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“They felt that solving the Middle East’s water problem may lead to peace,” said Ellen Marcus of the infusion of money her parents gave to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheva.
“I always have identified myself with my Jewish culture, but not very religiously involved,” the renowned writer told JNS.
“Will it play to the next generation? In the current political atmosphere?” noted scholar Ruth Wisse told JNS. “I don’t think so.”
A shirt and hat proclaiming “Curb Your Antisemitism” have attracted celebrity enthusiasm.
Anti-Israel demonstrators sought to disrupt the event but failed to block attendees from the red carpet.
Tennessee music professor Catherine Godes sees sharing this history as critical for enabling young people to better understand what is happening after the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel.
The convert to Orthodox Judaism told JNS about his new album, as well as the pressing need for better black and Jewish-American relations.
Lord Alan Sugar, the British-Jewish business mogul who chooses the show winner, hasn’t commented.
The former Pink Floyd frontman justified the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7 and said that “Israel made up stories about beheading babies.”
“I just listened to it. Ben Shapiro, not bad. Congrats on no. 1,” wrote the rapper Nicki Minaj.
“The artist’s attention to detail of the garb is also very beautiful, as is his desire to showcase Jews from communities around the world praying together,” said Benjamin Doller, chairman of the Americas at Sotheby’s.
“If the work of art does not belong to the museum rightfully then, in our opinion, the only thing to do is to return it to its rightful owners,” said Katie Ziglar, director of the Ackland Art Museum in North Carolina.
