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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Dustin Wilkerson, 37, was charged with aggravated criminal damage for throwing rocks last month at Kol Ami Synagogue.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Hussain Altamimi has made false, hateful, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel accusations on Instagram,” ZOA national president Morton Klein said in a letter sent to the New York legislator.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Students with Holocaust education are more likely to stand up to negative stereotyping and challenge incorrect, biased information,” said director of teen programming Aaron Kischel.
“We’ve never had any formal arrangement or ties with groups like CSS. This is the first time we are entering into this type of arrangement,” said Rabbi David Warshaw, president of NCYI, a network of 100 Orthodox synagogues across the United States.
International political negotiations with UN countries on this resolution have been ongoing for several months, Israel’s mission to the UN said, and will go public this week.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The UAWC is one of six PFLP-linked civilian organizations that Israel proscribed in October after they were shown to act as conduits for funneling funds to the terrorist organization.
For 135 days R remained in jail and refused to release Orly, conditioning her freedom on impossible financial demands.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Rabbi YY Rubinstein’s courageous and principled decision to resign as a broadcaster at the BBC is just the latest sign of the collapse in the Jewish community’s confidence in the corporation," Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) said in a statement.
Three Chabad Chassidim, Avigdor Factor, Yossi Lipsh, and Moshe Raichman from Ramat Bet Shemesh traveled to Manama, Bahrain to print the Tanya on the Yahrtzeit of the Alter Rebbe's passing, the 24th in the month of Tevet.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Over 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries and Iran between 1948 and 1967. It is estimated that they left behind property worth approximately $150 billion.
By COLlive.com
The state expects to receive significantly more applications than can be funded by the program.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Louvre and Musee d'Orsay museums in Paris maintained custody of the works after World War II until their legal owners or heirs could be tracked down.
“People in the human rights community were looking for a cause to replace the South African anti-apartheid movement, and they found it in Tutu. It’s a tragic part of his story and a real problem for his historical legacy,” said Dexter Van Zile, a Christian media analyst for CAMERA.
“While Rabbi Riskin defended halachic practice without compromise, he succeeded in revealing religion’s beauty to countless Jews."
By UN Watch
In an April 2021 secret ballot, the UN’s Economic and Social Council elected Iran's gender apartheid regime to a 4-year term on its Commission on the Status of Women.
Yad La’Isha legal aid center demands increased sanctions in jail, convict relents.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“These fees impose a significant burden on elderly Holocaust survivors, victims and heirs who often rely on these payments to meet their everyday needs,” Acting Superintendent Adrienne Harris said in a press release on Wednesday.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Christian population in Israel and one of a few in the Middle East that is flourishing and not shrinking.
"Parenting behavior doesn't work in the same way in different cultural and religious contexts."
The global conglomerate continues to come under fire after ice-cream maker Ben & Jerry’s boycott decision.
“The UN’s assault on Israel with a torrent of one-sided resolutions is surreal,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The museum is located next to the Maghain Aboth Synagogue, Asia’s second-largest and Southeast Asia’s oldest synagogue.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Funds are earmarked towards purchasing food and other necessary items, such as medications and home heating fuel
“This award goes to those who dreamed that this project could succeed."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
On Dec. 2, the LSGA passed a resolution that calls on CUNY to cut all ties with companies that “aid in or profit from Israeli colonization, occupation and war crimes.”
By COLlive.com
The shul has been using the land to build a sukkah since 1963. Mohammed Farag, their neighbor, bought his house adjacent to the land in 2016.
"Knowing that so many others were doing it with me created a sense of excitement and encouraged me to continue until the finish line.”
“This is not the first time Duke has faced incidents of anti-Semitism on its campus.”
“Glad you woke up, guys, and welcome to the club.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Christopher Stephen Brown, 37, allegedly sent a message to Chabad via its website on Dec. 2, calling for the death of all Jews and threatening to kill members of the beit din, a Jewish rabbinical court.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The NGO-Monitor report was published ahead of a special Knesset conference on the de-legitimization of Israel.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The treasurers of Arizona, Idaho, Oklahoma, Nebraska, West Virginia, Louisiana and Mississippi sent a letter to Unilever CEO Alan Jope and the company’s board of directors on Thursday demanding that it override its subsidiary Ben & Jerry’s decision on the issue.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Seventeen colleges brought BDS measures up for a vote by the student government in 2020-21, and 11 have passed them.
