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“Just because it’s 20 years later, it doesn’t become relegated to the dustbin of history.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
They are coming against the backdrop of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, rising anti-Semitism and a young generation of Jews who studies show are distancing themselves from Israel.
The oldest of them is 87 years old and the youngest a 6-month-old girl.
For Herzog, who will be sworn in next month as Israel's 11th President, this new Hebrew language program is the perfect closure to his tenure as head of The Jewish Agency.
It will engage in improving and deepening the paradigm between the Israeli public and new immigrants.
By Yori Yalon
Some 5,000 new immigrants from the United States and Canada are scheduled to immigrate to Israel by the end of 2021.
Education in Israel about Diaspora Jewry is far less common than learning about Israel in America.
"If she thinks Israel is so bad, she is welcome to renounce her Israeli citizenship and go live under the Palestinian Authority or Hamas. She won't be missed."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The group allegedly knocked Joseph Borgen to the ground and then punched, kicked, pepper-sprayed and beat him with crutches while making anti-Semitic remarks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Canadian Jewish group Federation CJA and its advocacy agency, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, applauded the decision.
"In many cases severe manifestations of racism and blatant antisemitism are presented as ‘legitimate criticism’ of the state of Israel and its’ government’s policies.”
"We urge you to take the lead once again in opposing this dangerous bill."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Dubbed “A Journey Home,” the group plans to be there from May 26-31, during Memorial Day weekend in the United States.
By Israel Hayom
According to the Saudi press, the last Jewish refugees from Yemen are seeking a country that will take them in, as they don’t wish to move to Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We are traumatized. This is our home, this is our grocery store,” said a social-media post signed by leaders of the Boulder JCC.
“The ‘March of the Living’ connects between those who learned about the Holocaust firsthand and those who did not."
International Women’s Day in Azerbaijan is about revering mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters because they are holy, as he puts it.
The suspect attempted to enter a kosher supermarket.
"They tried to intimidate the Jewish community into silence, to force Jews to renounce their shared heritage, to exclude Jews from leadership."
In 2020, about 950 medical and paramedical professionals immigrated to Israel from around the world, including more than 300 physicians who made Aliyah with the assistance of The Jewish Agency.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
They will now return to the 50-percent-capacity limit that was in place before the New York governor’s zone plan.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
They were joined by Ahmed Bin Sulayem, executive chairman of the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre.
The program sends Modern Orthodox, Religious Zionist rabbis, and educators to serve in communal and educational leadership positions in Jewish communities around the world.
Free expression of their Jewish identity, a fair education, a safe learning environment, a comprehensive definition of antisemitism, and a fair protections.
The Lookstein Center offers a broad range of teacher training opportunities to reach as many teachers as possible.
By Chabad.org
Precautions would have to be taken and the event would be shorter than usual, but it would indeed take place.
The event was a sign of appreciation of small communities in North America for their support of Israel and insistence on keeping their Jewish identity and celebrating the Jewish Holidays.
The goal of the amendment is to encourage Aliyah and strengthen the connection with Diaspora Jewry.
The 50 Jews in Bahrain arrived from Iraq, Yemen and Iran. they have lived in Bahrain for more than 140 years.
The signers committed to teaching what unites Jews and Arabs and will become hubs of people-to-people cooperation and partnerships.
A Jewish Agency emissary will be arriving in the UAE as early as next week to work with the local Jewish community.
Out of 35 issues that people considered when voting, there were less than a handful that both groups agreed were important.
Former winners were singers and songwriters Nurit Hirsh, David D’Or, Idan Raichel, David Broza, and Yehoram Gaon.
Alongside JReady, The Jewish Agency will continue to operate its Security Assistance Fund, which helps strengthen the security measures of Jewish institutions around the world.
The “Flowers for Shabbat” initiative was part of this year’s annual international Shabbat Project, which took place in over 1,600 cities and 106 countries around the world.
By Chabad.org
Rabbi Levi Duchman first came to the UAE in the winter of 2015, following up months later to lead a Passover seder in the capital city of Abu Dhabi. He moved to the country later that year.
