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(JTA) — On a recent speaking tour in North America, I was asked repeatedly about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn.
Corbyn’s Labour has become an existential threat to …
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Gideon Falter
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6/4/19
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JTA – It is now open season for those who would like a chunk of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s change and think they have a big idea up their sleeves.
On Aug. 12, the Genesis Prize Foundation announced the launch of the Genesis Generation …
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Anthony Weiss
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8/19/14
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(JTA) – The French government updated its plan for fighting antisemitism and racism, which will require teachers to receive training on the topic and all French schoolchildren to visit the site …
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2/3/23
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JTA – French police have detained 10 people in the investigation of the deadly 2015 attack on a Jewish supermarket in Paris, sources close to the probe told Agence France Presse on Wednesday.
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4/27/17
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MONTREAL (JTA) – The Canadian government backed off a decision to close the newly opened National Holocaust Memorial for the winter, apparently relenting to complaints from the Jewish …
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11/23/17
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ROME, ITALY – Micol Piazza, our guide on a tour of the historic Jewish quarter here, is full of emotion as she speaks, and I tremble as I listen to her recount the horror of the German roundup of some 1,000 Roman Jews on Oct. 16, 1943.
Most of them lived on these few blocks, in what for centuries had been a ghetto.
Piazza says of the Nazis, “With the help of the Italian police, they had the names of the Jews. They were right here. It was Shabbat. Sukkot. People were sleeping in their homes.’’
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M. CHARLES BAKST
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8/9/18
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JTA – The Israel-based humanitarian group IsraAID, B’nai B’rith International and Chabad are among those pitching in to help the Bahamas in the wake of Hurricane Dorian’s …
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9/19/19
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MADRID (JTA) – Vandals defaced the area in front of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement’s Barcelona synagogue with graffiti that read “Why do you kill in Palestine” early on April …
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5/4/23
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FORTE DEI MARMI, ITALY – Shabbat shalom from this gorgeous beach town on the Tuscan coast near Pisa and Carrara.
Yes, in this upscale resort in this heavily Catholic country, …
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M. CHARLES BAKST
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8/9/18
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NEW YORK (JTA) – Jews were “undesirable.”
They were “of low physical and mental standards.” They were “filthy.” They were “often dangerous in their …
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Ben Sales
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1/18/18
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