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Armed, masked men threatened to burn down the house of one of Ukraine’s chief rabbis.
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(JTA) — Police arrested two men in the severe beating of a Jewish man in Creteil, a Paris suburb. It was the second anti-Semitic attack there in the last week, a local Jewish watchdog group said. In the later attack, on May 30, three men in their 20s hit the Jewish man in his face […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara hosted the fifth session of the Shmuel Ben-Artzi Tanach Study Circle at their official residence in Jerusalem.
Dozens of Arabs marched through the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday night yelling about how much they hate Jews.
Initial sum of NIS 570 million to be invested in joint initiatives to connect young Jews to their Jewish identity and to Israel.
By Shalom Bear
Moshe Yosef and his wife Yehudit, were in charge of directing Rav Ovadia's household and business empire.
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Likud Netherlands accused the municipality of “wiping Israel off the map.”
One shul was destroyed, and the fire department managed to save the Torahs in the second.
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A 250-year-old Torah scroll that has spent half its existence in a museum was returned to a British Jewish community.
Animal rights groups: Urban Adamah forfeits right to use words like compassion, respect, gratitude
Last week an Islamist group rallied at Al Aqsa mosque, calling to erase 'Jewish filth' at the Temple Mount.
Former IDF Chief Rabbi Mordechai Piron has passed away at the age of 93, the second to serve in the position.
The financially troubled Einstein College of Medicine will have Montefiore as its key financial manager; YU will continue granting the degrees.
Syria oldest synagogue was flattened and destroyed over the weekend.
Israeli scientists are trying to add a Sefer Torah to the moon's holy book collection.
Despite Arab and left-wing warnings, no violent reaction by either Arabs or int'l Muslim community to visit.
A group of some 30 rabbis has called for sovereignty over the Temple Mount ahead of Jerusalem Day.
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A crowd of approximately 2,000 gathered for a silent vigil in front of the Jewish museum in Brussels where an unidentified shooter killed four people.
An Arab thief learned the hard way that it doesn't pay to steal from a yeshiva in Jerusalem.
Middle school students taunt Jewish classmate; goal is to put Jews into army camp 'until disposed of
The following CCTV video of the Brussels Jewish Museum shooting was released by Belgium Police.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The Belgium PM condemned the manifestations of anti-Semitism and sent his condolences to the families of the victims.
Three Jews were attacked in Creteil, France as they exited the city's synagogue.
A couple from Tel Aviv in their 50s, were among those killed at the Brussels Jewish Museum on Saturday.
This cold-blooded attack takes place against the backdrop of a massive spike in European anti-Semitism.
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A Jewish Tunisian man was stabbed in the chest after a fight at the Jewish market in Djerba, on Thursday.
Four people were killed in a shooting at the Brussel's Jewish Museum on Saturday morning.
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An Israeli government religious court granted a ritual divorce to a woman whose husband is in a coma and cannot consent.
Glossy new report worries that Israel losing support from Diaspora Jews; suggests abandoning Land of Israel to terrorists
The Vatican has confirmed it has no plans to attempt a sovereignty grab at King David’s tomb, for now.
The UCLA judicial board handed Students for Justice in Palestine the latest in a string of defeats.
Critics have suggested that the survey is flawed because the statements are not fair indicators of real anti-Jewish bias.
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Greece may be the cradle of democracy, but anti-Jewish feeling runs deep in the country
Generations of Jews who could not live in the Holy Land dreamt only of being buried on the Mount of Olives. Today, Jews who visit take their lives in their hands.
Ashkelon launched a new separate gender beach this week, but only on land.
The Palestinian Authority is hoping to use the upcoming visit by Pope Francis as a political pipebomb.
U.S. rapper Macklemore apologized after a firestorm over appearing in costume as what looked like an eastern European Jew.
The Holocaust Cellar will serve as a learning center dedicated to the 13,000 local Jewish Holocaust victims.
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95.2% of all respondents to the online survey said they viewed anti-Semitism as “very worrisome” or “worrisome.”
Police report that tens of thousands of people visited the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in Meron this year. It's become a popular tradition in Israel to visit Meron on Lag B'Omer. There were fewer complaints of traffic jams, as police didn't allow private transportation to the site.
Is this a new Lag B'Omer tradition in the making?
Ambassador Prosor: “There are three monotheistic religions, yet only two are recognized by the U.N calendar. Such discrimination at the UN must end."
