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More than 20 cars and buildings in a Jewish community in north London were vandalized with swastikas. The Nazi symbol was drawn on approximately 27 cars in the Osbaldeston Road area of Stoke Newington on Sunday night, The Daily Mail reported. An unnamed 32-year-old man was arrested in connection with the vandalism Tuesday. The neighborhood […]
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New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind called on the Jewish community to attend the funeral of an assassinated New York police officer. “The brave men and women of the NYPD risk their lives every day to protect us. We value them and stand with them,” Hikind, a Democrat who represents Brooklyn, said in a statement […]
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“Move Jew” scrawled on a Philadelphia home and slurs written on a synagogue and 10 garages in Chicago.
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The Nazis nearly destroyed the 17th synagogue.
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Argentina’s president Christina Fernandez has accepted an official Jewish godson for the first time in the country’s history to help counter legend of death to a seventh son. She described in seven tweets her meeting with her new godson, Yair Tawil, a member of a Chabad-Lubavitch family. He was adopted as a godson under a […]
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A fundraising campaign started quietly by two first graders two years ago to help find a cure for a rare genetic disease just passed the $1 million mark.
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Hebrew University will give its students the day off on Christmas for the first time ever. There will be no classes on Thursday, Dec. 25, a new vacation day on the university calendar. The students also had off on Sunday for Hanukkah. The university also has declared a vacation day for and placed on its […]
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Just imagine the uproar if it was exposed that the Mossad told agents how to get past US security?
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Oscar-winner “Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport” has been selected for permanent preservation in the Library of Congress by the National Film Registry. The film, released in 2000, documents the rescue of some 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi-dominated Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia in the months leading up to World War II. […]
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“It was crucial to my survival knowing that I was not forgotten.“
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Jeb Bush announced his intention to “actively” explore the presidency in a Christmas and Hanukkah greeting message. “Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!” the former Florida governor Bush said in a Facebook message posted Tuesday. He described conversations he had with his family over Thanksgiving. “As a result of these conversations and thoughtful consideration of the […]
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Swastikas were found spray-painted on a Tufts University building for the third time in nearly two years. The latest swastikas were found Saturday morning on the back wall of the Lewis Hall dormitory on the Somerville, Mass., campus, Boston.com reported. In June, swastikas were found on the university’s Granoff Family Hillel Center. In April 2013, […]
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The ‘homely’ ancient rock, discovered in 1993, adds evidence of King David’s existence.
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Sotloff, a grandson of Holocaust survivors, made aliyah in 2005.
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Jewish communities in Australia remained under lockdown as a hostage crisis continued at a café in Sydney. The Community Security Group, which handles security for the Jewish communities of Australia, raised the threat level to severe on Monday after an apparent Islamist gunman entered a café in downtown Sydney and took dozens of hostages, the […]
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Anti-Semites always are around to remind Jews to be scared.
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A Golden Globes award will help women still chained by obstinate husbands.
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The ban was ruled unconstitutional by the narrowest of margins in a 5-4 vote.
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Vice President Joe Biden will assist in the lighting this year of the Hanukkah menorah on the ellipse in front of the White House. Biden’s participation on Dec. 16, the first night of the holiday, marks the 35th anniversary of the first lighting of the “National Menorah,” an event sponsored by American Friends of Lubavitch, […]
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At least a dozen headstones were desecrated and upended at a Jewish cemetery in Santiago del Estero, an Argentine city of nearly 250,000 and located about 620 miles northeast of Buenos Aires. The attack, which is believed to have occurred over the weekend, was discovered on Monday by a cemetery worker. “Photos were scattered and […]
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Prof. Jan Grabowski of the University of Ottawa in Canada was awarded the 2014 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research for his book memory of Holocaust survivor Abraham Meir Schwarzbaum and his family members who were murdered in the Holocaust. His book “Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland” […]
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Gal Mekel, the second Israeli to play in the NBA, has signed with the New Orleans Pelicans. Mekel played for the Pelicans on Saturday in a 120-100 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, a day after his signing was announced. He missed his four shots and went scoreless, but the 6-3 point guard handed out […]
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A 10-year-old Brooklyn Haredi girl was killed and her mother, nine months pregnant, was injured when they were hit by a minivan while crossing the street in the Borough Park neighborhood. The mother, Sarah Friedman, was taken to the hospital, where she delivered a healthy baby girl — her fifth child — on Tuesday night. […]
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A student at the Torat Haim yeshiva near Moscow was badly beaten outside the yeshiva.
