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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo released a statement on Wednesday declaring the relevant elements of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 have been addressed, and therefore the President need no longer sign the waiver to prevent funding restrictions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The ceremony paid special tribute to the victims of the synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh in October 2018 and Poway in April 2019.
It’s Palestine Awareness Week at the California university, and that's when the anti-Semites crawl out from under their rocks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In his article, “The Moral Case for Israel Annexing the West Bank—and Beyond,” Professor Jason Hill defends Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pledge to extend sovereignty to Israeli settlement blocs in Judea and Samaria.
Examples of “physical security enhancements” include, but are not limited to, “alarm systems, impact-resistant doors and gate, lighting, access control systems, video systems, jersey walls, fencing, fixed or handheld screening systems.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The program provides unprecedented funding for security grants for nonpublic schools, places of worship and other nonprofit institutions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The document, valued at $300,000, is the only known signed copy of the final recognition of the Jewish state to exist.
Rabbi Uriel Vigler was on his way to morning prayers.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon thanked the Times for the apology, but noted that “now comes the hard part.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“There’s no doubt that Tlaib and Omar have close-knit ties with Hamas affiliated CAIR, and we, as concerned citizens, call on [the] Attorney General and U.S. Special Envoy for Anti-Semitism to investigate these ties,” states the petition, which to date has 33,337 signatures.
A woman has been murdered in Chabad of Poway, and 3 more people wounded, including a child.
By Marc Gronich
Yeshivos Get A Judicial Reprieve State Supreme Court Judge Christina Ryba handed down a favorable decision for yeshivos last week, protecting the school leadership from having to adhere to unilateral oversight from the State Education Department’s local school authorities when it pertains to secular course curriculum. The 11-page guidelines were established in November. The arguments […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
While they stopped short of ruling that any gender-segregated pool is unlawful, one of them expressed “vehement disapproval of segregation” over the “separate, but equal” policies.
“We ... reject any unproven unscientific statements that contradict all available current science-based studies on vaccinations."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
66% of millennials are unable to state the significance of “Auschwitz.”
By Sandy Eller
Environmentalists may be doing a happy dance after learning that New York may soon be the second state in the nation to ban single use plastic shopping bags, but reaction from many in the Jewish community is far from enthusiastic. The governor announced his plans to ban plastic bags statewide in order to reduce greenhouse […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We are laser-focused on what’s going on in Lebanon,” said U.S. Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. “We will continue to have a heavy focus on any entity or organization that is moving money on behalf of Hezbollah.”
The US also threatened sanctions if the ICC targets Israel and other US allies.
Tehilah Berman is running for Civil Court in the Brooklyn community she grew up in, the neighborhood in which she is raising her four sons, and where her parents still live in the house they raised her and her siblings. “I’m proud to be from Brooklyn, and thrilled my husband and I are raising our […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Barghouti opposes “the Jewish right to self-determination and Israel’s existence, openly calling for its destruction as a Jewish state.”
By Sandy Eller
The Women’s Justice Agenda has already passed the Assembly and the Senate and Governor Cuomo has indicated that he will sign it into law.
By Joseph Aron and Shlomo Greenwald
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday declared a public health emergency in several zip codes in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to stem a nascent measles outbreak among Orthodox Jewish children.
The decision was the direct result of the lawsuits against Airbnb's for their anti-Israel boycott.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the designation is “recognizing a basic reality.”
The proposed state bill banning fur products also lacks an exemption for religious garb.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“One meaning is, obviously, to remind staff that Hamas is violent—violent against both Israel and its own people,” explains executive director of CAMERA Andrea Levin.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) reintroduced the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which would require the Department of Education to adopt the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism in evaluating incidents on college campuses.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The multinational retail chain recently acquired Israeli startup Aspectiva Ltd., a Tel Aviv-based product-review insight firm.
This is Twitter. I'm not having a university debate. Somebody tweeted at me. I replied. That’s the way Twitter works.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Most of the operatives killed, 43 percent, were in their early twenties and were sent to Syria without prior combat experience.
By Alex Traiman
They note the strategic nature of the areas in which Settlers live, as well as the existing economic and often unknown social collaboration between Jews and Arabs
Vice President Mike Pence blasted Democratic freshmen in the House of Representatives on Monday, in addition to certain candidates on the 2020 presidential campaign trail, for the former using “rank anti-Semitic language” and the latter for avoiding the AIPAC annual policy conference in Washington.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The US Department of Treasury announced sanctions against 14 individuals and 17 entities who are connected with Iran’s Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND), which has provided support to Iranian entities connected to Iran's nuclear weapons effort.
