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Knesset committee recognizes Armenian genocide

Knesset committee recognizes Armenian genocide

“It is our moral obligation to recognize the Holocaust of the Armenian nation,” committee chairman MK Ya’acov Margi (Shas) said.   The Knesset Education, Culture… Read More ›

Roma and Sinti victims of Nazis remembered at Auschwitz

Roma and Sinti victims of Nazis remembered at Auschwitz

Every August 2nd, the Roma and the Sinti commemorate the members of their communities who were murdered by the Nazis at a moving ceremony at… Read More ›

France’s New Catholics

France’s New Catholics

Op-ed: The dwindling devout of French Catholicism have redefined themselves and sought to organize in the fashion of the country’s Jewish community; yet, especially after… Read More ›

Uneasy Republicans, confident Democrats diverge on ‘Jewish’ issues

Uneasy Republicans, confident Democrats diverge on ‘Jewish’ issues

GOP Jews seek to paint Democrats as anti-Israel, but members of the faith remain overwhelmingly liberal   NEW YORK (JTA) — It’s never been easy… Read More ›

Treating Amona and Tira as equals

Treating Amona and Tira as equals

Op-ed: The Knesset’s new “regularization bill” seeks to legalize the status of a few dozen homes in Amona. But if the people of Amona can… Read More ›

Dark-skinned dolls and history lessons: How Israel plans to tackle prejudice

Dark-skinned dolls and history lessons: How Israel plans to tackle prejudice

Cabinet ministers to consider new report by high-level committee on addressing discrimination against Ethiopian Israelis   A major government report on ways to combat racism… Read More ›

Another pre-army yeshiva rabbi attacks LGBT persons

Another pre-army yeshiva rabbi attacks LGBT persons

On the heels of Rabbi Yigal Levinstein’s ‘perverts’ speech, another Bnei David preparatory rabbi is found telling his students that ‘gay intercourse is an abomination’;… Read More ›

A year after Duma arson, settlers reflect on Jewish extremism

A year after Duma arson, settlers reflect on Jewish extremism

Efforts made to keep youth from joining attacks on Palestinians   On July 31, 2015, suspected Jewish terrorists came down from a settlement outpost in the… Read More ›

Israel reiterates support for a two-state solution amid GOP shift

Israel reiterates support for a two-state solution amid GOP shift

Ambassador Dermer offered praise and thanks for the Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, who brokered a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza while she… Read More ›

At DNC national security night, Israel is notable for its absence

At DNC national security night, Israel is notable for its absence

Speeches hailing Hillary Clinton’s security policy bona fides feature Islamic State, Iran, but not the Jewish state   PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — The speakers mentioned IS.… Read More ›

Jewish Democrats pressed to get out the vote for Clinton

Jewish Democrats pressed to get out the vote for Clinton

Jews in swing states, Jewish millennials will be focus of efforts that include a new super PAC and community outreach   PHILADELPHIA – As the… Read More ›

Israel slams German university for claim it harvests Palestinian organs

Israel slams German university for claim it harvests Palestinian organs

“This is an ugly and outrageous demonstration of Jew hatred. This is not a university – it is a hatred factory.”   BERLIN – A… Read More ›

At DNC, rabbis (and a 14-year-old) draw from scripture to rebuke Trump

At DNC, rabbis (and a 14-year-old) draw from scripture to rebuke Trump

Analysis: Jewish leaders warn of ‘the anger of the mob,’ hold interfaith gathering in implicit – and often not so implicit – critiques of GOP… Read More ›

Holocaust Survivor Band returns home to Poland

Holocaust Survivor Band returns home to Poland

Saul Dreier, 91, and Reuwen ‘Ruby’ Sosnowicz, 88, who play klezmer music in Florida and Vegas to honor those killed in Nazi death camps, draw… Read More ›

Former US president Bill Clinton wears Hillary in Hebrew pin to DNC

Former US president Bill Clinton wears Hillary in Hebrew pin to DNC

The pin was presumably a gift from either one of two representatives from the National Jewish Democratic Council who were in attendance at the DNC.… Read More ›

Levenstein says anti-gay words misinterpreted, but issues no retraction

Levenstein says anti-gay words misinterpreted, but issues no retraction

His comments were denounced my several senior political leaders, and senior figures in the IDF and defense ministry, as well as gay rights groups and… Read More ›

Jewish congressman demands staffers behind Sanders emails be fired

Jewish congressman demands staffers behind Sanders emails be fired

Memphis Democrat Steve Cohen says party ‘crossed the Rubicon’ in using candidate’s religious beliefs against him   A Jewish congressman from Tennessee said the Democratic… Read More ›

Summer of Love: US Jews come to Israel looking for a partner

Summer of Love: US Jews come to Israel looking for a partner

950 eligible men and women from the United States are expected to arrive in the Holy Land in search of their one true love; three… Read More ›

Hallel Ariel’s parents join fight against outpost evacuation

Hallel Ariel’s parents join fight against outpost evacuation

After it was declared that Mitzpe Avihai, a seven family outpost, would be evacuated, the parents of slain terror victim Hallel Ariel have declared their… Read More ›

Netanyahu not against Gaza port, if Israel has oversight

Netanyahu not against Gaza port, if Israel has oversight

PM also says security cabinet discussed tunnel threat multiple times before 2014 war, was not caught unawares   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday indicated… Read More ›