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Abbas to Expand Outreach to American Jewish Community

Abbas to Expand Outreach to American Jewish Community

A delegation of Reform Jewish leaders, including Union of Reform Judaism president Rick Jacobs, met with the PA president on Thursday in Ramallah.   Palestinian… Read More ›

Police believe single caller menacing JCCs, as more buildings threatened

Police believe single caller menacing JCCs, as more buildings threatened

New York police intelligence chief says one man using a voice changer and phone spoofing device likely responsible for most incidents; Brooklyn Jewish museum and… Read More ›

200 observant IDF officers rooting for Rabbi Levinstein

200 observant IDF officers rooting for Rabbi Levinstein

IDF officers who studied under Rabbi Levinstein in a pre-military modern Orthodox academy sign a petition backing their Rabbi, against the integration of women in… Read More ›

JCC leaders demand Sessions be a ‘stronger partner’ against continued threats

JCC leaders demand Sessions be a ‘stronger partner’ against continued threats

Amidst another wave of bomb threats, 141 community center heads send AG a letter asking for more action in combating anti-Semitism   WASHINGTON — Amidst… Read More ›

Houston – President George H.W. Bush, Wife, Condemn Jewish Threats

Houston – President George H.W. Bush, Wife, Condemn Jewish Threats

  Houston – Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, are condemning recent bomb threats and vandalism against Jewish institutions in the nation.… Read More ›

Tel Aviv – Israeli Chefs Take Hamantaschen To A Whole New Level

Tel Aviv – Israeli Chefs Take Hamantaschen To A Whole New Level

  Tel Aviv – Cheesecake, amaretto or goat cheese and onion jam? Those are just some of the new hamantaschen options this year at Roladin,… Read More ›

MK Odeh: ‘Peace is Impossible Without Israeli-Arab Input’

MK Odeh: ‘Peace is Impossible Without Israeli-Arab Input’

Speaking to members of the Foreign Press Association on Monday, MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash) heeded that peace will not be achieved if Israel’s Arab sector… Read More ›

Zionism’s anti-Zionist protector

Zionism’s anti-Zionist protector

Op-ed: When the president of the Zionist state and a Palestinian MK share a similar view on annexation and a binational state, there must be… Read More ›

Netanyahu pauses 4-hour police grilling to speak to Trump

Netanyahu pauses 4-hour police grilling to speak to Trump

Investigators question PM for 4th time on corruption allegations in two separate cases; police chief indicates probes almost complete   Police investigators questioned Prime Minister… Read More ›

Argentinian Politician Seeks Justice for Victims of 1994 Amia Bombing

Argentinian Politician Seeks Justice for Victims of 1994 Amia Bombing

The laws governing Argentina’s judicial system make it difficult to prosecute he people behind the attack because the accused must be present at the trial.… Read More ›

At 10, egalitarian yeshiva wants to expand learning among Jews in the pews

At 10, egalitarian yeshiva wants to expand learning among Jews in the pews

New York’s Mechon Hadar seeks to reach out to different denominations, while still emphasizing traditional Torah study   NEW YORK (JTA) — In the upstairs… Read More ›

US Reps Say Federal Response Needed to Stop Jew-Hatred

US Reps Say Federal Response Needed to Stop Jew-Hatred

“We’re here today to bring necessary attention to this public security threat. Because a threat to the Jewish community – or to any religious community… Read More ›

Political nuance lost on NY audience at sneak preview of Israeli hip hop film

Political nuance lost on NY audience at sneak preview of Israeli hip hop film

In ‘Junction 48’, now opening in the US, director Udi Aloni crafts a strong, if sometimes cloying, drama about a struggling Arab rapper in the… Read More ›

Klezmatics’ Frank London brings new Yiddish-Spanish opera to Cuba

Klezmatics’ Frank London brings new Yiddish-Spanish opera to Cuba

Based on an epic poem by a Havana Jewish refugee inspired by the struggle against Spanish colonialists, trumpeter says his new composition has universal themes… Read More ›

Pennsylvania AG: Trump called wave of anti-Semitic attacks ‘reprehensible,’ but says they’re sometimes done in ‘the reverse’

Pennsylvania AG: Trump called wave of anti-Semitic attacks ‘reprehensible,’ but says they’re sometimes done in ‘the reverse’

  Asked about a wave of recent anti-Semitic attacks, President Donald Trump told a group of state attorneys general on Tuesday that attacks are sometimes… Read More ›

US Jewish Groups Call on Government Entities to ‘Speak Out’ Against Antisemitism

US Jewish Groups Call on Government Entities to ‘Speak Out’ Against Antisemitism

This latest wave of threats comes after over five others in January and February, with a total of 89 incidents at 72 locations in 30… Read More ›

Protective Edge report: Harsh criticism, but no threat to government

Protective Edge report: Harsh criticism, but no threat to government

Op-ed: Prime Minister Netanyahu is the main official rebuked in the state comptroller’s report on the 2014 Gaza war, yet the report is expected to… Read More ›

With few safeguards, Jewish cemeteries make easy targets for vandals

With few safeguards, Jewish cemeteries make easy targets for vandals

Two attacks, a week apart, on big, sparsely staffed and easy to access graveyards — combined with JCC bomb threats — have Jewish leaders increasingly… Read More ›

A rabbi in Iran—the Neturei Karta’s fight against Israel

A rabbi in Iran—the Neturei Karta’s fight against Israel

A peculiar sight was present in the crowd of an international conference against Israel: an ultra-Orthodox rabbi, listening attentively to anti-Israel rhetoric; what drives these… Read More ›

Pence Visits Vandalized Jewish Cemetery

Pence Visits Vandalized Jewish Cemetery

“I must tell you the people of Missouri are inspiring the nation by your love and care for this place, for the Jewish community in… Read More ›