"After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability!"
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Next on the U.S. horizons: San Francisco starting on May 13; Las Vegas beginning on June 14; and Orlando, Fla., as of July 2.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
James Jeffrey, the U.S. envoy for Syria who also oversees the global coalition against the Islamic State, said the U.S. military presence in Syria represents a “force for stability” in the area.
“Academic boycotts violate the rights of students and faculty on U.S. campuses, and this precedent-setting vote is frightening,” AMCHA Initiative co-founder and director, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, said in a statement.
The anti-Israel voters had the majority, but not the two-thirds majority required.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The administration requested that U.S. assistance to Israel remain at $3.3 billion.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s campaign manager Faiz Shakir and foreign-policy adviser Matthew Duss have been accused of furthering anti-Semitic conspiracy theories during their tenure at the left-wing think-tank Center for American Progress.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The Democrats have become an anti-Israel and anti-Jewish party,” said U.S. President Donald Trump.
The final tally of the legislation, which defines anti-Semitism as “the centuries-old bigotry and form of racism faced by Jewish people simply because they are Jews,” was 407-23.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Fewer Republicans and Democrats sympathize with Israel compared to last year.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) said he will not eject Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the committee over her latest anti-Semitic remarks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Lakewood is a hub of Orthodox Judaism and home to one of the largest Yeshivas in the world, the 6,500-student Beth Medrash Govoha.
By Israel Hayom
“This is expected to be the first international conference of its sort, and we can’t think of a better place to hold it,” says Marc Zell, chairman of Republicans Overseas Israel. “The proposed conference will present the unshakable alliance between the U.S. and Israel.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The bill states in part that “it is in the United States national security interest to ensure that Israel retains control of the Golan Heights."
Otzma Yehudit told AIPAC members to come home to Israel to earn the right to participate in internal Israeli politics.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The White House announced that the United States will keep “a small peacekeeping group” of 200 troops in Syria after leaving the country, reportedly scheduled for April
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
After a several-year delay, Teva received U.S. approval for its EpiPen in August 2018, but Schultz said more “validations” were mandated by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, which it has completed.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Congressman Barr stated that if Trump proposes the evacuation of Jews in Judea and Samaria as part of the diplomatic plan, he will oppose it.
Tlaib has also stated that she supports a one-state solution -- a bi-national state of “Palestine” -- to replace the State of Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Florida is Israel’s 13th-largest trade partner worldwide and one of 33 U.S. states holding cooperative economic agreements with Israel.
When Ilhan Omar complains about the role of lobbyists in politics, it seems she only means certain lobbyists.
RUOC consistently denies being anti-Semitic, but many find its Facebook posts and videos unmistakably anti-Jewish.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
An estimated 1.1 million people were killed at Auschwitz, including as many as 960,000 Jews.
By Israel Hayom
“Sorry @FoxNews & @TreyYingst your sources gave you bad info,” tweeted U.S. special envoy Jason Greenblatt. “While the plan is close to complete, we aren’t there yet & we’ll continue to refine it until release.”
By Josh Hasten
Ayelet Shaked made her remarks, based on sources she says she has within the Trump administration, at a Gush Etzion parlor meeting for her party last week in front of more than 100 Israeli voters.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In January 2017, Klobuchar was a co-sponsor of a Senate resolution to rebuke U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli activity was allegedly being carried out with the knowledge and approval of the Afghan government.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“. . .material purchased using U.S. tax dollars to counter the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel bias injected by the PA is being rejected and not utilized on the ground."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The idea behind BINA (the Hebrew word for “wisdom”) is tied to three pillars: textual learning, social change and community.
“He is a committed Jew and pro-Israel advocate, and is smart as a whip. He is an extremely successful prosecutor,” said AEPi executive director Andy Borans.
J Street U and Students for Justice in Palestine chapters at the University of Vermont released corresponding letters last week blasting the school's Hillel for accepting funds from the pro-Israel group Maccabee Task Force.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Booker, 49, who represents a state with more than half a million Jews, labeled BDS as an “anti-Jewish movement.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The move occurred in accordance with the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act, signed into law in October, that provides protections for American victims of international terrorism.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN.) offered Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) the opportunity to discuss how to fight religious bigotry over Somali tea.
