By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The museum is located next to the Maghain Aboth Synagogue, Asia’s second-largest and Southeast Asia’s oldest synagogue.
By COLlive.com
The shul has been using the land to build a sukkah since 1963. Mohammed Farag, their neighbor, bought his house adjacent to the land in 2016.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The NGO-Monitor report was published ahead of a special Knesset conference on the de-legitimization of Israel.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The EU has been funding the illegal Palestinian Authority seizure of state land.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This dramatic statement, which was carried by the entire Israeli media over the weekend.
Michael Levitt, president and CEO of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, said members understood “that censure would set a chilling precedent and impact trustees’ abilities to stand up to hate and discrimination.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The majority of materials were taken in July 1942 from Thessaloniki, which once had a thriving Jewish community.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
An Egyptian company will buy 85 billion cubic meters of gas, worth an estimated $19.5 billion, from Israel’s Leviathan and Tamar offshore fields in the Mediterranean Sea over a period of 15 years.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The fuel products were sold for more than $26 million; some of the funds may go to the U.S. Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund.
Noah Shack, vice president at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, urged the Toronto District School Board to take “immediate, meaningful and reparative action to fix the rot of anti-Semitism, particularly with its Human Rights Office.”
"A bad deal with the Iranians will have implications for our national security."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The student union at a branch of the University of Toronto said it will modify a ban on kosher food that is part of a resolution endorsing the BDS movement against Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.N. General Assembly passed three resolutions this week that targeted Israel, which brings the total to 14 resolutions being adopted in the next month that single out the Jewish state.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“[They] are more advanced than the ones in the inventory of the force, including their anti-jamming capability,” according to Indian media.
The Dec. 2 program included a talk by a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terror group in both Canada and the United States.
The historic event, the first-ever Hanukkah party held by a Latin American embassy in the U.S., was attended by ambassadors and high-level diplomats from Argentina, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Israel.
“I think it is an embarrassment to society,” said Rabbi Nechemia Deitsch, director of Chabad of Midtown in Toronto, which services the student population. “The fact that there is this hatred in the air is due completely to a lack of education.”
By Eve Glover
“A requirement that providers of food as a religious accommodation be required to apply for an exemption, or even be asked about their views about issues elsewhere in the world is unacceptable,” said Gertler’s statement.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The UN event ignored the history of massacres and expulsions of 850,000 Jews from Arab countries as well as Iran.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“We will work day and night to prevent the Iranian regime from ever becoming a nuclear power,” the UK’s Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid vowed.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
US law professor Eugene Kontorovich stated that the ECJ’s ruling “is putting a new ‘Yellow Star’ on Jewish-made products.”
Princess Alice of Battenberg, the mother of the late Duke of Edinburgh, is buried on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Xi noted that Herzog’s late father, Chaim Herzog, Israel’s sixth president, was the first Israeli head of state to visit China upon the establishment of diplomatic ties, and Herzog said he was proud of his father’s role in this historic event.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A recent report by the UN Watch exposed that more than 100 UNRWA employees posted content on social media that spreads hatred against Israel and Israelis, encourages anti-Semitism, and supports terrorism.
The team at HU developed a system that uses fluorescent crystals in the form of specks so tiny that special microscopes are needed to see them.
The activities related to history, art, and culture are taking place from October 31 to November 28.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The [Biden] administration abstained on an issue of hate and bigotry,” said Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values. “This is not moral leadership.”
By Ariel Kahana
UNRWA chief ties move to criticism of P.A. curriculum taught in U.N. agency’s schools. The U.K. was the third largest UNRWA donor in 2020.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The PA and EU celebrated the inauguration of the new headquarters of the PA’s Central Elections Commission (CEC) in Ramallah.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Czech Senate officials have issued a call to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the Hamas terror organization.
Tel Aviv University held a hybrid conference last week on the multidisciplinary aspects of aging research, including molecular aging, social aging, age-dependent diseases and interventions, and life quality.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Duque is accompanied by six ministers, including the ministers of defense, trade, health, agriculture, environment, and transportation, and is slated to meet with President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, and will participate in a number of economic events with an emphasis on increasing bilateral ties.
