Rabbi Zvi Romm of the Lower East Side’s Bialystoker Synagogue this week distributed the following open letter to David Garza, executive director of the Henry Street Settlement, another LES …
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5/11/17
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WASHINGTON — In an appearance on Al Jazeera, Bernie Sanders defended Israel’s right to exist, rejected BDS as a tactic and assailed the United Nations for …
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Analysis by Ron Kampeas, JTA
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5/11/17
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On Saturday, Michael Blake, vice-chairman of the national Democrat Party and a state assemblymember from the Bronx, issued a threatening tweet against those who “keep coming” after …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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5/3/17
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Sixty Israelis were added to the list o af fallen soldiers and terror victims since last year’s Yom Hazikaron, while 37 IDF veterans with disabilities who died as a result of their injuries …
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By Sean Savage, JNS.org
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5/3/17
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Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate in the French presidential elections, said she would ban halal slaughter of animals if she is elected, along with any other method …
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By JTA
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4/26/17
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President Donald Trump paid extended tribute to the memory of the Holocaust and to Israel in a speech to the World Jewish Congress.
Speaking via prerecorded video …
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By JTA
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4/26/17
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In the Venn diagram of intersectionality, one group doesn’t intersect the others.
“Intersectionality” is the left-wing word of the day. Academically, it means various …
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Analysis by Joshua Sharf, JNS.org
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4/26/17
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the denial of Israel’s right to exist a modern form of anti-Jewish hatred and vowed to take action to end anti-Semitism.
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By JTA
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4/26/17
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Wanana Abrams, a 28-year-old Israeli of Ethiopian origin, calls herself “just one of countless examples—along with thousands of other religious and ethnic minorities—of why the term …
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By Adam Abrams, JNS.org
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4/20/17
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Literally within seconds of the news of the arrest in Israel of an Israeli-American teenager for the bulk of the JCC bomb threats, Twitter lit up with Jewish anxiety …
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Analysis by Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
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3/30/17
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