By Mimi Minsky
The Met Council also tackles domestic violence, citing a 20 percent increase in domestic violence over the last 12 months, as women begin to feel more comfortable in sharing their stories in this #metoo era.
“As the president has made clear, entities that continue to engage in sanctionable activity involving Iran risk severe consequences,” the U.S. State Department said.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) which has associated itself with US-designated terror organizations is gaining prominence on US campuses.
Two of the attackers have been arrested, the third is still on the run.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
House Democratic Caucus chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) sidestepped the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel issues revolving around the congresswomen at issue: “I’ve found those two new freshmen members to be thoughtful colleagues on a wide variety of issues.”
“We are not seeking anything. The Americans have made a decision,” said senior Palestinian Authoirty official Saeb Erekat. “But we are going to continue being part of fighting terror in the region.” [sic]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The congresswoman was photographed with Abbas Hamideh, who has repeatedly expressed support for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, at her swearing-in ceremony in Detroit on Jan. 12.
New York State passed the Reproductive Health Act Legislation, which expanded the state’s abortion laws.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Governor DeSantis announced that he stands with the Florida Cabinet which accepted the State Board of Administration’s recommendation to place Airbnb on the Scrutinized Companies List.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Earlier this week, a missile was fired at the Hermon Mountain, prompting Israel to launch a massive attack on numerous Iranian targets in Syria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A year after opening its first store in Brooklyn, N.Y., Bingo Wholesale opened its second store in the heavily Orthodox, kashrut-observant community of Lakewood, N.J.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“After hearing from our loyal kosher consumers and after productive meetings with our Kosher Certifiers, Bimbo Bakeries USA is pleased to announce that we will once again be offering kosher products under the Arnold, Sara Lee and Ball Park brands,” the company announced.
The police have placed 10-15 more policemen on the street every day – but attacks on Jews keep on occurring.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I am writing to express my extreme concern,” wrote Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas). “This action, from an outspoken supporter of the ‘BDS’ Israel boycott movement ... is both ill-conceived and inconsistent with our national values.”
By Israel Hayom
Hezbollah’s Al Manar identified the man who crossed the Israeli border into Lebanon on Monday as U.S. citizen Colin Emery.
Issam Akel was arrested by the Palestinian Authority for selling land in Jerusalem to Jews.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Based on an analysis of cost, schedule and performance, the Army [decided] ... to field two interim IFPC batteries of Iron Dome in 2020."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act makes the prevention of genocide and other crimes a matter of national security.
This development comes amid accusations of anti-Semitism within the movement’s leadership, causing many organizations to drop their support of the this year’s march, scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 19.
The request came after 3 mortar shells landed near the US Embassy in Baghdad.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Countries will all come together to focus on Middle East stability and peace and freedom and security ... in this region, and that includes an important element of making sure that Iran is not a destabilizing influence,” said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Trophy consists of a radar-detection system that recognizes incoming missiles and projects their trajectories, with launchers that shoot metal pellets, causing the incoming missile or rocket to explode away from the tank.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Following the recitation of the Jewish traveler’s prayer, the Adas Israel synagogue, built back in 1876, was ceremoniously moved one block down Third Street.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The 77-year-old will be given the honor for his longtime contributions to the State of Israel and the overall Jewish community.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
"Today was a missed opportunity... to provide critical assistance and protection to Israel and Jordan, and to show the Assad regime that it cannot continue to commit crimes with impunity."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Leaders of American national Evangelical organizations sent a letter to Airbnb strongly condemning its decision to “discriminate against the State of Israel” by removing Israeli-owned listings in Judea and Samaria, charing that Airbnb’s actions were “not only discriminatory but anti-Semitic in nature.” The company announced its decision to delist some 200 homes in November because […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The medical resident was fired for tweeting threats to give Jews the wrong medication.
By Marc Gronich
Also of note, entering the next legislative session, there will be a record number of Jewish state lawmakers: 30 in total or 14% of both houses.
By Sandy Eller
The New York State Education Department issued clarifications to the lengthy, and sometimes, vague educational guidelines it had released on November 20.
Nine charedi Rockland County schools were fined a combined $80,000 last week for failing to comply with the Rockland County Department of Health (RCDOH) amidst an ongoing measles outbreak.
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