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NGO bill’s hit list: 23 out of the 25 organizations are left-wing

NGO bill’s hit list: 23 out of the 25 organizations are left-wing

No right-wing groups on list of organizations receiving foreign state funding, which does include B’Tselem, Breaking the Silence, Yesh Din   Out of 25 non-governmental… Read More ›

Theresa May, a ‘long-standing friend of Israel’

Theresa May, a ‘long-standing friend of Israel’

The parliamentary chairman of the Conservative Friends of Israel issued a statement saying that “Israel can rest assured that a UK led by Theresa May… Read More ›

Warsaw, Poland – US Group Celebrates Poles Who Saved Jews During Holocaust

Warsaw, Poland – US Group Celebrates Poles Who Saved Jews During Holocaust

  Warsaw, Poland – One man is 101 years old. Others are in their 80s and 90s and arrived in wheelchairs, with a walker, or… Read More ›

Filmmaker goes from toilet paper factory to world tour

Filmmaker goes from toilet paper factory to world tour

Director Nitzan Gilady’s dreary pre-army experience grew into a buoyant and imaginative story about a physically challenged woman’s inner world   When a young Nitzan… Read More ›

With every terror attack must come new construction

With every terror attack must come new construction

Op-ed: Settlement freeze policy sends the message to terrorists that violence and terror works. This mentality must be changed to a message conveying that every… Read More ›

German news network accuses Israel of teaching children to hate

German news network accuses Israel of teaching children to hate

A documentary titled ‘teaching to hate?’ will be broadcasted on German mainstream network ZDF. The documentary aims to show how children are educated to kill,… Read More ›

Jewish groups look for answers after five cops killed in Dallas shootings

Jewish groups look for answers after five cops killed in Dallas shootings

ADL calls for ‘increased bias training’ for law enforcement officials.   We are at a turning point here in the US” is a statement uttered… Read More ›

ADL lauds Dems’ platform backing two states, opposing BDS

ADL lauds Dems’ platform backing two states, opposing BDS

Group’s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt urges GOP to use similar language to reflect bipartisan consensus on Israel   The Anti-Defamation League commended the Democratic National Convention’s… Read More ›

The boy from Block 32

The boy from Block 32

A chance conversation in a Parisian café revealed that its interlocutors had apparently been in the same barracks in Auschwitz; it blossomed into a lifelong… Read More ›

Jews and Muslims actually defend Donald Trump

Jews and Muslims actually defend Donald Trump

GOP candidate’s controversial comments sometimes make task of bringing their communities to his camp more difficult, though change in discourse now happening, say Eve Stieglitz,… Read More ›

It was ‘hurry up and wait,’ but there’s a decade of quiet in North

It was ‘hurry up and wait,’ but there’s a decade of quiet in North

Three foot soldiers look back on 2006’s Second Lebanon War.   For Gabriel Avner, the Second Lebanon War was a formative experience, if one that’s… Read More ›

‘Yemenite Children Affair’ report made available online

‘Yemenite Children Affair’ report made available online

The report from the Kedmi Committee, which looked into the disappearances of children of Jewish Yemenite immigrants between 1948–1954, is now accessible online; the report… Read More ›

Commission recommends inclusion of Sephardic, Mizrahi Jewish history in school curriculum

Commission recommends inclusion of Sephardic, Mizrahi Jewish history in school curriculum

Recommendations include taking students on school trips to Morocco, Spain and the Balkans; introducing topics relating to Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry in history, literature and… Read More ›

Amnesty: Israel and Palestinians need to own up to war crimes

Amnesty: Israel and Palestinians need to own up to war crimes

Rights group says IDF investigations ‘lack independence and impartiality’   Two years following Operation Protective Edge, Amnesty International is disappointed with the lack of serious… Read More ›

Israel forbids mixed-gender prayer service at Western Wall

Israel forbids mixed-gender prayer service at Western Wall

In a letter to Reform and Conservative Jews, government cites rule against hosting ‘religious ceremonies’ in holy site’s plaza   Israel will not allow non-Orthodox… Read More ›

Despite heckles, pluralistic services at Western Wall pass ‘quietly’

Despite heckles, pluralistic services at Western Wall pass ‘quietly’

Reform, Conservative Jews comply with attorney general order not to pray at holy site, but still draw protests from small group for singing and dancing… Read More ›

Netanyahu’s trip is worth every penny

Netanyahu’s trip is worth every penny

Op-ed: Symbols are what tie a nation together, a projection of power and strength. Therefore, despite the high price tag of Netanyahu’s trip to Africa,… Read More ›

Peres: ‘I had no time to think about death’

Peres: ‘I had no time to think about death’

In an exclusive interview with Yedioth Ahronoth, the former president talks about his recent heart attack, his house carer and how he felt when he… Read More ›

Western Wall feud persists: Non-Orthodox worshipers clash with haredim

Western Wall feud persists: Non-Orthodox worshipers clash with haredim

Progressive Jewish groups continue to hold prayer services in the upper plaza of the Western Wall until the government-approved plan for an egalitarian prayer space… Read More ›

British Jewry welcomes return of repentant Labour MP suspended for anti-Semitism

British Jewry welcomes return of repentant Labour MP suspended for anti-Semitism

Naz Shah reinstated after scandal surrounding post urging Israel be ‘relocated’ to the US   JTA – British Jews welcomed the reinstatement of a Labour… Read More ›