Religious women sometimes felt uncomfortable approaching rabbis, opting to either ask the question through a male messenger or not ask the question at all.
"They are encouraged to love and conserve birds, in their gardens or at work, now and forever."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The system displayed a 90% interception rate, as well as accurate detection of the source of the fire, thus proving the success of integrating the system on the German tanks.
"The PFLP operates an organizational and military apparatus, including a network of purported civilian institutions."
Close to one million Azerbaijanis were displaced from Karabakh during the First Karabakh War (1988-1994).
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“Since the establishment of the council 15 years ago, it has decided to blame and condemn Israel, not 10 times like Iran, or 35 times like Syria. No, the Human Rights Council has attacked Israel with 95 resolutions. Compared to 142 against all other countries combined.”
The increasing prevalence of lactose intolerance is one of the key factors driving the growth of the kosher food industry.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
During Communication Minister Yoaz Hendel's meeting with U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, he discussed the need for cooperation between regulators to effectively regulate social networks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It showcases a historical collection dedicated to the Dreyfus affair, including more than 500 documents, objects, photographs, songs, posters and other items.
Vertical Field’s indoor farm is a mobile unit that grows leafy greens such as lettuce, oaky green lettuce, spinach, and basil.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The attack is believed to have had a financial motive, and may have been in preparation for a larger and more serious event, according to Israel’s defense establishment.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel said its decision was due to NGO financing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terror group.
The increase is across denominational lines. This is also the first time since 2008 that there a “net enrollment increase” in non-Orthodox schools.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It's funny how the Europeans think they have any moral authority.
The event was a show of the strength of the German-Israeli relationship.
In its ninth year, The Shabbat Project surpassed all pre-COVID levels of involvement, with 1,166 citywide “unity events” and thousands of home-based events in more than 1,500 cities.
The Jewish cultural organization that let go of this treasure said they were forced into it because of their steep debts.
“In a world of unrelenting distraction and pressure, Shabbat is a unique opportunity for families to truly connect in a magical way."
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
According to India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry, trade between the countries was $4.67 billion by the end of the last fiscal year.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Anti-Semitism has no place in Australia. It has no place anywhere in the world,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel must approve individuals receiving aid to ensure that money goes to the poor and not to Hamas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Smash Hopper, the remote-controlled weapon station, provides a “one-shot—one-hit capability while remotely controlled by an operator from a safe distance.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken noted its bias, saying the council “suffers from serious flaws, including disproportionate attention on Israel and the membership of several states with egregious records.”
Currently, 6,500 Bnei Menashe are awaiting their return to the Jewish homeland.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
EU representative: "For us, East Jerusalem is part of the occupied Palestinian territory."
Mayor of Jerusalem Moshe Leon said, “The Righteous Among the Nations Chiyona Sugihara did everything in his power and worked tirelessly to save Jews from the clutches of the Nazis, at no small a personal price.”
By Nathan Lewin
Israeli bureaucrats have denied visas for the son of a righteous gentile to attend a Jerusalem ceremony in his father’s honor.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Yad Vashem recognized Angel Sanz-Briz as a Righteous Among the Nations in 1966 for saving approximately 5,200 Jews from the Nazis.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Every year these negotiations become more and more critical; as this last generation of survivors age, their needs increase,” said Gideon Taylor, president of the Claims Conference.
By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute
Beijing will accept whatever we accept, but knows we “want to make Israel swallow the poison one drop at a time,” says Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It’s part of an agreement for developing and bolstering Estonian coastal defense capabilities.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The 100-year-old man was allegedly complicit in executions done by firing squads and poisonous gas.
