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The FIFA international soccer organization has ruled that Hungary must play a crucial game in an empty stadium because of “abhorrent” anti-Semitic chants by fans in a friendly game against Israel last August. The car-right Jobbik party plans to rally outside the stadium during the March 22 game to protest the ban, which the team […]
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John Galliano, the former Christian Dior fashion head who was fired after making anti-Semitic slurs in a Paris cafe, dressed as a Chasidic Jew at New York Fashion Week. Galliano, who was praised recently by the Anti-Defamation League for his efforts at rehabilitation, wore a long black coat, black top hat and high socks at […]
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A Canadian-born and naturalized orthodox doctor is the man behind the sudden prominence of South Carolina’s first black Republican Congressman, and now senator, in more than a century. The ascension of Tim Scott from the South Carolina statehouse to the U.S. House of Representatives -- and last December to the U.S. Senate -- is relatively […]
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Italian Jews, with input from Israeli leftists, are squabbling over a Jewish candidate for the country's parliament. Sharon Nizza, an Italian Israeli who is running in next week’s general elections, is a candidate for former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right People of Freedom Party. Fiamma Nirenstein, a Jewish member of the parliament and strong supporter […]
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President Obama pledged to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb and to "stand steadfast" with Israel in his State of the Union speech. "The leaders of Iran must recognize that now is the time for a diplomatic solution, because a coalition stands united in demanding that they meet their obligations, and we will do […]
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The Jewish Canadian singer Drake won a Grammy Award, his first, for Rap Album of the Year at the 55th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles. Also, the indie pop band ”fun.” won the Song of the Year with "We Are Young" and also was selected as Best New Artist. Its lead singer, […]
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Prosecutors in Siberia reportedly have indicted a Russian citizen of inciting to violence against Jews and quoting texts by Adolf Hitler. The Russian news agency Interfax reported on Monday that the 65-year-old man from Minusinsk in the Krasnoyarsk region was the founder of an anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi cell called "Minin and Pozharski People's Militia." Since 2011, […]
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All streams of Judaism are churning out new versions of prayer books faster than they can find homes for old ones, leaving burial as the only solution. Jewish law forbids throwing out books containing the name of God. Prayer books are becoming outdated so quickly that there is a glut on the market, and there […]
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The president of the AMIA (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) Buenos Aires Jewish center said the truth commission agreed to by Argentina and Iran "will allow a third bombing in Argentina." “This pact is viewed by some people as a step forward. This may be a step to the precipice," Guillermo Borger said. "It will allow a […]
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Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam have donated $50 million to the Adelson Education Campus in Las Vegas for the benefit the campus' three Jewish day schools, serving some 600 students ages pre-school to high school. The Adelson campus was modeled after the RealiSchool in Haifa, which Miriam Adelson attended for 12 years. […]
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In 1971, Hartman and his wife Bobbi and their five children, made aliyah to Israel with plans to establish an institute for Jewish studies in Israel
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For the second time in a month, vandals desecrated Jewish graves in Tunisia. Unidentified individuals smashed and overturned ten grave stones in Kef, in western Tunisia, according to the Tunisia News Network. An earlier incident in the coastal Tunisian town of Sousse left more than 68 Jewish graves ransacked and looted two weeks ago, according […]
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Badawi neither retracted nor apologized for her inaccurate tweet.
