$3 Million in Grants Awarded to 200 Museums, Historical Groups and Local Governments Sep 6, 2008
00 Hands-on House, Children's Museum of Lancaster, $20,891 Heritage Center of Lancaster County, $25,454 James Buchanan Foundation, $9,026 Lancaster County Historical Society, $30,221 National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, $19,430 North Museum of Natural History and Science, $22,065 Rock Ford Foundation, $5,270 Lebanon Historic Schaefferstown Inc., $5,250 Lehigh County of Lehigh - Parks ation, $36,750 Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology, $32,526 Lehigh County... (PR Newswire)
18 for Israel Sep 5, 2008
Agnon asks its social studies and math and science and language arts teachers not to truly know the four thousand years of Jewish history, but to appreciate their importance and relevance ... Throughout Jewish history, so many people had fought for freedom, redemption and equality - consistently fighting for a place where Jews could live peacefully together. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
More of this story Sep 4, 2008
According to Dr. Jonathan D. Sarna, the Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, that certainly signifies some problems for the Obama camp. Traditionally, a Democratic candidate ought to be able to get 75% or better of the Jewish vote, and those who get substantially less than that usually don t win. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Church columnists: September 3, 2008 Sep 3, 2008
The Church and the Sacraments emerge from Jewish history and Scripture. Understanding the Passover Lamb helps us to fully appreciate the Holy Mass of His Church. (Catoosa County News, GA)
Tours give young Jews taste of 'home': Israel Aug 23, 2008
Birthright tours are required to visit the Western Wall, Judaism s holiest site, as well as at least one site each related to Jewish history, Zionist history and Holocaust commemoration. Some tours include rafting on the Jordan River, an overnight stay in a kibbutz or camping in the Negev Desert. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Jewish Cleveland live on stage Aug 22, 2008
Sean Martin, WRHS associate curator of Jewish history, and John Grabowski, director of research, picked me up and literally drove me around all the neighborhoods and told me how the demographics have changed, Reddin says appreciatively. Curtain up. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Independent Lieberman upends political world - Boston Globe Aug 21, 2008
"It was an extraordinary moment in American Jewish history, but now that is ancient history.". Michael Kranish can be reached at. (Nogales International, AZ)
Modern Hebrew Aug 8, 2008
Two centuries after it was written, Jewish history became one of dispersal and exile, and Hebrew ceased to be widely spoken for the next 1,700 years. Its revival is often hailed as one of the greatest feats of the Zionist enterprise; today Hebrew is the first language of millions of Israelis, a loquacious and literary nation that is said to publish an average of 5,500 books a year. (International Herald Tribune)
Activist has a gender for peace, and it's all in the talk Aug 8, 2008
"Because we are living through the most ignorant time in Jewish history. These people are ignorant of their own history. They don't realise that there was never a Palestinian state here - never a real state between the Babylonian destruction and the reborn state of Israel.". As an author, she limits herself to questions writerly, especially those about her book's heroines, often pious women struggling against religious injunction and custom, who have moved millions of readers around the world. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Traveling exhibit at CSCC through Sept. 29 Aug 6, 2008
These Oak Ridge families later hand-constructed their own synagogue, a feat unique in American Jewish history ... Scholars from across the state of Tennessee provided the research for the exhibit, along with noted authorities on Jewish history from other locations. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
Editorial: Drivers pay tab for DRPA's past largesse Jul 25, 2008
Then there's the Kimmel Center, the National Constitution Center and the National Museum of American Jewish History. The economic development tab comes to a nifty $375 million. (The Delaware County Times, PA)
Ingenuity Fest is Cleveland at its coolest Jul 25, 2008
In conjunction with their upcoming exhibit on the golden age of comic books, the Maltz Museum of Jewish History will host a design your own superhero emblem station where kids can paint, color and sticker their own breastplate logos showing off their favorite superhero powers. More than 200 projects and programs will take place during Ingenuity Fest, including an opening-day parade, film premires, interactive installations, and public participation in real-time art projects. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Queens Historic Groups Take Collections Online Jul 18, 2008
Friday July 18, 2008. The last Republican and first Jewish Queens District Attorney, Nat Hentel, right, shaking hands with City Councilman Sid Lazar in 1970. (Queens Chronicle, NY)
