Monthly Archives: August 2023

Every candidate standing in Waltham Forest at the 2022 local council elections – My London

Every candidate standing in Waltham Forest at the 2022 local council electionsGet FREE email updates for East LondonWe have more newslettersGet FREE email updates for East LondonWe have more newslettersThe countdown to the 2022 local elections has begun. On May 5, voters will go to the polls to choose the councillors that will represent them […]

KEN Mode's New Album VOID Releasing this August, First Single … – MetalSucks

Canadian noise rock quartet KEN Mode are back and they’ve got a slate of new songs to hit you over the head with. Earlier today, the band announced they were ready to showcase their upcoming album VOID by not only announcing its release date, but also by putting out its first single, “The Shrike” on […]

Elly Schlein’s Etruscan Nose – Jewish Exponent

Ben Cohen“Then the Lord God said to Moses/All the Jews shall have long noses.”This spiteful playground barb has been leveled at Jews in one form or another for centuries. While antisemitism typically involves defamatory claims about Jewish behavior — dual loyalty, financial domination and similar themes — the hatred has also extended to the supposed […]

At the Weitzman, Jewish Content Creators Explain Their Jewish … – Jewish Exponent

Kosha Dillz is a Jewish rapper whose videos have gotten hundreds of thousands of views. Karen Cinnamon is a Jewish influencer whose online persona, about choosing your Jewish journey, has galvanized more than a million followers.Yet when they came from New York City and the United Kingdom, respectively, to appear at Philadelphia Jewish Film and […]

Florida Rejects Holocaust Education Textbooks in Clampdown on … – Jewish Exponent

Ron KampeasFlorida’s state education department rejected two new Holocaust-focused textbooks for classroom use, while forcing at least one other textbook to alter a passage about the Hebrew Bible in order to meet state approval.The books were rejected as part of a broader review of new K-12 social studies material. According to documents provided by the […]

Opinion | A Single Moment of Compassion Changed Lives – Jewish Exponent

By Jonathan HertzelIn 2015, sculptor Jonathan Hertzel, a Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts graduate whose work is in PAFA’s permanent collection, moved with his wife, Linda Guenste, from the Philadelphia suburbs to Santa Fe, New Mexico.Hertzel’s family has deep and storied roots in New Mexico, as his latest sculpture series, “Stories From My Ancestors,” […]

Four Cups, Five Stars: Sophisticated Kosher Wine Increasingly … – Jewish Exponent

By Deborah Fineblum | JNS.orgEven the most finicky wine snob won’t be able to “pass over” the new generation of kosher wines. Increasingly, the mindset is that since Jews are commanded to drink four cups of wine at the Passover seder, they might as well drink high-quality wine.The last decade has witnessed a veritable explosion […]