February 2016
FILM FEST: On the Big Screen
Center for Jewish Culture’s Jewish Film Festival Opens 26th Year
February 2016
- Julie Menin wants to be a bridge in the Mamdani eraJulie Menin, the newly-elected speaker of the New York City Council, understands the significance of becoming the first Jew to lead the city’s legislative body. “We live in a day with the first Muslim mayor of New York City and now the first Jewish speaker of the Council serving at the same time,” Menin, the... […]
- How an ‘all-American boy’ became a Mississippi synagogue arson suspectJACKSON, Mississippi — Parishioners pass under large banners reading “Embrace Diversity” and “Serve Others” as they file into Sunday mass at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church just north of town. The church is where Stephen Spencer Pittman, the 19-year-old arrested for starting a fire at Beth Israel Congregation, was confirmed and where his parents... […]