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(JTA) — Over the last year, Jewish college students took it upon themselves to combat antisemitism at their schools. Now, two major Jewish organizations are working together to play a stronger role in fighting antisemitism on campus.

WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden is set to nominate Deborah Lipstadt, the Emory University Holocaust historian, to be the State Department’s antisemitism envoy.The White House alerted top Biden supporters of the pick, which has been expected for weeks, on Thursday night, the Jewish Tel…

(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Dozens of hot-pink billboards and transit ads have appeared in major American cities over the last month, referencing the Holocaust and antisemitism. 

(JTA) — One week after Ben & Jerry’s announced that it would stop selling ice cream in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” the company’s board chair for the first time publicly rejected the suggestion that the move was antisemitic.

    Friedel Jewish Academy Head of School Beth Cohen calls last year “a school year like no other” that “taught us powerful life lessons about being flexible and adapting to changing situations.” Despite the challenges of the pandemic, Friedel students were able to learn in-person, five days…

    Hazon(www.hazon.org), the largest faith-based environmental organization in the United States, just announced its intention to merge with another strong Jewish environmental organization, Pearlstone Center, www.pearlstonecenter.org, headquartered outside of Baltimore. Until June 30, I ha…

Jewish Family Service is hosting a team for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s (AFSP) Out of the Darkness Walk on Saturday, September 18, 2021. To register and join our team, please go to https://supporting.afsp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=register.start&eventID=7509&teamI…

(JTA) — Two Israeli airlines have started what looks like a beautiful friendship with Morocco.

(JTA) — Avishag Semberg, a 19-year-old taekwondo fighter, won bronze in the women’s under 49 kg category on Saturday, giving Israel its first medal of the Tokyo Olympics and its first ever in the sport.

(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League has joined with PayPal to research how extremists use financial platforms to fund criminal activity.

    Reprinted with permission from the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society.

The Omaha Jewish Alumni Association proudly presents our first ever fundraiser! On August 15, 2021 OJAA will be holding a fundraiser at Topgolf in Omaha at 908 N 102nd St, Omaha, NE 68114 from 12:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M. Tickets for the event are $54.00 per adult and $36.00 per child.  This incl…

MONTREAL (JTA) — Amid an unprecedented number of antisemitic incidents in Canada, the government is set to spend more than $5 million to shore up the security of the nation’s Jewish community institutions.

(JTA) — The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are finally happening, a full year after they were planned. And yes, they’re still being called the 2020 Olympics, even though they’re happening in 2021.

(JTA) — Will it be a historic Olympics for Israel? The Associated Press thinks so.

(JTA) — Jewish basketball star Sue Bird will be one of Team USA’s two flag bearers at the Tokyo Olympics’ opening ceremony on Friday.

(JTA) — The Labour Party in Britain has banned four far-left factions as part of an effort to address frustration about the party’s handling of antisemitism. 

WARSAW (JTA) — Several participants in a rally in Glogow, Poland, said that Jews are to blame for the COVID-19 pandemic and agreed that Jews “rule the world.”

On Friday morning, Aug. 13, Jewish Business Leaders (JBL) will be hosting its first in-person Jewish Business Leaders (JBL) event since January 2020, featuring prominent nationally known attorney and former Omahan, Jason Itkin. We are so very excited to see everyone again. The breakfast meet…

    After deaths of loved ones, the Jewish people have always found consolation in prayer. Through Kaddish, Yizkor, and Yahrzeits, prayers help not only to connect us to G-d, but also to elevate the souls of our deceased loved ones.

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ben & Jerry’s decision this week to pull out of an agreement that allowed its Israeli franchisee to sell its product in what the company terms “Occupied Palestinian Territory” has angered some Jewish-owned businesses.

(JTA) — Kosher supermarkets are rethinking their inventory. Politicians are emptying their freezers. And the foreign minister of Israel is vowing to get involved in local US politics.

Juvenile: The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice | Cynthia Levinson

The Institute for Holocaust Education is pleased to announce the upcoming lineup for our Third Thursday Lunch and Learn Series. The Lunch and Learn Series is an opportunity for community members to engage with pertinent topics regarding Holocaust education.

