Current News From The Jerusalem Post

• Complexities of surgery for Syrian girl in Israel May 23, 2013
  Balancing a media blitz and concerns for the family's security when they return home, the organization who brought the girl to Israel say they hope she is the first of many. […]
• Amnesty: Both Israel, Hamas guilty of war crimes May 23, 2013
  Annual report on human rights slams both sides for failing to take accountability; Hamas dismisses report as "unfair." […]
• Steinitz 'concerned' about UK-Israel relations May 23, 2013
  Strategic Defense Minister in 'Daily Telegraph,' queries why UK support for Israel less than other English speaking democracies. […]
• CST: British Jews not affected by 'Jihadist attack' May 23, 2013
  Security unit responds to decapitation of British soldier by suspected terrorists, says Jews "no more at risk than before." […]

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By Alan Goldberg The United States Congress established the “Days of Remembrance” as the annual commemoration of the Holocaust. On Sunday, April 7 at 2:30 pm in the Crouse Hinds Theater of the Civic Center, the Jewish Federation of Central New York, InterFaith Works of CNY and Syracuse University’s Regional Holocaust and Genocide Initiative have... Read More →

Prior to the performance of the oratorio, “Kaddish: I Am Here – Music of Remembrance and Hope,” a Yom Hashoah memorial remembrance observance will take place starting at 1:30 pm in the Atrium on the lower level of the John H. Mulroy Civic Center. This portion of the afternoon’s activities will recognize Central New York survivors of the... Read More →

By Joan Bordett Congregation Beth Sholom-Chevra Shas announces the inaugural weekend of the Rabbi Daniel A. Jezer Scholar- in-Residence program, April 19 -21. When Rabbi Jezer retired from the pulpit in 2004 after 25 years of service to CBS-CS, the congregation established a fund in his honor to bring scholar-in-residence programs to CBS-CS and the... Read More →

By Marianne Bazydlo The Jewish Federation of Central New York will present Micha Feldmann at a Maimonides Society event on Sunday, March 3 at 6 pm at The Oaks. Feldmann serves as the director of the Ethiopian department within SELAH – the Israel Crisis Management Center (ICMC), an organization that takes care of new immigrants from Ethiopia and... Read More →