London Mayor Condemns Assault of Orthodox Jewish Man
Video footage of the attack, which occurred on August 18, shows a man dressed in Islamic paraphernalia punching the Jewish man in the face as they are about to walk by each other on the street.
Video footage of the attack, which occurred on August 18, shows a man dressed in Islamic paraphernalia punching the Jewish man in the face as they are about to walk by each other on the street.
For three decades now, the American Jewish Reform movement has considered as Jewish the child of a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother who is raised as a Jew. But most Reform Jews in the rest of the world still do not accept “patrilineal descent.”
We stood on Sukkot amid the Darfur refugee camps in eastern Chad along the Sudanese border: two prominent Reform rabbis, Rabbi David Stern of Temple Emanu-El in Dallas and Rabbi Rick Jacobs of Westchester Reform Temple in New York; John Fishel, president of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, who is deeply knowledgeable about Africa, and Ruth Messinger, president of the American Jewish World Service (AJWS), which organized the trip and does such effective development work worldwide.