Neither of the two women who were to receive honorary degrees from Brandeis on Sunday will be there.
The SJP is emboldened while the grown-ups cower in the corner, avoiding the wrath of the troublemakers.
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A woman assaulted a Jewish mother and her baby in Paris while shouting anti-Semitic slurs.
Russian Jews led the call for a wider, global Jewish recognition of the rescue of European Jewry.
Over the years, the ADL has been criticized for overstating what qualifies as anti-Semitism, with critics suggesting that some of the statements used to measure bias actually are more indicative of admiration for Jews than anti-Jewish hostility.
During previous papal visits to Israel no one cared about David's Tomb. Why has it suddenly become "disputed"?
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“The level of anti-Semitism in some countries and regions, even those where there are no Jews, is in many instances shocking.”
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It took a second hearing and a tight vote, but in the end the good guys won this round.
Trivialization of the Holocaust has reached new lows.
The former head of Israel’s Reform movement has called on the Israeli government to cede part of the David’s Tomb compount, located on Mount Zion, to the Catholic church. “Rabbi” Uri Regev, the former director of the Israel Reform Action Committee and now the head of the Hiddush- Freedom of Religion for Israel NGO, said […]
A Jewish carpenter is suing New York City’s Housing Authority after allegedly being threatened and insulted with anti-Semitic epithets.
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Shechitah advocates wrote that UK consumers of meat not produced through ritual slaughter “should also be told the method of slaughter: captive bolt shooting, gassing, electrocution, drowning, trapping, clubbing or any of the other approved methods.”
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The entrance to a nursery school in Latvia featured a German-language sign advertising the establishment as being “Jew-free.”
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A Dutch Muslim group is planning to commemorate “the ethnic cleansing of Palestine” on Holland’s memorial day for victims of Nazism. The Platform Bewust Muslim group is planning to hold the ceremony on Sunday at a mosque in Hilversum, near Amsterdam, under the banner “Palestine, the Shadow Holocaust,” the Jewish television channel Joods Omroep reported […]
A Bedouin IDF soldier was arrested after posting comments on Facebook calling for "Death to Jews" and praising Hitler.
A haredi man from Lakewood, N.J. has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping, in order to force a man to give his wife a get (Jewish divorce document). The Lohud online news service reported that Fifty-one-year-old David Wax also implicated residents of Brooklyn and Monsey. Two of the men, Rabbi Mendel Epstein of Brooklyn […]
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A Brooklyn construction worker has been indicted for the kidnapping and murder of Haredi real estate developer Menachem Stark. A grand jury in Brooklyn on Monday indicted Kendel Felix, who was employed by a contractor hired by Stark, the New York Post reported. Felix was arrested on April 30 and admitted that he and two accomplices accidentally suffocated […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
"We thought that an incident like this would bring here a march of MK’s, ministers and maybe even the president, but evidently an incident like this doesn't particularly bother the leaders of the state; it only bothers the citizens," said a resident.
Students at the Or Menachem yeshiva in Tzfat told reporters that police only responded to a graffiti attack on the grave of the Talmudic Rabbi Halafta when they believed the media would be covering the response. The students who discovered the vandalism told the Hebrew-language Col.org website that police showed no interested in the swastika […]
The IDF sings HaTikvah, the Jewish national anthem, at the kotel in the Jewish holy city of Jerusalem.
The TV station sent out a cameraman to get a video of Haredim during the siren. They got a video, but not the one they wanted.
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Urban Adamah organization feared for safety of class participants.
IDF and the Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev) have teamed up to create the first pre-army military academy (mechina) for the haredi community. There are 16 students in the inaugural class at Yeshivat Derech Haim, located in the Bayit Vegan neighbourhood of Jerusalem. Students will spend two years involved in full-time yeshiva study, […]
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A mayor from Brussels banned an event that European Jews have called a “summit meeting for anti-Semites.” Eric Tomas, the mayor of Anderlecht— one of 19 municipalities that make up the Brussels autonomous region of the federal Belgian state — on Sunday said he would ban the “European Congress of Resistance,” saying it was a […]
The NYU mock eviction notices raised serious questions about sensitivity for the reasonable concerns of Jewish students.
Taglit-Birthright will finally allow participants to see important parts of their heritage, hopefully they will expand this further to include more, important sites.
J Street claims that its rejection from the Conference of Presidents is proof its voice is needed.
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Is this really a big deal? Let’s say the cardinal really was Jewish. It runs in the family, because so was his boss.
