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Poland was the only country in which, after the Nazis were defeated, local anti-Semites carried out a pogrom and murdered dozens of Jews.
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It’s unpleasant that the other side is hitting us with primitive weapons such as kites, but we must also understand that it’s all our enemies have left. we have faced and defeated far worse.
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The PA said it would file complaints against Israel at the International Criminal Court and U.N. Security Council.
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Members push to change the Israeli narrative, peddling lies not facts, including among youth at Jewish summer camp.
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PM Netanyahu leveled criticism at Culture Minister Miri Regev, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked for refusing to support expansion of an egalitarian prayer space at the holy site, said “I'll handle this” • Dozens of rabbis urge ministers to oppose “desecration” of Kotel.
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Ben's Best closed on June 30th, why are there so few Jewish delicatessens left in the Big Apple?
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"The next Labour government will recognize Palestine as a state as one step towards a genuine two-state solution..."
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Of the 365 attacks that occurred in the month of May, 271 involved firebombs.
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The terrorist group says the blocks were implemented “without prior warning.”
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Jewish buyers have expressed frustration at being restricted from purchasing land in Arab communities, as the tenders are offered solely to minority buyers.
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CardioScale, a portable arm cuff, detects a patient’s cardiovascular hemodynamic deterioration. The device is particularly indicated for use in group casualty events, when triage must be performed to save the maximum number of lives.
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Together with American troops IDF paratroopers parachuted down to the ground from aircraft and practiced seizing airfields and other targets.
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While young people were preparing for their flights to Israel, they were asked about certain issues and policies, with their answers recorded.
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Court: "What [the terrorist] did, though severe, is not unusual or extreme."
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The amateur musician claimed the Holocaust was “a bunch of lies” and referred to Auschwitz as a “theme park.”
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An ongoing discussion of how to present the nuances of Israel education at summer camps and to Jewish youth groups.
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The Russian request also places constraints on Syrian President Bashar Assad, who is dependent on Russia in his fight against the rebels.
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PA Football Association head Jibril Rajoub not only fails to get soccer’s world governing body to suspend Israel, but ends up facing disciplinary proceedings over his incitement against Israel.
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It will continue to reinforce pro-Zionist, pro-Israel perspectives at its summer camps, despite a request to push the "Palestinian" narrative.
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It is “unthinkable” that terrorist groups are allowed to use Twitter “to radicalize, recruit, incite and spread propaganda,” Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan tells Twitter’s CEO.
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The concert producer received a notice from the Spanish town, saying the decision was made for political reasons not to hold Israeli activities there.
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Farrakhan lost his verified status after tweeting last week about the “Satanic Jew and the Synagogue of Satan,” following a video rant with sexual innuendos about Jews.
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The excellent bilateral relations between Bulgaria and Israel could be deepened and developed in a number of sectors, said Netanyahu.
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“Ultimately, these textbooks are a major impediment to the possibility of peace. They deny young Palestinians the chance of a violence-free and peaceful future..."
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Panels and discussion emphasized on working together with the local Christian leadership in raising support for Israel.
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Israeli residents from Gaza border communities gathered in Kibbutz Or HaNer to plant dozens of trees, with the support of The Jewish National Fund, Keren Kayemet L'Yisrael (KKL).
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After apparent withdrawal, Hezbollah and Iranian fighters return “in regime vehicles and dressed in regular Syrian army uniforms,” rebel commanders tell The Wall Street Journal • Israel “is very much aware of basically everything happening in [its] backyard.”
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Students from Sharon region are helping excavate Byzantine-era site as part of a local initiative to spark an interest in history among youth.
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“Make it clear to all those opposed to the settlement enterprise: For every home that will be destroyed or threatened with destruction, many others will be built.”
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A U.S. Embassy official said the decision to host the celebration at “Airport City” was a practical one meant to account for weather, budget, and security considerations.
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At the University of Minnesota, where a pro-BDS resolution passed in March, J Street U refused to join pro-Israel groups in a campaign against the vote.
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The 90-year-old from Oregon was honored at a May 30 event, where he was introduced as a "hero of Israel and the Jewish people."
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One critic of Chabon’s address at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles said that the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist “was singing his own literary version of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine.’ The only trouble is John Lennon sang it better.”
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This week’s security escalation showed that something in the balance struck between Israel and Hamas has shifted.
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The court ruled that allowing multinational corporations to determine jurisdiction in cases involving customers posed a serious imbalance of power, regardless of the text of user agreements.
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The establishment of a new community is a message of Zionism and strength in the face of terrorism,” says Housing Minister Yoav Gallant.
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“Her behavior was gratuitous and outrageous,” said Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, East Coast regional vice president of the CJV, “and appeared to reflect a deep-seated animus towards Jewish observance. Her derision and forced, sarcastic laughter were completely outside the behavior expected of rational adults.”