Editorial: Bridge-toll increases taxing little guy Jul 13, 2008
What makes the deal worse, many people feel, is the Delaware River Port Authority has financially supported numerous projects in the Delaware Valley over the years, including Lincoln Financial Field, the Kimmel Center, the National Constitution Center, the New Jersey State Aquarium and the National Museum of American Jewish History near Independence Hall. Most recently, the DRPA provided $10 million to help build a soccer stadium on the Chester waterfront. (The Delaware County Times, PA)
Marker sought for Spa City's 'gut' Jul 8, 2008
"This neighborhood played a big part in Saratoga's social history," said Marie Morrison, who is co-chairwoman, with Amy Godine, of the Saratoga Springs Jewish History Committee. "A marker is long overdue.". (Albany Times Union)
Spielberg gives grant to museum Jul 5, 2008
A foundation created by director Steven Spielberg has given $1m (504,377) to the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. The money from the Righteous Persons Foundation, founded in 1994, will help create a five-storey museum building in the city. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Spielberg Group Gives $1M to Pa. Jewish Museum Jul 5, 2008
PHILADELPHIA -- A foundation created by Stephen Spielberg is giving $1 million to the National Museum of American Jewish History. The money from the Righteous Persons Foundation will go toward a new, five-story museum building being built in Philadelphia. (Newsmax)
Take a page from their book Jul 4, 2008
THE STORY: Benbassa, a professor of modern Jewish history, and her husband Attias, a professor of rabbinic culture, both at the Sorbonne, hail from varied Sephardic backgrounds. Together, they examine the essential legacy and meaning of the Chumash, which they describe as an obscure, contradictory, sometimes shocking text. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Religion Notes (July 2) Jul 1, 2008
Children in grades kindergarten to seven study Jewish history and Torah and celebrate Jewish holidays. They learn both modern Hebrew and prayer Hebrew through song, drama and stories as well as text study. (Newton Tab, MA)
Report: Judaism faces gender imbalance 'crisis' Jun 26, 2008
Some of the imbalance can be blamed on American culture, which places higher values on women's participation in religious and educational activities, and has caused similar struggles in churches across the country, said Jonathan Sarna, American Jewish history professor at Brandeis University. "I don't think we need a fancy Jewish explanation for what's going on," he said. (USA Today -- News)
Judaism drawing more black Americans Jun 19, 2008
Plus, there are more instances of interracial adoption and conversion, said Jonathan Sarna, professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University ... The Jewish history of worldwide migration has led to Jews of every ethnicity. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Area native will conduct tours to China Jun 16, 2008
Through Lune Tours, the young entrepreneur will plan trips to China from the United States, but with an interesting twist his first trip will focus on the Jewish history of China ... After being asked to write articles for a Rhode Island newspaper, Levinson began to study the Jewish history of China, a history that many people are shocked to discover exists ... The cities in China that have a Jewish history include Kaifeng, Shanghai and Harbin. (The Citizen's Voice, PA)
Newton temple experiments with program to reinvigorate Hebrew school Jun 12, 2008
"The idea is to take some of the pixie dust from the new Prozdor and sprinkle it on the middle-school kids," said Jonathan Sarna, a well-known author and lecturer on Jewish life and a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University. The Emanuel middle-schoolers will attend Prozdor on Sundays, selecting a Judaic studies or Hebrew language track and a variety of upbeat electives - such as "Jews, Movies and the American Dream," and "Israeli Top 40." Under a collaborative program called... (Boston Globe)
Tuesday Night Book Club met, May 27 Jun 7, 2008
Based on happiness in his early life and Jewish history. She also makes him half of a mutual admiration relationship between and a young kinswoman named Avigail. (Clanton Advertiser, AL)
Report: Palestinian Textbooks Portray Jews in Bad Light Jun 5, 2008
The textbooks issued under Abbas' rule also include a discussion of Jewish history in the region, the report said. However, in 2006, the militant Islamic Hamas won an election and issued a 12th grade textbook that dramatically reversed those steps, the report said. (Fox News)
San Francisco's Jewish moment Jun 2, 2008
In commissioning Libeskind, the museum's leadership, and especially director Connie Wolf, wanted a provocative building, one that could further their goal of transcending the customary roles of Jewish-oriented museums: documenting the Jewish history of a region; exhibiting Jewish ceremonial objects; memorializing the Holocaust. Because the museum has no permanent collection, its displays will be constantly in flux. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Service to focus on ant-semitism May 25, 2008
