Obama will likely be known in the Jewish world as the US president who, whatever his honest intentions, did more than any to divide the Jewish people from one another and from the Jewish state.
One only has to glance at the Jewish wedding ring from Germany topped with an ornate temple, symbolizing the lost Beis Hamikdash.
By JNi.Media
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.
By JNi.Media
Masbia volunteers say they want everyone to have a hot meal this holiday season despite their own financial duress.
Funny, seasonal comedy.
This year, the UN was bookmarked by startling resolutions orchestrated by Pres. Obama: the Iran Nuclear Deal in Jan., and in Dec. Jewish presence declared illegal in areas integral to Jewish history.
Somehow, Simcha Goldman wearing a yarmulke in uniform was perceived as an act of insurrection that could weaken the very foundations of the military. But how?
By JNi.Media
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.
The Syrian Opposition extends a message of peace to the Syrian-Jewish community: “Syrian Jews were always like every other Syrian and post-Assad, the Jewish community can return to its glorious days.”
By JNi.Media
Icahn, who believes the Environmental Protection Agency hurts business, has played a central role in selecting the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Political correctness has seeped into Judaism.
What do Jewish sources say about reincarnation?
Behind each is a tale of time and place that, framed against various religious, political, social, cultural, and artistic milieus, can provide deep insight into Jewish historical leitmotifs.
The nature preserve built in memory of Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Shaer, and Eyal Yifrah needs your help.
The Arabs precipitate a conflict, make explicit demands of the victor and threaten another Intifada unless Israel complies with their ultimatums, yet they have NEVER been criticized for intransigence
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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.
Check out the video of the training exercise.
The idea for the book came from Filreis who turned to art in 2005 after a bout with cancer.
By JNi.Media
The IDF is the only institution that's still trusted widely: trust in the IDF by Jewish Israelis is at 90% (versus 93% last year) and at 82% by all Israelis. Only 32% of Israeli Arabs, however, trust the IDF.
David Friedman, President-elect Trump's choice for ambassador to Israel, is completely unlike his predecessors. And that's what drives the critics of Israel crazy.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Jacob is someone with whom we can identify and understand. We can feel his fear, understand his pain at the tensions in his family, and sympathize with his longing for a life of quietude and peace
Though Hashem's incredible gift of the State of Israel (despite its flaws), we have truly entered into a new level of interaction with and relationship to the world around us-- "The Isaac Covenant.”
By JNi.Media
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.
By Isi Leibler
Far left-Liberals are free to engage in political campaigns but leaders of mainstream Jewish organizations must cease exploiting their positions by using anti-Semitism to promote their partisan agenda
By JNi.Media
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.
Moran Sabbah’s amazing story of show business success, and what came of her investigation of authentic Judaism!
By Zionist Organization of America
This legislation is crucial to ensuring that the rights of Jewish students to a safe and welcoming campus environment are fully protected by Title VI of the Civil Rights
Hundreds of IDF soldiers searched in the fog and rain for the Arab infiltrators into the Jewish town.
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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.'
By Hillel Neuer
The UN's obsession with Israel continues...
By JNi.Media
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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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.'
By Donny Fuchs
Trump’s victory offers the US a legitimate chance to right a sinking ship, and turn back the clock on Obama’s 8-years of Bolshevism. If nothing else, Trump’s victory means that Hillary isn’t president
By JNi.Media
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.
Between 1910 to 1941 there were 628 professional Jewish boxers in the United States. Many of them, including the greatest, Barney Ross, were raised in Orthodox homes
By Libi Astaire
Was it the Jewish Rhadhanites who brought the Chinese art of papermaking to the Western world and not the Arabs?
The ongoing saga of the yarmulke wearing Dr. Simcha Goldman and the US Air Force
For some reason, the US government's special envoy for combating Anti-Semitism does not seem to exhibit a sense of urgency in his response to Palestinian desecrations of Jewish holy sites.
The biggest terrorist attack in the United States before the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was an anarchist bombing of Wall Street by Italian anarchists in 1920, in which dozens of people were killed.