A lawsuit claimed that political sociology professor David Miller violated the country’s equity laws and that his comments in a February Zoom session amounted to the harassment of Jewish students.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Dagan demanded that Wennesland withdraw unilateral accusations he made at the UN against Israelis living in Samaria.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Some 42,000 Jews live in Belgium, about 0.4% of the total population.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
There are plenty of people in Israel who think shutting down UNRWA's completely would be a positive step.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Col. Thomas Joseph Kendrick worked 15-hour days to process up to 175 applications daily to help Jews escape Austria.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The EU is the Palestinian Authority’s largest donor.
Iran’s nuclear program has hit a watershed moment and so has our tolerance. Words do not stop centrifuges from spinning."
Professor Rabinovici’s main field of research is theoretical high-energy physics, in particular quantum field theory and string theory.
The Assembly also demands that the national parliament adopt legislation to exclude any possible grant and public aid to entities that promote Antisemitism according to the IHRA Definition.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The speech by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas comes amid deepening unpopularity among Palestinian Authority citizens; a recent poll found that 80 percent want him to resign.
By Israel Hayom
The new law defines anti-Semitism as hatred of Jews, including attacks, false or hateful statements and denying the mass extermination of Ukrainian Jewry during the Holocaust.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Canadian government had been attempting to expel Helmut Oberlander for more than two decades, claiming he had hidden his role as a Nazi death squad interpreter during his immigration to Canada in 1954.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
No head of state spoke at the event, except the South African president who sponsored the rally.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The “real story” with these EU-funded projects is that they are part of the Fayyad Plan activity to take over Area C.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It threatens targeted sanctions on Lebanon for “obstructing and undermining the democratic political process.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The donation will finance “sustainable economic development in [Palestine] over the next two years,” according to P.A. Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The human bones were found in a basement, thought to have resulted from a Jew hiding from German forces that destroyed the area during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.
Fizuli, on Iran's border, was one of the cities that were destroyed during the First Karabakh War.
“Passersby, regardless of their religious affiliation, always congratulate us on Rosh Hashanah.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The US warned that it would no longer be able to dock in the Haifa port if the Chinese took over managing it.
The team surveyed 607 participants from 32 countries regarding their gender, education level, parental status, and whether they accompanied their child on the first day of school.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
One of the alleged terrorists was named Iran’s new interior minister.
A few years ago, Dr. Jon Seligman's visit to Vilna as part of a roots trip sparked the idea of digging up what was left of the compound and the synagogue.
The Ruderman Family foundation collaborated with a social venture that designed outfits for Israel’s Paralympic Games.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbi Marcus Solomon, an experienced commercial litigator and arbitrator, on Wednesday was sworn in to the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He chose to conclude the ceremony “with an old Jewish custom” — saying the Shehechyanu Jewish prayer, which is typically recited to celebrate new experiences.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The partnership will help set up joint initiatives for the production, marketing, sale, adaption and support of tactical radars.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It comes days after Poland passed a new law that sets a 30-year limit on restitution claims for property stolen by the Nazis during World War II, which has led to a row between Israel and Poland.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Local Druze citizens in Lebanon stopped the rocket unit and detained the terrorists.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated the US is “deeply concerned” by the law and urged Duda not sign the bill into law or refer the bill to Poland’s constitutional tribunal.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This is hardly the first time UNRWA has found Hamas weapons and explosives hidden below its compounds.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The passage of time is no barrier to justice when it comes to the heinous crimes of the Holocaust,” said Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Education Trust.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Advocates for the family of the Jewish woman killed in Paris by her Muslim neighbor are seeking the killer’s prosecution in Israel after he was found unfit to stand trial in France.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Upon learning of the presence of UNMAS inspectors at the school, Hamas police arrived on the scene and forced them to leave.
The European Union's funding of illegal Arab construction in Area C of Judea and Samaria is a path to establishing a de facto Palestinian state.
Israel sold Azerbaijan SandCat-Stormer armored vehicles with 12.7 mm NSV machine guns, anti-tank guided missiles SPIKE-ER, NLOS, LAHAT, 120 mm SPEAR mortars, and numerous UAVs.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Data gathered by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry showed that the number of anti-Semitic abuses reported this year has already matched the total number of incidents from 2020.