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The Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe winning actress has been outspoken about her personal experience with mental illness and launched the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation to address stigma surrounding mental health in the African American community.

“On the day after COVID, we will be better people. We will see what we learned from this difficult period and what we will take with us for the future,” said Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon, the Rabbinic Head of the Jerusalem College of Technology and its Beit Midrash.

HaShevet will always stand shoulder to shoulder with Jewish students who are under attack because of their values and beliefs,” said HaShevet Chairman Bryan E. Leib.

On Thursday, September 24th, 2020, the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement (CAM) hosted a special high holiday briefing on anti-Semitism for Rabbis and Jewish community leaders with US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Elan S. Carr. Rabbi Steven Burg, Director-General of Aish HaTorah introduced Special Envoy Carr and offered a prayer for the new year.

One more illegal school joins the rapidly growing roster of similar structures built by the Palestinian Authority at lightning speed. The newest to join the ranks is an illegal school built overnight – literally – in the Jordan Valley. Regavim: “While the Israeli government chatters about sovereignty in the Jordan Valley, the Palestinian Authority is hard at work building a de facto state.”

The free platform provides short daily lessons from a wide array of educators from across the religious spectrum and around the world.

In order to be able to recognize and combat implicit hatred more quickly, the international team, comprised of discourse analysts, computational linguists and historians, will develop a highly complex, AI-driven approach to identifying online antisemitism.

The Assessment’s discussion on the large number of Jews in Europe who already feel the need to hide their Jewish identity sends a chilling message about the state of anti-Semitism even before the full effect of COVID-19 is felt economically.

While most of the country has developed tools for coping with lockdown restrictions, vulnerable populations are at risk as three-week lockdown looms, says Dr. Talya Greene, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Community Mental Health at University of Haifa.

“I decided to join BINA’s program because I think that especially now in this global pandemic it is important to become involved in social change and activism.”

Initiative Aims to Ease COVID Isolation & Help Students Learn About Israel While Trips On Pause.

Early registrants hail from Israel, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.