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It's not even safe to be thought you are Jewish these days.
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American-Jewish contractor Alan Gross completed his fifth year in prison in Cuba on Tuesday, one-third of a 15-year prison term for “crimes against the state, and his wife fears he will not survive much longer. Gross, 65, of Potomac, Md., was leaving Cuba when he was arrested in December 2009 for setting up Internet access […]
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The Chinese government has agreed to send two giant pandas to the Haifa Zoo if Chinese panda experts agree that the conditions there will be appropriate for the animals, according to Haaretz. The conditions include providing the appropriate food, a certain kind of bamboo, and the zoo must also build a special habitat for the […]
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Pollard opted for asylum – and ended up in jail.
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It will be harder to “never forget” when the survivors and the butchers no longer are alive.
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The time has come for the Tigers to start looking for a rabbi and chazan.
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He explains he was just following that other people were doing. Sound familiar?
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The Gurlitt Museum promises all looted art will be returned to the rightful owners.
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The documents, some of which were also found in a deserted apartment in Jerusalem, reportedly had belonged to a member of the prosecution team.
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Only 49 US States have a Chabad House. Is this holding back the Moshiach?
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The Netherlands will not recognize Palestinian statehood right now because it would not help restart peace talks with Israel, Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders said.
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The task force will aim at keeping Americans from joining ISIS and other radical Muslim murder gangs.
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Her tweet proves a baroness can be a twit.
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Charley Levine, a top public relations professional in Israel and well known in Ango-Israeli circles, has died.
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New York police have arrested a 23-year-old Brooklyn man was arrested for assaulting an Orthodox Jewish couple in Manhattan this summer. A police department spokesman confirmed to JTA that Mustafa Mashni was charged with assault, as first reported on the Jpupdates website. The victims, in their 20s, were walking on the Upper East Side at […]
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A Canadian university professor was charged in Paris on Saturday in the deadly 1980 synagogue bombing in Paris that killed four and injured more than 40. The arraignment of Hassan Diab came hours after he arrived in Paris after being extradited from Canada following a six-year fight to prevent it. Canada’s Supreme Court last week […]
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The summer war between Israel and Hamas released an explosion of online anti-Semitic hate speech in several European countries, an international watchdog reported.
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“Operation ‘Hospitals of Hope’ is an integral part of the vision of MASHAV and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel of helping nations in need, including nations without diplomatic relations with Israel.
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The lab will operate in both Israel and New York, and will allow researchers to explore technologies in areas including communication and coordination, food and wellness, education and safety, and information and entertainment.
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The German envoy has a perverse version of “never forget.”
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Illinois police found thousands of rounds of ammunition in the house of the suspect.
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The Beth Din of America, one of the preeminent rabbinic courts of North America, is preparing to add a female board member, Dr. Michelle Friedman, the founder and chair of the Department of Pastoral Counseling at New York’s Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT). Founded in 1999, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah is a modern Orthodox rabbinical seminary that […]
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Another old-school New York Jewish institution is about to fall victim to gentrification.
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Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed recently that there would be no ban on religious slaughter in the United Kingdom.
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Cairo, which is creating an eight-mile buffer zone, discovered the tunnels using satellite imagery.
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The website went live Sunday and joins existing pages in Arabic, French, Russian, Turkish, Chinese and Spanish.
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A member of Russia’s Human Rights Council slammed a news website that said that nearly a quarter of Russia’s top billionaires are Jews.
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Reform and Conservative day school enrollment is down sharply.
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The book should make Jews in America fell a little bit queasy, to say the least.
