Jewish Organizations
“Such threats are intended not merely to offend, but to terrorize,” Vlad Khaykin of the Simon Wiesenthal Center told JNS. “To make Jewish Americans afraid to open their mail, enter their institutions or live openly as Jews.”
Through immersive experiences in medicine, technology, culture and innovation, AKLA aims to give young Jews a deeper understanding of their heritage and the confidence to take pride in it.
“He is one of the righteous gentiles of the world,” Operation Benjamin co-founder Shalom Lamm told JNS about Dirk Backen, who helped bring the remains of a Jewish American soldier home and works to identify German Jewish soldiers mistakenly buried beneath crosses.
The document calls on schools to address Jew-hatred, protect Jewish students’ identities and ensure accurate instruction on Israel and the Holocaust.
Jackie Nirenberg, regional director of ADL Austin, told JNS that many participants “were genuinely surprised by what they learned about the Jewish community.”
“The fact that Jewish communal spending has shot up 33% is a measure of how much more dangerous life has become for Jewish Americans,” stated Eric Fingerhut, president and CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America.
A $1 million grant will help convert the former Sioux City Jewish Community Center into 24 apartments with on-site case management and supportive services.
Zibelman, a former New York Public Service Commission chair, has connections to the state’s Jewish community, including participation in a Jewish Climate Network event focused on New York’s clean-energy transition.
“I think there are people who are taking vacations, because it’s something that we do and we’d like to do,” Stacey Zrihen told JNS. “It’s a wonderful thing if you can do it, but I don’t think that has to be something that’s considered a necessity.”
President Isaac Herzog was presented with an honorary degree by the Jewish Theological Seminary in Jerusalem.
Nefesh B’Nefesh marks 100,000 “olim” from North America since 2002 with the Douglas family, who moved to Jerusalem from New York.
The siblings met for the first time in nearly a decade at a camp for Ukrainians organized by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