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Anti-Semitic incidents in Britain rose 5 percent over the previous year, making 2012 the third highest number of incidents on record. The Community Service Trust, British Jewry's security unit, reported Thursday that there were 640 reported anti-Semitic incidents, compared with 608 in 2011. Some 100 of the incidents were reported as part of a new […]
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The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign against SodaStream could hurt Palestinian Authority Arabs more than the company. SodaStream markets a gadget that turns tap water into carbonated drinks, and its $3.7 million ad campaign during the Super Bowl spread the word while also aggravating BSD activists. One of its factories is located in “occupied” Maaleh […]
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France has decorated World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder with the order of officer of the Legion of Honor, the highest decoration in France. French President Francois Hollande called Lauder “a man of peace, of culture and of commitment” during Wednesday's ceremony at the Elysse Palace in Paris. "You travel the world, and you convey […]
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The New York Board of Rabbis will name Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera “Man of the Year” and will award him a free trip to Israel. Rivera, the record-holder for most career saves, was chosen because of his philanthropic efforts and extensive relief work for Panama through his church, said Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, the executive vice […]
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A correspondent for the Financial Times apologized for suggesting that Israel may have bribed Bulgaria to frame Hezbollah. “Sincere apologies and regret for ill-conceived tweet yesterday about Israel and Bulgaria,” Borzou Daragahi, the London-based newspaper's Middle East and North Africa correspondent, wrote Wednesday on Twitter. The previous day Daragahi had tweeted, “I don't doubt Hezbollah/Iran […]
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Richard Herman, who died last November at the age of 100, left $28 million to the Greater Washington social service agency Family Matters. Tonya Smallwood, the president and CEO of Family Matters, at a news conference Wednesday called the bequeathal one of the largest donations ever received from a single donor to a D.C. social […]
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A correspondent for the Financial Times apologized for suggesting that Israel may have bribed Bulgaria to framed Hizbullah. “Sincere apologies and regret for ill-conceived tweet yesterday about Israel and Bulgaria,” Borzou Daragahi, the London-based newspaper's Middle East and North Africa correspondent, wrote Wednesday on Twitter. The previous day Daragahi had tweeted, “I don't doubt Hezbollah/Iran […]
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The Orthodox Union board reportedly has opted for a consensus candidate, Martin Nachimson, to avert a showdown over its presidency. Nachimson, a senior vice president at the organization best known for running the largest kosher certifying operation in the world, is expected to be elected when the board meets next month in New York, The […]
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Two separate groups of French thugs mugged a young Jewish man wearing a Star of David, and a knife-wielding Muslim woman was arrested at the same Toulouse school where a terrorist killed four Jews last year. The woman was arrested, but the daylight attackers of Jewish man in Marseille fled after stealing an MP3 player […]
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IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz was awarded the Legion of Merit by the United States for meritorious military service. Gantz accepted the award on Tuesday during his five-day visit to the United States at the invitation of his U.S. counterpart, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey. On behalf of President Obama, […]
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Secretary of State John Kerry, fresh off his confirmation, spoke with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Also over the weekend, two top State Department officials dealing with Iran's nuclear threat said they would be stopping in Israel during overseas visits, and IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, was visiting Chairman of the Joint […]
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New York City will rename a subway station in memory of Edward Koch, the three-term mayor who died last week. U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) will announce Monday that the station at East 77th Street and Lexington Avenue will be renamed the Mayor Ed Koch Subway Station, the Associated Press reported. Koch represented the “Silk […]
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A British judge reportedly has accepted a U.S. rabbinical court’s ruling in a dispute between a haredi Orthodox man and his ex-wife.
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Some 100 imams will commemorate the Holocaust at a memorial monument near Paris. Monday's event is planned for Drancy, a suburb of the French capital where tens of thousands of Jews were confined in 1942 before being transported to extermination camps during the German Nazi occupation, according to a report in the French daily Le Figaro. The paper called […]
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The Jewish community of Warsaw is advancing plans to demolish one of its historical, ghetto-era buildings in favor of new offices that would replace the White House on Twarda Street with a 20-story building. A new center could accommodate more members during celebrations and on weekends for the community, which has tripled in size since […]
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Producing wine atop a tranquil mountain in a remote area of northern California is quite a way to make a living. For Benyamin Cantz, whose one-man operation in the hills of Santa Cruz produces kosher wine from organic grapes, it's also a calling. “I just love making wine and the holy concept behind it, and […]
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The Sunday Times of London apologized for publishing an editorial cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall on the bodies of Palestinians and using their blood as cement.
