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'The only difference [between the Jewish Holocaust and our own] is that the Jews are white and we are black,' said Herero chief Sam Kambazembi.
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Canada's former Justice Minister, said the current level of anti-Semitism 'is the highest in 40 years, and includes the rejection of Israel's right to exist at all, and the portrayal of Israel as a monster and enemy of mankind.'
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The Franklins woke up to discover a crumpled anti-Semitic note–all caps–on their car windshield, with a yellow star and the word 'Jude,' Nazi style.
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According to his son, Nick, he was surrounded by family and listening to Billie Holiday when he died.
MK Oren Hazan proposed on stage...
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Established at the site of the sultan's stables, the Mellah was segregated for Jewish dwelling in 1558 by the Saadi dynasty which ruled Morocco from 1549 to 1659.
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'Simon Wiesenthal Center, take disciplinary action against Hier if he refuses to desist from this shameful action.'
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The group that's most underrepresented are the religiously unaffiliated, which accounts for 23% of the general public but is represented by only 0.2% of Congress.
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Engravings of a Seven-Branched Menorah and a Cross were Discovered by Hikers in an Ancient Water Cistern in the Judaean lowlands.
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'My very relationship with my husband was in question suddenly. The children would yell, 'Why did you bring us here?' My own emotional state was so fragile. Everything was falling apart, including our marriage.'
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Facing Independence Mall as it does, in the heart of historic Philadelphia, the Museum’s signage refers to one of the most significant documents in American history.
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Masbia volunteers say they want everyone to have a hot meal this holiday season despite their own financial duress.
Following the attack, Meri posted on Facebook a picture of himself with the killer with the caption: 'My praises to the Shahid.'
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'I stand here today to repeat in the clearest way: the State of Israel is deeply committed to ensure the religious rights of all faith communities in Jerusalem and throughout Israel.'
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Donald Trump is about to become the very first US president who has halachically Jewish grandchildren (the Clintons' son-in-law is Jewish, too, but that's just not good enough for Jewish law).
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'It’s so sad that at this time people should feel that they want to express themselves in such a negative way,' Chabad Rabbi Boruch Rabinowitz said.
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The Netiv HaAvot neighborhood of Elazar was built in 2001 on land which was later claimed–with the urging and support of Peace Now–by the Mussa family of al-Khader, near Bethlehem.
Defense Minister Liberman warns French Jews in particular that if they want to remain Jewish, now is the time to leave.
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Yad Vashem criticized the bill against blaming Poland for collaboration in the death camps, warning that its approval in parliament would be considered Holocaust denial and a regression in Poland’s efforts to face its dark past.
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'The WZO cannot incorporate a man in their ranks who served as Director of B'Tselem USA, an organization that deliberately and explicitly calls for the sanctions on Israel in international institutions.'
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He did not mention that, had the Maccabees redeemed the Holy Temple today, they would surely have been condemned by the UN Security Council, with the US abstaining, because said Holy Temple stood in 'Occupied East Jerusalem.'
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Throughout history, Jesus was an anathema for the Jews who lived under Christian rule. But staring in the 19th century Jewish and Israeli artists have engaged with the figure of Jesus.
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Although President-Elect Trump should not be taken for granted on any issue, his choices for Ambassador to Israel and for the Israel-PA peace negotiator are at least a positive opening signal to Israel's rightwing majority.
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Who was Hyrcanus, whose name is engraved in Hebrew on a 2,100-year-old stone bowl from Jerusalem?
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The legislative initiative was defined by Abbas as a provocation which is likely to 'make the region plunge into an abyss.'
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At the same time, there is a creeping acceptance of intermarriages within the Conservative movement.
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From 1880 to 1924, one third of the Jewish population of Eastern Europe left shtetls and cities for the United States, fleeing persecution and seeking economic opportunity.
American campuses are the petri dishes in which the latest version of the oldest hatred grows.
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Her 1986 marriage to Prince Frederic von Anhalt entitled her to pass on as Princess von Anhalt, Duchess of Saxony.
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Like a baseball team after a losing season, J Street is making 2017 a rebuilding year, using US Jews' fear and loathing of President-Elect Trump to scare up (literally) the donations.
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.
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The opening bid is $2,000. They expect to raise between five and eight thousand.
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More was going on in the building than just Jews being hidden there, and the authorities may have raided 263 Prinsengracht for other reasons.
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Liberman said that 'any peace agreement should be based on populated-area exchange, which should also include Israeli Arabs who consider themselves to be Palestinian.'
