The Reform Center for Religion and State, together with the Coalition Against Racism is demanding that the Nahal Sorek Regional Council not participate in a conference aimed at curbing intermarriage between Jews and Arabs. The conference will take place on Tuesday in Yad Binyamin, and is aimed at women educators. The event was organized by […]
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By Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Tonight begins the festival of Chanukah. It is a time when we celebrate truth about who we are and where we come from. The events which Chanukah commemorate took place more than 2,000 years ago, when the Greek Empire invaded the Land of Israel and conquered Jerusalem.
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By Juliet Moses AUCKLAND, New Zealand — I am a Zionist. If I announced that, on walking into a party in New Zealand, I would quite likely get a worse reaction than if I declared that I am a P-addicted ISIS sympathising prostitute. It’s not the kind of thing that one can state in polite
NEW YORK (Press Release) — Anti-Semitism has emerged in forms both subtle and overt at anti-Israel rallies taking place globally in response to President Trump’s announcement on Jerusalem last week, according to a new analysis by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). ADL experts are monitoring incidents globally and in the United States. While there have been
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CHURACHANDPUR, India (Press Release)– Thousands of members of the Bnei Menashe community from across northeastern India gathered today to light candles for the first night of Hanukkah. “The story of the Maccabees’ heroic determination to preserve their Jewish identity resonates strongly with the Bnei Menashe, who – against all odds and with tremendous effort –
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Jewish Family Service of San Diego’s (JFS) Hand Up Food Pantry has been awarded “Best Choice Pantry” for its Corner Market at the 2017 San Diego County Hunger Conference. Each year, the Hunger Conference, hosted by the Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank, convenes to discuss how to stop
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UMM AL-FAHM, Israel (Press Release) — On Wednesday morning, one of the more active emergency medical service (EMS) volunteers in Umm al-Fahm, an Arab town located in Wadi Ara, responded to a car accident that saw two people lightly injured. The volunteer EMT treated both of the injured parties after they were evacuated from their
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationTurkish President Tayyip Erdogan labeled the United States Monday a “partner in bloodshed” over President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Since his decision on Wednesday, protests and demonstrations broke out across the Arab world. Erdogan, whose nation only started to normalize relations with Israel last year, said Trump’s announcement would permanently
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Middle East, USAThe German government said Monday it was “ashamed” of weekend demonstrations against the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, which saw some protesters chant anti-Semitic slogans and torch Israeli flags. Government spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters that although Berlin opposed the move by US President Donald Trump last week, it strongly condemned protests
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International, Middle East, USAPolice are investigating a Palestinian Authority Arab on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old haredi girl, Kikar Hashabbat reported. The Arab was renovating the family’s Jerusalem home when he entered the girl’s room and raped her. The girl told her parents, who brought her to the police station to file a complaint. After the girl
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Middle EastSwedish police on Monday said they are probing an attempted arson against a Jewish chapel after a similar attack against a synagogue, which came in the wake of the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Two burning objects had been thrown at chapel, located at a Jewish cemetery, in Sweden’s third largest city of
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InternationalWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump cited the suspect in the New York subway bombing on Monday as an argument for his crackdown on legal as well as illegal immigration, after the administration said the man entered the country in 2011 on a family immigrant visa. “Today’s attempted mass murder attack in New York City —
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USAA political group backing President Donald Trump has sent a 12-year-old girl to interview embattled Alabama Republican Senate contender Roy Moore. The America First Project published a video Sunday that showed Millie March—who rose to fame at the age of 11 during the 2016 election due to her support for Donald Trump—interviewing Moore as part
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