Category: Judaism
New York Times Hiring a Reporter To Cover US Jews
The New York Times, whose executive editor a decade ago publicly acknowledged, “We don’t get the role of religion in people’s lives,” and which has been afflicted with a series of errors on basic matters of Jewish literacy everywhere from the crossword puzzle to the food section, is now hoping to hire a reporter who knows something about Judaism.
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New York Times Hiring a Reporter To Cover US Jews
The New York Times, whose executive editor a decade ago publicly acknowledged, “We don’t get the role of religion in people’s lives,” and which has been afflicted with a series of errors on basic matters of Jewish literacy everywhere from the crossword puzzle to the food section, is now hoping to hire a reporter who knows something about Judaism.
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A Righteous Man in Japan
In the early 1940s, in the middle of World War II, a young Jewish student was arrested for wearing tefillin, phylacteries traditionally placed on the arm and head during prayer, on the rooftop of a store. This was somewhat of a surprise, for he was neither in Berlin nor Warsaw, but rather Kobe, Japan. Thousands of European Jews had obtained visas through the heroic kindness of Chiune Sugihara, vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Kaunas, Lithuania, who risked his life to provide safe passage out of the reach of the Nazis and into Japanese territory. Included among these survivors were many students and teachers of the renowned Mirrer Yeshiva.
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Left-Wing Mayor Faces Calls To Resign for Saying Bondi Beach Terror Attack Was ‘False Flag’
Richmond, Calif., mayor Eduardo Martinez is facing calls to resign after reposting anti-Semitic social media content that labeled Australia’s Bondi Beach mass shooting an Israeli “false flag” operation and blamed Israel for rising anti-Semitism.
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