Mishegas: Rene Cassin Fellowship, Shoah tattoos, NWU Chabad embroglio and more
- A new international human rights fellowship for young Jews is accepting applications, named for Rene Cassin, the Jewish co-author of the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
- A million unaffiliated Jews don’t need a synagogue to be actively Jewishly, says a study by the Workman’s Circle.
- Some young Israelis are tattooing their grandparent’s Nazi concentration camp numbers on their forearms. Larry Derfner says compared to Holocaust education trips, that’s nothing.
- Northwestern University dropped the local Chabad for giving alcohol to minors.
- After a petition by Israeli human rights NGOs, a judge issued a temporary injunction against Interior Minister Eli Yishai’s plan to mass arrest and incarcerate without due process 15,000 Sudanese asylum seekers starting October 15.
- Is Bnai Brith dying?
- Edgar Bronfman opines against Pamela Geller’s hate speech subway ads.
- Pro-circumcision Orthodox groups petitioned NYC health department against a new requirement that written parental consent be given before “mitzveh b’peh” is conducted.
- Mizrahi Jews who fled Arab countries may be refugees, says Daniel Haboucha, but their plight can’t be compared to that of Palestinian refugees.
Pro-circumcision Orthodox groups petitioned NYC health department against a new requirement that written parental consent be given before “mitzveh b’peh” is conducted.
Can we please get this right? It is “m’tzitzeh bpeh.” Not Mitzveh – this is an error that implies that m’tzitzeh b’peh is a commandment; it is not, it is a chumrah that has been added to the commandment of circumcision.
“Metzitzah b’feh”, actually. (In more ways than one.)