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How will the gang in Ramallah take the news from Washington? Not well, most likely.
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A pro-Trump protester yelled at Sharon Kleinbaum, clergywoman of LGBT Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, 'You would have been on the side of Antiochus rather than Judah the Maccabee.'
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Say what you will, the man has great writers and – crucial – can deliver a line.
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In both cases, the sellers agreed to return the works in 'amicable discussions,' according to the Max Stern Foundation.
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Numerous signs suggest the current Polish government is attempting to rewrite its role in World War II and the Holocaust.
Rabbi Steinsaltz has been moved out of the ICU.
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The coin bears on one side a vine leaf and the statement 'Freedom of Zion.' On the opposite side it bears a standing cup and the statement 'Second year of the great rebellion' – the year 67 CE.
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There are 250,000 Jews in Germany, but few Germans know a Jew personally, according to Rent-a Jew.
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Also, Literature? How is Dylan getting a prize for literature when he's a songwriter? Who makes the decisions over there, the Norwegian parliament? (Yes).
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The law allows the heirs six years to sue in US court from the day they become aware of the existence and location of the looted object.
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According to the chief rabbis, the plan is to create a system whereby the conversions done by rabbis who meet the chief rabbinate criteria would be approved.
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The Limbach Commission, a panel set up by Germany to return Nazi-looted art in public collections, has already issued a recommendation against returning a painting by Gris that used to hang in Flechtheim’s Berlin apartment.
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He visited the Bank of England and met the Chief Cashier, who presented him with one of the notes which he had forged in the concentration camp more than sixty years earlier.
Jewish and Arab master chefs are combining their skills in Haifa to create culinary heaven at a unique festival.
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Key is often asked why he didn't speak any German, considering his Austrian roots, and his response is: “The simple answer is my mother refused to teach me. She did not want to reflect on her history.”
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All his children were born to non-Jewish mothers, but Douglas insists they were "aware culturally" of his "deep convictions," and he never tried to influence their own religious decisions.
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A whopping 80.5% of the Jewish public agree with the recent statement by Ambassador Ron Dermer that “Israel has no doubt that President-elect Trump is a true friend of Israel.”
MK Yehuda Glick believes that dialogue not legislation is what's needed to lower the decibel level of the Muezzins.
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Furnished with arrest and search warrants issued by Jerusalem Magistrate Court, Police confiscated the suspects' personal computers, mobile devices, and removable media.
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In the Karlin-Stoliner Rebbe's opinion, a draconian, sweeping prohibition on electronic communications creates a situation where many break the law in secret and are exposed to dangerous content.
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'If you boycott against Israel, New York will boycott you. If you divert revenues from Israel, New York will divert revenues from you. If you sanction Israel, New York will sanction you, period. Thank you.'
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'New information recently has come to light that raises serious concerns about whether Rep. Ellison faithfully could represent the Democratic Party’s traditional support for a strong and secure Israel.'
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'For the first time, we can state with certainty the name of the Roman prefect of Judea during the critical period leading up to the Bar Kochva revolt.'
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If students on the tour encounter foreign journalists, European MPs, or anti-Israel propaganda tours led by radical Left NGOs, they will be permitted to educate them, politely, about the hypocrisy of the delegitimization campaign against Israel.
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Last year the WZO established 140 new Hebrew language centers, most of them in France, Argentina, and the UK.
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'Anti-Semitism, hatred, internal strife are all ancient elements of our historical destiny – always problematic. […] We must therefore look for a way out; we must be brave to remain within our destiny. If Judaism is a tragedy, let us live it.'
An international workshop hosted by Yad Vashem's Mirilashvili Center
The film Hate Spaces dissects the issue of gross indifference towards American Jews on universities nation-wide.
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Gush Shalom founder Uri Avneri was one of the first Israelis to meet publicly with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat.
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According to Chabad, the way to "bring the messiah" is by spreading Hasidic teaching, so that once every land has in it Jews capable of Hasidic meditation and action, redemption must come next.
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Carlos Galindo-Elvira, Director of the Arizona Anti-Defamation League, who told local TV station 12News that 'when you joke with symbols like the swastika you begin to normalize them and make it very casual within our society.'
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A group called Israel’s voice has launched a 'successful and humble campaign' delivering hundreds of pizzas to firefighters, security forces, and volunteers who have been working non-stop to control the fires.
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'All of a sudden they were shouting: Jew, get [expletive] out of here. We tried to leave but they were yelling at us.'
