Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, Brandeis University
• Published March 15, 2022
March 18, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the first bat mitzvah ceremony in the United States.
Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to publicly celebrate the traditional Jewish coming-of-age...
NAAMA BARAK, Israel21c.org
• Published March 10, 2022
This year, the theme of International Women’s Day is #BreakTheBias. Which is terrific news, as women everywhere still face discrimination and prejudice in matters big and small.
In hope for a gender-equal world, we’d like to take a moment to celebrate...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION, ISRAELED.ORG
• Published March 10, 2022
March 10, 1970 — Law of Return’s Jewish Definition Is Amended
Israel’s 1950 Law of Return is amended to change the definition of “who is a Jew” after two high-profile cases involving a Jewish convert to Catholicism and an interfaith marriage....
(JTA) – When West Virginia lawmakers opened a discussion about proposed “critical race theory” legislation on Monday, it didn’t take long before topic of conversation turned to Jews.
West Virginia’s House of Delegates was debating legislation...
Benjamin Ivry, The Forward
• Published February 28, 2022
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Tragic events now unfolding in Ukraine echo a history of Russian human rights offenses against Jews...
Samantha Long, Alma.com
• Published February 27, 2022
Never have I attended a family function where I did not fall victim to, as the phrase goes, “The Jewish Goodbye.”
I have been both the perpetrator and the victim of this practice, the prelude to a silent car ride home, a vehicle filled with empty...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION
• Published February 24, 2022
Feb. 24, 1942 — Struma Is Sunk by Soviet Sub
A Soviet submarine sinks the refugee transport SS Struma in the Black Sea in the belief that it is an enemy ship. Only one of the 769 Jewish refugees survives. The Struma, a converted cattle transport...
A 12-page U.S. State Department memorandum makes for depressing reading as it takes the president on a world tour that documents the resistance to admitting European refugees.
(Chabad.org) In a move that is making waves in academic and lay circles, the Chabad-Lubavitch Library has created a new site with high-quality, full-color scans of a vast collection of thousands of precious manuscripts that have never been seen by...
Richard Brookhiser, The Forward
• Published February 21, 2022
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In August 1790 President George Washington took a trip to Rhode Island, the last state to have...
BURTON BOXERMAN, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 20, 2022
When Dvora Hacohen, professor and historian of modern Jewish history at Bar Ilan University in Israel, was looking for an inclusive biography of Henrietta Szold, she was unable to find one. She was surprised because Szold was considered the most famous...
