By Nina Brodsky EL CAJON, California — Pastor Dumisani Washington, African American Baptist pastor, a gentle and fiery Israel advocate and orator spoke here May 4 about “Zionism and Justice: Why Christians Need to Lead in Supporting Israel.” He delivered his case boldly and eloquently to more than 200 Christians and Jews at Skyline Church. Dumisani took […]
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Middle East, San Diego County, USAMontreal Mayor Denis Coderre spoke at the first official Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at city hall on Wednesday. The Mayor led the audience in a minute of silence for the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, and quoted an excerpt from Elie Wiesel”s memoir, Night, about his experience in the death camps.
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InternationalViolent attacks against Jews globally dropped by almost half in 2015, according to a study published on Wednesday. However, the Annual Report on Anti-Semitism—published by the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University—warned of a notable increase in “institutional anti-Semitism” and “slander against the Jewish people as a whole.”
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(Editor’s Note: Chana Miller live chatted from the U.S. over the Internet with the remarkable Daniel Mizrachi in Israel.) By Chana Miller BROOKLYN, New York — We all have complaints. Some of us sit back with the attitude of ‘What can I do? If only I had such and such, then I would be able to accomplish
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationThe IDF overnight Wednesday launched airstrikes against four terrorist targets belonging to Hamas in northern Gaza, the IDF Spokesperson said. According to the statement, the attacks came in response to the ongoing mortar attacks against IDF forces engaged in operations near the border fence. The statement stressed that the IDF views any acts of terrorism,
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Middle EastOne day after real estate mogul Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, a haredi magazine published an interview with the Manhattan billionaire in which the GOP standard-bearer discussed Iran, Israel, the rise of anti-Semitism around the world, and Jewish support for the Democratic Party. The interview, which appeared in Wednesday”s Mishpacha magazine, continued along
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Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Chinese Ambassador Liu Jieyi, who held the April UN Security Council presidency, announced last week that the status of the Golan Heights “remains unchanged.” That is, of course, true — like the old “Saturday Night Live” running gag, “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.” He meant it belongs to Syria,
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenIsrael’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau Sydney (dpa) – Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has blamed sections of the media for giving refugees “false hope,” a day after he accused refugee advocates of encouraging detainees to self-harm. Dutton told reporters in Canberra Thursday that media reporting of asylum seekers self-harming
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InternationalThe 9,000-square-foot home of the late industry titan Edgar Bronfman Sr. is up for sale in the tony town of Westport, Connecticut, home to celebrities such as Michael Bolton, Harvey Weinstein and Joanne Woodward. Sotheby’s International Realty listed the property for $7,995,000, or just over $10 million Canadian, on Tuesday. The 13-acre estate is currently
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Travel and Food, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday welcomed a statement by Donald Trump that he “totally disavows” conspiratorial anti-Semitic remarks made by David Duke suggesting that “Jewish supremacists” were attempting to undermine his bid for the White House. In a statement shared with various media outlets Thursday, Trump added: “Anti-Semitism has no place
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USADr. Beverley Chalmers’ latest book is not the kind people want to read. Yet, it’s one they should. Titled, “Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices Under Nazi Rule,” it is filled from cover to cover with horrifying accounts of countless Jewish and non-Jewish women being raped and brutalized, experimented upon, forced into prostitution or compelled
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International, Jewish HistoryJewish voters are turning away from Britain’s Labour Party, with more British Jews saying there are high levels of anti-Semitism in Labour than in any other major party, according to a poll. A survey by the pollster Survation published in the Jewish Chronicle on Wednesday shows that just 8.5 percent of British Jewish voters would
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InternationalIDF uncovers terror tunnel along Gaza border (JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces uncovered a cross-border Hamas attack tunnel on Thursday amid a flurry of attacks along the Gaza border over the past few days. “IDF units are securing southern Gaza border communities,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement. “This tunnel was dug by
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Middle EastLies against Israel and the Jewish people are running rampant, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned at the official Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony Wednesday night, at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. “Nazi German rule was eliminated 71 years ago, but anti-Semitism and lies did not die with Hitler in that Berlin bunker,” Netanyahu began. “Millions of people
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