landau have been stolen from the yard of an art collector in Herzliya. The two statues, “Vomitus-Narcisus,” created in 2007, and “Stranded on a Watermelon in the Dead Sea,” from 2009, were both placed in the collector’s yard during the past year. Each of the sculptures, which were of feminine figures, is estimated to be ...
Read More