Last week, I found myself taking 45 middle schoolers on a four-hour bus ride to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. While they were certainly struck as they walked through the …
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By Ilyse Muser Shainbrown, Kveller via JTA
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2/15/17
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A student leader at Montreal’s McGill University is refusing to resign amid rising Jewish anger on campus following his urging on Twitter to “punch a Zionist today.”
At what was …
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JTA
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2/15/17
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Rep. Keith Ellison, a leading contender to head the Democratic National Committee, has had a rocky relationship with the Jewish establishment. …
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By Josefin Dolton, JTA
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2/9/17
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Three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit rejected the appeal of Susan Abeles a Washington, DC, Orthodox Jew, who was punished by the Metropolitan Washington …
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By Edwin Black
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2/8/17
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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said French Jews should give up the wearing of yarmulkes as part of the country’s struggle to defeat radical Islam.
In an interview with Israel’s …
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JTA
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2/8/17
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There are plenty of paradigms in the history of humor for how Jews and non-Jews get along, or don’t: as persecutors and victims, as saviors and saved, as allies against a common oppressor. All …
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A consideration by Ron Kampeas, JTA
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2/1/17
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After last month’s United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, and in anticipation of a new anti-Israel assult at this week’s “peace” conference in Paris involving 70 …
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By Ed Weintrob
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1/18/17
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At 9:32 am, they find him. The three young men jump him and beat him. They take his camera and throw it into the back of a garbage truck, and they run off …
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By Jack Riemer, JNS.org
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1/11/17
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When terror struck in Jerusalem on Sunday, the world paid attention. News of the murder of four young Israelis spread quickly, along with messages of sympathy for a country in mourning.
The New …
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The Jewish Star
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1/11/17
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The most shocking thing about talk of Keith Ellison’s Israel record as he rises within the Democratic Party is how few think it’s shocking. …
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Analysis by Ron Kampeas, JTA
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11/23/16
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