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Anti-Semitism in Hungary is causing an influx of Jewish immigrants to Austria, the head of Vienna’s Jewish community reportedly said. “I am pleased people are coming but the circumstances that force them to leave Hungary due to the political situation, due to anti-Semitism, don’t please me at all,” Oskar Deutsch, president of the Vienna Jewish […]
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A lawsuit alleging that Hebrew National foods are not strictly kosher has been dismissed. A U.S. District Court judge in Minnesota ruled Wednesday that because kosher is a religious standard, it is a subject for rabbinic debate – not a federal court ruling. “The definition of the word 'kosher' is intrinsically religious in nature, and […]
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President Obama mourned the passing of New York Mayor Ed Koch, noting among Koch's passions his love for Israel. "In public office and beyond, his energy, force of personality, and commitment to causes ranging from civic issues to the security of the state of Israel always informed and enlivened the public discourse," Obama said Friday. […]
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The Reform movement corralled a broad array of religious denominations to call into Congress on Monday and demand action on gun violence. Participant organizations in the "Faiths Calling" event organized by Reform's Religious Action Center include the Reform, Orthodox, Conservative and Reconstructionist streams, as well as mainline and evangelical Protestant, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Sikh […]
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Venezuela's secret service SEBIN is spying on the country's Jewish community, according to purportedly leaked documents recently posted online. Last week Analisis24, a right-leaning Argentinean news website, released 50 documents attributed to the Venezuelan intelligence agency containing private information on prominent Venezuelan Jews, local Jewish organizations and Israeli diplomats in Latin America. The papers include […]
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More than a dozen Israeli salesmen working at two shopping malls in Texas are facing deportation for overstaying their visas. Federal agents who raided the Galleria and Woodland malls in Houston near closing time on Jan. 23 arrested 13 Israelis and one Moldovan suspected of staying illegally in the country, the Houston Chronicle reported. The […]
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The cartoonist who depicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as building a wall on the bodies of Palestinians and using their blood as cement apologized for the timing of its publication. In a statement printed on his official website, Gerald Scarfe emphasized that "I am not, and never have been, anti-Semitic." He said the drawing, […]
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Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, who 18 years ago recognized the Holocaust-era complicity of some Dutchmen, has abdicated the throne after 33 years. Beatrix, who will celebrate her 75th birthday on Thursday, announced the abdication in favor of her eldest son, Prince Willem-Alexander. In 1995, Beatrix made the first official recognition by a Dutch head […]
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Leaders of the American Jewish Committee met with Jordan's King Abdullah II in Amman over the weekend to discuss political and strategic developments in the Middle East. The AJC Board of Governors’ 16-member delegation, headed by President Robert Elman, met separately with the king and three Jordanian Cabinet members. They also spoke with Jordanian business […]
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The cartoon published on Sunday, which was International Holocaust Memorial Day.
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi condemned fascist Italy’s anti-Semitic laws but said dictator Benito Mussolini’s regime also had carried out positive policies. “The fact of the racial laws was the worst fault of a leader, Mussolini, who in many other ways did well,” Berlusconi said in informal remarks to the media at the inauguration […]
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A Brazilian judge sentenced a man to 35 months in jail for giving Jewish students a Nazi salute and exposing his swastika tattoo.
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A panel of experts advised the Dutch government to return only one painting out of 189 claimed by relatives of a Holocaust-era art collector.
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Israel’s 2012 report on terrorist activity lists no Israeli fatalities in Judea, Samaria, or Jerusalem for the first time in four decades. The report, released Jan. 24 by Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet, says 1973 was the last year no such casualties were recorded. Attacks inside Israel claimed the lives of 10 Israelis in […]
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A panel of experts advised the Dutch government to return only one painting out of 189 claimed by relatives of a Holocaust-era art collector. The Advisory Commission on Restitution Requests, Cultural Goods and World War II asserted that descendants of the art collector Nathan Katz and his brother, Benjamin, failed to prove that the brothers […]
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On Friday, dozens of activists occupied the reception of the UEFA European soccer association in Nyon, Switzerland, to protest Israel's hosting of a championship. About 40 protesters carrying banners and placards, some critical of UEFA President Michel Platini, chanted slogans at the offices, according to the Associated Press. The protesters had come to demonstrate against […]
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The left-wing Jewish Forward’s Yiddish-language publication will shift to a bi-weekly print schedule. The Forverts, a 116-year-old publication that switched from a daily to a weekly print schedule 30 years ago, will become a bi-weekly beginning Feb. 4, the newspaper announced Friday. The publication will continue to maintain a daily online presence. According to The […]
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The British Foreign Office included Israel as "a country of concern" in a report on human rights violators. Israel appeared on a list of 28 countries accused of perpetrating human rights violations in a quarterly report on human rights and democracy issued Thursday by the foreign office. The report cites the Gaza war of last […]
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Jewish people are living in fear in Europe but the European Union will make sure they are not harmed, the president of the European Parliament said.
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Satmar counselor Nechemya Weberman was sentenced to 103 years in prison for sexual abuse of a teenage female patient over several years.
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He called for a return to peace talks "without preconditions."
