A former Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel said Reform Jews are worse than Holocaust deniers during a lecture last week, the haredi Orthodox news website Kikar HaShabbat first reported on Tuesday (link in Hebrew). Shlomo Amar, who is currently the Sephardi chief rabbi of Jerusalem, was discussing a petition by the Reform and Conservative movements
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Middle East, USAA decade ago, when Elmehdi Boudra began attending college in his native Morocco, he didn’t expect to see swastikas scrawled on his door. Like almost every other student at his school, Boudra is Muslim. But growing up, his grandmother cooked him Jewish food and told him stories about Jewish friends—including the woman who nursed her.
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Middle EastBERLIN (Press Release) — Senior Magen David Adom paramedics were hosted by the Berlin Fire and Rescue Organization which provides emergency medicine services (EMS) in the city. During the visit, two MDA paramedics joined the city’s rescue teams for five days and participated in basic and advanced life support ambulance rides along with local paramedics and doctors.
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationIsraeli police on Tuesday evicted a Palestinian family from the east Jerusalem home in which they lived for over half a century, making way for Israelis deemed the legal occupants. Plans for the eviction had been criticised by the European Union, United Nations and various Western governments, though not the United States. Fahamiya Shamasneh, 75,
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Middle EastSometimes, it feels like your life has come full circle. For Israeli choreographer Roy Assaf, it was like that when he danced in his piece “The Hill,” which had its US premiere this summer at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Becket, Massachusetts. “The Hill” takes its name and inspiration from Ammunition Hill, the site
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & BroadcastJERUSALEM — Robert Kraft had two unforgettable comebacks this year. The first came in Super Bowl LI, when his New England Patriots overcame a 28-3 deficit in the second half to beat the Atlanta Falcons in overtime. And the second comeback was Kraft’s return in June to Israel, his second home, with a delegation of
[video:2032416] On Thursday, soldiers from the IDF’s haredi Netzah Yehuda unit (Nachal Haredi) took a trip to Jerusalem in honor of the Hebrew month of Elul. The day began with a trip to the Western Wall and ended with a special selichot ceremony in Jerusalem’s Great Synagogue. Participating in the ceremony were Battalion Commander Itamar
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Middle EastCatford and Bromley invited ‘extremist’ Imam Shakeel Begg to speak at an interfaith event By Jewish News reporter Imam Shakeel Begg is first on the left at the back, pictured at Catford and Bromley with other faith leaders A London Orthodox synagogue hosted an “extremist” Muslim cleric who has previously called for jihad against Jews
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International, Middle EastIn recent days, leaders of the Jewish community in Argentina have been busy figuring out how to save money during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Argentina, so that the donations they collect during the year can be used for the benefit of the community, rather than to pay for the visit. Sources inform “Globes”
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International, Middle EastDeputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely met today with Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Antanas Linkevičius and congratulated him on the victory of the Lithuanian national basketball team over Israel. Hotovely added jokingly that she hoped the Lithuanian victory would not undermine relations between the two countries. The Deputy Minister noted the rich Jewish heritage in Lithuania
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International, Middle EastIsrael’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry is advancing a plan which would grant $1 million of emergency aid to Houston’s Jewish community, in an effort to help it recover from Hurricane Harvey. The Diaspora Affairs Ministry is headed by Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home). “The true test of a Jewish country is when our brothers around
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Middle East, USAThe U.S. government has returned an antique chess set which once belonged to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and was stolen during the 2003 invasion of the Iraq. The United States Embassy in Iraq shared the news on social media, saying the chess set had been returned to Iraqi officials in Baghdad Saturday. Read more:
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Middle East, USAIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara is expected to face criminal charges over fraud amounting to the equivalent of over $110,000 after, among other accusations, she is alleged to have used public funds to throw lavish dinner parties and hire private chefs. The indictment against Sara Netanyahu, anticipated in a matter of weeks, sees
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Middle EastMariano Gorbatt The first thing that caught my attention about Mohamed was his watch. It was a very old wristwatch, showing the exact 6 PM of a hot and heavily humid Tel Aviv Sunday afternoon. We were a group of sufficiently crazy Latino-Israelis gathered for the first time in our lives for a face to
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