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Mexico City – Mexico City’s New Mayor Distances Herself From Her Jewishness — But One Political Rival Doesn’t

Mexico City – Mexico City’s New Mayor Distances Herself From Her Jewishness — But One Political Rival Doesn’t

Mexico City – It was during her ultimately successful campaign for Mexico City mayor that Claudia Sheinbaum made a reference to her Jewish heritage. Speaking… Read More ›

Is the New Israel Fund anti-Zionist?

Is the New Israel Fund anti-Zionist?

Op-ed: The Fund’s CEO, Mickey Gitzin, has in the past denied the organization is anti-Zionist. However, despite withdrawing its support for some pro-BDS groups, the… Read More ›

Haredi IDF enlistment figures revealed

Haredi IDF enlistment figures revealed

The Knesset Research and Information Center’s (RIC) report reveals that the army invests tens of millions of shekels a year in programs that assist lone… Read More ›

‘What a Hanukkah gift’: Bitter PM slams police call to charge him with bribery

‘What a Hanukkah gift’: Bitter PM slams police call to charge him with bribery

Accusing cops of an ongoing witch-hunt, Netanyahu denies deal to help Bezeq boss Elovitch in return for favorable coverage from the businessman’s Walla news site… Read More ›

ANALYSIS: How ‘lonely little’ George H.W. Bush changed the US-Israel relationship

ANALYSIS: How ‘lonely little’ George H.W. Bush changed the US-Israel relationship

The 41st president beat AIPAC, but lost 24% of his Jewish backing after confronting Israel over the settlements; it’s a lesson US leaders since have… Read More ›

Rabbinate publishes list of recognized Diaspora courts

Rabbinate publishes list of recognized Diaspora courts

The struggle for transparency in religious services is beginning to bear fruit: Chief Rabbinate publishes list of foreign rabbinical courts recognized for perforating conversions and… Read More ›

Jewish Groups Split on U.S. Federal Grants for Synagogue Security

Jewish Groups Split on U.S. Federal Grants for Synagogue Security

“Pittsburgh was a very high-profile, historic and disturbing event, so it’s very much part of the conversation,” said Nathan Diament, executive director for the Orthodox… Read More ›

The anti-Semitic propaganda worked on Airbnb

The anti-Semitic propaganda worked on Airbnb

Op-ed: CNN’s poll proves that the anti-Semitic campaign is alive and well, especially when we consider Airbnb’s decision to remove Jewish settlement listings from its… Read More ›

US envoy tells PA to free US citizen arrested for selling Old City home to Jews

US envoy tells PA to free US citizen arrested for selling Old City home to Jews

David Friedman says Issam Akel’s 2-month detention over Jerusalem property deal is ‘antithetical’ to US values and ‘peaceful coexistence’   US Ambassador to Israel David… Read More ›

European Rabbinic Leaders Reject Orthodox, Non-state Conversions in Israel

European Rabbinic Leaders Reject Orthodox, Non-state Conversions in Israel

Conference of European Rabbis makes move in agreement with Chief Rabbinate   The Chief Rabbinate and the Conference of European Rabbis have agreed that rabbis… Read More ›

Top European rabbi urges Israel to end engagement with far-right parties

Top European rabbi urges Israel to end engagement with far-right parties

Pinchas Goldschmidt tells MKs that cozying up to populist groups, if even they espouse pro-Israel views, endangers local Jewish communities   A leading European rabbi… Read More ›

Passengers from Nightmare El Al Flight Demand NIS 9 Million

Passengers from Nightmare El Al Flight Demand NIS 9 Million

  Some 180 passengers on the nightmare El Al flight from New York to Tel Aviv last week have demanded monetary compensation from the company… Read More ›

London – Clement Attlee, Postwar Prime Minister Of Britain, Took In A Jewish Child Fleeing The Nazis

London – Clement Attlee, Postwar Prime Minister Of Britain, Took In A Jewish Child Fleeing The Nazis

  London – Clement Attlee, who served as prime minister of Britain in the aftermath of World War II, housed a refugee child who escaped… Read More ›

A national disgrace in the studio

A national disgrace in the studio

Op-ed: Media diversity is important, but not if it means conducting a joking, pampering, dismissive interview with the likes of Yitzhak Gabai, the Jewish arsonist… Read More ›

Jerusalem – For A Liberal Orthodox Educational Network In Israel, It’s The End Of An Era

Jerusalem – For A Liberal Orthodox Educational Network In Israel, It’s The End Of An Era

  Jerusalem – Rabbi Shlomo Riskin officially handed the network of liberal Orthodox schools and seminaries in Israel that he founded 35 years ago to… Read More ›

Wisconsin district investigates boys’ apparent Nazi salute

Wisconsin district investigates boys’ apparent Nazi salute

Photo of more than 60 male students with their right arm extended upward posted on social media; Democratic Senator Erpenbach, whose district includes Baraboo, suggests… Read More ›

Merkel marks Nazi ‘Kristallnacht’ against Jews with synagogue speech

Merkel marks Nazi ‘Kristallnacht’ against Jews with synagogue speech

German chancellor acknowledges anti-Semitism in the country, fueled by both far-right groups and Muslim extremists, is on the rise once again as she attends ceremony… Read More ›

US Jews Feel More Positively Towards Israel Despite Religious Pluralism Rift

US Jews Feel More Positively Towards Israel Despite Religious Pluralism Rift

A survey found that 81 percent of American Jews feel same or more positively towards Israel over last 5-10 years, and that 65 percent are… Read More ›

Pittsburgh shooting looms large as Berlin commemorates Kristallnacht

Pittsburgh shooting looms large as Berlin commemorates Kristallnacht

Students and rabbis in German capital read names of victims, light candles and pray at memorials 80 years after ‘Night of Broken Glass’   BERLIN… Read More ›

Debut playwright to pioneer the work of Auschwitz survivor  Primo Levi in London’s Off-West End

Debut playwright to pioneer the work of Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi in London’s Off-West End

A new play exploring the life of holocaust survivor and revolutionary thinker, Primo Levi, will premiere at the Tristan Bates Theatre this November in an… Read More ›