During his 32 years of organizational work in the Greater Boston area, Dr. Lowenthal has been involved in interfaith and intergroup activities, written extensively about human rights issues for the local press, appeared often on radio and TV, hosted a local radio interview program, and taught courses on Jewish history, film, literature, and humor. Dr. Lowenthal frequently lectures on contemporary Israel, the future of the American Jewish community, and the challenges of anti-Semitism, in... (Lexington Minuteman, MA)
Indiana Jones: Man of adventure May 22, 2008
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Middle East Israels Mission May 17, 2008
By contrast, "Jerusalem" regards "Tel Aviv s" drive for "normalcy" as a shallow affair, one that is almost criminally indifferent to Jewish memory and the lessons of Jewish history. The Israel of "Jerusalem" is one of yearning for Jewish roots, a deep-seated fear of "the Arabs," and an unyielding distrust of "Gentiles" and their "international community." Israel was born in war and has lived by the sword ever since. (WELT ONLINE)
Israel in 60 Years May 13, 2008
When it comes to Jewish history, it is dangerous to indulge in prophecy ... Only three years after the saddest and cruelest chapter in Jewish history, a sovereign Jewish State was proclaimed: Was it predictable. (Time.com)
Chroniclers of pain May 10, 2008
"If Israel arose on the disaster of the Palestinians," stated MK Zevulum Orlev of the National Religious Party, "it can't be legitimate . . . the Jewish right to Israel is inherent and part of Jewish history, a legacy of our nakba 2,000 years ago." In fact, to acknowledge the nakba is not to de-legitimise Israel, but it does require of the nation a different form of accountability for its own past ... As the narrator lowers his eyes in the face of an Arab woman - "stern, self-controlled, austere... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Olmert 'never took a bribe,' he says May 9, 2008
Executives connected to leading Jewish organizations in New York that have listed Talansky as a major donor or put him on their boards including Yeshiva University's rabbinical seminary and the Center for Jewish History say he has not always carried out his pledges. At least two of the lawsuits involving Talansky contain allegations that he or people he enlisted made threats in the course of collecting debts or resolving business conflicts. (International Herald Tribune)
To Celebrate 60th, Israel Festival to Rock Into Evening May 8, 2008
It will be an Israel Festival unlike others in recent years as Jews across Los Angeles come together in celebration of perhaps the single most important milestone in modern Jewish history. Other officials participating in the Festivities include Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky; City Councilmembers Jack Weiss, Dennis Zine and Wendy Greuel; Sheriff Lee Baca, Congressman Brad Sherman; and Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles Jacob Dayan. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Jews: Don't Boycott The Olympics! May 5, 2008
The Ohel Rachel Synagogue in Shanghai is symbolic in many ways of the Jewish history in China ... American Jewish rabbis and leaders would be well advised to be better students of Jewish history in China before criticizing the country. (Forbes)
RELIGIOUS EVENTS May 2, 2008
Study Torah, Hebrew, Jewish history and traditions and learn about Israeli music, culture and food, arts and crafts and prayers, from a faculty of talented and dedicated Jewish educators. To request a registration form call the synagogue office at 978-263-3061. (Bolton Common, MA)
Bumpy road to Zion: Not your fathers religious fervor May 2, 2008
I will never fathom how someone jumps from loving Jewish history to believing that the Judean foothills are his birthright, from liking the poems of Yehuda Halevi to making aliyah. I once explained how I felt to a rabbi who I thought would understand. (Yale Herald, CT)
Religion Calendar Apr 19, 2008
An exploration of Jewish history and the search for meaning. RSVP necessary. (OregonLive, OR -- Living)
Passover book passes on Jewish history Apr 19, 2008
Durham, Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle Region. By Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan : The Herald-Sun Apr 19, 2008. (Herald Sun)
Religion notes Apr 18, 2008
D from Harvard University, where he studied medieval Jewish history, specifically the history of Jewish mysticism. Sendor received his ordination at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University. (Brookline TAB, MA)
Synagogue marks golden jubilee Apr 17, 2008
"Remembering the past 50 years and celebrating our place in Jewish history. "Jewish life goes back 4,000 years and we're a chapter of that," Grife added. "We are one square of the fabric of the big Jewish quilt. " Groundbreaking ceremonies at the temple's site on Paper Mill Road, Erdenheim, took place in 1958. An addition was built in 1961, and finally, a $1.2 million renovation in 1997 brought the building to its current state. B'nai Jeshurun, originally located in Mount Airy, merged with Beth... (Springfield Sun, PA)
