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the jewish museum, camden town (re-opened in march 2010) has been awarded the Sandford Award for Education 2012
the judge wrote "A visit to The J(...)"happygoldfish
"As I have said, publicity is good if done faithfully and the published is true and correct, it never hurts anybody especially in business and artists and so with the organizations whether non-profi(...)"DavidK
We're off to London for a couple of days tomorrow and plan on a trip down Golders Green road for some essential pre-Hanukkah shopping (ever tried finding hanukkiyah candles in between London and Manchester...?) and - of course - a visit to Grodzynski's, time-and-mogn-honoured purveyors of quite simply the very finest challah ever baked.
Earlier this month, I wrote a post on this very website in which I outlined my anger when Jeremy Paxman insisted on referring to the boarding of the Mavi Marmara by IDF commandos as an "attack" during the episode of Newsnight broadcast on the 2nd of June.
The BBC's flagship news and current affairs programme Newsnight demonstrated what appeared to be a blatant example of the anti-Israel bias of which the corporation is frequently accused last night (02.06.10) when presenter Jeremy Paxman repeatedly referred to the IDF's boarding of the "aid ship" Mavi Marmara as an "attack." The show in its entirety - including excellent features on life inside Gaza and North Korea - can be seen here.
Shabbat shalom, all. According to the BBC, the British National Party have lost all twelve of the seats they previously held on Barking and Dagenham Council.
A very brief bit of research reveals that candidate Patricia Feldman Richardson is - apparently - ethnically Jewish, though she does not practise the faith.
Frankie Boyle - no stranger to controversy with his briefly-funny-but-becoming-tiresome brand of shock humour - is in the headlines after claiming that Israel is a terrorist state in a response to the BBC's decision to apologise for a joke the Scottish comedian made in which he claimed to be learning an Israeli martial art - "I know sixteen ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back," he said.
Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Catholic Archbishop of Honduras, says more about himself than the recent paedophilia scandals plaguing the Vatican and Catholic Church - the potential papal candidate, who may well stand a good chance of replacing Pope Benedict in the future, blames the Jews, and uses all-to-familiar antisemitic language to do so. He's been blaming the Jews since at least 2002.
When it comes to meaningful questions, "How is this night different from all other nights?" certainly takes some beating. It provokes deep thought on the meanings - obvious and not so obvious - of Pesach, is an excellent opportunity to begin explaining our history and traditions to young children and has been asked every year for thousands of years, which surely shows it has something.
One other question has been occupying me this year, but unlike "How is this night..." nobody has been able to answer it. That question is:
Conservative leader David Cameron promises "I will banish extremists from Britain," according to the JC's headline, going on to say that his party "...would never ally with a party we believed to be antisemitic, led by antisemites or with links to the far right."
My fiancee's mother, who is not Jewish - yes, I know, I'm marrying out - but whom has a lifelong love and appreciation of Judaism, Jewish people and Jewish culture dating from her friendship with children who came here as part of the Kindertransport, spent last week in Poland with a Polish work colleague who had offered an opportunity to stay for free with relatives. She planned to visit various sites of Jewish interest while there, including the remnants of the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz.
When I was a child, we didn't keep kosher at home - we drew the line at bacon but I have to admit to having eaten many a pizza topped with both cheese and meat and I can be held personally accountable for the deaths of many thousands of shellfish. In adulthood, as many people do, I became more interested in the faith of my ancestors and decided that I would, in future, keep kosher (I later gave up meat and then dairy, so it's easy nowadays).
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