By Jeff Dunetz
Ellison convinced 53 other Democratic members of congress to sign the infamous “Gaza 54” which falsely accused Israel of humiliating and wreaking “collective punishment” on Gaza
Ellison trafficked with incredibly virulent, open anti-Semites supporting and defending them until it became politically inconvenient, then lied about it, once in office he started targeting Israel
By JNi.Media
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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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."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Some pro-Israel activists recall, with dismay, Ellison's efforts to unseat a pro-Israel New Jersey congressman, Steve Rothman, in 2012.
By JNi.Media
Out of Israel's children, 1.996 million are Jews (71.3%), 718 thousand are Arab (25.7%) and the rest, 84 thousand children (3%), are neither.
Marchers protested UNESCO's effort to erase Judaism from the Jewish people's holiest sites.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
The most influential man who ever lived, does not appear on any list I have seen of the hundred most influential men in history. He ruled no empire, commanded no army, His name, of course, is Abraham
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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Chareau, whose wife Dollie Dyte Chareau was Jewish and whose mother came from a Sephardic family, fled to the United States in 1940.
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Bernard Shapero said that “the whole exhibition shows the positive side of Judaism. There’s no Holocaust material or anti-Semitic material, which forms a large part of collecting in this field.”
He was absolutely convinced that, religiously, they were much better off in Eastern Europe and Russia than in America.
The Obama administration has urged Israel's gov't to flatten Amona effectively leaving the inhabitants homeless because the US State Dep't claims that the 98 homes of Amona are an impediment to peace.
Jewish campers emulating IDF exercises were compared to Hamas training camps.
UNESCO reminds us once again – as if we needed reminding – that the UN is hugely populated with four types of nations: the brainless scare-crow, the heartless tin-man, the cowardly lion and Dorothy.
The village of Nuba is mentioned in the inscription text as an endowment to the Rock of Bayt al-Maqdis [The Holy Temple] and the al-Aqsa Mosque.
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Using the great, eye opening Pew study of 2013, Cohen points out that the signs of Jewish life in intermarried Jewish families are fast diminishing.
The Air Force’s defense was that the Constitution only protected a genuine religious law; not a personal preference. Wearing a yarmulke, they argued, was not the law.
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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday strongly condemned the "verbal assault of a visibly identifiable Jewish traveler at Bradley Airport in Windsor Locks, CT."
The Women’s Performance Community of Jerusalem and OU Israel are creating harmony among the women of Greater Jerusalem through the creation of a musical production.
Questions will be taken from the audience as well as those put together by the sponsors of the forum.
By JNi.Media
On Wednesday, the Jewish Federations of North America board of trustees voted to overturn its policy barring its missions from visiting Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
The lack of mentioning any Jewish (or Christian) connection to the Temple Mount, and the refusal to use any other name but the Muslim names for the site, are clearly deliberate.
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Culture Minister Miri Regev (Likud) issued a directive whereby theatrical institutions that perform in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria will receive a 10% increase in their state budgets.
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The celebration attracted more than a hundred guests, and was an opportunity for Arab dignitaries from nearby Bethlehem and Hebron to mingle with senior IDF and Israel Police officials
By Sean Savage
Susan Michael, U.S. director of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, told JNS that UNESCO’s efforts to deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem also denies the Christian history as well.
By JNi.Media
Mexico’s Jewish ambassador to UNESCO in Paris walked out of the hall on Friday because he couldn't bring himself to obey his government’s instructions.
By Jeff Dunetz
Sukkot has a lot of great meanings, perhaps the best one for today’s world is the fact that it is the Holiday when we pray for the rest of the world. And whatever your religion or political affiliation, I am sure that you will agree that the world needs it!
God’s foremost desire is to conduct a relationship with the Jewish people built on love and commitment. The song of Ha’azinu reassures us that the relationship will never die.
The indignant reaction of Obama, the Democratic Party, and the western-left to Jews daring to build housing in YESHA is medieval. Then, as now, authorities believed Jews must comply to their demands
No matter who came knocking at the door, the Jews stayed put in their home-sweet-home, the Land of Israel, for 3,000 years.
