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Speaker at Bloomfield Hills high diversity event sparks controversy from Jewish community
Controversy among parents in Bloomfield Hills after a high school diversity event sparked criticism among the Jewish community. The Jewish Community Relations Council called out the district over a speaker they say spread anti-Israel messages, making Jewish students feel uncomfortable, fearful and attacked.
Does Your Bread Have An Ego?
– Passover Seder 101 by Rabbi Moishe Kievman Chabad Chayil The eight-day festival of Passover is celebrated this year from sundown on Wednesday evening, April 5, 2023, until after nightfall on Thursday, April 13, 2023, with its highlight, the festive “Seder” dinners on the first 2 nights of the holiday. The festival of Passover...
Daniella Levine Cava campaign for re-election reports $250K haul
Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is raking in cash to keep Miami-Dade County’s most powerful local post. Levine Cava’s campaign reported raising $250,000 less than two weeks after she launched her re-election bid and just days since she announced key campaign staff hires. Because she filed March 1, her official fundraising numbers for the month are not due until...
U.S. Justice Department sues to stop Spirit-JetBlue merger
The merger of Miramar-based Spirit Airlines with JetBlue Airways hasn’t been cleared for takeoff – the U.S. Justice Department sued to block the proposed $3.8 billion deal, the Sun Sentinel reports. Under terms of the buyout, Spirit would no longer be an independent company. JetBlue would absorb the carrier’s entire fleet, routes and more than 12,000 employees....
New Gas Deal With Europe Turns Israel Into A Super Power
Prime Minister Netanyahu travelled to both German and Italy this past week to ink a new gas deal with $5 billion euros annually. More than the money, the deal is set to reset Israel-European relations by forcing Europe to reduce their overt support for “palestinian” NGOs and reexamining votes in the UN. “You’re going to...
Orthodox pitcher Jacob Steinmetz strikes out 3 Big Leaguers in breakout World Baseball Classic performance
The final result wasn’t pretty for Israel, but it almost didn’t matter. This night belonged to Jacob Steinmetz. The 19-year-old Woodmere, New York, native and the first Orthodox Jew to be drafted into Major League Baseball, Steinmetz was the starting pitcher for Team Israel against the Dominican Republic Tuesday in a 10-0 loss in the World...
Chabad Jewish center in Cape Coral was attacked Saturday afternoon
Chabad Jewish center in Cape Coral was attacked Saturday afternoon
‘Fabelmans’ flops at the Oscars, but Hollywood’s Jewish history gets a nod
With seven nominations for his most personal film ever, this could have been Steven Spielberg’s biggest year at the Academy Awards. But the hot-dog fingers had other plans. “The Fabelmans,” the director’s highly personal dramatization of his Jewish upbringing, didn’t win a single one of the Oscars it was nominated for Sunday night Spielberg’s autobiographical opus...
Anti-Jewish incidents jumped nearly 20% in 2021, FBI finds
A new FBI report found that anti-Jewish incidents increased nearly 20% in 2021 relative to 2020, but decreased relative to prior years. The updated FBI statistics released Monday counted 817 anti-Jewish criminal offenses reported by local law enforcement agencies in 2021, up from 683 in 2020 — a year when people largely stayed off the...