Deal for Holy Land artefacts Apr 17, 2008
If you declare all of Jewish history a myth or fraud, peace is impossible. Ziad speaks for many in the Palestinian community, and illustrates what many fail to realize. (Nature News Service)
Savor the story Apr 17, 2008
Few events in Jewish history are more important than those for which Passover commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. There is an added wrinkle this year because the holiday begins at the close of the Sabbath, a day of rest for observant Jews. (The Daily Reflector)
Bible Park USA developers assemble theologians for advice on attractions Apr 16, 2008
Amy-Jill Levine, professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University, Nashville; Byron McCane, professor of Religion at Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C.; Carol Meyers, professor of Old Testament Studies at Duke University, Durham, N.C.; Eric Meyers, professor of Old Testament Studies, Archaeology of the ancient Near East, and Jewish History of the Greco-Roman period at Duke University, Durham, N.C.; Carolyn Osiek, professor of New Testament Studies at Brite Divinity School at Texas... (Nashville Business Journal, TN)
An emigre from the former Soviet Union driven to succeed Apr 15, 2008
It was an experience common to most of the Jews who fled from the Soviet Union in the 1970s and '80s, according to Jonathan Sarna, a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University. More than 1 million Jews migrated to Israel, the United States, Canada, and other countries via Austria and Italy where they waited in transfer camps for months in a kind of bureaucratic purgatory until their destinations were established and documents processed. (Boston Globe)
Skillfully preserving Jewish ritual Apr 14, 2008
The training program at Temple Shalom in Newton focused on Jewish history as well as the sociological issues facing contemporary Reform Jewish families. Over three 12-hour days of seminars organized by the Berit Mila Program of Reform Judaism, a California-based national training program for mohels, a panel of interfaith couples discussed how foreign and stressful the idea of home circumcision was for their non-Jewish relatives and Levenson offered some from-the-trenches tips on how to... (Boston Globe)
The Mirror of History Apr 14, 2008
(Jewish history, meanwhile, seems to end with Josephus. You don't have to worship at the shrine of political correctness to look aghast at this shrinking of the "European cultural tradition" to stories of white men told by the same. (Slate)
Everything is Illuminated Apr 2, 2008
The Strange Mixture of the Past and the Present. Liev Schreiber directs the story of an American Jew on a journey to understand how his grandfather escaped the Holocaust. (Suite101.com)
Catch defiler of Ohav Zedek Apr 1, 2008
This was not a mere prank. This was an act of hatred and intimidation. (The Citizen's Voice, PA)
Jewishfilm.2008 is coming to Brandeis Mar 23, 2008
Tal spent three years piecing together home movies and old radio recordings from kibbutzim archives to revisit that part of Jewish history and culture, resulting in the documentary "Children of the Sun." Shown in a preview with Tal present earlier this month, the film returns April 12 as part of The National Center for Jewish Film's 11th annual film festival, Jewishfilm. 2008. (Boston Globe)
Smart Traveler Mar 22, 2008
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Human rights proponents will explore prevention, remedies for genocide Mar 21, 2008
Panelists for this session will be Hasia Diner, the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg professor of American Jewish history at New York University; Gerald Gahima, a judge on the Bosnia War Crimes Panel and former vice president of the Supreme Court of Rwanda; Chuck Meyers, senior program associate of Facing History and Ourselves; and Kathleen Young, professor of anthropology at Western Washington University. Confronting Darfur, the third panel, will address the conflict in the Darfur region of the... (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Living for the 'gasp' Mar 9, 2008
The project, Sherman explained in a recent telephone interview, began as something of a millennium project, an attempt to sum up 100 years of Jewish history. "Originally I had planned it as a multicharacter play, but I became drawn to this one woman. And the other characters fell away.". (Globe and Mail)
Where is the lamb? Feb 25, 2008
This tremendous event in Jewish history is still celebrated today in the Feast of the Passover. Under the law given to Moses on Mt. Sinai, the Jews were instructed that when one sinned he was to bring an animal (a lamb) to the altar, place his hands on the animal s head while confessing his sin (thereby transferring the guilt to the sacrifice), and then slay the lamb. (Ontario Argus Observer, OR)
My history, our history (2/4) Feb 5, 2008
And as MSMS teacher Chuck Yarborough so eloquently put it, as he led us on a trip through history down Catfish Alley, along Martin Luther Drive South and on to Missionary Union Baptist Church and down Second Avenue North where the Penny-Savings Bank once stood I don't like to think of history as white history or African-American history or Jewish history. It's our history. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
