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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Law enforcement was completely cooperative but the threats were of a nature that required cancellation,” wrote David Friedman, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, who was slated to speak at the event.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Pope Leo XIV said he was "deeply pained" by the situation in Gaza amid the war against Hamas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The rejection was “entirely in line with the standards we apply to all ad submissions,” a spokesperson for the publication said.
Minister Amichai Chikli accused the pontiff of perpetuating a “dangerous blood libel” against Israel and distorting history.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Abbas wished Pope Francis well ahead of Christmas, while urging churches around the world to mention "the suffering of the Palestinian people."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
While not mentioning Israel specifically, Pope Francis said in response to a question about the IDF's campaign in Lebanon that all countries must beware the tendency to go "beyond morality" when conducting wars.
"We don’t have any safe rooms to guard us, so if a rocket would fall here, there would be a great number of casualties.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"I’m on a hot mic here,’ Biden replied. ‘Good. That’s good."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Pope gets it wrong again.
The extraordinary delegation of Muslim women leaders traveled, in extraordinary times, through war-torn southern Israel this weekend, braving renewed Hamas rocket attacks as the cease-fire collapsed and taking cover outside as the projectiles struck nearby.
The Washington-based advocacy group Israel Allies Foundation releases the list annually.
Adams met a group of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious leaders representing a diverse range of communities that comprise Israel's vibrant social fabric.
Attitudes in Europe, and in Sweden and Denmark in particular, have challenged basic respect for the religious beliefs of other and common decency in general.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
‘It is so difficult to comfort a mother’s tears,’ Francis tells the delegation at the Vatican.
By Alan Zeitlin
Adriana Fernandez can pronounce Pesach perfectly, and is well-versed in the rules of “shomer negiah” and “tznius.”
“Unearth the Land of the Bible” is a 10-day tour starting in April 2023, of archaeological digs at heritage and nature sites of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority.
Yad Vashem has recognized about 28,000 Righteous Among the Nations.
The new forum is a direct outcome of the historic Abraham Accords and was announced last October at the first trilateral meeting of the Foreign Ministers of all three countries.
By David Isaac
“[Dr. J. Herbert] Nelson’s remarks were so offensive and inflammatory that people who would normally just sit on the sidelines and throw up their hands, even they have been moved to say, ‘We can’t allow this,’ ” said Rev. Todd Stavrakos, a co-convener of Presbyterians for Middle East Peace.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. Jewish organizations outraged at Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson II’s “unacceptable,” “dangerous” remarks.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Christian population in Israel and one of a few in the Middle East that is flourishing and not shrinking.
Wynton Marsalis said: “We are many, let us also be one, unified in our embrace of humanism, cultural excellence and democracy. Let us not be tribal.”
The study did not discuss the reasons for the sharp decline in support for Israel.
By TPS / WAM
The Abrahamic Family House, the project inspired by the Document on Human Fraternity and constructed on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi and will house a mosque, church, and synagogue, will open in 2020.
By Israel Hayom
Conference of European Rabbis president hails move for sending “a clear message of tolerance and pluralism.” Germany last had a chief military rabbi in World War I.
By Chabad.org
Giving children time to stop and think about what’s important.
The event also featured musical performances and a poetry recital, centered on the theme of interfaith relations.
The KCAC works in partnership with forty-two Israel Allies Caucuses in governments worldwide through the coordinating efforts of the Israel Allies Foundation (IAF).
This fund will primarily support elderly Israelis, some of whom are Holocaust survivors, with packages of food and other essential items.
Rabbi Eliyahu quipped that the Pope would soon endorse building a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Tarantino won a Golden Globe for Best Screenplay for “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” and in his acceptance speech thanked his Israeli wife, Daniella Pick, in Hebrew.
The son returned to Israel from Gaza and received immediate citizenship under Israel’s Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to Israeli citizenship.
Authorities have reportedly intervened in the matter and are seeking to ensure that no loudspeaker for the muezzin or green lighting is installed on the mosque.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The habit of persecuting Jews is beginning to be reborn. Brothers and sisters: This is neither human nor Christian; the Jews are our brothers and sisters, and must not be persecuted! Understood?”
The campaign was arranged in coordination with the IDF’s Home Front Command and the heads of authorities in relevant areas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Embassy has already donated more than 75 portable bomb shelters to Israeli towns and villages along the Gaza border.
“The Land of Israel legally belongs to the Indigenous Jewish Community,” said Bishop Scott Mwanza
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Pope Pius XII, the World War II-era pope, has been accused by many of having been a Nazi sympathizer who failed to act to save Jews from the Holocaust.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The mosque has not been in use for some 50 years.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The traditional event, which has been the city’s custom for over three decades, highlights the tolerance and coexistence among members of all faiths in Jerusalem.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Leaders of American national Evangelical organizations sent a letter to Airbnb strongly condemning its decision to “discriminate against the State of Israel” by removing Israeli-owned listings in Judea and Samaria, charing that Airbnb’s actions were “not only discriminatory but anti-Semitic in nature.” The company announced its decision to delist some 200 homes in November because […]
Some 500 Christians evangelicals from around the world gathered for a Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem.
"I am honoured that my own great grandmother is one of these Righteous Among the Nations."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Chief Rabbi Lau responded on Tuesday that the best way to battle anti-Semitism is to immigrate to Israel, but that all Jews in Germany and throughout the Diaspora must continue to wear the kippah and other Jewish symbols.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The extraordinary gesture comes at the behest of U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, Channel 20 reports.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If passed the legislation would grant money raised through donations to American schools as part of the Holocaust Education Assistance Program.
By JNi.Media
'Anthony is a Wall Street powerhouse whose dedication to Israel is steadfast.'
