(JTA) – Anti-Semitic hate speech has risen dramatically since the start of the coronavirus crisis and must be rejected, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on freedom of religion or …
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MARCY OSTER
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4/20/20
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(JTA) – Jared Kushner has launched an institute to promote his major accomplishment when he advised his father-in-law, former President Donald Trump: the normalization agreements between Israel …
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5/9/21
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – The coronavirus couldn’t dim the annual torch-lighting ceremony in Israel for Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah.
In a …
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MARCY OSTER
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4/20/20
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(JTA) – Israel’s daily number of deaths from the coronavirus is higher than the United States on a per capita basis, according to a new report.Israel’s daily rate over the last week …
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MARCY OSTER
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10/2/20
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JNS.org – The Ukrainian parliament’s decision to confirm a Jewish MP as speaker last week will not have major impact on the country’s Jewish community because in Ukraine “every person can get any position independent of his …
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12/4/14
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Terrorism in Israel hit close to home Nov. 19 when Ezra Schwartz was killed by a Palestinian gunman in the West Bank. The 18-year-old yeshiva student from Sharon, Massachusetts, graduated in 2015 from the Maimonides School near Boston and was a …
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11/27/15
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – It’s 3 p.m. on a Thursday, and the Jerusalem light rail is packed with secular and religious, Jew and Arab, as it heads east from the city’s Central Bus Station.
From there it passes some of the city’s most crowded …
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Ben Sales
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12/4/14
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BUDAPEST (JTA) – An anti-corruption whistleblower elected to head the Budapest Jewish community has sparked a crisis among the highest officials of Hungarian Jewry at a time of heightened tensions with the government.
The …
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Cnaan Liphshiz
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12/4/14
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JTA – The city of Amsterdam will give its Jewish community $11 million as compensation for taxes imposed on Holocaust survivors who returned home to the Dutch capital following World War II.
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5/27/16
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JTA — After a highly publicized search, a Jewish man with a deadly cancer has found a bone marrow donor.
On Dec. 6, Adam Krief, a 31-year-old father of three living in Los Angeles, …
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12/9/16
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