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National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks during a Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting, Feb. 15, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Ben-Gvir to run anti-incitement task force to counter Palestinian violence

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that he has appointed Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir to lead a task force to fight Palestinian incitement. Joining Ben-Gvir at the task force will be investigators,...

Los Djudios i la Imprimeria en Espanya

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Aun ke tiene antesedentes en China i en el mundo arabo la imprimeria fue Inventada en Almanya por Johann Gütenberg entre los anyos 1453 i 1456. En los anyos ke sigieron la imprimeria se...
Codex Sassoon (late ninth to early 10th century). Credit: Courtesy of Sotheby's.

Sotheby’s is auctioning the ‘earliest, most complete Hebrew Bible ever’

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Sotheby’s auction house is selling a Hebrew Bible that Richard Austin, its global head of books and manuscripts, calls “undeniably one of the most important and singular texts in human history.” Codex Sassoon dates to...
Leora Wine, director of disaster response for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, helps make bread in a restaurant in Gaziantep, Turkey, February 2023. Photo courtesy of JDC.

JDC works with Turkey’s local community, global Jewry to bring relief to quake victims

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After a week-and-a-half on broken ground in Turkey, Leora Wine, director of disaster response for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), thinks Turkey is still in transition from rescue to recovery. “That’s why the...
Dublin Hebrew Congregation. Credit: Courtesy of Dublin Jewish community.

Ireland’s Jewish community is declining

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Of about 5.3 million Irish citizens, some 800 (.015%) are Jewish. Including Jewish expats in Ireland, that number rises to about 2,500. But however one runs the numbers, Jewish life in Ireland is disappearing. In...

A half-shekel, a whole people

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These days, we hear dire warnings from around the world of an impending rift in the vaunted unity of the Jewish people. Israel is lurching dangerously rightward, they say, while much of American Jewry...
Israelis protest against the judicial overhaul in Jerusalem. Feb. 13, 2023. Photo by Erik Marmor/Flash90.

ADL to all sides on Israeli judicial reform: ‘Avoid incendiary rhetoric’

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The Anti-Defamation League announced that it joins Israeli President Isaac Herzog in trying to bring all parties to the debate over Israeli judicial reform together, calling on them to avoid “violent confrontations.” “We implore all parties to...
Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Religious Zionism Party head Bezalel Smotrich at the swearing-in of the 25th Knesset in Jerusalem, Nov. 15, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Netanyahu to transfer full power over Civil Administration to Smotrich

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Wednesday to immediately transfer to him power over the Defense Ministry’s Civil Administration, in accordance with their parties’ coalition agreement. Netanyahu phoned Smotrich after...
Fatah terrorists at a ceremony welcoming a released Palestinian prisoner at the Balata refugee camp outside Nablus, Oct. 27, 2022. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

Palestinian prisoners to Ben-Gvir: ‘Change our conditions and blood will be spilled’

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Palestinian terrorists in Israeli jails sent a letter to National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir warning of bloodshed if he changes their living conditions. “If they touch our conditions—blood will be spilled,” the letter said, according...
A rally in New York City against antisemitism. Credit: Christopher Penler/Shutterstock.

American Jews are increasingly afraid to show their identity

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An alarming 41% of American Jews feel less safe in the United States today than they did a year ago. A combination of extremist influencers and social media are creating an environment increasingly hostile to the...