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Chase Bank is considering constructing a bank building on the north side of Mills Civic Parkway adjacent to Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Brew, West Des Moines

Chase Bank is considering constructing a bank building on the north side of Mills Civic Parkway adjacent to Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Brew, West Des Moines

A Jewish librarian spied on New York Nazis in the 1930s February 10, 2021 12:56 pm From 1933 until about 1938, Florence Mendheim would travel to pro-Hitler meetings throughout New York City, sometimes at great personal risk. (Leo Baeck Institute/Florence Mendheim Collection of Anti-Semitic Propaganda) Advertisement (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — There is zero evidence that Florence Mendheim was the inspiration for Batgirl. But the real-life Jewish woman from the B...

Marty Rochester’s March 24 opinion piece, “Oy vey: The excesses of identity politics,” cries out for rebuttal on a number of fronts. Since I’m having trouble deciding whether I am, in Rochester’s words, a “garden-variety liberal” or a “left-wing extremist,” I’ll let other more astute readers…

Jewish Ledger WHAT’S HAPPENING – February 9 – March 18 Politics & Identity among Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews Joshua Shanes, PhD, associate professor of Jewish Studies and director of the Center for Israel Studies, College of Charleston, will discuss “A Growing Schism: Politics and Identity Among Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Jews,” on Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. The FREE webinar is sponsored by the Judaic Studies Program in collaboration with the Bennett Center for Judai...