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The government should resume targeted assassinations of terrorists, the public security minister says, after Gaza terrorists fire 130-plus mortars at Israeli border communities.
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Dan Propper, a 78-year-old Israeli Czech businessman, was named honorary consul.
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More than a dozen NGOs that promote anti-Israel boycotts have received some 5 million euros annually in European Union funding. In addition, an estimated several million more euros were channeled to boycott-promoting NGOs through third parties that receive E.U. assistance.
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Even if Mahmoud Abbas recovers and leaves the hospital, it is clear that he is living on borrowed time.
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In a deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems will provide the Romanian Romaero company with licensing and training to produce their own air-defense systems.
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Up to 22,000 workers in Israel’s defense industry could lose their jobs to the tune of a whopping $1.3 billion in annual losses as part of a clause linked to a military funding deal signed in 2016.
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Five exceptionally rare ancient coins from among the very first ever minted by Jews were discovered on the Temple Mount, evidence of Jewish activity at the Jewish holy site.
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“Haniyeh returned to Gaza, Hamas gave an order ... and miraculously, this spontaneous protest by a public that could not handle the situation any more dissipated.”
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The Egyptian official “made unequivocally clear to him (Haniyeh) that if this continues, Israel will respond and take far harsher steps, and Egypt will stand by and will not help,” Katz told Israel Radio.
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“Jews know what’s going on. We’ve heard the story too many times over the centuries; this is anti-Semitism.”
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The left-wing NIF non-governmental organization, which is headquartered in New York with offices in various countries, is a main financial backer of the delegitimization campaign against Israel by supporting various local Israeli-based NGOs that are often at odds with the state.
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Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales says his people believe that bringing their embassy back to Jerusalem “is the right step and the right thing to do.”
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“Coupled with Tel Aviv’s presence as a major high-tech and business center, and the strong tourism market in the city, the project fits perfectly with our global clientele,” said Nobu CEO Trevor Horwell.
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The video shows the reaction of Iranian lawmakers to President Trump's announcement that the US is withdrawing from the JCPOA.
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The report evaluated the tweet based on subjects ranging from Holocaust denial and anti-Semitic slurs to positive references to anti-Semitic figures, books and podcasts.
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MEMRI explained to YouTube it exposes anti-Semitism in the Arab and Muslim world, and its clips are there to provide informational infrastructure.
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The situation is raising eyebrows about the standards maintained during the hiring and vetting of professionals—or worse, that the federations and synagogues themselves are comfortable with BDS activists teaching at Hebrew schools.
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As Jews across Israel and around the world celebrated Lag B’Omer, Israeli authorities announced that they had found a symbol of the Shimon bar Kochba revolt against the Romans in the form of a small bronze coin.
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After 100 years of clashes, 70 years of conflict and a quarter-century since the Oslo Accords, which were supposed to have given the Palestinians peace and land of their own, it looks like they are losing the little they have managed to obtain.
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Chief Rabbi Lau responded on Tuesday that the best way to battle anti-Semitism is to immigrate to Israel, but that all Jews in Germany and throughout the Diaspora must continue to wear the kippah and other Jewish symbols.
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Israel’s only international airport fields 90 percent of entries to and exits from the country, and is expected to see more than 25 million arrivals and departures in 2019.
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Jews have been among the first to “virtue signal” their compassion for refugees from the Syrian civil war.
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The extraordinary gesture comes at the behest of U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, Channel 20 reports.
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The home of Ahmed Kunba, who was charged as an accomplice in the drive-by shooting murder of Rabbi Raziel Shevach outside of his town of Havat Gilad, was successfully demolished with a bulldozer.
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If it was in fact the work of Israel's Mossad, the assassination in Malaysia also serves as a warning to Israel's other enemies, chief among them Iran.
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“There are those who seek to extinguish the light that emanates from Zion. I promise you; it will not happen,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the largest celebration of statehood to date.
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Prior to the murder of 6 million Jews between 1939 and 1945, some 16,600,000 were spread throughout the world. Today’s data indicates that there are currently 14,511,000 Jews on Earth, a number similar to that in 1922.
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“Israel congratulates the National Congress of Honduras for passing with an overwhelming majority a resolution in favor of opening an Embassy in Jerusalem,” Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said on Twitter.
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Russia aside, it is clear that Israel is determined to continue undermining Iranian efforts to entrench itself militarily in Syria and transfer game-changing weapons to Hezbollah.
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If passed the legislation would grant money raised through donations to American schools as part of the Holocaust Education Assistance Program.
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The plan will include the expansion of pipelines for use in agriculture, and is intended to help Israel to rehabilitate dried-up rivers.
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From a military standpoint, Israel can say it marked a positive outcome. The turnout was far smaller than Hamas wanted—the terrorist group was aiming for 100,000 people—and the protesters were unable to rush or sabotage the border fence.
