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Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Israel / US / Iran / News Briefs

Increased Security for US Ambassador to Israel after Death Threats

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Increase in security for US Ambassador to Israel after threats received relating to Nuclear Iran deal

Israel / US / Iran / News Briefs

Wiesenthal Center: 'P5+1 Must Denounce Iran’s Latest Threat to Destroy Israel'

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

SWC leadership calls on P5+1 to condemn Iran's threats to annihilate Israel. *crickets*

Global / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority

Wiesenthal Center Urges US to Reconsider PA Funding After ICC Move

By Jewish Press Staff

Wiesenthal Center urges US to reconsider funding PA after it moves to become a party to the International Criminal Court.

Terrorism / Israel / News Briefs

Human Rights NGO Denounces Abbas for Incendiary Incitement

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Abbas was denounced by the SWC for trying to disassociate Jews from their holy sites and inciting violence against them.

US / Politics / Hamas / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority

US decision to work with PA-Hamas Government Victory for Terrorism

By Jewish Press Staff

"There is no fig leaf large enough to cover Hamas' blood-drenched legacy," said the heads of the SWC.

Terrorism / Jewish / European Union

Wiesenthal Center: European Leaders Must Act Following Belgian Attack

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

This cold-blooded attack takes place against the backdrop of a massive spike in European anti-Semitism.

News Briefs / Europe / Boycott / BDS

UPDATED: Norway's YMCA Boycotts Israel, Jewish NGO Objects

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Norway's YMCA adopted a boycott of all Israel. The Weisenthal Center objects strenuously.

Israel / News Briefs / Europe

Nearly Half the Dutch Believe Israel Trying to Exterminate Arabs

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The Dutch believe Israel is the greatest threat to peace and is trying to exterminate the Arabs

Israel / Middle East / Levant / US / Eye on "Palestine" / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Religion

Church's New Study Guide is Textbook Example of Israel Hatred

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The church "study guide" casts supporters of the Jewish homeland as "inherently racist and abusive."

Antisemitism / News Briefs / France

‘Quenelle’ Salute at Toulouse School Where Jews Were Killed

By JTA

Amid a public debate in France over an allegedly anti-Semitic gesture, French media have reproduced a photo of a man performing it outside the Toulouse school where four Jews were murdered. The photo, which was published Monday on the website of the France 3 broadcaster, shows a man wearing a shirt featuring a portrait of […]

US / Politics / Global / News Briefs / Sports

Jewish Center: NBA Stars Must Say No to Birthday Game for Dictator

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The basketball exhibition of NBA stars, which Dennis Rodman is preparing for the birthday celebration of North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, is "an undeserved gift to a murderous tyrant," Rabbi Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said.

News Briefs / The Carter-Cardozo Controversy

4 Major American Jewish Orgs Rebuke Cardozo Over Carter Award

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Four major American Jewish organizations publicly expressed disgust over the choice to honor Jimmy Carter by a journal of Cardozo School of Law.

Israel / Antisemitism

NYT: Fans Mirror Israel's Racism—Ignores Europe's Hate Stadiums

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Like Europeans, Israelis are mad for their soccer.  For some, soccer is the true religion of the Middle East,  one shared by Muslims and Jews alike. But just as in Europe, not all soccer fans follow the normal rules of civility, and the behavior of some fans of one Israeli soccer team in particular, Jerusalem […]

Op-Eds

And The Gold Medal For Lying Goes To…

By Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman

If there were an Olympics for lying, the winner of this year's gold medal for prevarication would be Egypt’s president, Mohammed Morsi. Of course heads of state lie, but rarely do they display it with such chutzpah. The recent sleight-of-hand involving a president-to-president exchange would shock even cynics.

Serials

Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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