Local Yom HaShoah commemoration May 5 to feature a one-act play by Russell Kaback
RUSSELL KABACK ALBANY– As part of the Capital District Jewish community’s annual Yom HaShoah...
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Category: History
Another Pesach with Jews under siege
The Haggadah states, “For it was not one enemy alone who rose up against us to destroy us; in every generation, there are those who rise up against us and seek to destroy us.” By JONATHAN TOBIN JNS This is not the first...
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‘Colliding Dreams,’ a documentary about Zionism to be focus of SJCA’s Zoom panel
SARATOGA SPRINGS–Saratoga Jewish Community Arts (SJCA) will present a panel discussion of the 2015...
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Dr. Hershberg to discuss the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer at Beth Shalom, Clifton Park
Dr. JAMES HERSHBERG Congregation Beth Shalom of Clifton Park will sponsor a luncheon program at...
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Dr. Atina Grossmann named Evan Yom Ha-Shoah lecturer set for UAlbany on April 8
Prof. ATINA GROSSMANN ALBANY–Prof. Atina Grossmann, professor of history at the Cooper Union in...
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Oct. 7 NOVA music festival survivor shares story with students at UAlbany Shabbos House
UAlbany students with Matan Boltax (brown and white shirt, behind podium), survivor of Hamas...
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What’s going on in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’?
Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye stories put the Jewish confrontation with modernity front and...
Read MorePresidents’ Day… and the Jews
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Read MoreNazis in Catskills — PBS film to air Jan. 23
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Read MoreJack’s Oyster House for sale
Jack’s Oyster House formally closed, is for sale Open since 1913, the restaurant is being put on the market by its third-generation owner after attempts failed to find successor or sell privately...
Read MoreIs the E.U. democratic? — How Europe Became a Society ‘That Hates Itself’
[FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW] “The EU institutions—the way they’re structured, the way they interact—it’s not only undemocratic, it’s downright anti-democratic. And on top of that, it’s not a mistake they made. It is by...
Read MoreWhy it’s ‘existential’ — Our story vs. their story
Ezra Klein Interviews Yossi Klein Halevi What Israelis Fear the World Does Not Understand The writer Yossi Klein Halevi talks about why many Israelis see the ongoing conflict as an “existential war.” Ezra Klein From New York...
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