E.U. Election Results: A First Analysis
The dust has settled, and final votes are in. First off, the good news: Election participation was over 50 percent, the highest in over 20 years, and the much-feared landslide victory of...
Category: Expert Analysis
Read expert analysis blogs on topics relevant to the Jewish community from B'nai B'rith staff.
June 3, 2019
Evelyn Brazelton, the Face and Story Behind HUD Senior Housing
Throughout my time working at B’nai B’rith, I have had the opportunity to tour a majority of our sponsored senior housing properties around the country. Recently, I visited B’nai...
May 30, 2019
Culture and Cuisine: Happenings from All Over
Beth Lipman (b. 1971): One and Others, 2011. Glass, wood and silicone. Courtesy Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, Purchase R. H. Norton Trust through the exchange of other Trust properties,...
May 22, 2019
Two Diplomatic Initiatives For The Venezuelan Crisis
Venezuela, once Latin America’s richest nation, is today a devastated country. Its democratic system has been destroyed as a result of years of authoritarian rule and government corruption....
May 9, 2019
Legal Services Corporation Protecting Older Americans
As most people are aware, the United States Constitution ensures that everyone who is charged with a crime is provided an attorney. This legal right, which provides a basic level of fairness...
May 1, 2019
Thirty Years of Unto Every Person There is a Name
Cal State Northridge participates in the B’nai B’rith and AEPi Walk to Remember and Unto Every Person reading on Yom HaShoah Lists of names, sorted by country of origin. Columns that...
April 29, 2019
Anti-Semitism and the EU Parliamentary Elections
The upcoming European Parliament elections will be crucial. Amidst the chaos and confusion of Brexit, the established political parties, such as the center-right European People’s...
April 23, 2019
Passover Judaica From the B’nai B’rith Klutznick Collection
Manuscripts, diaries, Torah binders, menorahs, amulets, coins, notary stamps, wedding dresses, Yiddish theater playbills: all of these and much more, from nearly every country and every century, are...
April 18, 2019
Jewish Poland: It’s Complicated
Girgenti with Commissioner for Human Rights Adam Bodnar Until she was 28, Kasia Jachnicka thought she was Catholic. Like the majority of Polish citizenry, her family celebrated Christmas and Easter....