Team Israel: An Underdog Story
It hardly mattered that few of the players representing Israel in the World Baseball Classic last month knew the Hebrew terms for balls and strikes. Nor did it cause concern that only two of them...
Tag: Jewish
August 30, 2016
Thinking about Programming: What is Important to You?
Most of my professional life has been spent creating and running programs for B’nai B’rith International, having spent the last 39 years as a member of the professional program...
July 8, 2016
As Terrorism Roils the World, U.N. Security Council Ballot Alters Landscape
Amid a fresh wave of terrorism in countries including the United States, Turkey, Bangladesh, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Israel – though all but the latter have been responded to...
May 19, 2016
With All Their Complexity, Catholic-Jewish Relations Help Show the Way
For more than a year now, the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council document Nostra aetate, on Catholic relations with other faiths, has been celebrated. Though lamentably still unknown...
April 14, 2016
Jewish Organizations Celebrate Jewish Culture Throughout Europe
Images of breathtaking architectural treasures photographed at sites across Europe draw the visitor into the website of the European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture...
March 27, 2016
Camara Testigo: Especial – David Fremd, el comerciante judío asesinado en Paysandú
The popular Spanish-language television show Camara Testigo on Teledoce ran a special on the anti-Semitic murder of Uruguayan-Jewish community leader David Fremd. Director of Latin...
January 14, 2016
The Cuban Jewish Relief Project: A Look Back at 2015
The Cuban Jewish Relief Project by B’nai B’rith on Exposure Sienna Girgenti is the Assistant Director for the International Center for Human Rights and Public Policy at...
October 19, 2015
Letter To USA Today On Palestinian Narrative vs. Presenting Facts
Daniel Mariaschin Biased media coverage of the murderous attacks against Jews in Israel continues. B’nai B’rith International Executive Vice President Daniel S. Mariaschin sent...
October 19, 2015
Regarding Israel, Most South American countries are biased too
Eduardo Kohn The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) has a real, biased treatment of issues relating to Israel. The light it shines on the Jewish state is particularly lopsided in...