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Chabad is planning a $50 million campaign to establish a Jewish women's college in New York in memory of Kogan. [61] A website was set up for people to pledge to do "Mitzvahs" or good deeds in memory of Kogan. [62] This is often done in the Orthodox Jewish tradition as a merit for the soul of the deceased. As of 5 December 2024, the global ...
He was a member of the doctoral faculty at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (GSUC). He is the author of No Offense: Civil Religion and Protestant Taste (1978) and The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity (1974), two books in the sociology of religion .
The World Headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement are located at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and is often simply referred to as 770. [1] The synagogue, located under 784 and 788 Eastern Parkway, has been subject to a dispute between the Agudas Chasidei Chabad (the umbrella organization for the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch movement) and the Gabbaim, who are associated ...
When the company, which Qurbani first found via Lego-related pages on social media years ago, announced in 2022 that it was looking for character animators for a Lego project, Qurbani eagerly ...
Since the signing of the Abraham Accords, the United Arab Emirates has hosted 200,000 Jewish tourists, with the local Jewish population estimated to be 10,000. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] The wedding of Rabbi Levi Duchman and Lea Hadad, [ 37 ] held on the second anniversary of the Abraham Accords, became the largest Jewish event in UAE history.
A National Right to Work Foundation news release said that “the final brief has been submitted urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear six City University of New York (CUNY) professors’ Firs
Hellenistic Judaism was a form of Judaism in classical antiquity that combined Jewish religious tradition with elements of Hellenistic culture and religion. Until the early Muslim conquests of the eastern Mediterranean, the main centers of Hellenistic Judaism were Alexandria in Egypt and Antioch in Syria (modern-day Turkey), the two main Greek urban settlements of the Middle East and North ...
In late 2023, the New York Times reported that some Jews in Harvard have stopped wearing openly Jewish headwear. [22] In the New York Times article, Mark Oppenheimer noted in light of the history of antisemitic quotas against Jews in Harvard, "To see newly resurgent antisemitism against this backdrop of fairly recent, wonderful acceptance is a ...