B’nai B’rith Leadership Forum 2016
Captions by Sam Seifman On the first day of the B’nai B’rith Leadership Forum, B’nai B’rith International President Gary P. Saltzman gave the annual State of the Organization speech. “We are...
December 12, 2016
From the Leadership Forum: Lodges Serving Their Communities
The B’nai B’rith Harvest Lodge collecting goods for Project H.O.P.E. By Sam Seifman At this year’s Leadership Forum, B’nai B’rith Vice President of Programming Rhonda Love...
December 12, 2016
Israel’s H2O Miracle: Getting Water from a Stone…or the Sea
Oz Ben-David, Research and Development Manager of Moshvei Ha’negev Ltd., stands at the Tirach water reclamation facility in the Negev. By Michele Chabin The stench was at first overpowering at the...
December 12, 2016
American Jewish And Greek American Organizations Welcome Second Trilateral Summit
B’nai B’rith International, The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (Order of AHEPA), American Hellenic Institute (AHI) and Conference of Presidents of Major American...
December 12, 2016
The Jewish Agricultural Movement: Planting the seeds for future farmers
Farmers harvesting potatoes at the Woodbine Agricultural School. By Cheryl Kempler Escaping pogroms, denied their civil rights and starving from famine in the late 19th century, millions of Russian...
December 12, 2016
Uncovering UNRWA: An Exception to the Rule
Window shopping at the Wihdat refugee area in Amman, Jordan. By Uriel Heilman There’s little to distinguish the Palestinian refugee camp of Al-Wihdat, in the southeast corner of the Jordanian...
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 12, 2016
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 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...