Strangers in a strange land
Rabbi Gershom Sizomu relates story of Uganda’s Abayudaya community By TAMAR FENTON When Israeli commandos stormed the airport terminal in ...
Tag: American Jewish World
Students stay committed to stopping genocide
After raising money and awareness of the genocide in Darfur over the past four years, eighth graders at the Talmud ...
Perci Chester to exhibit new work
A three-part sculpture by Minneapolis artist Perci Chester titled “Gyr Family Cycle” will be installed in the new Edina Promenade ...
A lesson from Cairo
As this edition of the American Jewish World goes to press, it seems like there is an inordinate amount of ...
Gunman opens fire at U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. (+ Update)
NBC is reporting that James Wenneker von Brunn, born in 1920, from Maryland, is the gunman involved in the shooting this ...
Video exposes racist, incendiary comments of young American Jews in Israel
The video shot recently in central Jerusalem by Max Blumenthal and Joseph Dana allowed young American Jews, apparently somewhat sloshed, ...
Socalled rocks a beloved Yiddish melody, with help from Theodore Bikel
Socalled (a.k.a. Josh Dolgin), the mixmaster from Montreal, has created an amazing music video for "(Rock The) Belz," from the ...
Mainstream press reports tiff over Rabbi Manis Friedman's views on fighting war the 'Jewish way'
A storm of controversy is swirling around Rabbi Manis Friedman, the Lubavitcher rabbi from St. Paul, who is now backpedaling ...
Rabbi Manis Friedman's contribution to Moment magazine sets off a controversy in the blogosphere
A reporter from the Forward newspaper in New York City called yesterday with some questions about a short piece of ...
Larry David stars in Woody Allen's latest, 'Whatever Works'
The press notes say that Woody Allen's latest New York-based offbeat comedy is "about a crotchety misanthrope (Larry David) and ...
