The Good Old Days For Jews in Baghdad
excerpt from the film Remember Baghdad
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Shabbat
- Pesach VIIISaturday, 27 April 2019
- Havdalah (72 min): 9:27pmSaturday, 27 April 2019
- Pesach VIIFriday, 26 April 2019
- Candle lighting: 7:56pmFriday, 26 April 2019
- Pesach VI (CH''M)Thursday, 25 April 2019
- Candle lighting: 7:55pmThursday, 25 April 2019
Tweets
OK, It was 2 April 2019, and we were only a few of the 1800 Jews there, but we still had a lot of fun at Koululam Toronto. A few photos are at https://t.co/Qgdb1VSAmI or https://t.co/XAJtz0tZsA
Congresswoman Tlaib is lying. Grandma Tlaib is a resident of the Palestinian Arab village of Beit Ur al-Fauqa...governed by the PA not Israel, for the past 24 years...to claim that her grandmother is “occupied” by the Israelis...is simply a lie. #beHonest https://t.co/O4Wvou8jXq
“New Zealand may be half way around the globe, but it’s the same story of hate and violence against people peacefully praying” Wherever you land on the political spectrum, this violence is deplorable. #ChristchurchMosqueShootings #HelloBrother https://t.co/VJcoSW1BWS
"My grandmother always told us things were never the same following the Farhud, a two-day pogrom filled with vandalism and violence against the Jewish population of Baghdad that took place during Shavuot in 1941." https://t.co/8dqzdy7Fek
"The truth is that there were more Jews displaced from Arab countries since 1948 than 'Palestinians' from Israel (856,000, as against 711,000, according to UN figures). " https://t.co/GLHFHBbLd1
Purim: "While Ashkenazi Jews adore hamanstashen, the Iraqi signature dish is Sambusk El Tawa, explains Carole Basri, an attorney of Iraqi descent who teaches cooking classes through Sephardic House in Manhattan." https://t.co/TdrjwYvR4X
Jewish Press
- Larry’s Letters to the Editor: Resolution to Boycott Israel to be held on Passover 21/04/2019
- Inspiration from Zion: Freedom of the Jews 21/04/2019
- Ari Fuld on the Holidays | Passover: Freedom vs. Responsibility – 5778 (2018) 15/04/2019
- Israel LOVES its Army 15/04/2019
- “Everyone Knows” … but EVERYONE is Wrong 14/04/2019
- Intersectionality and the Jews 10/04/2019
- Political Parties To Outnumber Voters By Next Election 10/04/2019
- My Decision – My Vote in Israel’s Elections Tomorrow 08/04/2019
- Zachary Baumel Has Returned Home to Israel 07/04/2019
- I Like Sunsets, Walks On The Beach, And Sending Children To Get Shot At Violent Riots 03/04/2019
JTA
- Israel razes home of Palestinian man accused of murdering Israeli teen 21/04/2019
- NYU president skips President’s Service Awards. Some say it’s because Students for Justice in Palestine was honored. 21/04/2019
- Kosher restaurant in Canada vandalized for fourth time 21/04/2019
- Fire, believed to be arson, strikes Moscow yeshiva during seder 21/04/2019
- Israel offers assistance following bomb attacks in Sri Lanka 21/04/2019
- Vermont chemistry professor asked students to calculate lethal dose for Nazi gas chambers 21/04/2019
- Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has seder with 400 lone soldiers 21/04/2019
- U.S. envoy to Poland comes under criticism for tweet wishing Jews a happy Passover 21/04/2019
- Southern Polish town burns effigy of Judas, made to look like Hasidic Jew 21/04/2019
- Is an Arkansas university honoring a Holocaust denier? Jewish faculty and ADL say yes. 19/04/2019