Berman’s Flags and Embroidery began in 1947, as Israel ramped up its fight for independence.
It manufactures flags for countries and municipalities, who require their flags to be made in Israel — not China, like so many Israeli flags on the market.
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Read more about Israel's oldest flag company on #YomHaatzmaut.
Israel’s flag has taken on new meaning as a symbol of the protests against the government’s proposed judicial overhaul.
“It’s a symbol that had been hijacked for way too long by the right,” said Roy Rob. “Now it’s being democratized again.”
Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., says that when American Jews fret over Israel’s proposed judicial overhaul, they do so with an incomplete understanding of just how much the country has changed in 75 years.
When his daughter’s best friend asked Rabbi Elliott Cosgrove why there is an Israeli flag on the bimah of his synagogue, he was caught flat-footed.
In a new essay, he tries to convince her and others that Israel is indeed core to Jewish identity today.
https://forward.com/opinion/544299/zionism-anti-zionism-jews-israel-young-gen-z/
Yousef Bashir, a Palestinian American author and graduate student, has watched the mass anti-government protests in Israel with mixed emotions.
https://forward.com/opinion/544144/israel-judicial-overhaul-gaza-occupied-yousef-bashir/
Harry Belafonte once boasted of being “the most popular Jew in America” because he helped popularize “Hava Nagila.”
It was just one of many ways in which his life and career dovetailed with Judaism.
A rare genetic disorder that disproportionately affects Ashkenazi Jews is also a safeguard against tuberculosis, a new study shows.
That discovery could explain a longstanding scientific mystery.
https://forward.com/news/544585/gauchers-disease-tuberculosis-study/
A pregnant woman wondered if her son can still be Jewish if he’s not circumcised.
Our Bintel Brief advice column consulted rabbinic, medical and biblical sources for guidance.
Check out our Irene Katz Connelly’s five books you should be reading this month.
🐁 Tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews descended on a small Hungarian town to mark the yahrtzeit this week of Rabbi Yeshaya Steiner, a leader believed to hold miracle powers of healing and cleaning.
(His photo is thought to be an omen for keeping away mice.)
🎵 A group of authors is calling on Austria to rewrite some of its state anthems, which were written by composers with Nazi allegiances.
But critics are accusing them of “canceling history.”
🎤 A court ruled on Tuesday that a May 28 Roger Waters concert can go on, after the city of Frankfurt tried to cancel the show calling the former Pink Floyd frontman “one of the most widely known antisemites in the world.”
🏫 A swastika was carved into the ground near a grassy quad on the campus of Dartmouth University last week.
A public menorah on the New Hampshire campus was vandalized in 2020.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2023/04/swastika-found-on-green
🎭 There’s going to be a new film adaptation of 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.'
🎥 Our Yiddish editor, Rukhl Schaechter, teaches us how to say various words related to Israel in honor of Yom Ha’atzmaut.
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