Southern New England Jewish Ledger
WHAT’S HAPPENING – June 11 – June 29
Jewish organizations are invited to submit their upcoming events to the our What’s Happening section. Events are placed on the…
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Could Israel hold the key to solving the Parkinson’s puzzle?
By Abigail Klein Leichman It was in1917 that James Parkinson first described the syndrome now known as Parkinson’s disease –…
Diverse group of Israeli parties agree to form coalition and oust Netanyahu
By Ron Kampeas (JTA) — Naftali Bennett, the right-wing leader of an ultranationalist party, accepted an offer from centrist Yair…
Van Morrison’s lyrical antisemitism
By Melissa Langsam Braunstein (JNS) Van Morrison’s latest song comes complete with its own eyebrow-raising title: “They Own the Media.”…
Prominent European Jews worry the war against antisemitism has been lost
By Cnaan Liphshiz AMSTERDAM (JTA) — In Germany, a man wearing a kippah was beaten on the street. In Austria,…
An Anthem to Israel & Zionism Herbert Pagani (1976)
Herbert Pagani performed this powerful speech about Zionism and Israel — about the struggles, identity and aspirations of the Jewish…
Biden: Antisemitic attacks ‘terrorizing’ American Jews must stop
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden said a spate of antisemitic attacks are terrorizing American Jews and “must…
Holocaust survivor Roman Kent negotiated billions in restitution
By Andrew Silo-Carroll (JTA) – Roman Kent, a Lodz Ghetto survivor who would negotiate with the postwar German government for…
Actor Charles Grodin, a resident of Wilton, was 86
(JTA) – Charles Grodin, the deadpan Jewish comic actor who starred in such blockbuster films as “The Heartbreak Kid” and…