Islamic law is not based on the Quran so much as it based on the Arab world’s struggle to destroy Israel as a Jewish country.
A university lecturer has called on administrators to protect Jewish students on campus
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A 15th century printed book of the Torah fetched a record $3.87 million at an auction in Paris. Three buyers attempted to outbid each other over the telephone during the sale which the Christie’s auction house organized on April 30, the news website actualitte.com reported Thursday. Christie’s listed the buyer as “anonymous” but said the […]
Al Feldstein, the former long-time editor of Mad Magazine who turned Alfred E. Neuman into an American icon, died in Montana on Tuesday at the age of 88. Neuman, a freckle-faced nerd without a front tooth, was Feldstein’s vehicle to pan everyone, without regard to race, creed, religion or social status. After George Bush was […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
JERUSALEM - The annual ceremony in memory of victims of anti-Semitic incidents and terror attacks around the world that takes place on Yom HaZikaron, Israel's Remembrance Day, will mark twenty years since the murderous terror attack at the AMIA (Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina) Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, in which 85 people were killed. […]
Israel’s beach season began officially Thursday morning, May 1, with a bright sunny day and breezy skies, and continues till October 23.
Unknown vandals splattered red paint on a line of Israeli flags set up in the city of Jaffa (Yafo) in the wee hours of Wednesday.
Hubris is what propelled J Street through the starting gate; it's also what slammed the door shut in J Street's face.
The JMA will “Ride to Remember” to memorialize the victims of the Holocaust and to raise money for organizations that support and promote Holocaust education and awareness.
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An Ethiopian-Israeli Knesset Member called racist statements attributed to Donald Sterling, the Jewish owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, “disgusting” in a letter to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. “As a Jew, as a citizen of a country founded on the ruins of racism in Europe, it hurt me to hear Mr. Sterling, especially on this […]
The IDF retains the right to limit the number of Torah students and to tell them when they can pray and learn.
Used car chain CarMax, KIA, energy drink producer AQUAhydrate, auto title company LoanMart and State Farm are cancelling or suspending their sponsorship of the LA Clippers following the reported racist rant by the team’s Jewish owner, Donald Sterling. “CarMax finds the statements attributed to the Clippers’ owner completely unacceptable,” the company said in a statement. […]
"This is the worst nightmare for any Jewish college student."
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Tens of thousands of Jews and Jewish supporters participated in the 12th March of the Living Hungary in Budapest in what is considered the largest civil anti-fascist event in Hungary. It was held on the 70th anniversary of the mass deportation of Jews from Hungary by the Nazis. Holding posters saying “Never again” and “History […]
The U.S. concept of separation of church and state means separating Jews from Judaism in Israel.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) seeks to repay the debt of gratitude to non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust by providing financial support to those non-Jewish rescuers in need.
Ze’ev’s childhood dream was to wear a uniform and be farmer. First, it was a nightmare. In Israel, it was a dream come true.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman examined the piece of Torah parchment, cut from a Torah scroll in an Eastern European synagogue, and used by a Luftwaffe officer to wrap his ID card during World War II.
On Sunday evening, April 27, 2014, six Holocaust survivors lit six torches representing the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide during the opening ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem.
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The convicted murderer of an 11-year-old Jewish girl in 1969 will not receive a new trial, a Baltimore judge ruled. Circuit Judge Edward Hargadon, in his ruling on the appeal by Wayne Stephen Young, said jurors who found Young guilty of killing Esther Lebowitz in 1972 were adequately advised of how to try the case, […]
It is one thing “never to forget,” and it is another to remember not to let it happen again.
The government approved a plan to increase financial assistance to Israel's 193,000 remaining Holocaust survivors.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Findings point at an intensified feeling that personal safety and communal wellbeing are jeopardized.
A group of six Arabs attacked an Israeli man in Berlin, according to a report by Benjamin Weinthal in The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. The six Arabs first confirmed the man was an Israel, and then identified themselves as "Palestinians". He was taken to the hospital by ambulance to be treated for facial injuries.
Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day begins on Sunday night in Israel.
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Vandals seriously damaged several graves in a more than 400-year-old Jewish cemetery in Split, Croatia.
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Filmmaker Steven Spielberg is establishing a Center for Advanced Genocide Research at the University of Southern California.
NYU SJP students crept into a primarily Jewish dorm and shoved propaganda under the doors of the sleeping students.
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