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Enslavement of Africans and the University of North Carolina’s commencement address of 1832 William Gaston was a prominent North Carolina attorney, judge, and University of North Carolina trustee From its beginnings, the university community debated the nature of slavery. As early as 1807, the Dialectic Society argued the question: “Ought slavery to be abolished in […]

Thomas Bach has been elected the next president of the International Olympic Committe (IOC) His appointment has sparked concern from Jewish groups as the new Olympic chief heads a German-based organization that helps companies guarantee their products do not contain anything from Israel. Deutsche Welle Favorite Thomas Bach has succeeded Jacques Rogge to become the […]

Black African Jews immigrate to Israel Haaretz The last 450 immigrants from Ethiopia landed in Israel on Wednesday afternoon, ending a 30-year national project. However, hundreds or even thousands of others remain in a camp in Ethiopia, as Israel has refused to let them in. Wednesday’s landing completed the effort’s final stage, which consisted of […]

Eritrea: 20 years of freedom? Deutsche Welle Two decades after gaining independence from Ethiopia, Eritrea still has some growing pains to overcome. As its youth opt to flee mandatory military service, 20 percent of the country’s population now live in exile. At a lookout point just outside Eritrea’s capital, Asmara, children run around playing and […]

Israel set to approve over 900 new settlement homes in West Bank Civil Administration is expected to okay 732 units in Modi’in Ilit; some isolated settlements to be retroactively approved after construction stopped by a High Court of Justice injunction. By Chaim Levinson Haaretz The Civil Administration’s Supreme Planning Council is to meet Wednesday morning […]

World Jewish Congress begins in Budapest  Xinhua BUDAPEST- The World Jewish Congress (WJC) got underway in Budapest on Sunday evening with a gala dinner addressed by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and WJC President Ronald Lauder. The meeting was opened by Lauder, who thanked the Hungarian prime minister for his presence. He pointed out that […]

Holocaust Remembrance Memorial Day   Associated Press JERUSALEM — Israel dedicated its annual memorial day for the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust to mark 70 years to the Warsaw ghetto uprising, a symbol of Jewish resistance against the Nazis in World War II that resonates deeply in Israel to this day. At the […]

Jewish History March 31, 1492 (Easter Sunday March 31, 2013) The Spanish monarchy turned on the Jews In 1492, the Spanish monarchs gave the Jews 4 months to convert or leave By David B. Green Haaretz On March 31, 1492, the joint monarchs of Spain, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile, […]

Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI together at Castel Gandolfo By Nicole Winfield and Paolo Santalucia Associated Press CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy— The two men in white embraced and showed one another the deference owed a pope in ways that surely turned Vatican protocol upside down: A reigning pope telling a retired one, “We are […]

Italian-Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio becomes Pope Francis I Argentinian cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the first ever pope from the Americas in the history of the Catholic Christian Church, taking the papal name of Francis I IANS VATICAN CITY- Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina was Wednesday night elected the Catholic Church’s the 266th Pope. […]