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.
Several Danish political parties have launched another campaign to ban male religious circumcision in the country.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Organizers say it is an “in-depth course on legislative advocacy” in training activists to lobby Congress on BDS and other anti-Israel issues.
This video has everything a pandemic Rosh Hashanah project needs: cute babies and kids, apples and honey, shofars, spacesuits.
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.
The Alfred Landecker Foundation was established by the Reimann family in June 2019 to atone for their father and grandfather's war crimes.
Palestinian Authority officials claim that allowing the disabled to have access to the holy site is a provocation of the Muslims’ sensibilities.
This is the first time in the country’s history that a Jewish religious leader has been honored with the highest award of the Ukrainian Parliament.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jacob Blake Sr., father of 29-year-old Jacob Blake, appears to show a history of racist and anti-Semitic views.
By Josh Hasten
Rabbi Yissachar Krakowski and team prepared 300 kosher meals over the course of the two-day event in the United Arab Emirates.
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.”
The Jewish Community Relations Council of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation called for unity.
He said President Donald Trump “has stood up fearlessly against those who are corrupting the term social justice.”
Adherents to the conspiracy theory claim that the “liberal elite,” including Democratic politicians and Jewish billionaire George Soros, are part of a secret faction to overthrow the president.
This year’s presidential campaign has carried unprecedented implications for Jewish identity.
With synagogues offering more minyanim than ever before in order to accommodate social distancing thereby creating a shortage of qualified Baalei Tefillot, the OU has created a “Baal Tefillah Boot Camp” to help train more than 100 to lead these minyanim.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Kollab was fired from the Cleveland Clinic in December 2018 for making anti-Semitic remarks online.
In the Sephardic tradition, recital of Selichot in preparation for the High Holidays begins on the second day of the Hebrew month of Elul.
Biden campaign senior advisor Symone Sanders told JNS: “We continue to reject the views that Linda Sarsour has expressed.”
By Chabad.org
“Each Person, a World” pays tribute to 1,200 Jewish victims of the coronavirus from around the globe.
MK Keti Shitrit (Likud) called Shenhar's letter "shameful" and said it was an attempt to "exclude the bereaved families from the hearings on the terrorists' punishment."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The anti-Israel bill is cosponsored by Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Andre Carson and Mark Pocan. The Squad+.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The UN blacklist only includes Jewish, and not Arab-owned, Israeli companies- clear discrimination and a violation of the UN charter.
Every week, a recorded message from the final generation of Holocaust survivors to Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg is posted on Facebook, Instagram (owned by Facebook) and Twitter.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I feel as if I were reborn today,” the father of the family says. “I am so happy to have met all my children and grandchildren.”
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.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The American Jewish Committee called on former Prime Minister Carl Bildt to apologize.
Pickles has long been one of the strongest, most prominent public voices against anti-Semitism in the UK.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In 2014, Israel declared IRW to be illegal, based on its role of funneling money to Hamas, and it is banned from operating in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip.
Every day, a recorded message from the final generation of Holocaust survivors to Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg will be posted on Facebook.
Anti-Defamation League’s Dr. Sharon S. Nazarian also addressed “complexities” of Jewish community’s approach to Black Lives Matter.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Anti-Defamation League has labeled Duke as “perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite.”
“I’m not an anti-Semite. My manager of 25 years is a white Jew,” Klein recalled Ice Cube telling him. “I’ve been to Jewish, pro-Israel events.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to the heads of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox parties, the Israeli Health Ministry will announce the new directives by Wednesday.
The KCAC works in partnership with forty-two Israel Allies Caucuses in governments worldwide through the coordinating efforts of the Israel Allies Foundation (IAF).
Orthodox Union (OU) Kosher, the world’s largest kosher certification agency, has launched a free online kosher food and travel guide to help Jews follow dietary and ritual observance while away from home.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The victim was treated at a local hospital for minor injuries.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The only names on Omar's list are Jewish ones: billionaire Jonathan Gray, retired real estate executive Stanley Weinstein and billionaire hedge-fund owner Seth Klarman.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Airmont’s zoning code “substantially burdens, discriminates against and unreasonably limits the practice of religion by the Village’s Orthodox Jewish community.”
Now Twitter has claimed that the policy was directed only at "yellow stars." But in reality regular Star of David images were banned.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In the comments section of Madonna’s Instagram post, users lambasted her for sharing the video and cited Farrakhan's history of anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism and other bigotry.
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.
Recently, Twitter refused to take action against the viral antisemitic hashtag #JewishPrivilege, and earlier this year the social media giant was forced to apologies for permitting advertisements to be micro-targeted to neo-Nazis and other bigots.
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.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Defense for Children International-Palestine has been linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, designated a terror group by the United States and European Union.
Governor Newsom stated, "We are united in our resolve to make sure the advisory committee draft is only that, a draft, that will be substantially amended... It will never see the light of day.”
By Chabad.org
In 1994, the staunch Democrat Lewis, together with arch-rival Congressman Newt Gingrich, sponsored the bill bestowing the Congressional Gold Medal for the Rebbe.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The suspect can be seen spray-painting Temple Emanu-El at 2:15 a.m. on July 15. He then went to Temple Sinai, about five miles away, where he vandalized that building as well.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The move comes just one day after the congresswoman picked up an endorsement from U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Csengele kosher slaughterhouse in Hungary has become the first to receive such certification for goose liver.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Following the revelations by former New York Times journalist Bari Weiss regarding systemic anti-Semitic bullying, the Zionist Organization of America has established a hotline for journalists who can report anti-Semitism, anti-Israel bigotry, bullying, or harassment they are encountering.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has perpetuated anti-Semitic tropes and introduced a resolution in Congress that promotes boycotts of Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to the NYPD, “two men punched the victim in the head” after yelling anti-Semitic slurs at him on a Saturday.
“School board members asked to vote on the resolution are not shown the original draft curriculum, and not informed about the enormous outpouring of criticism it engendered or that a CDE process is well underway for the curriculum’s redesign."
The fund targets non-profit organizations that work with "populations in need of assistance" and who lost more than 25% of their income.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The legislation prohibits the state and its political subdivisions from entering into contracts worth more than $100,000 with companies with 10 or more employees that engage in BDS.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Between the years 2000 and 2017, 10 percent of the French Jewish community, the largest in Europe, immigrated to Israel.
The victim was walking home from a Shabbat meal when a vehicle with three men identified as Hispanic passed by him.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“All public figures who utilize their influence on social media, regardless of intent, to perpetuate language that reinforces myths and stereotypes must learn how to communicate better these issues,” said the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Many in the Jewish and Muslim community eat kosher or halal food and have not been able to benefit from these programs,” stated a letter signed by two senators.
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.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Foodbenders, a Toronto health food restaurant, has lost business and is now facing legal action after using the hashtag “#zionistsnotwelcome” in social media posts.
Covid-19 has created a “new and unique wave of anti-Semitism around the world: the Jews, Zionists or the State of Israel are to blame for the pandemic and stand to gain from it.”
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%).
“In a problematic situation, when it is possible to be so critical, it is important to find the good, to connect with it, to love it, to increase it and then let it grow and look at reality,” Fraenkel said.
NCYI President Farley Weiss condemned the marchers who “desperately seek justice and an end to racism" and "are themselves engaging in abhorrent and hypocritical behavior that fans the flames of bigotry and hate.”
By Orit Arfa
“Germany killed 6 million Jews in World War II, in the Holocaust, and now Germany wants to tell Israel how to defend its security,” said Marcel Goldhammer, a journalist with both German and Israeli citizenship.