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At seder tables across the country this Passover, there will be an empty chair, not for the prophet Elijah, but for the Uyghur people.
Jewish groups protesting China’s ongoing genocide of the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples plan to take a page from the Soviet Jewry movement and ask Jews worldwide to include the Uyghurs in their prayers at the seder table next month – including placing an empty chair at the dinner table.
The groups, as part of a Uyghur Week of Action, will also distribute one-page inserts to be read during the seder linking the Biblical persecution of the Jews in Egypt to China’s persecution of the Uyghurs today, according to Justin Rudelson, a board member of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and the first American anthropologist to study the Uyghurs.
Did you know That Grenada Got Independence In Darkness? Did you know That Grenada Got Independence In Darkness? Friday, 05 February 2021 00:00 Written by David Allard (0 votes)
“OH GRENADA, LAND OF MY BIRTH. THE WAY YOU SUFFER, O HOW IT HURTS. THE TRIBULATION YOU HAVE TO BEAR WILL MAKE SUPERMAN WANT TO DESPAIR. BUT THE BLOOD OF OUR MARTYRS MUST NOT BE SHED IN VAIN, O NO, WE MUST RISE AND SHINE AGAIN.”
SONG BY THE BLACK WIZARD
The British Government was well aware that the country was in turmoil. A very minor member of the royal family replaced the member originally selected to be present on the night of 6th February 1974 to witness Grenada’s birth as a new nation. Special lighting had to be arranged for the ceremony on Fort George, as there was no electricity due to the general strike in progress.
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Our shul book club recently discussed one of the seminal works of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z”l,
To Heal a Fractured World. While we were only virtually in the same room, I could feel the inspiration during our discussion to truly live Rabbi Sacks’ teachings of responsibility to our community and to our world. Rabbi Sacks introduces his book by saying, “we are here to make a difference, to mend the fractures of the world, a day at a time, an act at a time, for as long as it takes to make it a place of justice and compassion where the lonely are not alone, the poor not without help; where the cry of the vulnerable is heeded and those who are wronge
Grenada: A conduit for NDP material
Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister, said that he had information that Grenada was the ‘transit’ for election material for the Opposition New Democratic Party.
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has fingered Grenada as being the conduit through which election material was funneled for the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP), in the November 5 general elections in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
This ‘charge’ was levelled by Dr. Gonsalves during an interview with Grenada’s THE NEW TODAY, as reported in that newspaper’s edition of December 19, 2020.
The newspaper further reported Dr. Gonsalves as saying that he had picked up the information for quite some time” that the election material was being stored in Grenada, and came quickly into St. Vincent via Bequia as soon as he announced the election date.