(JTA) — British Jewish leaders say an anticipated apology from the Church of England for antisemitic laws enacted in 1222 is “better late than never.”The church is planning a formal “act of repentance” for next year, the 800th anniversary of the Synod of Oxford, a set of laws that restricted…

(JTA) — Renovators at a Jewish cemetery in a breakaway province of Moldova discovered amid overgrown vegetation a ritual burial preparation facility that was assumed to be destroyed.

(JTA) — Israel has begun inviting immunocompromised adults to receive a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, as case rates in the country have risen again due to the spread of the Delta variant.

(JTA) — A survey of U.S. Jewish voters taken after the Israel-Gaza conflict finds that a sizable minority believe some of the harshest criticisms of Israel, including that it is committing genocide and apartheid.

(JTA) — Shayna and Cuddles are unlike many new parents in Israel, in that they are pythons. But that doesn’t mean their offspring won’t be feted in a traditional way.Israel’s Biblical Museum of Natural History is holding a public kiddush on Friday to celebrate the first baby snakes that have…

(JTA) — Facebook is expanding its efforts to combat Holocaust denial by directing users to Holocaust education materials in 12 languages, including Arabic, Russian and German.

Not many buildings in Council Bluffs have the amount of history as the one on the 500 Block of West Broadway. Originally built in 1903 by Storz Brewing Co, the building was best known for being the home to Iowa Clothes from 1930 to 1996.

After the trip to Lebanon and Syria, our new friends, the Krans, told us they were going to Armenia. Walter Kran is 100% Armenian, so that made sense for he and his wife, Lisa, to go with the Armenian-American Assembly to the land of his heritage. Of course, Fran and I said: “Can we go with you?”

Ask anyone who has been on a Momentum trip (formerly JWRP) to Israel, and they will tell you it was an amazing and transformative once-in-a-life time experience. Action packed and informative from the moment you land in Israel to the time you board the return plane home, these trips are open…

(JTA) — The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are finally happening, a full year after they were planned. And yes, they’re still being called the 2020 Olympics, even though they’re happening in 2021.

(JTA) — A Chabad emissary was stabbed outside a Jewish day school and synagogue in Boston on Thursday afternoon.

This article will be updated as more names are identified by authorities in Florida.

    It’s all quite plain and simple, you know. G-d spent six full 24-hour days working fingers to the bones, barely able to make it into the next 24-hour period, but finally completing the work of creation at the end of the sixth day, settling into the recliner, lighting a candle or two, eat…

    Let me introduce you to Beth Kujath, our new part-time therapist. Beth is an Omaha native. She did her undergraduate work at University of Nebraska-Omaha with a degree in Education and Human Service. Following graduation, she worked at the Salvation Army in Early Head Start. During that …

The Rose Blumkin Jewish Home, along with all other long-term care providers, is surveyed by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services- at least annually- and undergoes the Nebraska Fire Marshalls Life Safety Code Inspection yearly during this process. Additional surveys conducted …

I’ve been blessed, blessed to teach at one of the finest high schools in the country, blessed to teach in a diverse community, and blessed to have made the friends I did early in my career. I began teaching at Central High School in 1998, and by the 2000-2001 school year, I was teaching seni…

(JTA) — Two major Israeli haredi Orthodox rabbis said everyone aged 12 and over should be vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to The Jerusalem Post.

SURFSIDE, Fla. (JTA) — Nachman Shai’s first visit to the United States as Israel’s new minister for Diaspora affairs was not under normal circumstances.“In hard times, in times of disaster, we have to stand shoulder to shoulder with Americans,” he said in an interview on Sunday in The Shul, …

(JTA) — As the United States woke up to news of the building collapse in Surfside, Florida, it quickly became clear that the disaster is an American Jewish tragedy. 

(JTA) — The Biden administration and Angela Merkel’s government are signing a letter of intent to share information and strategies on advancing Holocaust education.