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'There is an enormous desire': Is it time to play Wagner at the Israeli Opera?
40+ min ago (106+ words) A discussion with the Israeli Opera's music director turns to Wagner, a rapper returns to his Iranian roots and a documentary film festival shows Israel through the eyes of Pasolini 'There Is an Enormous Desire': Is It Time to Play…...
Democrats urge release of U. S. report on killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
42+ min ago (118+ words) The FBI's decision to open a criminal investigation into her killing during an Israeli military raid in the West Bank in 2022 was the result of an unprecedented pressure campaign by Democrats WASHINGTON " Four years after the killing of Palestinian-American journalist…...
Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin Speak at Federation Event
1+ hour, 5+ min ago (798+ words) On May 7 at Har Zion Temple in Penn Valley, Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin " the parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, and later killed " spoke at the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia's annual Lion…...
Evolving Drone War in Southern Lebanon Increasingly Defines Israel-Hezbollah Fight
2+ hour, 12+ min ago (1158+ words) Tuesday, May 12th | 25 Iyyar 5786 Iran's most powerful ally Hezbollah and Israel are stepping up a'drone'war'in'Lebanon" on camera " that is increasingly defining the battlefield and complicating the path to peace between the Israeli and Lebanese governments. In recent weeks, Hezbollah, an internationally…...
Saudi Arabia Launched Covert Attacks on Iran as Regional War Widened, Sources Say
2+ hour, 6+ min ago (1022+ words) Tuesday, May 12th | 25 Iyyar 5786 Saudi Arabia launched numerous, unpublicized strikes on'Iran'in retaliation for attacks carried out in the kingdom during the Middle East war, two Western officials briefed on the matter and two'Iranian officials said. The Saudi attacks, not previously reported,…...
China and US Agree on Opposing Hormuz Tolls, State Department Says
2+ hour, 3+ min ago (529+ words) Tuesday, May 12th | 25 Iyyar 5786 Senior US and Chinese officials agree that no country can be allowed to exact shipping tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, the State Department told Reuters on Tuesday, in a sign that the two countries are trying…...
The Sweet Dishes of Shavuot
1+ hour, 5+ min ago (1055+ words) Ethel G. Hofman | JNS Historically, Shavuot is the celebration of the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses at Mount Sinai, beginning seven weeks after the first day of Passover. Agriculturally, it commemorates the time when the first fruits were harvested…...
Abraham Foxman, Transformative Longtime Director of the Anti-Defamation League, Dies at 86
1+ hour, 3+ min ago (770+ words) Ron Kampeas | JTA Abraham Foxman, the longtime leader of the Anti-Defamation League who for decades was the last word in post-Holocaust Jewish fury and forgiveness, has died at 86. Foxman, a child survivor of the Holocaust, could be scathing and trenchant…...
Georgetown Law Graduation Speaker Backs Out After Students Protest His "Controversial, Zionist and Harmful Opinions
2+ hour, 14+ min ago (486+ words) Jackie Hajdenberg | JTA A pro-Israel Jewish economist and former university president will no longer speak at Georgetown University Law School's graduation after stepping down from the speaking engagement following student criticism. Instead, graduating students and their families will hear from…...
This Jewish Feminist Has Been the NYC's Sanitation Department's Official Artist for 50 Years. A New Movie Tells Her Story.
1+ hour, 23+ min ago (798+ words) Jackie Hajdenberg | JTA In 1976, deep in New York City's fiscal crisis, the artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles read a review of her conceptual work in the Village Voice. In his review, critic David Bourdon made a radical suggestion inspired by Ukeles…...