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Shiryn Ghermezian

“These are all very powerful, very poignant and emotional stories. They are stories that are largely unknown to the larger world, including many in the Jewish community,” said AJC CEO David Harris.
From left: Award winners at the Emunah of America event Dalia Horowitz, Yael Oelbaum Fligelman, Ilana Wallenstein, Yonina Haber and Sora Grunstein on June 8, 2022. Credit: Lia Jay Photography.
‘Women of Wonder’ celebrates sisterhood at Emunah of America event
A new initiative by the pro-Israel organization StandWithUs called Tevel (“universe” in Hebrew) focuses on Jewish leadership, history and advocacy skills.
“I am passionate about empowering women to take part in the conversation and have a seat at the table, and I think that the world would be a better place if more women did that,” said Inna Vernikov, chairwoman of Women’s Committee for Americans Against Antisemitism.
The postponement of the Palestinian resolution is “nothing to celebrate right now,” and that the real “victory or a success will be when we have real negotiations and a peace treaty signed,” said Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon.
“The goal of this conference was to bring international herbal research to Israel,” said Sara Chana Silverstein, an Orthodox Jewish master herbalist from New York. “For BDS to attack this conference limits knowledge for the world.”
Theodor Herzl, the father of modern-day Zionism, convened the first Zionist Congress in 1897 in Basel, Switzerland. In 2020, a total of 15 slates are running in the World Congress elections.
“The choice by many victims of the Nazis to document their experiences through art was a form of resistance, and it was one that left a critically important set of records for future generations,” says Jack Kliger, president and CEO of the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City.
“I have more information on my side, whereas before I was kind of hazy. I didn’t really know what to say, how to reach that person. But now, I feel like I can tailor my persuasion more effectively,” said Stephen Omorogbe, a Nigerian senior at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.
The government could have expressed support for a two-state solution in ways that “would have been more effective and avoided adding credibility to the distorted, anti-Israel narrative that adversaries seek to advance within the U.N.,” said Shimon Fogel of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.