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New Anne Frank Center head seeks rights agenda as aggressive as he is

New Anne Frank Center head seeks rights agenda as aggressive as he is

Legendary LGBT activist Steven Goldstein identifies as a pro-Israel advocate first and foremost   NEW YORK (JTA) — When the 2015 movie “Freeheld” came out,… Read More ›

Diplomacy shifts to Rome for Kerry, Netanyahu pow-wow, Turkey detente

Diplomacy shifts to Rome for Kerry, Netanyahu pow-wow, Turkey detente

Premier to sit down with top American diplomat Sunday in bid to soften Quartet report as officials from Jerusalem and Ankara meet to finalize resumption… Read More ›

Missing IDF soldier’s family: Netanyahu failing a test by signing deal with Turkey

Missing IDF soldier’s family: Netanyahu failing a test by signing deal with Turkey

Goldin and Shaul families come out against deal; Shauls to set up protest tent outside Prime Minister’s Residence.   The family of Lt. Hadar Goldin,… Read More ›

Quartet report likely to recommend renewal of direct Israeli-Palestinian talks

Quartet report likely to recommend renewal of direct Israeli-Palestinian talks

Jerusalem favors that approach, over French-backed international conference.   The long-awaited Quartet report on the Middle East is expected to include a recommendation that Israel… Read More ›

Rwanda looks to Israel as model of how to persevere after genocide

Rwanda looks to Israel as model of how to persevere after genocide

“Israel’s achievements are really spectacular, we want to learn how they achieved this.”   As a country where genocide was committed just over two decades… Read More ›

UK minister compares Brexit opponents to Nazi campaign against Einstein

UK minister compares Brexit opponents to Nazi campaign against Einstein

Justice minister insinuates multiple experts who’ve warned against leaving EU are on government payroll   Britain’s justice minister likened some opponents of the campaign to… Read More ›

New York – Radio Persona Sliwa Unloads On NYPD’s Jewish Liaisons Program (audio)

New York – Radio Persona Sliwa Unloads On NYPD’s Jewish Liaisons Program (audio)

  New York – Guardian Angels founder and popular radio host Curtis Sliwa minced no words on his WABC Drive at Five radio program on… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Were Israel’s Yemenite Children Kidnapped? Question Once Again Shakes Israel

Jerusalem – Were Israel’s Yemenite Children Kidnapped? Question Once Again Shakes Israel

  Jerusalem – A painful chapter in Israel’s history – the mysterious disappearance, or abduction, of hundreds of Yemenite children shortly after the country’s founding… Read More ›

What Hitler’s Jewish neighbor saw

What Hitler’s Jewish neighbor saw

London – “I knew only too well, even when I was 8 years old — I knew it was a very bad business for us.”… Read More ›

100 years later, Sholem Aleichem’s censored tales available in Russian

100 years later, Sholem Aleichem’s censored tales available in Russian

Since the Soviet regime prevented proliferation of the writer’s anti-communist religious nostalgia, these new translations are a first glimpse into shtetl life for many  … Read More ›

Rabbi who converted Ivanka Trump slams Israeli rabbinate’s ‘cruel’ rejection of US convert

Rabbi who converted Ivanka Trump slams Israeli rabbinate’s ‘cruel’ rejection of US convert

NY Rabbi Haskel Lookstein speaks to ‘Post’ on rabbinate’s decision to prevent American woman who moved to Israel from marrying her fiance because the body… Read More ›

From Jewish schools to churches, Brits vote on EU referendum

From Jewish schools to churches, Brits vote on EU referendum

Londoners happy to finally have their say on whether to remain or leave the European Union.   LONDON – In schools, churches, libraries and various… Read More ›

NY anti-Semitism exhibit shows how history repeats itself

NY anti-Semitism exhibit shows how history repeats itself

50 sobering pieces, including bedtime stories, signs, propaganda posters, and paperwork on display at the New-York Historical Society until July 31   NEW YORK —… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Actress Helen Mirren Rejects Efforts To Boycot

Jerusalem – Actress Helen Mirren Rejects Efforts To Boycot

  Jerusalem – Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren said Wednesday she was a “believer” in Israel and rejected efforts to boycott it. Mirren showered Israeli artists… Read More ›

Pro-settlement NGO urges Brexit over EU’s West Bank policies

Pro-settlement NGO urges Brexit over EU’s West Bank policies

Regavim’s parody video features Hamas operatives advising Britons who ‘hate Isra-Hell and the Jews’ to vote ‘stay’ An Israeli pro-settlement group is campaigning for Britain… Read More ›

British Jewry faces Brexit vote with fear and trepidation

British Jewry faces Brexit vote with fear and trepidation

For Jews there are three big questions regarding a continuing relationship with Europe: its attitudes to Israel, ritual slaughter and circumcision   LONDON — As… Read More ›

In sign of improving ties, Israeli MK and Turkish official to appear publicly

In sign of improving ties, Israeli MK and Turkish official to appear publicly

Zionist Union lawmaker: It has been a long time since an MK appeared officially in Turkey   In a sign of of improving government ties,… Read More ›

Abbas: Israel must end its regional hegemony if its serious about peace

Abbas: Israel must end its regional hegemony if its serious about peace

The PA President spoke during a joint press conference he held with the European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini within hours after landing in… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Violinist Perlman: Trump Gesture About Disabled Reporter ‘Terrible’

Jerusalem – Violinist Perlman: Trump Gesture About Disabled Reporter ‘Terrible’

  Jerusalem – Violinist Itzhak Perlman, a longtime advocate for the disabled, is still upset over Donald Trump’s derisive behavior toward a disabled reporter last… Read More ›

Booklets demonizing IDF draft spread in mainstream yeshivas

Booklets demonizing IDF draft spread in mainstream yeshivas

Anti-IDF propaganda that compares IDF soldiers to Nazis and cannibals are being distributed in mainstream yeshivas, insisting that the students refrain from the draft; ‘for… Read More ›