Michael Levitt, president and CEO of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, said members understood “that censure would set a chilling precedent and impact trustees’ abilities to stand up to hate and discrimination.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Combat Antisemitism Movement noted that in the past week, there were “67 new media reports of anti-Semitic incidents—a 36.9 percent increase over last week.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The majority of materials were taken in July 1942 from Thessaloniki, which once had a thriving Jewish community.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Ernst & Young Global Limited will no longer audit the Union of Agricultural Work Committees or Defense for Children International Palestine.
"I treated the woman and performed the Heimlich Maneuver."
Within hours after a campaign was started to help clean up the center, more than $91,000 was raised, almost double the funds needed.
Noah Shack, vice president at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, urged the Toronto District School Board to take “immediate, meaningful and reparative action to fix the rot of anti-Semitism, particularly with its Human Rights Office.”
"I know we're going to do a lot of great things together. Welcome back to Israel and best of luck, my friend."
Recently, for the second year in a row, Havlin won the "Most Cited Researcher in Physics" award.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The student union at a branch of the University of Toronto said it will modify a ban on kosher food that is part of a resolution endorsing the BDS movement against Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.N. General Assembly passed three resolutions this week that targeted Israel, which brings the total to 14 resolutions being adopted in the next month that single out the Jewish state.
The Netzach Yehuda Battalion’s Chanukah candle lighting ceremony Wednesday was held near Beit-El.
The Dec. 2 program included a talk by a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terror group in both Canada and the United States.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“On many occasions, we have to distribute other types of items related to Judaism, which the residents of these countries have no way of getting,” said Yad L’Achim president Rabbi Shmuel Lifschitz.
“I think it is an embarrassment to society,” said Rabbi Nechemia Deitsch, director of Chabad of Midtown in Toronto, which services the student population. “The fact that there is this hatred in the air is due completely to a lack of education.”
The organizers are ushering in a “sense of normalcy and joy” in bringing back holiday programming to communities all across Israel.
By Eve Glover
“A requirement that providers of food as a religious accommodation be required to apply for an exemption, or even be asked about their views about issues elsewhere in the world is unacceptable,” said Gertler’s statement.
By Israel Hayom
Dave Grohl and producer Greg Kurstin team up for “The Hanukkah Sessions 2021,” in which they release a cover of a song by a Jewish artist each night of the holiday.
The NYPD said that all the young victims wore traditional Jewish clothes, which marked them as targets.
By Jewish Press Staff Reporter
"She was later taken by ambulance while still undergoing CPR, to the Carmel Medical Center."
Watch as we break down their lies and propaganda.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The UN event ignored the history of massacres and expulsions of 850,000 Jews from Arab countries as well as Iran.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Patrols in the city are to be increased during the holiday of Hanukkah.
By Hanan Greenwood / Israel Hayom
A., a known figure in the national-religious sector, will be tasked with catering to agents’ spiritual needs.
Chabad Rabbi Levi Druchman lights the first candle of the menorah at EXPO 2020, in a ceremony attended by local leaders, businesspeople, Jewish residents of the UAE and tourists from around the world.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Herzog’s visit to Hebron is the first of many ceremonies he will be attending throughout the country in honor of the Chanukkah celebrations.
"Being part of this right before the holiday of Hanukkah gave me a lot of joy.”
These Thanksgiving dinners are part of Nefesh B’Nefesh’s return to in-person events, helping Olim acclimate.
The Israeli government has informed the US that Israel won't be moving ahead with the construction of a much-needed neighborhood for Haredim (Ultra-Orthodox) in the Atarot section of northern Jerusalem.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
US law professor Eugene Kontorovich stated that the ECJ’s ruling “is putting a new ‘Yellow Star’ on Jewish-made products.”
The wounded Arab “farmer” touted by Yesh Din was a terrorist who had stabbed a soldier and served time in jail.
“Rashi’s Commentary may have shaped Judaism and the Jewish people more than any other work except the Bible and the Talmud.”
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), who recently visited Israel on a J Street-sponsored trip, is leading an effort expressing “immense concern” over plans to build 3,400 new apartments.
The letter was written when Einstein was living in Princeton, New Jersey, several years after the Nazi rise to power and his decision never to return to Germany.
