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Anti-Semitic incidents jolt New Jersey town buffeted by welfare scam
Holocaust memorial outside a synagogue in Lakewood, New Jersey, was covered with an anti-Semitic banner on Sunday, hours after anti-Semitic flyers were found placed on car windshields in the area. Both had a link...
Jewish construction in Jerusalem to be unfrozen
The Jerusalem District Planning Commission is expected to grant permits for thousands of homes in united Jerusalem later this month, Haaretz reported Monday, marking the end of the de facto freeze on Jewish construction in large...
Taube Philanthropies awards $5 million to Museum of the Jewish People
San Francisco-based Taube Philanthropies has announced a $5 million gift to the Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot in Tel Aviv, Israel.
The gift will help fund construction of the Tad and Dianne Taube Lobby and Taube...
Modi’s Israel visit: Why ties with the Jewish country is so important to India
Of more than 60 diplomatic trips undertaken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi since May 2014 when the NDA government came to power, his visit to Israel on July 4 will be among the most...
Fmr. Israeli FM Livni Blasts UNESCO for denying Jewish ties to Hebron
Former Israeli Foreign minister Tzipi Livni criticized UNESCO for passing resolutions against Israel, on the eve of the 41st annual UNESCO World Heritage Committee’s conference in Poland.
Speaking at the UNESCO International Conference on the...
How an earthquake in 1546 made the “Kotel” possible
There was no Kotel prior to the middle of 16th century. The area that we call the Western Wall is not the last remaining ruin of the SecondTemple. The four retaining walls of the Temple Mount, including the western wall, existed since...
La guerta del rey
A un sinyor le gustava de ir kada día a oyir a su rabino. La únika koza ke azía era esto: día i noche los pasava en el kal.
Un día le disho el rabino:...
Simone Veil: Cérémonie d’obsèques officielles mercredi aux invalides
L’émotion suscitée par le décès de Simone Veil vendredi 30 juin est grande. Une cérémonie nationale va être organisée pour lui rendre hommage, explique le journaliste Jeff Wittenberg, en direct de l’Élysée.
"Un hommage national sera rendu...
Netanyahu’s dismantling relationship with US Jewry
Say you had a friend who always asked for favors, but never returned them when needed. What would you do? It is safe to assume you would stop being their friend. And what if...
Libyan parliamentarian calls for return of Jews
Mohamed Ali Triki, a top official of Khalifa Ghwell’s National Salvation Government (NSG), made the call during a three-day conference held on the Greek island of Rhodes last week, the Libya Herald reported on Sunday.
The conference...