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Oberlin professor placed on leave after anti-Semitic Facebook posts

Oberlin professor placed on leave after anti-Semitic Facebook posts

Karega had made comments accusing Israel and “Rothschild-led bankers” of responsibility for downing a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine in 2014.   An Oberlin College professor… Read More ›

Warsaw ghetto’s secret archive goes Hollywood

Warsaw ghetto’s secret archive goes Hollywood

New film based on two recovered document troves — out of three buried during the Holocaust — depicts the ‘Oneg Shabbat’ archive’s creators, few of… Read More ›

Nazi flag from Buchenwald bequeathed to Israel, delivered to Yad Vashem

Nazi flag from Buchenwald bequeathed to Israel, delivered to Yad Vashem

71 years ago, a Jewish-French partisan doctor helping the US forces entered Buchenwald and took down a Nazi flag there; 15 years after his death,… Read More ›

‘I was the campus anti-Semite,’ says reformed Muslim Zionist

‘I was the campus anti-Semite,’ says reformed Muslim Zionist

The lifework of a former jihadist is to “get the truth out” about Israel and help others do so too.   Kasim Hafeez’s pro-Israel activism… Read More ›

‘Land thief’ and ‘Jew killer’ slurs sound in Israeli Knesset debate on settler building

‘Land thief’ and ‘Jew killer’ slurs sound in Israeli Knesset debate on settler building

Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit is expected to rule on the matter by the end of the month.   A Knesset debate Wednesday about settler building on… Read More ›

UK anti-Semitic incidents up 11% in 2016 – report

UK anti-Semitic incidents up 11% in 2016 – report

Community security organization counts highest number in 7 years, with peak coinciding with Labour’s anti-Semitism dust-up   The debate in British media about anti-Semitism within… Read More ›

Israel buying gas masks from companies that worked with the Nazis

Israel buying gas masks from companies that worked with the Nazis

The Defense Ministry, Israel Police, Israel Prison Service and the Firefighting Commission have all for years been using HazMat gear manufactured by two German companies… Read More ›

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 ›