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The bill would take power away from the Haredi Chief Rabbis but but does not authorize non-orthodox conversions.
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Student groups hosted at least 374 anti-Israel events during the 2013-2014 academic year, with about 40 percent of them focused on how to initiate Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns on campus.
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Israel’s ambassador to Jordan suggested that King Abdullah’s recent rants against Israel stems from pressure by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt.
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“God is trying to wake us up,” said the grandfather.
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The indictment is against a Holocaust survivor.
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The mortar, which hit Israel on Tuesday morning, did not cause any injuries or damage.
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Leslie W., 48, and his partner Akiwa H., 56, are charged with having sold more than 88,000 pounds of non-kosher meat for a marked-up price.
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New York State Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz criticized the decision to not charge the suspect with a hate crime.
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Former White House official Ron Klain has been tapped to coordinate the government’s response to the Ebola outbreak.
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Even more shocking is that Jews insist on remaining in France.
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Two Penn State students who pleaded guilty to spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on a mostly Jewish fraternity house were sentenced to community service and probation. Eric Hyland, 20, was sentenced last week in Centre County Court to 200 hours of community service and two years’ probation, and was ordered to pay $6,000 restitution. Last month, Hayden […]
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A Methodist who practices Buddhism, this will be the first time he portrays a Jew.
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The official exchange rate is one dollar per point.
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A “wandering Sukkah” catches up with wandering Jews.
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It was later determined that the device, an empty can connected to a cell phone, was a fake.
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Anti-Israel thug proves once again how not to achieve co-existence.
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He admits he should have used nicer words to say the same thing.
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The “perfect” etrog actually has one big non-Halachic blemish – it is not grown in Israel.
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Today’s hijab ban could be tomorrow’s kippa ban.
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A simple solution for Haredi demands would be separate planes.
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For diehard Jewish fans of “The Simpsons,” a Mourner’s Kaddish will be in order at this weekend’s Yom Kippur services.
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Jews are becoming as safe in France as they are in Iraq, Yemen and Syria.
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Argentina trusts Iran more than it trusts Jews.
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Obama devoted only 78 words at #UNGA to greatest threat to world peace, the #Iran nuclear threat; 1,540 words to #ISIS
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The “second Exodus” from Egypt is almost complete.
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The ISIS spokesman issued a statement that said the coalition led by the United States against ISIS was the “final campaign of the crusaders.”
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A seniors’ tennis team from New York is going to a court of law to keep from playing a tournament on Shabbat.
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For the record, Jewish law allows you only to hear on shofar at a time on Rosh HaShanah.
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New York City police are investigating the distribution of fliers marked with swastikas in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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This happened in Britain in 2014, not in Germany in 1939.
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Anti-radical Islam begins to trump anti-Semitism.
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Search warrants unsealed in Quebec allege that the Haredi Lev Tahor sect trafficked in human cargo and committed other abuses. The documents also reveal that Interpol and Israel helped build the criminal case against the group before its 250 members fled to Guatemala in March with leader Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans. The list of charges in […]
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Free speech on on the Ohio U. campus is restricted to anti-Zionists.
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There still is hope for intelligent life on the anti-Israel campuses.
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Just what we don’t need is some amateur, even if he is right, making headlines with a claim that Jack the Ripper was a Jew.
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Greek police officers are among those who support the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party.
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Check back in nine months to find out if rocket attacks have the same effect.
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Sotloff, who grew up in Miami, made aliyah in 2005 and studied foreign relations at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.
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Maybe Abbas should accuse Lady Ga-Ga of incitement for saying “Shalom.”
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Cantor can thank his defeat to a Tea Party candidate for leading him to more lucrative and stable career.
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BDS will be claim victory, but the truth is that a logistics would be a major factor if SodaStream leaves Maaleh Adumim.
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Mixing the Haredi Lev Tahor cult with a bunch of fiercely religious Roman Catholics is a recipe for dynamite.
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If Israel would just not exists, and if Jews would stop being Jewish, there would be no anti-Semitism in the world.
