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The film director Taika Waititi is half Māori father, half Jewish mother, Scarlett Johansson is half Danish father, half Jewish mother.
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60 Organizations last week brought the post to the attention of CSU, demanding an investigation.
By Allen Fagin
Each of us participates in a very personal encounter with history and its modern manifestations; with our personal journey from galut to geulah.
Migdal Ohr distributes tens of thousands of food parcels to needy families.
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The Cairo Genizah International Project of the Haifa, Oxford, Princeton and Pennsylvania universities presents one of the ancient haggadahs discovered so far, opening a window to Medieval Passover customs.
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The reported statements include comparisons between Israel and the Nazis, blaming the downfall of Arab leaders on a “Hebrew spring” and depicting Israel as a two-headed monster.
The report suggests creating a legal framework for these descendants of Jews to visit Israel in order to learn about Judaism and Israel.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman authorized IDF Chief Rabbi Eyal Karim to sell all the IDF's Chametz to a non-Jew.
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The sites and the museums included in the project combine contemporary Israeli culture with the history of the people and the land.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
When Channel 1’s Cathy Bekerman was told by her newscast director to cross herself on air, “I did not do it, and he asked me to resign at that moment, to which I did not agree,” Bekerman told Colombian media.
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“I consider the statement below from President Wong, welcoming Zionists to campus, equating Jewishness with Zionism, and giving Hillel ownership of campus Jewishness to be a declaration of war against Arabs, Muslims, [and] Palestinians…”
Bennett has been courting the Haredi community to expand the ranks of Bayit Yehudi voters.
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Only one tenth of one percent of Poles turned millions of Jews into the hands of the Nazis, robbed them, took their homes and murdered them in well documented pogroms, during and after the war.
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After the Washington Post had reported the bizarre attack on Sunday, White said he had been approached by Jews United for Justice, who helped him "understand the history of comments made against Jews."
Prior to Aliya in 1986 Sharansky was best known for his time in Soviet prisons after his arrest in 1977.
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A member of the Simon Wiesenthal Center bought the book at the Krithi International Book Fair in Cochin, ironically the city that served as home to Jews in India for hundreds of years.
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In 1940, a group of chassidim secretly removed his remains to the burial site where they are today. According to these chassidim, they found his body whole, with no sign of decomposition, 20 years after his death.
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“Amy embodies grace, intelligence, and thoughtful Jewish values,” adds Sally Berkovic, CEO of Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe.
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"We very much value independent and critical thinking, but we also need some common sense and humility."
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To date, Yad Vashem has recognized some 26,500 Righteous Among the Nations from over 50 nations worldwide.
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If the Gerrer Rebbe sticks to his guns about running the full vote on the bill to end before ever tending to the budget bill, it would effectively spell the end of Netanyahu's coalition government.
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Putin claimed Russia did not possess the tools nor the will to meddle in elections.
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“This isn’t the time to attack Orthodox Jews, let’s find these specific men and deal with it that way,” one user suggested.
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It appears that Poles are convinced the world owes them an apology for their collaboration with the Nazis as well as for murders of Jews they initiated themselves.
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David Goldblatt often says that photography is not a weapon, and that it should have nothing to do with propaganda, even in a good cause.
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The clash over the bill is reaching the point where the gloves would be pulled off and the political fisticuffs could start.
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WAFA reports: Hundreds of fanatic Jewish settlers walked around the old town of Hebron, where they are concentrated, banging drums and shouting anti-Palestinian slogans.
Defense Minister Liberman's Purim message to his Chareidi coalition partners.
"The professor proposed he apply for a position at the Turkish defense ministry, but his CV was rejected because he is a Jew."
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The Foreign Ministry's announcement relied on an interpretation of an interview with Polish justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro, where he may have said that the law will not be implemented at this time, before a review by Poland's Constitutional Court.
A team from Poland will be arriving in Israel to discuss how the law should be amended,.
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Since the passing of the IDF enlistment law by Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid, Rabbi Auerbach enhanced his struggle against army service.
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IDF soldiers from the Ephraim Brigade under the command of Major Dado Ha'Cohen secured the service. Joshua Bin Nun came from the tribe of Ephraim.
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Supreme Court President, Justice Esther Hayut, and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked praised the appointment.
