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By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The suit claims the tank crew were "forced to defend themselves against their comrades in the company and the division, to be interrogated by the IDF and the Israel Police, to give an account to their family members, and to find themselves in a turmoil based entirely on the complete lies."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jack Dorsey has been quick to edit “misinformation” when it comes to politics, the coronavirus pandemic or other issues of consequence, but not when it comes to anti-Semitism, says End Jew Hatred.
The Academy of Science will issue its own statement on the adoption of the IHRA working definition on January 26.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
While they “respect the original creation of the IHRA Working Definition as an illustrative tool, and as part of a larger and ongoing conversation about the nature of anti-Semitism,” they expressed “concern with its adoption as a legal tool.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Kristen Clarke was involved with a 1994 event featuring the late Wellesley College professor Tony Martin, who self-published “The Jewish Onslaught: Dispatches from the Wellesley Battlefront.”
"The supporting waters have vanished heavenward. Only a vast, dry seabed remains. The loss is colossal."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The ruling will significant challenges for religious Jews and the hospitals.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In front of the camera, a man referred to as “Marc” shouted: “I’m gonna get in your face now and I’ll tell you why, yid.”
The higher the share of elderly persons in the municipality, the lower its infection rate in the second wave.
Sharansky, the Genesis Fund, and Startup Nation Central announced the winners of the competition for start-ups offering technology solutions in the fight against corona.
"These extremists are preventing other people who wish to get tested from doing so."
"We would like to wish the Jews ... an excellent journey onboard the SNCB trains."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Division of Human Rights is expected to hold a virtual forum for families discuss the incident and learn about resources to combat hate.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
With the pandemic's end in sight the Orthodox Union convened small synagogues to discuss returning to full operations.
"Baruch was a partisan and a fighter who, throughout his life, embodied the survivors' rebirth and commitment to building a new life for himself, his family, his nation, and his country."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“This is just one of many ways we can repay our boundless gratitude for all that they did to save Jews during the Holocaust,” said Stanlee Stahl, executive vice president of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.
At the inclusive kindergarten, children born with multiple disabilities and their non-disabled peers are integrated throughout their daily activities.
The Lookstein Center offers a broad range of teacher training opportunities to reach as many teachers as possible.
Herzliya Mayor Moshe Fadlon deserves a bunch of kudos for his municipality's all-out Chanukah celebrations.
No Kamala, Chanukah is not about Tikun Olam and McLightly Light.
By Chabad.org
Precautions would have to be taken and the event would be shorter than usual, but it would indeed take place.
By Israel Hayom
The hope is that the decree, issued by rabbis Chaim Kanievsky, Gershon Edelstein, Shalom Cohen and Elimelech Firer, will be helpful in curbing morbidity in the “haredi” community.
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.
By Israel Hayom
“Who would have believed that peace would come to our home in such a glorious way? It is a Hanukkah miracle,” says Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The occupation state ... is exploiting every opportunity, and particularly the so-called 'Jewish holidays,’ in order to commit crimes," says P.A. Supreme Sharia Judge Mahmoud al-Habbash.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The language condemns the Jewish state for “repressive measures” against Syrian citizens in the Golan Heights and renews the mandates of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It appears that candidate Raphael Warnock still has a lot more to walk back, as new anti-Israel video surfaces.
Daniel Bouknight recognized that he had become the steward of something important, and that he needed to do his part to right a historic wrong.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Aside from government-funding issues, the purpose behind the list is to issue a “public condemnation” of the anti-Israel movement.
“We knew we needed to think outside the box . . . so we introduced this party-on-wheels, a multimedia celebration of light and life.”
Called “Or Eitan” or “Share the Light,” the project allows Jews all over the world to upload photos of themselves lighting candles and wishing Happy Hanukkah to their family, friends and the entire Jewish people.
It has been suggested that the menorah may have been a motif related to the Temple and the priesthood that served in it during this time.
Jewish communities in the UK, Italy, Belgium and Sweden particularly affected during first wave, but no single Jewish pattern worldwide.
In the competition, which was held last week in Israel, more than 600 samples of wines and spirits were tested by some 40 judges from all over the world.
A Jewish Agency emissary will be arriving in the UAE as early as next week to work with the local Jewish community.
Perhaps the two most moving items in the collection are a pair of notes found in her dress following her execution: the last poem she ever wrote and a personal letter to her mother.
As of 2019, according to Rabbi Marc Schneier, it is estimated that about 150 families—some 3,000 Jews, live and pray freely in the UAE.
Tlaib is worried that the incoming Jewish Secretary of State may (somehow) suppress her right to support BDS and criticize Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The man who served as a Nazi concentration-camp guard has lost his appeal to halt his deportation.
The complaint makes clear that UIUC can protect the victims of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism on its campus without violating the First Amendment.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I have switched a lot of, uh, you know, I guess, culturally Jewish people. But being a practicing Jew, like, people who are religious about it, they are very difficult. I’ve had a hard time connecting with them in that way.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Out of 1,650 religious-motivated hate crimes, 60.3 percent, or almost 995, were anti-Jewish.
"Anti-Semitic acts and expressions are all too common in our country and in our world, and examples of that intolerance have occurred at this university as well."
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.
This year's event will feature inspiring messages of overcoming the pandemic's challenges. Keynotes will be attorney Nat Lewin and Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson, of Central London and the author of Positivity Bias.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The possibility of doing so caused some pushback from some State Department officials, lawmakers and the Anti-Defamation League.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The percentage of assimilation among Polish Jews is 70%, in Hungary, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden it is 50% and in France 31%.
"The Druze are our brothers and are a cornerstone of the State of Israel. We cannot allow radical groups with foreign interests to erode our brotherhood."