By Donny Fuchs
As Jews we differ from "Indigenous peoples" because our conquests of Eretz Yisrael were Divine mandated and that is our sole, and unbeatable, claim to Israel.
Though Peres was raised in a non-religious family and was not personally observant, he studied Talmud as a child with his maternal grandfather, the great Torah scholar Rav Tzvi Hirsh Meltzer, Hy”d, who had a great influence on his life.
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According to the suit, the original, Jewish owner sold the painting under duress for $13,200, when he and his wife were in Paris, to pay for their escape to Brazil.
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Alongside the need to restrain the legislator, Shaked sees a dire need to restrain Israel's expansionist Judiciary.
By Jeff Dunetz
Dear Gentiles, While we Jews are gone for the Holidays, allow me to give you an important reminder–we’ve built a nice little internet here, so PLEASE behave yourselves while we are gone.
Goldman's fight against the entire military establishment was stressful yet, oddly, exhilarating. He felt the Almighty was tapping him on the shoulder, whispering, “I want you to pull this off for Me”
I met with the “devout atheist” several more times. One day he asked me the mother of all theological questions: “Why do you believe the Torah is true?” A satisfied smile stretched across my face.
By Batya Medad
How to deal with a changing America? Move to Israel, where not only are the Jewish Holidays the official ones,
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The exhibition uses the golem figure to examine topics like creativity, creation, power, and redemption.
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Jews made up 18% of Obama’s donors and 7% of Romney’s donors in 2012. In 2016, 20% of Clinton’s donors are Jewish, only 3% of Trump’s donors have stood at Mount Sinai.
We Jews are a people of many voices but we are one family, wanting only to live in peace and to be friend and ally to those who accept us and to help make the world a better place.
What I am calling the "Movement for Jewish Freedom" is an attempt to reengage Zionism as a political movement grounded in solidarity with other groups who share common interests.
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The JVP letter willfully ignores the fact that the club owners have declared their support for the BLM agenda, but would not accept the movement's recent turn against the Jewish State.
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Lady Meyer was a socially concerned philanthropist supporting working class women, underprivileged families, and women’s suffrage.
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Only 15% of the Jews asked are married to a non-Jew. But wait, don't celebrate yet: only 35% are married to a Jew, either from birth or a convert, and a full 49% are not married.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Stunningly, power exerted by the hate-filled propaganda of the Palestinian Authority easily overcame simple historic truths and traditional ties of friendship between Israel and other countries.
If one looks at the range of tuition one would have to pay per child, one might get sticker shock. It doesn’t take a genius in math to multiply those figures by 5, or more, children.
Working as a principal, with talented administrators and a dedicated faculty, helped fill the void and ease the loneliness of being a widower.
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Itzhak Perlman received the $1 million Genesis Prize for his outstanding achievement as a classical musician and for his dedication to improving the lives of people with disabilities.
By JNi.Media
Friedman recalled, "On the way home, another sailor kissed me, just one on the cheek and went on his way. The sailors were especially happy."
By JNi.Media
"In a busy school, this student did go to a respected staff member said 'is this OK?' and the staff member said 'yes,'" the principal explained.
Most of all, she is a role model for her descendants who endeavor to follow her example. And a woman with a Jewish heart.
By JNi.Media
An email the club owners sent to ticket buyers reads, “As we can’t support these positions, we’ve accordingly decided to cancel the concert."
By JNi.Media
Amsalem suggested that the clash over the railroad works over the past two Shabbat days was mostly about politics.
Law-abiding, mild-mannered, Rabbi Dr. (Psychology) Simcha Goldman was unprepared to obey the direct order of his commander that he could NOT wear his yarmulke outside the hospital. Strike 2 on Goldman
By Sean Savage
The grass roots group Jews Choose Trump was formed in late July by financial adviser Carol Greenwald along with several partners, including Jewish activist and founder of JCCWatch.org Richard Allen.