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RAANANA, Israel (JTA) — When Thiago Benzecry left his home in Brazil’s Amazon region to join the Israeli navy, he knew he was putting significant distance between himself and his family, in more ways than one.
(JTA) — Oscar-nominated actor Lakeith Stanfield co-moderated a room on the audio app Clubhouse in which participants made a slew of antisemitic remarks, The Daily Beast reported Friday.
With a looming vote to remove the Wyoming congresswoman from her leadership position comes debate over policy issues, the lingering status of the November elections and voting concerns, and where the party is headed as it approaches 2022.
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(JTA) — Capping a day of violence across the country, Israeli police clashed with Muslim worshippers at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. More than 50 Palestinians were wounded in the clashes, according to reports.
“My decision to sign on to this bill was not in a vacuum. It was made in consultation with many within the Jewish community within the district who also supported the bill,” he said.
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(JTA) — Seven months after Heshy Tischler was charged with inciting a riot in Brooklyn’s Borough Park, the Orthodox activist and provocateur has been sentenced to 10 days of community service.
JERUSALEM — Palestinian worshippers clashed with Israeli police late Friday at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, a major holy site sacred to Muslims and Jews, in an escalation of weeks of violence in Jerusalem that has reverberated across the region.
From short-range Burkan rockets with massive warheads that can destroy buildings to medium-range Iranian Fateh 110 missiles that can reach greater Tel Aviv, the Alma Center sheds new light on how Lebanon is brimming with Hezbollah’s firepower.
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Global Affairs Canada spokesperson Grantly Franklin said “Canada is concerned that the Durban process has and continues to be used to push for anti-Israel sentiment and as a forum for anti-Semitism.”
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(JTA) — The Met Council has long been known for providing kosher food to dozens of food banks across New York City.
(JTA) — A detailed account of one of the earliest American diplomatic voyages to Palestine has surfaced as part of an upcoming auction in Jerusalem.
The image is said to demonstrate the anti-American ideology of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran.
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(JTA) — With summer coming and COVID-19 vaccines being deemed safe for children as young as 12, some camps are talking about the possibility of a mask-free summer for vaccinated campers.
“The fields mainly hit were wheat. In addition to limiting the loss of crops, we were also able to save many wildlife animals trapped by fire,” said Eshkol Council Security Officer Ilan Isaacson.
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Owner Isaac Yosef has hired more than 25 formerly incarcerated employees at Frena Bakery and at his restaurant, Hummus Bodega.
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This year marked the first time that Switzerland was represented at the international meeting.
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It will focus on increasing trade, tourism and other programs to foster interpersonal connections between the five signatory countries.
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(JTA) — Yitzhak Arad, a Jewish partisan from Lithuania who rose through the ranks of Israel’s army before leading the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, has died at the age of 95.
The conference highlighted a range of perspectives that joined in support of Zionism—from Republicans and Democrats to rabbis from various denominations and organizations with wide-ranging goals.
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — An agency that provides administrative services to the U.S. military posted an Easter sermon on its website that described a New Testament passage preaching to Jews as a demand to “say sorry” for killing Jesus.
(JTA) — Sheldon Silver, the former speaker of the New York State Assembly, is reportedly headed back to prison, just days after being sent home on what officials had described as a COVID-related furlough.
Having multigenerational homes limits the ability of many Mumbai Jews to interact with the suffering poor.
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(JTA) — The tweet pinned to the top of Jared Moskowitz’s feed is a 46-word rebuke.
The money was being used to pay families of slain terrorists, recruit new operatives and spread its messaging throughout the West Bank, Gaza and eastern Jerusalem.
The post Israeli security services uncover finance network linking European NGOs to Palestinian terror group appeared first on JNS.org.
Hamas’s aspiration following its forceful 2007 takeover of Gaza is to seize the institutions of the P.A. and the PLO in the West Bank, “thereby achieving total hegemony on the Palestinian arena,” said Professor Boaz Ganor of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at Herzliya.
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(JTA) — One of the three 19-year old yeshiva students shot in a drive-by shooting this week in the West Bank has died of his wounds.
(JTA) — A dramatic rise in attacks on Asian-Americans has led to an overall increase in hate crimes in New York City during 2021, while the number of crimes targeting Jews decreased slightly.
JERUSALEM — Israel's opposition leader on Thursday called for a unity government and vowed to find common ground among the ideologically diverse parties seeking to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In a now-deleted tweet, the Democratic Majority for Israel wrote that Nancy Kaufman, former head of the National Council for Jewish Women, ash too often “enabled, rather than battled, anti-Semitism.”
