Should you wish to acknowledge receipt of your candle with a charitable contribution, we suggest that you consider a gift in a multiple of $18, the number that represents life — chai — to Congregation Tifereth Israel, and designate it for the Yellow Candle Project. The shul will, in turn, donate the full amount of all the contributions to Greenport High School to help finance a visit to the Museum of Jewish Heritage, a fitting [...]
And now, Veronica Kaliski, chair of Tikkun Olam, reminds us that gardening at Common Ground on behalf of CAST has begun. To date, beds 18 and 19 have been weeded, and mulch has been spread, and seedlings provided by Treiber Farms and Marion Garden Herbs will be planted soon. And who is doing all of this gardening? A small and dedicated group, Veronica says, pointing out that additional help is welcome. Those interested in [...]
The Book Circle has chosen a graphic novel as its selection for the Thursday, May 16 meeting. The bookies will gather at 3 p.m. on Zoom for a look at Art Spiegleman’s Maus 1: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History, a “brutally moving work of art,” Amazon says. This is the bestselling first installment of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust,” said The [...]
Minouche Shafik, president of Columbia University, said that four students have been suspended from the university for an event held in March at which the speakers praised Hamas and other terror groups. The suspension was f irst reported in the Columbia Spectator, the campus newspaper. The student-led event, titled “Resistance 101,” drew harsh criticism for alleged antisemitism on campus. The suspensions marked a significant step in Columbia’s response to anti-Israel activities that have rocked the [...]
In a new ranking from the Anti-Defamation League, only two U.S. universities — Brandeis and Elon — have earned a top grade of “A” for being “Jew-friendly.” With the sole exception of Dartmouth, all Ivy League schools earned al “D” or a failing “F” grade. Ten Jewish students have filed a lawsuit against Cooper Union for allegedly failing to protect them and their classmates from antisemitism. The complaint stems from an Oct. 25 incident [...]
More than 250 Holocaust survivors have joined an international initiative to share their stories of loss and survival with students around the world. With antisemitism on the rise following the devastating Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the New York-based Claims Conference, which has organized the Speakers’ Bureau, hopes that firsthand accounts of the cruelties endured during the Holocaust will help counter disinformation and denial. AP Photo
Rabbi Levi Raskin, director of the JCrafts Center for Jewish Life and Tradition, playfully adds flat discs of dough to the oven to cook into matzah, as prepared by first graders from Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital, during a “Model Matzah Factory” field trip to the center in Rockville, Md., on Thursday, April 18, 2024. To be kosher for the Passover holiday, the dough has to be prepared and cooked in [...]
The number of antisemitic incidents more than doubled in 2023, surging after the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit, which pointed out that more than half of last year’s incidents took place in the last three months of the year. The report, published in early April, tabulated 8,873 incidents in 2023, 5,204 of them occurring after Oct. 7. By contrast, the League tallied 3,697 in 2022. Incidents [...]
After 64 years in broadcasting, John Sterling, the Yankees’ primary play-by-play announcer, has announced his retirement. Sterling is 85. “There is no shortage of adjectives to describe John and what he means to this organization and our millions of fans around the world,” the team said in the release, adding that he was a “Goliath of the sports broadcasting world.” Yankees fans will remember John Sterling’s now-famous refrain coming off the bat of a home-run [...]
Robert Moskowitz, a painter who used the New York City skyline as his muse for work that borders abstraction and representation, died on March 24 in Manhattan. He was 88. Beginning in the 1970s, Mr. Moskowitz began painting the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building and, most indelibly, the World Trade Center. Those three buildings appear over and again through the decades, ink black on blue, lavender, orange, yellow or white; in white on black; [...]
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