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Netanyahu gets support from Congressmen on House Armed Services Committee
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Nearly 200 Hollywood elite, including Sylvester Stallone and Seth Rogen, signed a statement condemning Hamas as its conflict with Israel continues.
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Police entered the apartment after relatives were unable to contact the couple.
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If you are worried about your child marrying a non-Jew, and you should be, then move to Israel.
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If “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” Diaspora Jews are in big trouble.
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Al Qaeda wants the US to free terrorists in return for freeing Warren Weinstein.
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At least six Haredi protesters were arrested and a police officer was wounded in demonstrations in at least three Israeli cities Sunday following the arrest of a yeshiva student for ignoring a draft notice. Hundreds of protesters blocked busy intersections in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Modiin Illit and Beit Shemesh. The yeshiva student has been arrested […]
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Police in Melbourne arrested seven pro-Palestinian protesters who stormed the roof of an Israel-based company.
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Violent assaults on Jews are becoming more common around the world.
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Hallelujah! Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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There is nothing like a quaint tradition of pogroms to insist that hate language is not harmful.
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Freedom of speech does not demand that one has to prove the freedom to show one’s ignorance.
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Rabbi Raksin’s funeral was in North Miami Beach , and he will be buried in New York on Mnday.
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Starbucks issued a statement saying the company and its CEO do not provide any financial support to Israel or its army.
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Pro-Israel groups sometimes forget that others are listening.
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A Jewish school in Denmark informed parents that its pupils are no longer allowed to wear religious symbols near school grounds.
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Rabbi Yaacov Arar, who served as the chief rabbi of Athens for over four decades, has died.
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President Raphael Correa of Ecuador canceled a planned visit to Israel later this because of the conflict in Gaza. “Obviously, after these events, we have canceled the visit,” Correa said , referring to Israel’s operation in Gaza. The cancellation came two days after Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino announced that Ecuador would open an embassy in […]
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Love game. Israel is left with holding the racquet out of bounds..
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How about a picture of Donald Duck choking anti-Semitism?
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Wiesel's called for an end to 'Child Sacrifice' by Hamas was considered "too strong" for London Times readers.
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Antisemitism rears its ugly head in Europe, again.
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A chief rabbi of the Netherlands said unidentified individuals hurled stones at his home in what he said was the second anti-Semitic attack on him in a week. Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs said the latest attack took place at 5 a.m. Thursday, when two stones were hurled through a window of his home in Amersfoort. An earlier incident outside his home […]
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Wave of anti-Semitic graffiti, physical attacks spreads, this time to University of Oregon
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Police in Berlin say about 1,000 demonstrators, most of them Palestinian, held an unregistered march protesting Israel’s actions in Gaza. Up to ten demonstrators were arrested for breach of the peace and for trying to forcibly free others already arrested in Saturday’s melee, a police spokesperson said. Rocks were thrown during the disturbance and a police officer was struck but […]
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Leftists talk "peace" in Tel Aviv, but Arab family won't accept condolence visit from Peres
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38 year old man beaten with metal bars; Third of Malmö residents from Muslim-majority countries
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A Jewish-Muslim family from Syria escaped from the country’s civil war to Israel.
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From Australia to Argentina, Jewish communities mourn latest Palestinian atrocity.
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The ad airs for 15 seconds twice every hour, which usually costs $15,000.
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130-member community may own dozens of properties worth more than $10 million.
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“We also wanted to strengthen the settlers in Judea and Samaria, and express appreciation and gratitude for their pioneering spirit, their everyday Zionism.”
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Organization responsible for distributing German reparations for Holocaust crimes facing decisions as Holocaust generation dies out
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As Presbyterians vote against Israel, they find support from the Jewish people's own fifth column.
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An Iranian court sentenced a man to five years in prison on charges of spying for Israel.
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One of Woronyj’s neighbors, who did not want to be named, said he was “a big man who kept himself to himself.”
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A Jewish cemetery and Holocaust monument were damaged in Germany amid a string of unrelated acts of vandalism against Jewish heritage sites in central Europe.
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In response to the kidnapping of three boys last week, some Israelis have prayed. Some have voiced support on social media. And some have done what they do best: they made an app. Prompted by the kidnapping and set to launch in the near future, the SOS Israel app will allow anyone in Israel facing an emergency to trigger […]
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The Jewish community of Columbus, Ohio, has set up a fund to help the mother of two children slain in Israel by their father pay for their funerals.
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Fischer, 70, succeeds Janet Yellen, who was elevated to Fed chairwoman in February to follow Ben Bernanke. All three are Jewish.
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As consul general of Peru in Geneva, Barreto issued 27 Peruvian passports to 58 Jews, including 14 children, even though the government of Peru by 1938 had given instructions to its consulates in Europe not to issue visas to foreign immigrants — with an emphasis on Jews in particular.