SOUL SURVIVORS Jan 13, 2008
January 13, 2008 -- The survival of the Sarajevo Haggadah is one of the marvels of modern Jewish history. In People of the Book," Geraldine Brooks uses fiction to re-imagine the amazing history of this illuminated 14th century Hebrew text, which survived the political and religious wars and upheavals that ravaged Europe and the Near East from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Unfortunately, the novel doesn't live up to its inspiration. Brooks examines this strange, eventful history... (New York Post -- Opinions)
Exploring Jewish-America Jan 5, 2008
" Even when it falters, "The Jewish Americans" remains both informative and engaging. Most viewers, no matter how well acquainted they are with American Jewish history, are likely to learn things. You may already know about Hank Greenberg, the slugger for the Detroit Tigers in the 1930s, or Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America (1945). But did you also know that it was a couple of Jewish kids in Cleveland who invented "Superman. " One of their amusingly twerpy voices is heard in the show.... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Jewish series mirrors American immigrant story Jan 4, 2008
His favorite segment in the whole series is part of Cleveland s Jewish history: the story of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who created the Superman character. Two young guys, frustrated in their hopes and dreams, were reflecting on their own lives. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Last matzo factory on New York's Lower East Side moving out Dec 29, 2007
But in a sign of the times, the building will serve a dual purpose as an American Jewish history museum and a functioning synagogue. "After the 1980s, you got this continual increase of property values and rents and it just never stopped or went down again," said Clayton Patterson, a local preservationist. (Boston Globe)
More of this story Dec 28, 2007
Chronicling 350 years of Jewish history in America, deciding what to omit and what to include, is an ambitious undertaking. Jewish Americans seeks to illuminate the American story through comprehensive treatment of one immigrant group, whose impact on life here far outweighs its tiny size. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Experience an hour of medieval wonder in Germany Dec 12, 2007
The town is also known for its Jewish history, with Judaica in the Imperial City Museum; and Judengasse (Jews' Lane), a street billed as Germany's only intact ghetto from the Middle Ages. Perched high above the Tauber River, Rothenburg, offers stunning views, especially for those who climb atop its 20-foot-high covered wall to walk the circumference of the town, officially known as Rothenburg ob der Tauber. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Art & architecture offerings for the holidays Dec 12, 2007
So "Monuments" is a welcome backward look at 38 commemorative sites, from the Alamo, Statue of Liberty and Washington Monument to more obscure ones such as North Side-based artist Diane Samuels' "Luminous Manuscript" monument to Jewish history at New York's Center for Jewish History. The introductory essay, which explores the meaning and purpose of memorials and monuments, is followed by one tracing their evolution from ancient pyramids and obelisks to the spontaneous and temporary memorials of... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Journeying to faith: Adults prepare for bar, bat mitzvah ceremony Saturday Dec 7, 2007
DuCloux said she worked in retail management for years and never found the time for the weekly lessons and study of Jewish history, liturgy, philosophy, rabbinic literature and theology required for her own bat mitzvah. "It wasn't that important to me at the time," she said. (North County Times)
Synagogue celebrates restoration Dec 4, 2007
While that lower floor will continue to function as an Orthodox synagogue, the building will now serve as a nonsectarian museum dedicated to American Jewish history and the history of the Lower East Side. The Museum at Eldridge Street will host programs about vaudeville music, Yiddish literature, family history research and other topics. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Historic NYC Synagogue Is Reborn Dec 3, 2007
While that lower floor will continue to function as an Orthodox synagogue, the building will now serve as a nonsectarian museum dedicated to American Jewish history and the history of the Lower East Side. Barry Yood, a retired health administrator whose great-grandfather served as Eldridge Street's rabbi, said he was looking forward to being a docent at the new museum. (CBS News -- US)
U.S. Jewish population isn't declining Dec 1, 2007
Jewish summer camps, schools, charities and Web sites form a network of institutions that has no equal in all of Jewish history. The myth of the disappearing Jew can be traced in large measure to a single, well-publicized study recording 5. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
