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According to experts, there are very few extant Esther scrolls from the medieval period in general, and from the fifteenth century in particular.
Amid an arctic freeze, members of the Lone Star State opened doors to friends without power, cooked meals, arranged for medication pickups for the homebound, and, in one extreme case, mobilized to ensure that hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccines would not go to waste.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Surveillance footage shows a suspect drawing a swastika on a “private property” sign at the Rego Park Jewish Center in Queens, N.Y.
Organizations call on state officials to Investigate.
By Ariel Kahana
The campaign, spearheaded by UNICEF's Gaza and West Bank branch, is aimed at putting the IDF on the list of child rights abusers published annually by the U.N. Secretary General, says the watchdog group.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The court’s ability to “investigate, probe and render justice” is being undermined in the United States, says Omar.
The Palestinian Authority warned Arabs to not be tricked by intermediaries trying to buy land on behalf of the Jews.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Israel regional vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values, called her new appointment “dangerous.”
Incidents of Israeli anarchists harassing residents of the Jordan Valley have become commonplace.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We are not the type of people to be scared. We’re not the type of people that would be silenced. We’re not the type of people to back down from what we believe in,” says student Jeremy Zelner.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Germany’s Ministry of Culture spokesman said the tombstones “are centuries-old evidence of Jewish roots and tradition in Mainz.”
By Eliana Rudee
“The purpose is to fill that gap by providing the first-ever examination of claims made under Item 7, and to provide a detailed analysis, citing to sources of fact and international law,” said researcher and writer Dina Rovner.elianneliana
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The use of the pig theme is intended to humiliate,” said CICAD.
In the letter, the pre-Communist era leader calls Zionism "one of the greatest movements of the present time."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel’s position is that the ICC lacks any jurisdiction on this matter because that no sovereign Palestinian state exists nor does any territory belonging to such an entity. Israel has not joined the Roman Statute.
By Israel Hayom
Maj. Gen. Itai Veruv, who heads the Israel Defense Forces Military Colleges, is overseeing a team that includes an expert in international law.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
MK Ariel Kallner is the head of the Knesset’s Lobby for the Fight Against Delegitimization and Anti-Semitism.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
He allegedly was part of an incident in 2012 where several staffers at the center’s ThinkProgress website were condemned for using anti-Semitic tropes of Jews dominating politics and money.
“In truth, I didn’t think that this story was going to end well."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
They were joined by Ahmed Bin Sulayem, executive chairman of the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The controversial story was moved to the archives on NBC (but not deleted), as per an editor’s note.
Unawareness about Holocaust history poses a challenge for TikTok, as 41 percent of the video-sharing network’s users are between ages 16 and 24.
The program sends Modern Orthodox, Religious Zionist rabbis, and educators to serve in communal and educational leadership positions in Jewish communities around the world.
Chiune Sugihara defied his own government’s orders by issuing handwritten transit visas in 1940 to more than 6,000 Lithuanian Jews, enabling them to escape Nazi-occupied Europe.
Free expression of their Jewish identity, a fair education, a safe learning environment, a comprehensive definition of antisemitism, and a fair protections.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A total of 5,300 survivors contracted the virus in the past year, and 17% died.
Yoram Haimi, Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist: “I have been excavating this site for ten years, but today I broke down.”
On Tuesday of the week of Parshat Beshalach some people read the section on the Manna as a Segula...
The Tzohar hotline will be staffed by trained rabbis and social workers 24 hours a day, six days a week.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Under the terms of the 1995 Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority is responsible for the healthcare of Arabs under its control.
By Israel Hayom
The Tefillin were discovered as Polish authorities began to demolish buildings inside the Warsaw Ghetto.
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been used by anti-Semites to spread conspiracy theories against Jews around the world and against the State of Israel.
99% of the people reading this article may not realize the incredible importance of this year’s Tu B’Shvat.
The third draft curriculum is now being reviewed by the State Board of Education and is likely to be approved in March with few changes.
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.
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