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Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. said repeatedly in his trial and interviews with the press that he went to those locations seeking to kill Jews
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Maj. Gen. Thomas Solhjem, the U.S. Army’s chief of chaplains, pointed out that “a critical element in the founding of our nation is the diversity that we see in our faith communities.”
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(JTA) — UJA-Federation of New York announced $200,000 in grants to four organizations working on COVID relief efforts in India.
“We’re seeing incredible support from Eastern Europe, but some of the Western European countries have really taken a harsh stance,” said Josh Reinstein, head of the Israel Allies Foundation and the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus. “We’re not going to let the Jewish state be singled out.”
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Michael Mostyn, CEO of B’nai Brith Canada, lauded the decision, saying “Jews returning to producing wine in their indigenous homeland is something to be celebrated, not stigmatized.”
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(The Cholent via JTA) — Nearly 100 years after Seattle’s first Jewish school opened, an effort is underway to restore its crumbling building — as a multifaith center that can unite Jews and Muslims in the city.
Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality declares the city ready for international tourists to start returning in May • “Incoming tourism is an integral part of the identity of Tel Aviv-Yafo,” says the city’s mayor.
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Israel’s commercial shipping “is vulnerable anywhere in the world,” says IRGC Commander-in-Chief Hossein Salami.
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Fending off criticism over the deadly Meron stampede on April 30, Amir Ohana insists that responsibility and guilt are two separate things.
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U.K.-based observer group reports that three people were wounded in the strike, which targeted a Syrian military position that also hosted Hezbollah units.
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Ahead of Jerusalem Day, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund gives a glimpse into what the Holy City looked like during the early days of the British Mandate, well before the establishment of the State of Israel.
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Saturday, May 08, 2021
RAANANA, Israel (JTA) — When Thiago Benzecry left his home in Brazil’s Amazon region to join the Israeli navy, he knew he was putting significant distance between himself and his family, in mo…
Friday, May 07, 2021
(JTA) — Oscar-nominated actor Lakeith Stanfield co-moderated a room on the audio app Clubhouse in which participants made a slew of antisemitic remarks, The Daily Beast reported Friday.
(JTA) — Capping a day of violence across the country, Israeli police clashed with Muslim worshippers at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. More than 50 Palestinians were wounded in the clashes, ac…
(JTA) — Seven months after Heshy Tischler was charged with inciting a riot in Brooklyn’s Borough Park, the Orthodox activist and provocateur has been sentenced to 10 days of community service.
(JTA) — The Met Council has long been known for providing kosher food to dozens of food banks across New York City.
(JTA) — A detailed account of one of the earliest American diplomatic voyages to Palestine has surfaced as part of an upcoming auction in Jerusalem.
(JTA) — With summer coming and COVID-19 vaccines being deemed safe for children as young as 12, some camps are talking about the possibility of a mask-free summer for vaccinated campers.
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Friday, May 07, 2021
With a looming vote to remove the Wyoming congresswoman from her leadership position comes debate over policy issues, the lingering status of the November elections and voting concerns, and where the party is headed as it approaches 2022.
The post Jewish Republicans divided over fate of Cheney in battle with Trump loyalists appeared first on JNS.org.
“My decision to sign on to this bill was not in a vacuum. It was made in consultation with many within the Jewish community within the district who also supported the bill,” he said.
The post New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman explains support for bill to restrict aid to Israel appeared first on JNS.org.
From short-range Burkan rockets with massive warheads that can destroy buildings to medium-range Iranian Fateh 110 missiles that can reach greater Tel Aviv, the Alma Center sheds new light on how Lebanon is brimming with Hezbollah’s firepower.
The post New reports map out Hezbollah’s missile arsenal, expose new military sites appeared first on JNS.org.
Global Affairs Canada spokesperson Grantly Franklin said “Canada is concerned that the Durban process has and continues to be used to push for anti-Israel sentiment and as a forum for anti-Semitism.”
The post Canada joins US, Australia in steering clear of events related to 20 years of Durban appeared first on JNS.org.
The image is said to demonstrate the anti-American ideology of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran.
The post Iranian state TV airs video clip of exploding US Capitol appeared first on JNS.org.
“The fields mainly hit were wheat. In addition to limiting the loss of crops, we were also able to save many wildlife animals trapped by fire,” said Eshkol Council Security Officer Ilan Isaacson.
The post Terror-balloon attacks resume against communities, fields in southern Israel appeared first on JNS.org.
Owner Isaac Yosef has hired more than 25 formerly incarcerated employees at Frena Bakery and at his restaurant, Hummus Bodega.
The post San Francisco’s only kosher bakery praised for hiring former prisoners appeared first on JNS.org.
