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Algeria arrests Jihadist linked to Paris Kosher Market terrorist
Citing “well-placed security sources,” the newspaper said early results of an investigation “show a strong link between the head of the terrorist cell” and Coulibaly, who in 2015 killed a municipal police officer then...
‘Partners in hate’ get 35 years in Jewish temple bombings
Two Lodi men were sentenced to 35 years in state prison Friday on terrorism and other charges for a string of crimes at Jewish facilities in Bergen County where they spray painted anti-semitic messages and threw...
Jews, and muslims, should be concerned about anti-Semitic preaching in American Mosques
Quoting from two sermons given last Friday at Islamic centers in California, Liel Leibovitz argues that it’s time for those who claim to oppose bigotry to start protesting anti-Semitic incitement in U.S. mosques:
The Egyptian-born American imam...
Davis imam accused of giving anti-Semitic sermon
The imam at the Islamic Center of Davis is now the center of a controversy over a sermon that critics are calling anti-Semitic.
Imam Ammar Shahin’s hour-long sermon on Friday focused on one of Islam’s holiest sites,...
Historic Jewish cemetery in Massachusetts vandalized
Police are looking for three people suspected of knocking over six headstones in one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Massachusetts.
Officers responded to the Netherlands Cemetery Association Burial Ground in Melrose before dawn on...
La Vendida de Yosef
Tomado del livro Daat le-Navon.
Seleksion de tesktos del Meam Loez Bereshit, Paj. 131-132
“I alsaron sus ojos i vieron ke una karavana de yishmeelim vinien del Gil’ad, i sus gameyos kargantes modos de espesyas, i...
“L’enseignement délirant des bahuts intégristes : qu’en dit la presse ?”
A l’école Saint-Ferréol de Marseille, les agents de la Rue de la Grenelle ont relevé quelques fâcheux oublis. Exemple : « L’extermination des Juifs et des Tsiganes n’a pas été étudiée en CM2 »… A Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Lassalle, à Chamblain-l’Abbé...
Tisha Be’Av: A Failed Holiday?
The year 403 BCE was momentous for the city-state of Athens. In the previous years, a bloody civil war had devastated the city and caused it to fall under the yoke of its arch-rival,...
Cantor Joshua Finkel named spiritual leader of Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Community
Cantor Joshua Finkel has joined Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Community as its new spiritual leader. Finkel’s first official day was July 1. He succeeds Rabbi Lane Steinger, who retired in June 2016 and continues to participate...
Orthodoxy should be able to evolve
We all know that joke about the captain who saved Robinson Crusoe being shown around his island. Crusoe shows him his two synagogues. Two synagogues? For one person? “Yes. That one, that one I...