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Jewish Republicans retire to lick their wounds, consider future after shock of Cantor loss to no-name Tea Party candidate
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Two Jewish teenagers reported that they were sprayed with tear gas in an attack in Sarcelles, a northern suburb of Paris. The teens, who were wearing kippot, said they were attacked on Saturday night, according to a report posted Monday on the website of the National Bureau of Vigilance against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA. The attack, which was […]
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“Death to Jews” and a swastika were painted on the notice board of the Central Synagogue in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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The Spanish government has approved a draft bill that proposes to grant citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews who were forced into exile 500 years ago.
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Sharansky admits that non-practicing Jews likely to assimilate, says Israel "only way" to keep connection to Judaism
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Armed, masked men threatened to burn down the house of one of Ukraine’s chief rabbis.
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(JTA) — Police arrested two men in the severe beating of a Jewish man in Creteil, a Paris suburb. It was the second anti-Semitic attack there in the last week, a local Jewish watchdog group said. In the later attack, on May 30, three men in their 20s hit the Jewish man in his face […]
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Kosher meals for prisoners cost nearly four times the cost of non-kosher meals; appeal also covers prisoner beard length
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A Dutch municipality is facing criticism for describing Jerusalem, Nazareth and Tiberias as “cities in Palestine.” Likkud Netherlands, a local association, published on its website Friday an article which carried a screen capture photo from Google Street View of the street sign of Tiberias Path in the city of Eindhoven with the description, in which Likkud Nederland […]
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Likud Netherlands accused the municipality of “wiping Israel off the map.”
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Will a Hamas representative be invited too? Or will Abbas fill that role?
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Israel’s ambassador to the Ukraine, Reuven Din El, called the leaks “harmful and dangerous politically, operationally and to our image,” and make Ukrainian Jews subject to charges of dual loyalty.
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Hackers believed to be from Iran used social media and a fake news website to spy on leaders in the United States, Israel and other countries.
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A 250-year-old Torah scroll that has spent half its existence in a museum was returned to a British Jewish community.
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Missile defense system has proved about 80 percent effective in previous rounds of fighting against Palestinian terrorists
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A crowd of approximately 2,000 gathered for a silent vigil in front of the Jewish museum in Brussels where an unidentified shooter killed four people.
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Amos Yadlin invites Saudi Prince Faisal Al Saud for talks on 2002 Arab Peace Initiative
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DePaul University’s student body voted in a referendum to approve a divestment resolution targeting Israel. The vote followed a Jewish Press report indicating that Jewish students at the university have felt unsafe on campus since the anti-Semitic Students for a Just Peace in Palestine group introduced the boycott issue to campus discourse. The student government ballot […]
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A Jewish Tunisian man was stabbed in the chest after a fight at the Jewish market in Djerba, on Thursday.
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The $1 million Genesis Generation Challenge fellowship, open to anyone aged 20 to 36 with the best “big idea” to benefit the world, was announced Thursday in Jerusalem.
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A Staten Island man was charged in the theft of blank checks from a yeshiva he reportedly attended and cashing them for more than $50,000.
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An Israeli government religious court granted a ritual divorce to a woman whose husband is in a coma and cannot consent.
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Stanley Fischer was confirmed as a member of the Federal Reserve, clearing the way for the former Bank of Israel governor to become the Fed’s vice chairman.
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Greece may be the cradle of democracy, but anti-Jewish feeling runs deep in the country
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The heads of UCLA and the University of California system criticized a student-led pledge that urged candidates for student government to refuse trips to Israel sponsored by certain pro-Israel groups. In a statement emailed Friday to students, staff and faculty, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said the pledge was protected speech under the First Amendment, but added that “just because […]
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95.2% of all respondents to the online survey said they viewed anti-Semitism as “very worrisome” or “worrisome.”
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An Israeli held for 14 years in an Egyptian prison accused Israel’s prime minister of not doing enough to secure his release. The prisoner, Ouda Tarabin, is a former resident of the Bedouin city of Rahat, in the Negev Desert. He was arrested in 2000 while visiting Egypt, charged with being an Israeli spy and given […]
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Israeli men have the fourth-highest life expectancy of any nationality, according to a new analysis by the World Health Organization.
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NEW YORK (JTA) – Kutsher’s, the fabled Catskills resort hotel, is set to be demolished later this month. The 1,300-acre property near Monticello, N.Y., was sold last year for $8.18 million to Veria Lifestyle Inc., which plans to turn it into a health and wellness resort. Pre-demolition work already has begun with the clearing of […]
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A woman assaulted a Jewish mother and her baby in Paris while shouting anti-Semitic slurs.
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Jill Abramson, the executive editor of The New York Times, is unexpectedly leaving her post. Abramson, the first woman but hardly the first Jew to hold the top editorial position at the paper, lasted less than three years. The Times did not explain the reason for her departure. She will be replaced by Dean Baquet, the managing […]
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Israel’s embassy in Turkey canceled a celebration of Israel’s Independence Day and President Shimon Peres sent a letter of condolence to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following the mine collapse Wednesday in Manisa that trapped more than 700 miners underground. Erdogan said Wednesday that 238 miners had died and more than 200 remain trapped, while 363 […]
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Four New York men, including a rabbi, were indicted for allegedly stealing more than $12.4 million in funding intended for children with disabilities.
