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The first seminar, which concluded on June 7 in Jackson, Miss., compared the exclusionary policies of Nazi Germany with the Jim Crow laws operating during the same time period in the United States.
A group of 60 Federation philanthropists, musicians and a celebrity chef work to bridge differences at home and abroad.
The bill mandates that the government deduct the amount that the Palestinian Authority pays terrorists from the NIS 8.5 billion (nearly $2.4 billion) per year of taxes that Israel collects for it, which will be then invested into a fund to pay damages to victims of terror.
The project was excavated and reconstructed in cooperation with the Antiquities Authority and the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, with the support of the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation. It seeks to develop the area’s beach and public access, and excavate and restore the Caesarea port, bringing 3 million tourists by the year 2030.
Each year, Tel Aviv’s pride parade is the largest such event in Asia and the Middle East, and one of the largest parades in the world. Reflecting on the country’s vibrant LGBTQ community, pioneers of the movement shared with JNS their thoughts on Israel’s past LGBTQ report card as the country has reached various historical milestones.
Throughout the 105 minutes of directed navigation, a voice programmed by the avant-garde theater collective Rimini Protokoll led 50 of us along the streets on an audiovisual journey that started in a cemetery and ended atop a Jerusalem rooftop.
One critic of Michael Chabon’s address at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles said that the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist “was singing his own literary version of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine.’ The only trouble is John Lennon sang it better.”
As first Jewish president of Berkeley, California’s Graduate Theological Union, Rabbi Daniel Lehmann, former head of Boston-area’s Hebrew College, plans to implement gradual, but significant change.