By JNi.Media
“This was meant to be a place where everyone was welcome, and someone just ripped it down.”
Egyptian activist Hassan El-Shamy: "Only fifteen percent of the Egyptian Parliament consists of women. The percentage should be fifty plus one!"
"We are very proud... Today the situation in Europe has many similarities to what happened at the time of my grandfather."
By JNi.Media
"TODAY, I was 'FIRED' from volunteering because I identify as Jewish (discovering my Jewish heritage recently)."
By JNi.Media
In late August, four coalitions of Jewish clergy issued statements they planned to boycott the president's call, in response to Trump’s weak response to the neo-Nazi and white supremacist riots in Charlottesville, Va.
By JNi.Media
Miraculously, the Jewish texts which have withstood almost 2,000 years of exile, have stood up to Houston's flood waters.
By JNi.Media
After an initial briefing with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and with the Orthodox Union which is coordinating the volunteers within the Jewish community in Houston, the ZAKA team set out to work.
By JNi.Media
The Pope criticizes Europe's attitude about the migration of asylum seekers from the Middle east.
By JNi.Media
“Roger Waters is a global symbol of Jew Hatred that should not be welcome in Nashville or anywhere else in the United States of America.”
By JNi.Media
You could finish Ma'ariv with the minyan, then even do Kiddush Levanah, if the sky isn't overcast, change into your leather shorts and hit the festival.
"If everyone would ask himself, ‘What does God want from me?’ that would bring us together.”
By JNi.Media
Senior Jewish Agency officials are saying Sharansky is livid over the government's decision to cancel the Kotel plan.
"Sometimes you have to hit a wall, feel the rift, in order to build a new bridge."
By JNi.Media
'The absence of children – particularly children being raised in the Jewish religion – represents yet one more missing incentive to Jewish communal engagement.'
By JNi.Media
Since President Obama signed a waiver in December, President Trump has a June 1 deadline to decide between another waiver or an embassy move.
"See... those who control the money in the world can be counted on one hand - and all of them belong to the Jewish world."
"Jewish landlords ... are at the forefront of pushing black and Latino people out of Upper Manhattan," he charged.
"Expanding our knowledge of languages opens up doors to understanding and contributes to an collaborative atmosphere."
By JNi.Media
In addition to his political career, Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva was probably a slave trader, and the first Spanish person to cross the lower Rio Grande into Texas from Mexico.
By JNi.Media
'The fraternal and institutional dialogue between Jews and Christians is now well-established and effective, made so by encounters that are ongoing and collaborative.'
By JNi.Media
The tweet received around 10,000 retweets and more than 30,000 likes, and the sudden increase in traffic crashed the campaign’s page.
NYC Council member Chaim Deutsch sent a letter to President Obama asking for last-minute clemency for Sholom Rubashkin before he leaves office.
People formed a human chain in Tel Aviv from the US Embassy to the Russian Embassy to call for an end to slaughter in Syria.
Jewish and Arab master chefs are combining their skills in Haifa to create culinary heaven at a unique festival.
MK Yehuda Glick believes that dialogue not legislation is what's needed to lower the decibel level of the Muezzins.
By JNi.Media
It is impossible to paint lipstick on either of these pigs, but in the competition between Halloween and Christmas over which of the two holidays is more dangerous Halloween wins out, hands down.
By JNi.Media
Using the great, eye opening Pew study of 2013, Cohen points out that the signs of Jewish life in intermarried Jewish families are fast diminishing.
"Shimon's story is ... the story of a people who, over so many centuries in the wilderness, never gave up on that basic human longing to return home."
Israeli Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog slams UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, notes his 'consistent hatred of Israel.'
Both US Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry will speak Monday for J Street.
By JNi.Media
The entire text of the Tanakh is offered in both English and Hebrew, along with an audio component so readers can hear the Hebrew text.
By JNi.Media
Naturally, in a country without a constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech, the policeman is king.
The security guard at the supermarket apparently did not check the teen terrorists before allowing them in.
By JNi.Media
At these costs, it probably makes sense for Israel to annex the entire Judea and Samaria already, rather than pay for it in installments…
Pope Francis “will greet directly the greatest number of people possible,” the rabbi said.
he problem with Do Not Covet is, of course, that it refers to something going on inside a person' skull.
The Israeli President let Obama use him as a prop to promote a pluralistic agenda that turned Hanukkah into an excuse for Obama's agenda.
By JNi.Media
On Friday, Beth Israel hosted two prayer sessions for local Muslims and a potluck dinner.
By JNi.Media
Along with the aid to victims, The Fellowship is providing a $375,000, state-of-the-art mobile-command vehicle to the Jerusalem municipality.
Her husband is Jewish and she converted before they were married in June, while she was pregnant.
By JNi.Media
“Why Christians are finding it hard to boycott Israel,” lists the “fears” Christians must overcome, in order to be brave and put Israel in its place.
By JNi.Media
Rabbi Heschel persuaded the bishops to eliminate or modify passages in Church liturgy that demeaned the Jews, or referred to their expected conversion to Christianity.
By JNi.Media
A whopping 86% of Conservative Rabbi don’t want to admit intermarried couples in their congregations.
By JNi.Media
The IFCJ is dispensing the emergency funds following a discussion with Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and senior ministry officials.
Shoshana Selavan, chairperson of the Old City's Jewish Quarter community, launches a new column on Jewish Life in the Old City.
By JNi.Media
This was the very first time a pope, or his advisers, felt the need for a comedic advisor.
By JNi.Media
Sad - Watching Jewish-American assimilation in action.
By JNi.Media
The exhibition “A blessing to one another: Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People,” opened on Tuesday in the Vatican.
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