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News Briefs / Europe / Diaspora / Holocaust

Portuguese Holocaust Museum and British Embassy Mark Anniversary of Kristallnacht

By Jewish Press Staff

Israeli Ambassador: “The key difference between today and then is the Jewish people were unprotected and vulnerable whereas now we have a strong, independent state with the right as well as the ability to defend itself.”

Conversion / Giyur

First-Ever Certificate of Jewish Ancestry Launched

By Jewish Press Staff

The certificate is something which a growing number of those with Jewish ancestry have suggested would be an enormous sense of pride and identity for them.

Palestinian Authority

EXPOSED: PA Boycott of Israeli Livestock is Motivated by Senior Officials’ Personal Gains

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

The boycott is being promoted by Yasser Abbas, son of PA head Mahmoud Abbas, and by Azzam al-Ahmed, a senior Fatah official, who have shown interest in importing calves from Portugal and Hungary, a shift that would give them control of the market.

Featured / Jewish / Politics / Aliyah / Geulah

10 Indian Bnei Menashe Couples Married in Israel

By JNi.Media

The Bnei Menashe are descendants of the tribe of Manasseh, one of the Ten Lost Tribes exiled from the Land of Israel more than 2,700 years ago by the Assyrian empire.

Israel / Jewish / Politics / News Briefs / United Nations (UN)

New UN Secretary-General Not an Enemy of Israel

By JNi.Media

Guterres said in video message that 'the Holocaust was the culmination of millennia of hatred, scapegoating and discrimination targeting the Jews, what we now call anti-Semitism.'

Op-Eds

What Is Hidden Is Never Lost: Rapa-Dreidels, Portugal, And The Marranos

By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran

Dreidels are my talisman, my touchstone. They reassure me in the most innocent and delightful way that our miracles will continue. And so, wherever I am, anywhere on the globe, I look for dreidels.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Jerusalem / United Nations (UN)

UNESCO to Question Jewish Ties to Western Wall in Arab-Sponsored Draft Resolution

By Jewish Press Staff

The draft refers ten times to Al-Haram Al-Sharif, exclusively using the Islamic term for Temple Mount, without any mention that it is the holiest site in Judaism.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Hamas / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / Media / Sports

Fallen Soldier's Family Suing to Ban Hamas Prisoners from Watching Soccer Final

By JNi.Media

The family petitioned the court saying the decision to make all the TV channels carrying the game tonight available to security prisoners, most of whom are members of Hamas, is repugnant.

History / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Arts and Entertainment

'Venice, Jews and Europe 1516-2016' Opens in Venice

By JNi.Media

The first ghetto's area was defined by two gates which were opened in the morning to the sound of the bell in St. Mark’s belfry, and closed at midnight by four Christian keepers, paid by the Jews.

Jewish / Politics / News Briefs / Europe / Religion

Muslims Demand Equal Terms after Spanish Law for Jewish Return

By JTA

Several Muslim families currently residing in North Africa are candidates for receiving Spanish citizenship.

This Ongoing War

How to Say 'Disgusting Abuse of Public Trust' in French?

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

Playing the usual black-is-white games, the catalog notes say the people depicted are "those who lost their lives fighting against the occupation.”

Jewish / News Briefs / Europe / Religion

Masorti Rabbis Perform First Conversions in Lisbon

By JTA

For the first time in the history of the Masorti movement, its rabbis performed conversions to Judaism in Portugal. The two conversions were performed in the Portuguese capital at a Beit Din rabbinical court of three judges, who recognized Juliana Fernandes da Silva and her life partner Edgard Pimentel as Jews. Though the Masorti movement […]

Interviews and Profiles

March 31 and Dona Gracia

By Jewish Press Staff

March 31 is not a day that particularly stands out in Jewish memory at first glance, but it is actually a day of some significance.

Op-Eds

Securing Our Future Through Historic Jewish Communities

By Dana Evan Kaplan

Since becoming the first ordained rabbi in Jamaica in thirty-three years, I have been working tirelessly with my community to build a Jewish future on this tropical island. Every Jewish community wants to survive and indeed thrive, but there is a particular importance to the preservation and development of the world's small, history-rich Jewish communities.

Archaeology

Hebrew Inscription Provides Oldest Archaeological Evidence of Jews in Iberia

By Bible History Daily

Discovered in a Roman-era excavation near the city of Silves, Portugal by archaeologists from the German Friedrich Schiller University Jena, the discovery predates the previous oldest evidence of Jews in Iberia by nearly a century.

Analysis

Antisemitism on the Rise in Europe

By Michael Curtis

The virus of antisemitism persists in haunting Europe. In recent months, antisemitism has been exhibited all too often in European countries, not just in theory but in practice.

Serials

Persuaded - Chapter II

By Barbara Bensoussan

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