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Kingsborough Community College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Credit: Shutterstock.

CUNY investigation retaliatory, Jewish professors say

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Two Jewish professors at Kingsborough Community College say the New York City community college is targeting them with retaliatory investigations for their complaints about antisemitism on campus. They further allege that the college and...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Feb. 12, 2023. Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Netanyahu confirms partial freeze on Israeli activity in Judea and Samaria

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Israel will not advance plans to legalize outposts in Judea and Samaria for the next few months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday, without specifying a precise timeframe. The move does not apply to...
Israelis protest against the government's judicial reform package outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, Feb. 13, 2023. Credit: Jamal Awad/Flash90.

Protesters harass lawmakers outside their homes ahead of Knesset vote on judicial reforms

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Protesters harassed several Israeli coalition lawmakers outside their homes on Monday in a bid to block them from reaching the Knesset, where the first bill in the government’s judicial reform package was set for...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the National Leadership Mission of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, Feb. 19, 2023. Source: Screenshot.

Netanyahu talks Iran, drive for regional peace in address to US leadership mission

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about Iran, the Abraham Accords, and judicial reform in an address to U.S. Jewish leaders in Jerusalem on Sunday. Netanyahu, in his address to the National Leadership Mission of the...
Uranium enrichment centrifuges at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility. Credit: Tehran Times.

IAEA inspectors find uranium enriched to 84% purity in Iran

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International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors last week detected uranium enriched to 84% purity in Iran, just below the 90% level needed for nuclear weapons, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. The report, citing two senior diplomats, said the U.N.’s...
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...