More than 700 delegates and thousands of people from 35 countries participated in the online event necessitated by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
By Eliana Rudee
Until now, said Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Omer Yankelevitch, Israel spoke to global Jewish leaders only when it was convenient or necessary in their eyes, leading to “miscommunication, hurt and missed opportunities on both sides.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Trump is preferred by 74 percent of Orthodox, 23 percent of Conservative, 20 percent of Reform, 3 percent of Reconstructionist and 14 percent of secular Jews.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Still, Rabbi Menachem Margolin of the European Jewish Association said “the battle isn’t over. It has merely been postponed. If you kick a can down a road, you will eventually run out of road.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The enforcement process results in more communal division than unity, and significant time and resources,” said William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents, in a statement.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The survey was presented on Tuesday to the Knesset’s Subcommittee on Israel-Diaspora Relations.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Thousands of young adults from around the world have arrived in or are preparing to travel to Israel for a gap year, internship, study abroad, volunteer or professional training program.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
AmazonSmile relies on the SPLC to determine which charities are eligible and which ones are “hate groups” and thus eligible or not for directed Amazon donations.
Several Danish political parties have launched another campaign to ban male religious circumcision in the country.
The Bahraini Jewish community is small, totaling 50 Jews.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The terror attack left six people dead and at least 20 wounded.
“Unfortunately, the Covid-19 crisis is here to stay, and therefore this dialogue is a unique opportunity for the NGOs to build up their impact on the field."
By Israel Hayom
"Denmark saved Jewish life during the Holocaust, and now it may end Jewish life in the kingdom," says Danish Jewish community president Henri Goldstein.
By Sean Savage
ZOA told JNS that another example of the far-left’s “cancel culture” is aimed at “undermining” the organization, as well as “Klein’s strong defense of Israel and the Jewish people.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“NCSY was incorrectly referenced in a New York Times advertisement placed by BEND THE ARC.”
The leaders of the Dubai congregation say they represent a growing trend in the acceptance of the Jewish State among its more benign neighbors in the region.
Peter Beinart is notorious for leading and co-signing a public call in 2016 for a “targeted boycott of all goods and services from all Israeli settlements.”
Anti-Defamation League’s Dr. Sharon S. Nazarian also addressed “complexities” of Jewish community’s approach to Black Lives Matter.
In the US alone, more than one hundred people from the Halabi Jewish community died in one month.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Nine months after the Yom Kippur attack on the small Jewish community in Halle, Germany, local leaders say anti-Semitism is only getting worse.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
There are 14,410,700 million Jews in the world, the Knesset’s Aliyah, Absorption and Diaspora Committee revealed on Monday, and 45% or 6,740,000 of them live in Israel, 6,088,000 in North America, 1,072,400 in Europe, 324,000 in South America, 300,000 in Asia, 120,000 in Australia and New Zealand and 74,000 in Africa.
President of Murcia said at the only surviving synagogue from pre-Expulsion Spain: “A Jewish soul still beats deep in our hearts, a hope of freedom for today, looking towards the East.”
The victim was walking home from a Shabbat meal when a vehicle with three men identified as Hispanic passed by him.
The reply? “If the Trump administration wants to provide us with photos from closed-door meetings ... to discuss illegal annexation and unilaterally redraw the map of the West Bank, we’d gladly use those.”
For the second year in a row, US campuses have experienced a significant decline in classic anti-Semitic harassment (down 49%) and a significant increase in Israel-related incidents (up 60%).
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Jewish Agency’s call center is flooded with inquiries, an increase of 50% from English speaking countries and 70% from French-speaking countries.
Becky concluded the meeting with a bashful smile, thanking her commanders in Hebrew for helping her to reach this point and to the president for hosting her and her family.
“This wasn’t about changing American police policies, but about coarsening and brutalizing the discourse around Israel and Jews through the exploitation of black suffering,” said Dexter Van Zile, an analyst at CAMERA.
By Israel Hayom
This is the second time Luis Fux, 67, has made history in Brazil; in 2011, he became the first Jewish judge named to the bench of the Federal Supreme Court.
“We’re battling for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party,” said the 16-term New York legislator during a virtual event hosted by NORPAC.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Although flights have been grounded nearly everywhere in recent months due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Aliyah continued.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
More than a third of French Jews refrain from wearing Jewish symbols in public, and a quarter avoids revealing their Jewish identity at work.
"Jacobs . . . wants to place Klein and his group beyond the Pale as far as mainstream Jewish discourse and politics are concerned."
By Israel Hayom
“I saw a PLO flag and them shouting to ‘free Palestine.’ I don’t think it was black protesters who did this damage,” Dahan said.
There have been numerous inquiries about going to the Mikvah or to a Minyan for Maariv...
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Friedman stayed up until two in the morning cleaning the store and boarding up the windows. “It looked like the aftermath of a hurricane,” he said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
For the moment, “we have chosen to focus our activities online until the time is right to reopen a physical space. This will allow us to stay nimble and conserve resources while we continue to deliver on our mission.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
People from around the world were invited to send their names for prayers.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel is reaching out to the Jews of the Diaspora and has initiated a roundtable of global and regional Jewish organizations to assess the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on Jewish communities and prepare a plan for their rehabilitation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The president cited signing an executive order in December combating anti-Semitism, especially directed towards college campuses, as how his administration has been fighting bigotry against Jews.
By Alex Traiman
The announcement notes that “creating the Chair-elect role enhances the effectiveness of the transition.” Thus far, the transition from Stark to a new chairperson has been anything but smooth or effective.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Due to the controversy, Dianne Lob will first serve as chair-election, a newly created position.
A clause was included in a Parliamentary bill, allowing for families of the deceased to oppose cremation out of religious reasons.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We always have, and always will, prioritize the safety and well-being of our students,” said Joe Wolfson, AMHSI-JNF chairman of the board.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Boston-based Jewish Federation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP), recently honored a local activist with ties to the anti-Israel group IfNotNow.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The country’s Supreme Administrative Court prohibited the march, ruling that far-right demonstrators could only lay wreaths at Lukov's home.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other members of Congress are scheduled to speak.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Programming includes 14 Shabbatonim, in addition to cooking classes, bowling outings, family support groups and sensitivity training.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The paper advises that “an armed guard or armed congregant is not a security strategy or plan on its own. Armed security can be part of a plan, but it is only that—a component. A true security plan includes many other layers and components … .”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The first recipients of the grant will help strengthen seven small European communities in Helsinki, Finland; Riga, Latvia; Oslo, Norway; and Warsaw, Szczecin and Wroclaw, Poland.
“Monsey used to be a nice, calm, quiet place, and now, not so much.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"We can either let it define us, let it destroy us, or we can let it strengthen us. We will not let this attack destroy us."
“We came back a little prouder of what we do. It sharpened something in our sense of mission,” say Israeli officers who visited American Jewish communities.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that protects the right of Jewish residents to place a “mezuzah” on their doorposts.
The president also questioned how Jewish voters could support the Democratic Party knowing the anti-Israel bias among certain members.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The suspect was arrested by New York Police and charged with a hate-crime assault, harassment and criminal possession of a weapon.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbis from all movements will gather with Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer with the goal of rebooting the conversation between Israeli and American Jewry.
In 1863, the day of Shabbat, July 4, Independence Day, fell on the first day of the three weeks, Tammuz 17, but because it was Shabbat, as is the case this year, 2019, the fast was pushed off to Sunday.
They discussed the need to increase and expand initiatives focused on Jewish education and identity in the Diaspora.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
IfNotNow activists approached Warren in New Hampshire, asking to her to push "the Israeli government to end occupation.” Warren enthusiastically replied yes and took a picture with them.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The Jewish community remains the largest target of religion-motivated hate crime."
The Young Israel of Toco Hills announced that its name will now be Kehillat Ohr Hatorah, Hebrew for “Light of the Torah,” after 93 percent of voting synagogue members voted to separate from Young Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Joint Terrorism Task Force investigates multiple suspicious fires targeting Boston Chabads.
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