B’nai B’rith International

Working at B’nai B’rith over the past five years has been a very rewarding experience. In particular, my advocacy on legislative issues impacting older Americans, such as affordable housing and...

Two weeks after Yom HaShoah v’Hagvura (Israel’s Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day), the many speeches and events held on that solemn day across Israel still echo, even as the country...

I’ve just delivered this message to a group of Jewish communal representatives focused on high-level international interreligious dialogue. This past Shabbat’s Torah reading has special resonance for...

The first round of the presidential elections in Colombia will take place by the end of May and the runoff in mid-June. Colombia has been one of the closest friends of Israel in decades. Israel has...

Some years ago, before email and text messages, I was following up on a meeting notice with a phone call to one of the invitees for a program we were holding that week. The responses had been slow in...

“These explosions are all so terrible,” said Anna Churilyana, a blind 90-year old woman in Odessa, Ukraine. In the Washington Post story, “To evacuate or not? In Odessa, some older residents cannot...

Although the figure of Moses appears in a frieze at the Supreme Court and at the House of House of Representatives along with Moses Maimonides, Oscar Straus is still the only Jewish person whose...

The Isadore Garsek Lodge of B’nai B’rith in Fort Worth, Texas honored the Colleyville Police Department for its role in saving those taken hostage at Congregation Beth Israel earlier this year.

Helen Thornton and Margery Brown were in a relationship for 27 years. Together, they did things that most couples do. They bought a home, had a child and shared a bank account. Sadly, Brown died of...