compassion and empathy for every human being. Elena Bonner has died. by Joe Ribakoff former director of the Southern California Council for Soviet Jews One of the Soviet Union’s preeminent dissidents, she passed away in Boston at the age of 88. She outlived the Soviet Union, which collapsed in 1991. Bonner played an important role in the [...]
Archive | June, 2011 - Iyar / Sivan 5771
Wrar Of the Lions
Battle Lions drawn Looks like the calls for “unity” in relation to the chase for the Holy Grail of a Jewish radio station have been buried and the bulls are vying for leader of the pride. Both MJR and JBC have called meetings on Sunday in an attempt for a show of support. More interesting however was that the announcement of the JBC meeting [...]
New media brings new hope from the ashes
A younger generation finds new ways to remember In one of the scenes from Spielberg’s movie ”Schindler’s List” , Amon Goeth the SS officer who orchestrates the final “liquidation” of the Krakow ghetto gives this short speech. Today is history. Today will be remembered. Years from now the young will ask with wonder about this day. Today [...]
Lions,foxes and lambs
Lion to go it alone?Samuel Norich the publisher of the Jewish Forward magazine said in part recently about the success of the magazine “…our unique role and value as the only truly independent Jewish newspaper in the United States, unaffiliated with any branch of Judaism, unbeholden to any religious or communal authority, and free from bias or [...]
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Waiting for Palestine
One girls search for homeGalus Australis’ correspondent, Malki Rose, is currently in Jerusalem attending the ROI Summit. This article is the first of a series that Malki is writing on identity and homelessness. (Reprinted with kind permission by the author and Galus Australis .Please thank them by visiting their site and leaving comments.) It is two days before Pesach…and I [...]
Whisky Wars
Time to get serious about the BDSForget about the circumcision debate! Who cares what Anthony Weiner was tweeting amongst other things! This is serious stuff. The Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs (FJMC) – a partnership of 250 Jewish men’s clubs that claims more than 25,000 members throughout North America – has joined with synagogues both in Israel [...]
Lion’s final roar
Lion FM has today announced on its Facebook site that its temporary broadcasting licence has been withdrawn. We would like to advise you that the ACMA has decided not to renew our temporary licence. Their reason is that they do not want to use 96.1 frequency. A press release from the ACMA will follow later [...]
Hitler Parody wears thin
The classic scene in Fawlty Towers where Basil waits on some Germans is satire at its best. Mel Brooks whose show The Producers features Hitler in a gay musical romp had his critics as the satire cut very close to the bone especially for many Holocaust survivors. Yet both were legitimate and worthy of the term satire or parody because they remained in context and [...]
Circumcision ballot bares anti-semitism
As previously published here on Jewtribe. The Ballot for banning circumcision in San Franciso seemed a bit of a joke, not to mention an embarrassment to the state. But the circumcision ban in San Francisco has taken a strange twist with the publication, by the measure’s sponsors, of a comic book in which an anti-circumcision [...]
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