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It took a second hearing and a tight vote, but in the end the good guys won this round.
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An Israeli man charged in the United States with selling arms to Iran was arrested at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport.
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A recovery plan for Jerusalem’s bankrupt Hadassah Medical Organization calls for an additional $869 million in funding and cuts to the hospital’s services.
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The student senate at the University of California, Davis did not approve a divestment resolution targeting Israel. The vote at 2 a.m. on Thursday ended in a tie, with five student senators voting in favor, five opposed and two abstaining. The student government vice president, Maxwell Kappes, declined to break the tie, abstaining instead. The […]
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Shechitah advocates wrote that UK consumers of meat not produced through ritual slaughter “should also be told the method of slaughter: captive bolt shooting, gassing, electrocution, drowning, trapping, clubbing or any of the other approved methods.”
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The entrance to a nursery school in Latvia featured a German-language sign advertising the establishment as being “Jew-free.”
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A Dutch Muslim group is planning to commemorate “the ethnic cleansing of Palestine” on Holland’s memorial day for victims of Nazism. The Platform Bewust Muslim group is planning to hold the ceremony on Sunday at a mosque in Hilversum, near Amsterdam, under the banner “Palestine, the Shadow Holocaust,” the Jewish television channel Joods Omroep reported […]
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A Brooklyn construction worker has been indicted for the kidnapping and murder of Haredi real estate developer Menachem Stark. A grand jury in Brooklyn on Monday indicted Kendel Felix, who was employed by a contractor hired by Stark, the New York Post reported. Felix was arrested on April 30 and admitted that he and two accomplices accidentally suffocated […]
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A full-page advertisement reproducing Israel’s Declaration of Independence appeared in The New York Times and USA Today.
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Urban Adamah organization feared for safety of class participants.
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A mayor from Brussels banned an event that European Jews have called a “summit meeting for anti-Semites.” Eric Tomas, the mayor of Anderlecht— one of 19 municipalities that make up the Brussels autonomous region of the federal Belgian state — on Sunday said he would ban the “European Congress of Resistance,” saying it was a […]
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Former “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno will visit Israel to host the presentation of the inaugural Genesis Prize. The May 22 ceremony in Jerusalem will honor former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg with the $1 million award. “Jay Leno is a comedic icon who has entertained millions of people around the […]
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Is this really a big deal? Let’s say the cardinal really was Jewish. It runs in the family, because so was his boss.
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A 15th century printed book of the Torah fetched a record $3.87 million at an auction in Paris. Three buyers attempted to outbid each other over the telephone during the sale which the Christie’s auction house organized on April 30, the news website actualitte.com reported Thursday. Christie’s listed the buyer as “anonymous” but said the […]
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Religious-Zionist paper had been in danger of closing, will now join Sheldon Adelson's stable of media
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An Ethiopian-Israeli Knesset Member called racist statements attributed to Donald Sterling, the Jewish owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, “disgusting” in a letter to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. “As a Jew, as a citizen of a country founded on the ruins of racism in Europe, it hurt me to hear Mr. Sterling, especially on this […]
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The Jewish mayor of Ukraine’s second-largest city was airlifted to Israel early Tuesday morning for treatment for a gunshot wound shot in a suspected assassination attempt. Kharkov mayor Gennady Kernes was shot in the neck while on his routine morning jog and initially was reported to be struggling for his life. Kernes underwent surgery at […]
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Jewish Democrats called on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Monday to apologize for warning that the failure to achieve a two-state solution could lead to apartheid. “We express our deep disappointment that the Secretary of State has chosen to invoke the specter of ‘apartheid’ in discussing his concerns about the failing peace process,” the […]
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The Graduate and Professional Student Association at the University of New Mexico passed a non-binding resolution on Saturday calling for the university to divest from companies that operate in Judea and Samaria. The resolution calls on the university to divest from companies that “directly profit from the ongoing violations of international law and human rights, […]
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Tens of thousands of Jews and Jewish supporters participated in the 12th March of the Living Hungary in Budapest in what is considered the largest civil anti-fascist event in Hungary. It was held on the 70th anniversary of the mass deportation of Jews from Hungary by the Nazis. Holding posters saying “Never again” and “History […]
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Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League’s national director labeled as “reprehensible” the racist remarks attributed to Donald Sterling, the Jewish owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, and other Jewish groups chimed in with condemnation. “If the National Basketball Association’s investigation reveals that Mr. Sterling in fact made these racist and intolerant statements, we expect and anticipate […]
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The convicted murderer of an 11-year-old Jewish girl in 1969 will not receive a new trial, a Baltimore judge ruled. Circuit Judge Edward Hargadon, in his ruling on the appeal by Wayne Stephen Young, said jurors who found Young guilty of killing Esther Lebowitz in 1972 were adequately advised of how to try the case, […]
