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Sydney bakery battered for Hamas-themed birthday cake
A baker in Sydney has ignited online condemnation for creating a birthday cake featuring imagery associated with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
The cake, meant for a 4-year-old boy’s party, prompted fury from Jewish groups and Australian...
Netanyahu denies receiving advanced warning of Hamas onslaught
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) vigorously denied media reports on Thursday that Israel’s premier had received advanced warning from the Israel Defense Forces’ Military Intelligence Directorate of a possible attack by Hamas from the...
Contingent of college students visits Israel to prepare for future activism
“There is another front to this war, and it’s happening right now in America.” This is according to Jason Diebner, a student at the University of Texas at Austin currently in Israel with two...
Equating Israel with Hamas isn’t the worst of the ICC’s turpitude
The only thing surprising about the decision by International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Karim Khan on Monday was that it included Hamas, alongside Israel, as deserving of target. Otherwise, it shouldn’t have come as...
New film to chronicle the 1493 exile of 2,000 Jewish children from Portugal
With 1,000 Portuguese schoolchildren in attendance on Thursday, the Oporto Jewish Community announced its newest project, “The 2,000 Exiled Jewish Children.”
The film will chronicle the largely unknown story of how 2,000 Jewish children up...
Netanyahu: Israel has ‘surprising’ plans for Hezbollah
The Israeli government is determined to restore security on the border with Lebanon and create the conditions that will allow displaced citizens to return to the north, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday.
“We have...
Meron and other holy sites close for Lag B’Omer
This year’s Lag B’Omer celebrations in Israel will see significant changes due to the ongoing conflict with Hezbollah in the north of the country, and recent emergency measures taken by Israeli authorities.
The traditional pilgrimage...
IDF recovers bodies of three more hostages in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces recovered the bodies of three more hostages from the Gaza Strip during an overnight operation, the military announced on Friday.
Orión Hernández Radoux, 30, Hanan Yablonka, 42, and Michel Nisenbaum, 59,...
Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival (Jfest) returns to celebrate 31 years of...
Mandy Patinkin in Concert headlines this year along with the 15th inspiring Women of Valor, International Hip-Hop Artist Nissim Black, Italian Jews Through the Generations, a Premier Play in Spanish, The Klezmer Summit,...
Don’t downplay the impact of the ICC indictment of Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s domestic and American political opponents are not all cheering the decision of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to call for indictments of both the Israeli leader...