Three Jewish students were beaten and cursed and feel Cambridge has not dealt with it properly.
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'Netanyahu's incitement intifada is raging across the country,' Goldblum posted. 'It's difficult not to see the connection between Netanyahu's incitements following the arsons and the submarines scandal.'
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“It literally happened on the last day of the excavation, when right in front of our eyes and the of the thrilled students, an unusual ceramic vessel c. 18 cm high was exposed, bearing the image of a person."
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The connection between the Torah portion and Hebron has made this holy city a prime destination this Shabbat, with an estimated 20 thousand guests expected to stay in Hebron and Kiryat Arba.
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Judge Marzel ruled that the potential personal harm to the archeologists and their research justifies concealing their names.
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The leader of the Shuvu Banim (Return boys) movement, Rabbi Eliezer Berland, confessed to indecent assault and was sentenced to 18 months in prison, part of which he has already served since his arrest.
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Some 50 years ago, real estate developer Fredrick Trump was among the main donors to the Beach Haven Jewish Center at 723 Ave. Z in Flatbush, NY.
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On December 23, 2015, Yad Vashem posthumously recognized Marie and Joseph Andries as Righteous Among the Nations.
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"Superman and Captain America can be seen as Jewish creators imagining how they'd be awesome and powerful if they were white."
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The two Arab claimants own only a sliver – about half an acre altogether, out of the 125 acres of the Amona territory – less than .5%.
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Meanwhile, Rabbi Amihai Eliahu is accusing the entities behind the move of attempting to cleanse the IDF of its religious warriors.
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Earlier last week he attacked after two synagogues, a Jewish prayer center, a mosque and a church.
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Senator Squadron invited New Yorkers and the media to join him on Sunday at the Adam Yauch park on State Street at 11:30 AM, "to stand against hate in our backyard, our city, and our country."
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Huckabee was one of the guests invited to a sit down with President Elect Donald Trump on Friday, after which a transition official said he would be "America's top diplomat in the Jewish state."
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"Soon we will each be applying for colleges and we are very concerned by the recent rise in anti-Semitic behavior on campuses across the country. Thanks to today's meeting with Tammi, many of us feel better prepared for what we might encounter."
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On May 29 the five Democrats met with Shawan Jabarin, a long-time member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
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Some pro-Israel activists recall, with dismay, Ellison's efforts to unseat a pro-Israel New Jersey congressman, Steve Rothman, in 2012.
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"In 2012, Donald Trump tweeted, 'The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy,'" Boxer said in her statement. "I couldn't agree more. One person, one vote!"
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When it opens officially, in early 2017, the museum's permanent collection will focus on the "Holocaust by Bullets."
If you ask “What are you” – you destroy the world. If you ask “Who are you?” you build the world…” (Shlomo Carlebach).
Years before alt-right was in the news, Bannon exposed his worldview. Are these the words of an anti-Semite?
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In 2014, White House spokesman Josh Earnest described the new, legal occupants of Kfar HaShiloah as individuals "whose agenda, by definition, stokes tensions between Israelis and Palestinians."
The witch hunt against Bannon is animated by the impotent rage of the "anyone but Trumpers."
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According to Klein, ZOA's experience and analysis of Breitbart articles confirm Bannon’s and Breitbart’s "friendship and fair-mindedness towards Israel and the Jewish people. To accuse Mr. Bannon and Breitbart of anti-Semitism is Orwellian."
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One student said the experience "felt very violating and personal because it happened in a space where we live, where we hang out, where we sleep."
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The media are speculating that the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, were causally linked with the week period surrounding a super moon.
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This week, Ingraham has been twitter-shaming Obama for not intervening to stop the violent protests against the November elections results. "Where is Pres Obama urging calm?" she tweeted on Saturday.
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He served as the commander of a joint special operations task unit, commander of a Mark V Special Operations Craft detachment, and commander of an al Qaeda targeting cell.
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If you had to find the one Hasidic Rebbe that would attract President Elect Donald Trump's attention, it would have to be Reb Israel Friedman of Ruzhin.
Jewish pirates aren't more interesting Jews; Jewish pirates make pirates more interesting, says the filmmaker.
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None of the participants need be corrupt or sinister in any way, the website doesn't provide smarmy details about their sins, all they've done to be included here is be Jewish.
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She was the creator of the exhibit the Tower of Life at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, a soaring display of 1500 photographs depicting the people of a typical East European shtetl.
Rare documents on sale at Kedem Auction House reveal new depths to our greatest thinkers.