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4 May 2011, 4:20 am by Howard Friedman
The Proclamation reads in part:The Jewish story is intertwined with the American story one of overcoming great hardship, and one of commitment to building a more just world. [read post]
18 Aug 2015, 7:30 am by Mark Graber
  Jewish practice permits disputes over whether Jews may drive to religious services on Saturday morning and perhaps whether Jews must attend religious services on Saturday morning, as long as both sides to the dispute are grounding their positions in Jewish legal culture. [read post]
29 Apr 2023, 6:41 pm by Howard Friedman
The Proclamation reads in part: Jewish Americans continue to enrich every part of American life as educators and entrepreneurs, athletes and artists, scientists and entertainers, public officials and activists, labor and community leaders, diplomats and military service members, public health heroes, and more.... [read post]
1 May 2010, 7:25 pm by Howard Friedman
We are a stronger and more hopeful country because so many Jews from around the world have made America their home.Today, Jewish Americans carry on their culture's tradition of "tikkun olam" -- or "to repair the world" -- through good deeds and service. [read post]
12 Sep 2019, 1:24 pm by Jim Martin
By 1933, Sobeloff had risen to President of the Baltimore Branch of the American Jewish Congress, the combative rival to the more “patrician” American Jewish Council. [read post]
18 Sep 2009, 8:27 am
When it was decided to conduct and broadcast a Jewish Religious Service on German soil, Mr. [read post]
22 May 2015, 10:48 am by Howard Friedman
Here is an excerpt from his wide-ranging speech:Now, I wanted to come here to celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month because this congregation, like so many around the country, helps us to tell the American story. [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 5:00 am
The 2009 Solomon-Tenenbaum Lecture “Global Vision:   Opening our Eyes to Injustice” will be presented by Ruth Messinger, President of the American Jewish World Service, tonight at 8:00 p.m. at the University of South Carolina Law School Auditorium. [read post]
19 Nov 2008, 10:00 pm
The American Jewish World Service is hosting a luncheon event on December 2, 2008, at 12 noon at the Yale Club of New York City. [read post]
10 May 2011, 11:29 am by Jonathan Zasloff
American Jewish World Service, one of the most effective international anti-poverty and pro-development organizations in the worlds, has a new blog up. [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Father Charles Coughlin, known as ‘the founder of hate radio,’ was a leading proponent of American anti-Semitism during the 1930s The Center reports: During the period prior to the outbreak of World War II, the Germans were in favor of Jewish emigration. [read post]
20 Mar 2015, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt as part of American Jewish World Service’s Chag v’Chesed (“Celebration and Compassion”) series in anticipation of Passover. [read post]
30 Dec 2019, 8:03 pm
In an interview with American broadcaster NBC News that aired Saturday, Putin also suggested that some of the 13 Russian nationals indicted by the United States may not be ethnically Russian. [read post]
26 May 2013, 7:02 am by Clara Altman
 The New York Times this has a piece on  Mary Louise Roberts's What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American G.I. in World War II France:“What Soldiers Do,” to be officially published next month by the University of Chicago Press, arrives just as sexual misbehavior inside the military is high on the national agenda, thanks to a recent Pentagon report estimating that some 26,000 service members had been sexually assaulted in 2012, more than a… [read post]
29 Nov 2010, 10:15 am by McNabb Ferrari, P.C.
Serbia is seeking extradition from the U.S. of a naturalized American citizen who is suspected of serving in a Nazi unit that killed around 17,000 Jewish and other civilians during World War II, according to Snezana Malovic, the justice minister of Serbia. [read post]
10 Feb 2013, 1:53 pm by Sandy Levinson
  (Jack participated in a Hartman conference that I organized back in 1994 or so comparing Jewish and American techniques of interpretation.) [read post]
20 Dec 2017, 1:52 pm by Harold O'Grady
Plaut reports on the tradition of Jewish volunteering, the Christmas mitzvah — something to do when the rest of the world has the day off. [read post]
23 May 2008, 6:12 am
Obama sought to reassure Florida's Jewish community he is pro-Israel today. [read post]
1 May 2019, 12:21 pm
In 1934, Carl Schmitt, then the crown jurist of the Third Reich, writes in an essay titled National Socialist Legal Thought about “[a] conversation with a world-famous, world travelled, experienced scholar of more than seventy years of age from the United States [which] belongs to the major experiences and encounters I have had as a jurist in the service of National Socialism. [read post]
1 May 2019, 12:21 pm by Christine Corcos
In 1934, Carl Schmitt, then the crown jurist of the Third Reich, writes in an essay titled National Socialist Legal Thought about “[a] conversation with a world-famous, world travelled, experienced scholar of more than seventy years of age from the United States [which] belongs to the major experiences and encounters I have had as a jurist in the service of National Socialism. [read post]