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US rabbis protest Trump by dropping holiday conference call

US rabbis protest Trump by dropping holiday conference call

Leading US rabbis say they will not attempt a joint call ahead of the High Holy Days next month, following US Pres. Trump’s defense of… Read More ›

Rabbis scrap High Holidays call with Trump in protest

Rabbis scrap High Holidays call with Trump in protest

Reconstructionist, Reform and Conservative leaders say they cannot take part in annual tradition after Charlottesville response   WASHINGTON — Movements representing three streams of American… Read More ›

Senior PA Official to Britain: We Want Our Own Balfour

Senior PA Official to Britain: We Want Our Own Balfour

“The Balfour Declaration is an historic statement for which Her Majesty’s Government does not intend to apologize.”   Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki has… Read More ›

Turning a blind eye to extreme Right or Left anti-Semitism

Turning a blind eye to extreme Right or Left anti-Semitism

Op-ed: The neo-Nazi demonstration last week in Charlottesville was despicable, as was President Trump’s choice to overlook its severity. But it is important for us… Read More ›

When American Jews fought Nazis — in New Jersey

When American Jews fought Nazis — in New Jersey

In 1930s Newark, Jewish gangsters led the ‘Minutemen’ in defending the community against pro-German anti-Semites   JTA — The Nazi punching debate (is it OK… Read More ›

New York – Why Some Jews Are Paying $500 For An Italian Etrog

New York – Why Some Jews Are Paying $500 For An Italian Etrog

  New York – Fifty years ago, leaders of the Chabad movement tasked Rabbi Moshe Lazar of Milan with supervising the local production and export… Read More ›

State says outpost legalization law protects Palestinians

State says outpost legalization law protects Palestinians

Responding to petition from left-wing NGOs, government insists preventing additional outpost evacuations is in Israel’s ‘national interest’   In its official response Thursday to a… Read More ›

A young adult novel gives cancer the comic treatment

A young adult novel gives cancer the comic treatment

Abby Sher has written soulful nonfiction and performed with Chicago’s Second City. Now two worlds combine in a hilariously touching coming of age story  … Read More ›

Portland, OR – Oregon Eclipse Tourists Greeted By Anti-Semitic Banners On Overpass

Portland, OR – Oregon Eclipse Tourists Greeted By Anti-Semitic Banners On Overpass

  Portland, OR – Signs with anti-Semitic messages were hung on highway overpasses in Oregon. The banners were hung on two northbound highways, which were… Read More ›

Barcelona Attack Hits Near Kosher Restaurant, Keeping Jerusalem on Edge

Barcelona Attack Hits Near Kosher Restaurant, Keeping Jerusalem on Edge

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to the ministry’s situation room soon after the attack to monitor developments   With thousands of Israelis currently on vacation… Read More ›

Netanyahu’s silence echoes Trump’s disgraceful stance on neo-Nazis

Netanyahu’s silence echoes Trump’s disgraceful stance on neo-Nazis

Op-ed: By remaining silent on US president’s failure to immediately condemn neo-Nazis in the wake of Charlottesville violence, the prime minister has demonstrated a nonchalant… Read More ›

Republican Jewish Coalition calls for ‘greater moral clarity’ from Trump

Republican Jewish Coalition calls for ‘greater moral clarity’ from Trump

Leaders of longtime engine of support for president urge he take stronger stance on racism and anti-Semitism after blaming Charlotteseville violence on ‘both sides’  … Read More ›

Los Angeles – Arnold Schwarzenegger Donates $100,000 To Jewish Anti-hate Group

Los Angeles – Arnold Schwarzenegger Donates $100,000 To Jewish Anti-hate Group

    Los Angeles – Arnold Schwarzenegger has donated $100,000 to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which combats anti-Semitism and bigotry, in the wake of the… Read More ›

Boston – Holocaust Memorial Vandalized For Second Time This Summer

Boston – Holocaust Memorial Vandalized For Second Time This Summer

  Boston – The New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston has been vandalized for the second time this summer. Police say someone smashed a glass… Read More ›

Hate in Charlottesville: The day the Nazi called me Shlomo

Hate in Charlottesville: The day the Nazi called me Shlomo

Before the Virginia white supremacist rally turned deadly, a Jewish reporter was confronted with anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial and anti-Israel vitriol   CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia (JTA) —… Read More ›

German Green Party Probes Iran’s Activity Against Israel and Dissidents

German Green Party Probes Iran’s Activity Against Israel and Dissidents

Hezbollah operatives also subject of inquiry.   The expansion of Iranian regime institutions in Germany has prompted the opening of an inquiry by the Green… Read More ›

Left-wing NGOs working for all Israeli citizens

Left-wing NGOs working for all Israeli citizens

Op-ed: Unlike right-wing NGOs, which favor projects that serve the Right’s political agenda, civil society organizations affiliated with the Left have universal goals. The New… Read More ›

Polish villagers hold Jewish wedding without Jews

Polish villagers hold Jewish wedding without Jews

Cultural group promoting Polish heritage stages event featuring a non-Jewish volunteers dressed in traditional costumes, along with fake beards and side curls   JTA —… Read More ›

Defense minister slams violent ultra-Orthodox rioters

Defense minister slams violent ultra-Orthodox rioters

Three arrests made in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood after raid on office of anti-draft extremists   Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman took to Twitter to slam… Read More ›

State religious schools push girls not to enlist in the IDF

State religious schools push girls not to enlist in the IDF

According to Education Ministry’s supervisor of state religious high schools, national-religious girls are taught Chief Rabbinate’s ruling that bars enlistment of women to the IDF;… Read More ›