The decision also includes an orderly outline for the integration of rabbis of Ethiopian origin into state-sponsored religious councils
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During and after the war, the Holy Cross Mountains Brigade was accused of enjoying the support of the German occupation, and the Home Army, the national underground, described its members as being treasonous and openly fascist.
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It is believed that the reason for returning the law to the Justice Ministry is the wave of anti-Semitism sweeping Poland.
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The Feldmans’ arrival in the northern island country will herald a new era for Iceland’s tiny Jewish community, entering a number of firsts in Iceland’s sparse Jewish history.
Lorde may soon discover that embracing BDS comes with a price tag.
The museum would serve to rectify a “blind spot” that many Ukrainians have about their country’s role in the Holocaust.
Protesters held up banners in Hebrew and Polish reading ‘No law can change history’ and ‘Poles, we remember what you did.’
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Since the Met itself did not send out its own thugs to bargain down terrified Jewish refugees out of their dwindling riches, it is OK for the museum to continue to display the million dollar artwork.
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Air India will get a one-time grant of $930,000 from Israel for launching its direct flights between New Delhi and Tel Aviv, paid out in three $310,000 installments.
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It is estimated that there are approximately 25,000 Algerian Jewish Holocaust survivors living around the world, bringing the cost of the Algerian Holocaust to the Germans to $79 million, or a little less than one dollar per German.
Work is currently being carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority, which has been contracted to establish the foundation for the new plaza.
Blessed are you Hashem our God, King of the Universe, Who restores the widow's boundary line.
Rabbi Moshe Azman wants the March of the Living trips moved out of Poland.
By Allen Fagin
However, beneath the surface, behind that veil of stillness and seeming lifelessness, organisms are thriving, and the natural processes are ongoing that will produce the spring rebirth and the fruit of the coming season.
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CST recorded a 34% increase in the number of violent anti-Semitic assaults, from 108 in 2016 to 145 in 2017.
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Speaker Edelstein served three years hard labor in the Siberian gulags, where he broke several bones after falling from a construction tower.
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"This basic law seeks to anchor the right of those who wish to dedicate themselves to a meaningful period of Torah study to the removal of other obligations ... such as security service and voluntary national service.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The OU has established parameters for a three-year period during which the umbrella body for American Orthodox congregations will work to bring its member synagogues who employ female clergy into compliance with OU standards, which stipulate that a woman cannot serve as a rabbi.
The law will guarantee full legal protection for Holocaust survivors, educators and tour guides who may be prosecuted in a foreign country (Poland) for relating historical truths about the Holocaust.
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"We’re working with the Russian state service for archives on a project titled ‘Every Person Has a Name,’" Koren said.
Is there some way to let all Jews take part in Tu B'Shvat in a real and significant way, as opposed to just not saying "tachanun" in shul?
In addition to planting new trees, it is traditional to eat dried fruits and nuts that symbolise the Holy Land, including figs and dates.
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The court also ruled that plaintiff's first wife continues to be free to approach the court and sue for divorce, including all the compensations of severance to which she is entitled.
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The Holocaust survivors population is aging, and its size is diminishing.
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The lesson plan reminds students that "even after the war, Jews encountered hostility from their former neighbors as they returned from the concentration camps ... The most famous case was the Kielce pogrom in Poland, in July 1946, during which the Poles murdered 42 Holocaust survivors who returned to the city."
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The rains of the last few weeks have improved the seasonal rainfall, and the rabbinate has changed its directive and ordered the chazan to no longer say the special prayer for rainfall.
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It's going to be a packed Wednesday night for moon-loving earthlings of every persuasion, including the atheists among us – our silvery satellite will have something for everyone, for the first time since 1866.
Restrictions on statements... regarding the Polish people's direct or indirect complicity with the crimes committed... during the Holocaust are a serious distortion.
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The term "Polish death camp" was first used by Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski in a 1944 article that was titled "Polish Death Camp."
SuperMeat meat is produced by growing cells that have been extracted from a ‘real’ chicken and cultivated in the lab.
What has been learned from all the memorials if synagogues across Europe need round-the-clock protection?
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"Islamophobia is also a kind of anti-Semitism," MK Tibi noted, "so we must all be united in the fight against racism, the rejection of the other and the creation of stereotypes."
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"Public transportation can be operated on Shabbat with non-Jewish drivers."
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"Despite the internalization among decision makers of the need to combat anti-Semitism, we are witnessing the penetration of anti-Semitic statements, expressions and norms into the accepted discourse in society."
