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One year ago, Dallas’s Jewish community convened a “health crisis management team” to coordinate the local response to the brand-new COVID-19 pandemic. Now the community has repurposed the team, consisting of rabbis from each denomination and the CEOs of local Jewish agencies, to take on a very different kind of crisis: the unfolding effects of […]
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In a Texas battered by cold, Jewish communities join a desperately needed response
February 19th, 2021 
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No Comments »Spain’s Jewish communities insist on investigation into neo-Nazi rally
February 17th, 2021 Awake Goy Browse > Home / News / Spain’s Jewish communities insist on investigation into neo-Nazi rally February 17, 2021 by JNS Read on for article The Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain (FCJE) has called on the country’s hate-crimes public prosecutor to investigate anti-Semitic hate speech made during a demonstration in Madrid on Feb. 13 of […]
How Close Are Chinese & Jewish Communities in the US?
February 16th, 2021 Awake Goy “CGTN’s Liu Xin interviews Cheryl Fishbein, President of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the United States. Despite making up only 2 percent of the population, the nearly 7 million American Jews play a significant role in the U.S.. In New York, the Chinese and Jewish communities have long been closely linked.” Bitchute link Source […]
Brazil’s Amazon riverside communities receive COVID jabs
February 10th, 2021 Awake Goy Health care workers visit the Nossa Senhora Livramento community on the banks of the Rio Negro near Manaus, in northern Brazil’s Amazonas state, to give Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to elderly members of riverside communities. Brazil has recorded nearly 10 million cases of COVID-19 and 234,000 deaths. Views: 0
Black And Asian Medics Urge Britain’s Minority Communities: Get The COVID Jab
February 9th, 2021 Awake Goy It was not until she turned up at work on the morning of December 9 that May Parsons realised she was going to receive the first dose of her Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine – just a day after she had administered the world’s first to 90-year-old Margaret Keenan. As a nurse working in the respiratory wards at Coventry Hospital, Parsons […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: asian, black, Britain, communities, covid, medics, minority No Comments »Displacement of rural communities , diversion of fertile land and forests likely to prove very costly
February 7th, 2021 Awake Goy Several countries including India have embarked on a development strategy which emphasizes very rapid and large-scale extraction of minerals, construction of large dams and super-highways, huge urbanization and industrial projects. This is equated to development and progress by ruling regimes and hence they do not give adequate and proper attention to the huge social and […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: communities, displacement, diversion, fertile, forests, likely, rural No Comments »COVID-Fatigued Communities Prepare for a Distanced Purim
February 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy In 2020, Purim began on the evening of March 9, just before the country shut down to stop the spread of the coronavirus. For some Jewish communities, the holiday was the first celebrated over Zoom. In others, the typical parties gave way to more somber, hand sanitizer-soaked services, stripped of the raucousness that characterizes the […]
JReady: Jewish Agency program helping communities amid COVID and beyond
January 22nd, 2021 Awake Goy ‘All Jews are responsible for one another.” In a typical year, such a sentence might sound a bit trite and overused. But after a year of living through a pandemic, these words ring truer than ever for Jewish communities around the world. For the first time in decades, Jewish communities everywhere have been confronted with […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: agency, communities, covid, helping, Jewish, jready, program No Comments »Gantz gets Netanyahu to delay effort to legalize six West Bank communities
January 19th, 2021 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Views: 0
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu Tags: communities, delay, effort, gantz, legalize, netanyahu! No Comments »During Civil Rights Era, Native American Communities In The South Armed Themselves Against The KKK
January 10th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Charlie Warriax (left) and Simeon Oxendine (right) bear a captured KKK banner. Courtesy of the Charlotte Observer Photograph Collection, Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. This essay draws on research that appears in The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle, University of North Carolina Press, Fall 2018. This story was originally shared in […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: american, civil, communities, during, native, rights, south No Comments »History of the JCPA – “Jewish Communities Had Very Little Influence In The US”
January 9th, 2021 Awake Goy “For over 75 Years, JCPA has been the organized Jewish community’s primary convener and consensus-builder, community relations powerhouse, and policy advocate. JCPA is a network of 125 Jewish Community Relations Councils (JCRCs) and 16 Jewish national agencies, and the only body that represents the four denominations of religious Judaism. Together, we and our network advocate […]
American Communities Are Installing Affordable Municipal Broadband — Is Yours?
December 31st, 2020 Awake Goy American Communities Are Installing Affordable Municipal Broadband — Is Yours? Activist Post / Activist Post By B.N. Frank A group of telecom experts who call themselves “The Irregulators” are among the many organizations that have filed lawsuits against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for failing to protect Americans from the telecom industry. The good news […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: affordable, american, broadband, communities, installing, municipal, yours No Comments »Project to support ecotourism, local communities in Gwadar Bay
December 24th, 2020 Awake Goy TEHRAN – A new initiative seeks to expand ecotourism and consequently to empower local communities across Gwadar Bay, which is home to wetlands and pristine natural landscapes. “A community-based ecotourism project is ready to be implemented across Gwadar Bay to empower local communities in a way they enjoy the economic benefits generated from tourism activities,” […]
I’m a Black Jewish Communal Leader. I Know We Can Make Our Communities Welcoming.
December 19th, 2020 Awake Goy The racial justice protests that swept across the country this past summer has prompted the American Jewish community to reckon with the racial disparities that exist inside and outside of our communities. My own life has been a masterclass in understanding these tensions. When I was two, I was adopted. Two years later, my adoptive […]
Jewish communities on high alert over threat of retaliation from Iran
December 1st, 2020 Awake Goy The assassination last week of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh generated a furious rhetorical response from the country’s leadership, with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani both threatening revenge for the killing.But although the threats were made primarily against Israel, or “the Zionists” as the Jewish state is known in Tehran, Jewish communities in […]
Jews of Africa: Communities you likely know nothing about
November 26th, 2020 Awake Goy Black Lives Matter. We in Israel may not like some of the things the BLM movement stands for, but I would like to think that there are none among us who would deny the essence of its supposition. I would also like to think we are similarly inclined towards Jewish Black lives, but of that […]
Coronavirus Israel live: Israel declares some Arab communities restricted areas
November 21st, 2020 Awake Goy Israel, the West Bank and Gaza are dealing with a renewed coronavirus outbreak, leading to proposals and measures intended to curb its spread and mitigate the economic ramifications of the crisis by both Israeli and Palestinian authorities. Israel currently has 8,454 active cases; 2,742 people have died. In the West Bank, there are 6,428 active […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: areas, communities, coronavirus, declares, israel, restricted No Comments »US elections: Irish communities linked to Trump and Biden show their colours ahead of vote
November 3rd, 2020 Awake Goy As Americans wait with bated breath to find out the winner of this week’s US elections, two Irish communities share their enthusiasm to learn the result. Doonbeg and Ballina support incumbent Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden respectively, but for rather different reasons. Residents in Doonbeg, County Clare are firmly in the Trump […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: biden, communities, Elections, irish, linked, their, Trump No Comments »Several pro-Trump rallies planned in Orthodox Jewish communities, including one featuring a Trump aide
October 25th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Views: 0
Posted in Jewish News Tags: communities, Jewish, orthodox, planned, rallies, several, Trump No Comments »Pro-Trump rallies planned in Orthodox Jewish communities ahead of US election
October 24th, 2020 Awake Goy JTA — There may be virtually no chance that Donald Trump could win New York State in the presidential election. But that’s not stopping his Orthodox Jewish supporters from coming out to show their support. This Sunday, at least four pro-Trump rallies are being organized in Orthodox Jewish communities across the New York area this […]
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