What do we talk about when we talk about B’nai B’rith?
I am a very sentimental person. I have trouble throwing things away that are important to me. So, I was not surprised to find a folder with thank you notes and art work from my daughter’s...
December 12, 2016
A Lifetime Commitment to Judaism, and a Bequest to B’nai B’rith
By Sam Seifman On the first Friday night of September 1971, Emily Hoffman (née Weinstein) attended Shabbat services at UMass Amherst’s B’nai B’rith Hillel...
December 9, 2016
Jerusalem Post: The Castros, communism and kashrut: A slow resurgence for Cuba’s Jews
The Jerusalem Post posted an article on the Cuban Jewish community and the effects of increased travel to the island in recent years. B’nai B’rith International’s efforts to...
December 9, 2016
Kirk Douglas – Still Fighting The Good Fight
In 2007 B’nai B’rith Magazine published a Q&A with actor Kirk Douglas, which had him discussing memoir, the role of Judaism in his daily life, his humanitarian work and breaking the...
December 8, 2016
B’nai B’rith Commends Germany’s Christian Democratic Union For Opposing BDS
B’nai B’rith International has issued the following statement: B’nai B’rith International strongly commends German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian...
December 8, 2016
A Potential Breakthrough in Defining Anti-Semitism
A high-level international gathering in Hamburg, Germany this week will focus attention on one of the greatest challenges in the global fight against anti-Semitism: Establishing a clear...
December 7, 2016
The Problem with the UN’s International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Last week, the United Nations marked its International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, a day created by the U.N. to further promote the continuing Palestinian narrative of victimhood...
December 6, 2016
Neither An Exception, Nor An Accident
Nov. 29, 1947 is a date the United Nations should always remember as a day of serious accomplishment of the principles on which it was founded. This was the day Resolution 181 established the Jewish...