Source: AmnestyInternational Youtube channel. “One hundred years ago, more than a million people marched in streets across Europe on the first International Women’s Day, calling for an end to discrimination and for women to have the…
Read moreIn an article entitled “A century after one of N.Y.’s worst fires, we still struggle with how to bury the poor” the New York Daily News mark’s the 100th anniversary of the infamous Triangle Shirt…
Read moreWhat: The Global Day of Jewish Learning When: 11.7.10 About: “On November 7, 2010, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz will complete his monumental translation and commentary on the Talmud. His mission has been to give Jewish…
Read moreMissing page from Where the Wild Things by Areby Guarina Lopez. “There must be more to life than having everything.” -Â Maurice Sendak We’ve all read the book “Were the Wild Things Are”. I’ve even…
Read moreAs reported today by Phlanthropy.com “The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation will spend $10-million over five years to provide emergency aid to impoverished Holocaust survivors, says The Baltimore Sun. The fund, established by the Baltimore…
Read more“Eli Broad is Los Angeles’ biggest philanthropist, who has given away over $2 billion, but he and his wife Edythe pledged on June 16 to do even better in the future by distributing 75…
Read moreSource: JPost.com 5.6.10 “The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, the country’s only higher education institution offering a full English curriculum for undergraduate studies, is also home to five African refugee students. Their fellow students have now…
Read more“The Hebrew Free Burial Association (HFBA) devotes its resources to performing chesed shel emet (the ultimate act of lovingkindness- for the deceased who are unable to repay the kindness). It is the only agency in the…
Read moreI was flipping through the University of Oregon’s Spring issue of Cascade magazine today and I found an article that I want to share with our readers. The article by Marc Dadigan is called…
Read more“For whoever listens to a witness becomes a witness” Excerpt from a speech given by Elie Wiesel at Yad Vashem Today is Yom Ha’Shoah – the day of the remembrance for the 6,000,000 Jews…
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