(JTA) – The world has had a crash course on Volodymyr Zelensky in recent days, as the Ukrainian president has galvanized his country against an unprovoked attack by neighboring Russia.
The …
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PHILISSA CRAMER
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3/6/22
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – As Amnesty International became the third major human rights group to categorize Israel’s treatment of Palestinians as “apartheid,” the U.S. Ambassador to Israel said that the label was “absurd.”
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2/6/22
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(JTA) – It has been 77 years since Nazi collaborators marched György Bánhidi and his family from their spacious home in Budapest into the city’s Jewish ghetto.
But Bánhidi, who is now 84, remembers even the tiniest details from that short trip to a place where he endured months of hunger, and the trauma of watching his mother give up her hope of ever surviving. …
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CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
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1/27/22
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(JTA) – The European Union has published what it called a strategic plan for combating anti-Semitism.
The 26-page document that the European Commission, the executive branch of the European …
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CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
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10/9/21
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BY GABE FRIEDMAN
(JTA) – Last week, Delta Airlines pilot Alexander Kahn flew hundreds of Afghan refugees from Germany to Dulles Airport outside Washington, D.C., as part of a U.S. government …
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9/6/21
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(JTA) – Reports of the demise of the Canadian Jewish News have been, not for the first time, greatly exaggerated.
On Sept. 1, the publication – the largest Jewish news organization in …
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9/6/21
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BERLIN (JTA) – The number of politically motivated crimes rose to record levels in Germany last year and include a 15% rise in anti-Semitic offenses.
The annual report by the Federal …
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5/9/21
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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) – When Walter Bingham moved to Israel following a long career as a host on British radio, he applied for a job at Kol Israel, one of the country’s leading …
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SAM SOKOL
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5/9/21
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In “Pirkei Avot,” it states, “Your house should be open wide, and you should make the poor members of your household.”
For many of us, our inclination is to help our …
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JEWISH RHODE ISLAND STAFF
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4/9/21
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