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Top Jewish organizational leaders met with Chuck Hagel, President Obama's defense secretary nominee, and Vice President Joe Biden. A four-sentence statement Monday issued by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations described the Jan. 18 meeting in Washington as "an important opportunity for a serious and thorough discussion of key issues of importance […]
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The attack occurred as Bennett began praying in front of the Wall
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While former prime minister Ehud Olmert has been making the rounds putting down the achievements of his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu, the prosecution in Olmert's "Holyland" bribery trial has presented its first witness. Olmert is accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes during the construction of the Holyland Apartments project in Jerusalem when […]
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Leaders of Russia’s Jewish community have criticized a U.S. federal court ruling that fined Russia for refusing to hand over ancient Chasidic texts.
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A lawmaker from Hungary’s Jobbik Party who recently called for listing Jews as a “security risk” reportedly is planning a lecture tour about the “Zionist threat.”
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A history of New York Jewry took Jewish book of the year honors in the 2012 National Jewish Book Awards.
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Livson, 30, the Israeli-born son of Finnish immigrants, was officially installed as chief rabbi on Jan. 13, taking over from Rabbi Moshe Edelman.
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President Obama's new gun control proposals drew broad Jewish communal support. The uniformity of the Jewish response to the proposals unveiled Wednesday stood in contrast to Republican opposition to many of the suggested measures, including a ban on assault weapons and tighter background checks on gun purchasers. Supportive statements came from the Jewish Council for […]
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The Anti-Defamation League said disgraced designer John Galliano has changed his beliefs and now understands the evils of anti-Semitism. Galliano, who lost his job as the top designer at Christian Dior after he was arrested for making anti-Semitic statements at a Paris bar, had dedicated "significant" time to understanding anti-Semitism, the ADL's National Director Abraham […]
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Two Brooklyn neighborhoods account for a majority of the ten percent increase in overall Jewish population growth in greater New York City over the past decade, according to data released Friday from a demographic study carried out by UJ-Federation of New York. With 1.54 million Jews, the New York area is home to the largest […]
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France’s military involvement in Mali “significantly increases” the threat facing French Jews, according to the security service of the country’s Jewish communities . “The situation requires we raise the level of protection around our community and double the level of vigilance around synagogues, Jewish schools, community centers and gathering places,” said a communiqué by SPCJ, […]
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Italian soccer players expressed their opposition to racism by honoring a Jewish coach who was killed in the Holocaust.
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The European Union has incorporated International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, into its official calendar.
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Some 50 Palestinians threw rocks and at least 18 firebombs and nine pipe bombs at Israeli troops guarding the tomb on Wednesday evening, according to the Israeli military.
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The Chicago Bears hired a Jewish head coach, Marc Trestman, to improve their pigskin prowess.
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Hadassah transferred $10 million to Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem to help cover its subsidiary's $50 million deficit.
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A physical education teacher at a Baltimore Jewish high school was arrested and charged with child abuse.
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Air France sued for refusing to fly pro-Palestinian protester
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A Memphis yeshiva’s Shabbat retreat was disrupted when a hotel security guard was arrested for vandalizing a Torah scroll and other property belonging to the school. Justin Shawn Baker, 24, an Iraqi War veteran living in Jackson, Tenn., was arrested and charged with vandalism of up to $250 thousand – a Class B felony. His […]
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“I’m almost convinced that he’ll come out innocent."
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British soccer fans reportedly wrote anti-Semitic messages on the Facebook page of a local British club shortly after it hired an Israeli player.
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An Israeli gay couple married 10 months ago in New York has asked an Israeli family court to validate a spousal support agreement. Elad Aflalo Farber and Roni Farber Aflalo on Sunday asked the Ramat Gan Family Court to recognize their agreement -- the first time a legally married gay couple has done so, according […]
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Rabbi Jonah Pesner, an official of the Union for Reform Judaism, is considering a run for the open Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat. Pesner, of Newton, Mass., told the Boston Phoenix in a story posted Jan. 7 that he is having "exploratory conversations" about a run to replace Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), whom President Obama has […]
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The Israeli former bodyguard of teen idol Justin Bieber reportedly sued the pop star for assault.
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French authorities will release a Lebanese man involved in the murder an Israeli diplomat and an American military officer in the 1980s. A parole board agreed to release George Abdallah, 61, on condition that he is expelled from France by Jan. 14, the French news agency AFP reported on Thursday. Abdallah was captured in 1984 […]
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Scientific American magazine satirized claims in a Turkish children's book that Charles Darwin was Jewish. The Jan. 8 article was written in response to reports in October about a series of books aimed at Turkish schoolchildren which describe Darwin as a hook-nosed Jew who kept the company of monkies. The books sparked outrage in Turkey and protests […]
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Sen. Mitch McConnell said in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. and Israeli agendas in the Middle East were identical. Netanyahu met Friday with McConnell, the minority leader in the U.S. Senate, who was leading a group of senators on an Israel tour. "As everybody in Israel knows, there are a […]
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The Dutch city of Venlo began restoring a recently discovered mikvah -- the oldest proof of Jewish life in the country.