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Moshe was invited to visit his former home by Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi during the latter's visit to Israel in July. Netanyahu then invited the boy to join him on his trip to India this week.
“In the end, Congress will do what ‘the Jew’ wants, as the vulgar prototype of true power is called,” she wrote.
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A French organization wrote, “We will not be able to reach the youth organization with which we collaborate in the West Bank. We won’t be able to coordinate projects… This is Israel’s way of silencing us.”
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Alexander Boroda, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, told Arkady Vaispapir’s sons: "With your father’s departure, the whole world has lost a hero."
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The schoolgirl tried to get a view of her attacker, but he ran away. "She could not give a report," a police source said.
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Matthias F., one of the individuals fined by the police, told Vice: "My mother is Israeli, her family are refugees from Iraq and Libya.
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BaMidbar will allow young Jewish adults to “challenge themselves emotionally, intellectually and spiritually by embarking on individualized journeys of self-discovery and healing.”
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The ghetto as a new human condition expresses the utter loss of the individual’s right to privacy and legal protections from abuse.
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"Palestinian land laws" prohibit selling Arab-owned lands to "any man or judicial body corporation of Israeli citizenship, living in Israel or acting on its behalf."
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The growth rate of the Muslim population has been around 100,000 per year, which Pew attribute to higher fertility rates among Muslim Americans, and the continued Muslim immigration to the US.
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For decades, Céline's anti-Semitic pamphlets from the 1930s had not been reprinted because Céline's wife has forbidden their publication. But in 2017 the 105-year-old widow gave permission to Gallimard to publish them.
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This is worrisome, especially should the anticipated Democratic 'wave' materialize in November, 2018.
By Allen Fagin
Like most assimilated American Jews, their Jewish future was in peril, and the probability of their marrying outside the faith was statistically more than 70 percent.
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In Austria, in 1945-6, Madame d’Ora documented the fate of refugees near Vienna, acting for the first time as a social reporter.
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"In the register beneath the double line is an inscription in ancient Hebrew: 'LESARAR,' with no spacing between the words and no definite article. It denotes 'Lesar Ha'Ir,' meaning 'belonging to the governor of the city.'"
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The year 2017 saw about 180,000 newborn babies – 73.8% Jews, 23.3% Arabs, and 2.9% "others."
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In April, the Bundestag received an expert report showing that Jews in Germany are facing increased anti-Semitism in their everyday lives, and fear for their safety.
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The letter was signed by academics from 15 different Israeli universities and colleges, with the majority coming from Hebrew University, Tel-Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University.
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Since 2013 there has been a trend of a rise in complaints against Israeli medical doctors who perform circumcisions.
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FIDE was able to secure the participation in the tournament of chess players from two countries which are, for all intents and purposes, at war with Saudi Arabia – Qatar and Iran.
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"We call these 197 countries 'states', like France, Germany, or Algeria. There a few more, but not all other countries in the world agree that these are real states (for example Israel or North Korea)."
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"These works, carried out in public, severely harm both the Jewish character of the state and the feelings of millions of religious and traditional residents in the State of Israel."
“This will allow us to positively contribute to helping these couples build healthy new relationships and families in accordance with Halacha and the laws of the State of Israel."
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Deputy Knesset Speaker MK Yisrael Eichler (United Torah Judaism) compared the women's committee's visit to Beit Shemesh to a visit by supporters of Rabbi Meir Kahane to Umm al-Fahm.
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About one week after his rejection of the Trump declaration, Rick Jacobs had a change of heart, perhaps because of the raging attack on him by his biggest ally in the war over the Kotel real estate, Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky.
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The Orthodox community in London has been troubled by a city plan to replace the old water meters with digital units which would cause the desecration of Shabbat whenever one turns on a simple faucet.
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“South African Jewry feel betrayed by the liberation movement of the ANC structures and are deeply disappointed that they were persuaded by those with (an) obsession to vilify the Jewish state.”
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The group hails from the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, on the border with Burma, which is home to the largest concentration of Bnei Menashe in India.
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"Each crime motivated by anti-Semitism is one too many and shameful for our country."
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They are put up in places large and small, in front of iconic buildings and in remote settings.
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Why would so many American Jews object to their country ever recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, to be followed by moving its embassy there?
Contrary to how Trump’s announcement has been portrayed in the international media, I believe it will advance the cause of peace and the international effort against terror.
September 11, 2026 