Rabbi Shlomo Litvin said “people have knocked on our door to say they are sorry this happened. I’ve also gotten texts, emails and calls of support from all over the country; it’s been very meaningful.”
In light of the technological advances in producing lab-grown meat by in vitro cell culture, Jerusalem College of Technology in partnership with the Sulamot Organization hosts virtual gathering to examine the Halachic implications of this and other cutting-edge technologies.
Which Warnock are we supposed to believe? The one who made horrible anti-Israel statements and accusations before he was a front-runner candidate for US Senate, or the ones he made after he was exposed?
Ilhan Omar lied and claimed Israel ethnically cleansed an Arab village. She lied....
The Ritz Carlton Manama will be under OU supervision.
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.
“AIPAC congratulates President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their election victory,” said the pro-Israel lobby in a statement.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Several Jewish congressional members are expected to retain prominent leadership roles in the 117th Congress
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.
In a world reeling from a pandemic and a divisive U.S. election, the 7th annual international Shabbat Project offers unity, optimism, and a much-needed break from the 24-hour news cycle.
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.”
There are over 300 NGOs operating in Israel which are funded by foreign governments, and primarily by the Europeans, which operate to influence Israel in various aspects, and in many cases operate against the Jewish State.
An investigation conducted by Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs (MSA) discovered that at least 21% of posts related to an International Criminal Courts (ICC) investigation against Israel came from fake Twitter accounts - and had 180% greater engagement rates than posts from real users.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Erdogan focused much of his anger on France and French President Emmanuel Macron. The two are already in conflict over French policy against the separatism of Muslim communities across the country.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Someone that I’ve never met, never seen, hates me for a reason I can’t control, because of who I was born to be,” said Seth Blattman.
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in educational institutions that receive federal funding.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Jews in Europe had constituted 83% of world Jewry in 1900 but currently account for merely 9% of the total number of Jews worldwide, according to the study.
By Ariel Kahana
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam are said to be in Washington’s sights over their policies and affiliation with the BDS movement.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Nearly $6.9 million was given to an NGO ties to the PFLP terrorist organization.
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)
Jewish leaders and groups, specifically the ultra-Orthodox community, have sharply criticized the two leaders for their enforcement of coronavirus restrictions amid a spike in cases.
"Anti-Semitism and racism threaten our society as a whole, they endanger our values and our democracy."
Carr: New York’s governor and mayor could have handled the situation far better with communities wanting to “worship and attend funerals.”
Facebook and TikTok, however, each sent a senior representative in the same week that Facebook also banned Holocaust denial on its platform.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The statement did not specify the type of cancer or how severe it is.
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 Israel Hayom
The ultra-Orthodox comprise about 12 percent of Israel’s general population and only a fraction of the population aged 65 and over.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Responded the Simon Wiesenthal Center: “At a time when the Internet is awash with fake news and technological tools that enable governments and virtually anyone to manipulate information, we welcome Facebook’s change of policy to stand with historic fact and the 6 million Jews murdered by Nazi Germany during World War II.”
By Israel Hayom
The Investigative Project on Terrorism’s two-part film disproves the “anti-Semitic, intersectional” narrative about the Israel Police force, promoted by groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A state administrative judge ruled in August that William Latson should be rehired, though reassigned. Donald Fennoy, superintendent of the School District of Palm Beach County, has recommended that Latson be reinstated and given $152,000 in back pay.
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations lauded the decision, saying “this killer should be behind bars for the rest of his days; anything less would be a painful insult to the Pearl family.”
By Israel Hayom
The Israel Tax Authority is refusing to release information about hundreds of millions of shekels in exemptions received by international groups, some of which actively work against the Jewish state.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Castro also wants to condition U.S. military assistance to Israel on the Jewish state not applying sovereignty to the Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Osman Butt, 25, was charged with burglary and criminal mischief for allegedly breaking windows of the Shore Parkway Jewish Center.
Whether synagogues or “whether talking about black churches or Roman Catholic Churches, the community must agree to the rules,” insisted New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The sukkah was presented by Rabbi Levi Duchman, the rabbi of the local Jewish community in Dubai.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Omar Barghouthi threatens boycotts against “every company and every establishment that gets involved in implementing the agreements of shame and betrayal of the Palestinian cause.”
The veto enables the Department of Education to reconsider its ill-conceived plan to produce a divisive program of ethnic studies.
The “Oscars of wine” recognizes the products of 18 Israeli wineries, bestowing six gold medals, 31 silvers and 28 bronzes.
Neighbors reported on Monday the large bright yellow swastika on the hood of a car. The windshield was covered in paint as well. The police were notified.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Halie Soifer of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, sought to dispel the notion that they were objecting to the substance, saying “the measure was manipulated using anti-Semitism for political purposes.”
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.
I can’t explain the feeling I had as I drove my ambucycle back home and walked into my living room to see my family still waiting for me.
The coalition will work to underscore the significance of the Trump administration’s pro-Israel and pro-Jewish policies.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The restaurant will be operated under the rabbinical supervision of Rabbi Levi Y. Duchman, rabbi of the UAE, who has certified the venue with glatt-kosher and pas Yisroel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It was found in a manuscript written just after the Expulsion, which was likely used by Catalonian exiles living in Provence.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“With recent developments, we expect that demand for kosher food in the UAE and region will grow quickly,” says Emirates Flight Catering CEO Saeed Mohammed.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Poland is the only European Union member-state that has not adopted a national comprehensive private-property restitution law.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Koral Zaarur said the measure was in response to posters of Adolf Hitler and swastikas on campus, though it “turned into so much more.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The survey was presented on Tuesday to the Knesset’s Subcommittee on Israel-Diaspora Relations.
They need a miracle. Meanwhile, they sing.
August 14, 2026 
