Last week, Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced an amendment to the State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Act blocking any U.S. funding to Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW). Between 2015 and 2016, IRW received $370,000 in federal funding. DeSantis explained to the Free Beacon that: U.S. tax dollars cannot […]
Anti-Israel activists plastered Buenos Aires with anti-Semitic signs ahead of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to South America. The signs claim that Prime Minister Netanyahu is “wanted for crimes against human rights and Palestinian genocide.” Netanyahu is shown wearing an SS uniform, and is depicted with a mustache and haircut reminiscent of Adolf Hitler. The
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International, Middle EastA few hours after a Chabad man in Herzliya was fined 730 shekels for helping passersby put on tefillin, a Sderot resident received a fine for activating “Shabbat sirens” near the city’s “Ha’ari Hakadosh” synagogue. “Shabbat sirens” are either music or an actual siren, sounded twenty minutes and five minutes before the start of Shabbat
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastJustice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) took part Monday in the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism”s (ICT) 17th annual international conference, hosted by the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, and addressed the long-term security and geopolitical challenges faced by Israel. Among the chief security issues confronting the Jewish state, Shaked stated, are the Hamas terror group in Gaza
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Middle EastPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu”s son, Yair Netanyahu, on Sunday deleted a post from his Facebook account which included a caricature claimed by the left to be anti-Semitic. The Prime Minister’s son had sparked a storm when he posted the meme which was full of anti-Semitic overtones. The meme, titled “food chain”, showed Jewish billionaire George
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Middle EastDavid Breakstone The Conservative (Masorti) and Reform movements together with Women of the Wall rallying for a pluralistic Israel (Courtesy) Rabbi David Stav is not a Reform Jew. How dare anyone accuse him of that! Several days ago, a tape was leaked to Israeli television in which Aryeh Deri, head of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party,
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Middle EastThe European Jewish Congress (EJC) called for French authorities to take stronger measures against anti-Semitism after a French Jewish family were assaulted in their home. In the attack Thursday night, three men broke into the home of Roger Pinto, beating his son and wife. One of the attackers said, “You Jews have money,” according to
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InternationalIsrael’s Counter-terrorism Bureau issued a general travel warning “to present the public with an up-to-date picture of the situation.” The warning comes two weeks before the Jewish holidays. “Every year, the Tishrei holidays may be an attractive target for carrying out terror attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets,” the warning said. Tishrei is the Hebrew
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Middle EastVandals targeted the family of New York State”s Assistant Attorney General, spray painting the word “Jew” on the front door of the family”s Bronx home. According to Assistant AG Jenny Michael, her father, former New York City Budget Director Philip Michael found the graffiti on his front door Sunday. Jenny Michael told the New York
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USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu arrived in Argentina Monday, following a 20 hour flight from Ben Gurion airport. Netanyahu will begin his four day visit to Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico with a visit to the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, which was destroyed in a terrorist bombing in 1992. The Prime Minister will participate in a
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International, Middle EastHurricane Irma has put a temporarily halt to operations at Florida’s usually bustling cruise ports, forcing cruise companies to cancel several trips and shorten others. When the monster storm ripped through the Caribbean and Florida, it struck the world’s three busiest cruise ports — Port Miami, Port Canaveral and Port Everglades — as well as
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Travel and Food, USAPeretz Chein Meet Richie Malone, his wife Misty, and his two boys, Brady and Liam. I met Richie outside his home in Houston, while he was removing debris from his now stripped bare first floor. All the homes on his block were deserted, the street silent, with piles of torn out sheet-rock, deformed furniture, and
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USAWASHINGTON — The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution to impose new economic sanctions on North Korea for its nuclear weapons buildup but the proposed penalties were weaker than the Trump administration had sought. The 15-0 vote marks the second unanimous decision against North Korea in the weeks since it unexpectedly tested intercontinental
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International, USAATLANTA — Irma slogged through Georgia on Monday, leaving a trail of flooding, power outages and downed trees in its wake. The storm weakened substantially after unleashing hurricane-strength winds in Florida and the Caribbean. But even as a tropical storm, Irma packed a powerful punch. Three Georgia deaths were blamed on the storm — a
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