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Without issuing a comment, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, thereby leaving the lower court ruling standing.
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Europe is in the throes of extreme Jew-hatred and anti-Semitism, brought on by economic crises, societal unrest and a wave of immigration accompanied by Islamist propaganda.
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The total payment by the PA for 2018 is set at $355 million, which is 7.47% of its operation budget of $4.76 billion and some 44% of the funding the PA hopes to receive in foreign aid this year.
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The Israeli government controls up to 70 percent of the Palestinian Authority. Yet it chooses to continue allowing trade, and even making payments to the PA, despite the direct financial incentives the PA gives to terrorists who murder Jews. Simultaneously, Israel's Global Conference on Anti-Semitism almost entirely ignored the issue.
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The prince said that it is Russia's responsibility to "highlight the atrocious acts that the Iranian government perpetrates against its own people."
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The drop in food prices is particularly interesting given that net salaries have risen by three percent in the same time period.
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“No country in the history of the world ever contributed more to the welfare of humankind in such a short period of time than Israel,” affirms the longtime professor, lawyer and author, soon to turn 80.
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When Channel 1’s Cathy Bekerman was told by her newscast director to cross herself on air, “I did not do it, and he asked me to resign at that moment, to which I did not agree,” Bekerman told Colombian media.
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“Passage of the Taylor Force Act will give us much needed leverage with the Palestinians to push back on this outrageous policy,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
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Poznansky-Katz will now be tried in a special disciplinary court on “highly inappropriate” communications she conducted with a state prosecutor.
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“We should be able to pray and reflect on the history and culture, but you’re not allowed to do that as Jews and non-Muslims [on the Temple Mount]," said Rep. David B. McKinley (R-W.Va.).
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Poland is not alone in its efforts to separate itself from the Nazi atrocities. Other countries in Europe are working very hard to whitewash their long history of Jew-hatred.
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Civilian handguns are an essential component of Israel’s security apparatus, yet Barkat noted that “only 3 percent of the population carries guns, and those who have them know how to use them.”
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Reflecting on his first year in office in an interview President Trump said that his official recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was the pinnacle of his presidency so far.
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For the sake of the tens of millions of victims of the Holocaust, Jews and non-Jews alike, we must fight for Holocaust education, as the fate of our world, not to mention our humanity, may very well depend up on it.
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Report claims the City of David, and a planned cable car to bring tourists to the Western Wall are “a political tool to modify the historical narrative and to support, legitimize, and expand settlements."
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The OU has established parameters for a three-year period during which the umbrella body for American Orthodox congregations will work to bring its member synagogues who employ female clergy into compliance with OU standards, which stipulate that a woman cannot serve as a rabbi.
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85% of Iranians feel estranged from the regime, leaving it hollow and vulnerable. If this round of protests is quashed, as happened in 2009, the regime’s overthrow will be further delayed. But the counter-revolution is inevitable.
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There seems to be a tendency by many Jews to brush aside, downplay or even ignore Jew-hatred from some Muslims motivated by aggressive mosques or interpretations of Islam.
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The UN and the PA recently signed an accord promising that the U.N. will advise the PA how to hold Israel accountable for alleged violations of international law. The document will come into effect Jan. 1, 2018. Happy New Year!
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Add Jordan to the list of those who view the supposed reconciliation with concern and doubts.
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The rocket fire from Syria came amid a rare visit to Damascus by Iranian military chief Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, who, during his visit, signed a memorandum of understanding with his Syrian counterpart, calling to enhance the countries’ coordination against “Zio-American schemes.”
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The international community just gave the Good Housekeeping seal of approval to those who traffic in terrorism, by welcoming the Palestinian Authority into INTERPOL
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It's imperative for Jews always to ask: Am I still safe here? Jews around the world cannot be blind to the reality surrounding us. We cannot ignore the rising heat levels of anti-Semitism
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With big name rock concerts coming this summer--and the future-- to Israel, BDS movement’s cultural boycott of the Jewish state appears to be waning. Thanks Wonder Woman!
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From July 4-18, the Maccabiah Games will have the added significance of coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the reunification of this year’s host city, Jerusalem.
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"Thank you and shalom (hello). It is wonderful to be here in Israel,” Trump said. Those simple words and the historic nature of Trump’s visit were not lost on anyone in Jerusalem on this day.
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Fewer than half (nine) of the 21 MKs polled said they believe Trump will keep his election campaign promises to move the embassy.
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A new report on the implications of the wave of educational technology and digital engagement is designed to guide the Jewish community through this complex space.
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In a showcase of cutting-edge Israeli innovation, famed lawyer and Israel advocate Alan Dershowitz took to the stage at the annual AIPAC Policy Conference and literally pulled water out of thin air.
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Commenting on Kerry’s speech, Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon said the Obama Administration “acted against Israel at the U.N., and any claim to the contrary is a distortion of reality.”