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New guidelines issued by the Italian Interior Ministry govern how police may halt or interrupt a soccer match because of racist or anti-Semitic behavior by fans or on the pitch.
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The Orthodox Jewish parents of a Florida Jewish teen on life support have filed a motion in court to prevent the hospital from removing life-sustaining machines.
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A British music promoter reportedly has admitted making anti-Semitic remarks toward a Jewish lawmaker. Philip Hayes, 53, from Liverpool, received a $190 fine for launching a racially abusive tirade in November at Luciana Berger, a lawmaker for the Labor Party, while they attended the Liverpool Music Awards, the BBC reported. He pleaded guilty Wednesday in […]
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Some 3,000 young Jews from around the world celebrated Birthright Israel's bar mitzvah year with a party in Jerusalem.
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A Chabad-affiliated synagogue and Jewish day school in Worcester, Mass., were spared from imminent closure for non-payment of federal taxes. The Internal Revenue Service received no offers Jan. 4 after it put the building housing the Yeshiva Achei Tmimim synagogue and the Yeshiva Academy school up for auction. “That was the news I was praying […]
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Results of the second inquest matched those of the original in October 2011.
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Chuck Hagel lashed out at critics of his Israel record in an article timed for release just after President Obama nominated him to be defense secretary. Hagel told his hometown paper, the Lincoln Journal Star in Nebraska, that his record was one of "unequivocal" support for Israel and that in the weeks leading up to […]
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The Israeli documentary "The Gatekeepers" was named the best nonfiction film of 2012 by the National Society of Film Critics in the United States. The film, which features interviews with six former directors of Israel's Shin Bet security service, received the award on Saturday. The film critics' society is made up of 60 newspaper critics […]
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An 11-year-old New York girl was disqualified from the 2012 U.S. National Table Tennis Championships when she opted not to play her final match, which fell on Shabbat.
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Israel's military prosecutor filed an indictment against the head of a Palestinian terrorist cell who organized the bombing of a bus in Tel Aviv.
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A Dutch governmental agency advised a security firm to hire a Sabbath-observing intern after ruling that employers may not reject Jewish candidates on the basis of their refusal to work on the Jewish day of rest.
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A law to ban the import or sale of animal-tested products went into effect in Israel.
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More than 2,000 people have donated funds to plant a grove of more than 3,000 trees in Israel in memory of the victims of the Newtown shooting.
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An Israeli restaurant opened in the heart of the old Jewish quarter of Krakow. Hamsa Hummus and Happiness Restobar opened recently in a historic building on Szeroka, the main square of the Jewish quarter, Kazimierz, in the Polish city. Hamsa is being called the first Israeli-themed restaurant in Krakow, and unlike most of the other […]
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The education minister of Israel responded to British condemnation of planned construction in eastern Jerusalem and accreditation of Ariel University Center.
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Federal prosecutors charged a New York woman with lying to federal agents during an investigation into an alleged scheme soliciting donations in the name of Newtown rampage victim Noah Pozner.
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The Israel Free Loan Association has provided $1.5 million in interest-free loans to over 50 small businesses in southern Israel affected by the recent Gaza conflict.
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A Muslim Brotherhood official called on Egyptian Jews to return to Egypt and leave Israel to the Palestinians.
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The Israeli embassy in Washington described as baseless an Israeli newspaper report that Ron Dermer, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu, is set to replace Michael Oren as Israel's ambassador to the United States. The daily Makor Rishon on Friday reported that Oren has requested to end his tenure in the spring of […]
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A Belgian court ordered a Jewish school for girls to admit two boys or face heavy fines. If the Benoth Jeruzalem school in Antwerp fails to admit the boys, it will have to pay $2,600 for every day that the two boys are not allowed to study there, a Belgian judge ruled on Dec. 21, […]
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Federal prosecutors charged a New York woman with lying to federal agents during an investigation into an alleged scheme soliciting donations in the name of Newtown rampage victim Noah Pozner. In an interview with NBC’s "Today" show, Nouel Alba, 37, of the Bronx, denied posing as an aunt of Noah and sending messages requesting donations. […]
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