The role will not require Senate confirmation, allowing him to begin serving immediately as acting envoy until the Senate moves on the nomination of Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt.
Riots and looting broke out around the country in response to the not guilty verdict.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“As the last living Nuremberg prosecutor and a man who spent more than 50 years prosecuting the most horrific war crimes, [Ben] Ferencz embodies the idea that while the work is not ours to finish, neither is it ours to neglect,” said Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.).
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 2021 Federalist Society conference and included remarks by Richard Goldberg, who drafted one of the first anti-BDS laws in 2015.
By Israel Hayom
After an Israeli court halted the sale of the tattoo stamps following an outcry, the anonymous seller has decided to donate them to the Haifa Holocaust Museum.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Members of Hillel and other pro-Israel campus organizations set up a table with literature on the outskirts of the rally to challenge the one-sided anti-Semitic narrative of Students for Justice in Palestine.
This is a very significant historic discovery, as Scrolls of Esther inscribed during that time period by women are few, and it sheds light on the important position that religious women occupied in Italian Jewish community life.
By Baruch Lytle
One of the things I have unfortunately become very used to is the anti-Semitism on TikTok.
“Give me an example of one Muslim state with possibly the exception of Morocco, where Jews and other religions live and prosper as minorities."
The activities related to history, art, and culture are taking place from October 31 to November 28.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Frederick Barrett Sechreist of San Marcos, Texas, was seen on video carrying a gas canister outside of Congregation Beth Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The [Biden] administration abstained on an issue of hate and bigotry,” said Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values. “This is not moral leadership.”
The cynical use of human rights organizations as a cover fuels terror ism and hurts organizations that do real work for civil society.
Virginia Tech’s Graduate and Professional Student Senate members implement the academic boycott on campus and in their own classrooms.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price: “The delegation provided a verbal briefing on information that they had on certain groups. They provided written materials. We’ve provided those written materials to our counterparts in the administration.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said Ben & Jerry’s decision violated his office’s policy against the BDS movement against Israel.
"Those who float money to groups that are connected to terror must be held to account for the murder, misery, and suffering their funding has paid for."
Religious women sometimes felt uncomfortable approaching rabbis, opting to either ask the question through a male messenger or not ask the question at all.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israelis have been tweeting photos at weddings, restaurants, the beach, bars and concerts, dancing in bomb shelters, on hikes—with the satirical hashtag #SadSadIsrael.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Nonetheless, a convincing majority of Virginia's Jews voted Democratic.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Bidding had reached $3,400 when the auction was suspended pending a Nov. 16 hearing, following an outcry from Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors.
Fadah Jassem is being criticized for reposting anti-Israel tweets, as well as omitting Israel's flag in an introductory tweet about the countries in the Middle East.
By Israel Hayom
The “extremely rare” stamps are expected to sell for $30,000-$40,000, says Tzolman’s Auction • European Jewish Association chairman appeals to Israeli Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar to halt the “despicable sale.”
"The PFLP operates an organizational and military apparatus, including a network of purported civilian institutions."
Rabbi Yudi Steiner, director of the Rohr Chabad Center at GW, said “what I’m hoping to do today is lead by example and model how I think the Jewish response, from Jewish students especially, should be, and that is what we will talk about the rally.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
James Vincent, 44, was found guilty on Wednesday of randomly attacking Rabbi Menachem Moskowitz, 52, and shouting anti-Semitic slurs as he tried to strangle the victim.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“Since the establishment of the council 15 years ago, it has decided to blame and condemn Israel, not 10 times like Iran, or 35 times like Syria. No, the Human Rights Council has attacked Israel with 95 resolutions. Compared to 142 against all other countries combined.”
The increasing prevalence of lactose intolerance is one of the key factors driving the growth of the kosher food industry.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
“Instead of amplifying voices of coexistence trying to effect real change on the ground, those who support a boycott are only creating more division,” said Ari Ingel, director of Creative Community for Peace.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), who backs the BDS movement, has long accused Israel of mistreating "Palestinian" children.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It showcases a historical collection dedicated to the Dreyfus affair, including more than 500 documents, objects, photographs, songs, posters and other items.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The center will be dedicated to the dissemination of his leadership lessons and values in classrooms, communities and through public discussion.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel said its decision was due to NGO financing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terror group.
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