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StandWithUs Commends Arizona for Landmark Antisemitism Legislation

(JNS) StandWithUs commends the state of Arizona for overwhelmingly passing (by a 49-4 vote) important legislation to help confront antisemitic crimes and discrimination. By passing HB 2675 on April 19, 2022, Arizona now joins the ranks of Florida, Iowa, South Carolina, and Tennessee in codifying the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism and making sure it is taken into […]

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Ben & Jerry’s Tries to Force Food Apartheid

(JNS) For the first time in human-rights history, an international mega-corporation has attempted to coerce a licensee into food apartheid. This unprecedented contractual demand has provoked a turning-point lawsuit that asks whether it is legal to attempt to force a food licensee to discriminate against entire communities, especially ethnic ones. More distilled, the lawsuit asks

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Edwin Black, Middle East, Opinion, USA

Parents: Encourage Your Children to Participate in Student Government

By Elior Amar (JNS) On one Tuesday night in February, a small group of Jewish students at UC Santa Cruz, where I serve as a shaliach (Israeli emissary) for the Jewish Agency for Israel, logged into the weekly Zoom meeting of the Student Union Assembly to support the adoption of a working definition of antisemitism. The

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California, Middle East, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Iran Assembles ‘Building Blocks for Long-Range Ballistic Missiles’

By Yaakov Lappin (JNS) Iran is gradually assembling the building blocks necessary to construct ballistic missiles with very long ranges, an Israeli missile and space expert has said, adding that Islamic Republic’s elite military Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) “can reach space.” Iran’s space program uses ballistic-missile technology to launch spy satellites into orbit around

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International, Middle East, USA

Beverly Hills Residents Wake Up to Antisemitic Fliers on First Day of Passover

(JNS) Antisemitic fliers blaming Russia’s nearly two-month-long war in Ukraine on Jews were left in front of homes in Beverly Hills, Calif., on the first day of Passover. “Every single aspect of the Ukraine-Russia war is Jewish,” said the flier, which included photos of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin. It also

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California, USA

Jewish Brothers Al Lapin Jr. and Jerry Lapin Founded IHOP Chain

The International House of Pancakes at the Bay Plaza Shopping Center in National City was built in conformance with the shopping center’s architectural guidelines, rather than in IHOP’s usual configuration. However, it still has a trademark blue roof, and its menu is fairly typical of some 1,500 other establishments in the family restaurant chain created by two Jewish brothers. Al Lapin Jr. and Jerry Lapin started IHOP in 1958 in the tony San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Toluca Lake. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Business & Finance, California, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA

StandWithUs Commends Tennessee for Landmark Antisemitism Legislation

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Press Release) — StandWithUs commends the state of Tennessee for overwhelmingly passing (by a vote of 29-0-0) groundbreaking legislation to help confront antisemitic crimes and discrimination on April 14, 2022. By passing HB 2673, Tennessee now joins the ranks of Florida, Iowa, and South Carolina in codifying the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA)

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San Diego Attorney Admits to Conspiring to Commit $500,000 of Tax Fraud with Former Chabad of Poway Rabbi Goldstein

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Elliot Adler, an attorney and founding partner of a boutique San Diego law firm, pleaded guilty in federal court today to conspiring with former Chabad of Poway Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein to commit tax fraud. According to his plea agreement, Adler admitted that beginning at least as early as 2010 and

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San Diego County, USA

First Rehabilitation Hospital in Israel’s Negev Poised to Put Region ‘On the Map’

By Jacob Kamaras (JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, while serving as a mediator in the Russia-Ukraine war as well as grappling with a wave of terrorism in Israel and the collapse of his governing coalition, has dealt with anything but “good news” in the weeks leading up to Passover. But just in time for

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Jacob Kamaras, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA