BORDEAUX, France (WJC) — A French court handed a 28-year-old Moroccan native a fine of € 3,000 (US$ 4,100) for performing the controversial quenelle gesture in front of a synagogue. The tribunal in the southwestern city of Bordeaux last Wednesday convicted the man of incitement to racial hatred. The man, who was not named in media […]
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International
BUDAPEST (WJC) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party narrowly defended its two-thirds majority in elections for the country’s legislature, but significant gains the extreme-right Jobbik party caused concern. With over 98 percent of the votes counted, Hungary’s National Election Office said Fidesz had won 133 seats in the 199-seat legislature. The right-wing Fidesz and
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International
KAIFENG, China (Press Release) – Nearly 100 members of the ancient Jewish community of Kaifeng, China, are expected to attend a first-of-its-kind traditional Passover Seder that will take place next Monday, April 14, at the start of the holiday in Kaifeng. The Seder, which is being sponsored by the Jerusalem-based Shavei Israel organization, will be conducted
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International, Jewish Religion
By Stephen M. Flatow/JNS.org The controversy over the Harvard University students who recently posed, smiling, at Yasser Arafat’s grave sent a shot of pain through every one of us who has lost a loved one in the terrorist attacks that Arafat and his allies have waged over the years. But it must have been
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week While the breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process grabs the latest headlines, a growing group of organizations is calling attention to what it believes to be a major obstacle in fostering understanding between Israelis and Palestinians: the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near
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Travel and FoodSamaria-based Ariel University left out of Israeli universities heads’ conference (JNS.org) Representatives from Ariel University—the first accredited Israeli university located beyond the Green Line—were absent from the invitation list to Sunday’s Committee of University Heads conference on the future of higher education in Israel. Ariel University said in a statement, “The Committee of University Heads
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International
JERUSALEM (TNA) – The Jewish Agency for Israel is hosting this week a special Passover camp experience for some 100 children from southern Israel whose lives have been affected by rocket fire from Gaza and by other terror attacks. The program is run by The Jewish Agency’s Fund for Victims of Terror and funded by contributions
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Adventures in SD History
ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey — There are action heroes, superheroes, and everyday heroes. Then there are those, like Eli Beer, founder and head of United Hatzalah of Israel, who seem to embody a little of all three. Beer, 40, traveled from Israel at the end of March to visit Bergen County as part of an ongoing
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
Editor’s Note: The Christian Broadcasting Network, in comment below the following story, says Pat Robertson was quoting Daniel Lapin’s book, and not voicing his own opinion. By Joe Gandelman SAN DIEGO — Televangelist Pat Robertson has struck again, recently saying Jews never fix their cars because they’re too busy polishing diamonds. Note that Robertson often
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Jewish Religion, Joe Gandelman, USAEditor’s Note: Our correspondent from Mevasseret Zion, Israel, has been visiting the United States and occasionally blogging about what she sees. Here is a report from Richmond, Virginia. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson RICHMOND, Virginia — For me personally, the principal attraction of Richmond, Virginia is the presence there or in the vicinity of two first cousins
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Travel and Food, USA
NEW YORK — The resignation of Takis Baltakos, chief of staff to Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, was entirely warranted, following the revelation of his meeting with a senior official of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn. “What Mr. Baltakos did is an affront to Prime Minister Samaras and to the vast majority of the Greek people,” said
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InternationalBy Lloyd Levy LONDON–The dire state of the Kerry Peace effort was just so predictable. How did he have the arrogance and vanity to think that he can solve a problem that has eluded the whole world for over 100 years? The “process” became the objective, and not the real needs of both sides. One
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Lloyd Levy, Middle East