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Emmanuel Macron, president of the Republic of France, addresses the Assembly's annual general debate. U.N. Photo by Cia Pak.

Macron’s error: The UN did not create Israel

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French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron told his cabinet last month that Israel was created by a decision of the United Nations and that the Jewish state should not “disregard the decisions of the U.N.” However, the United...
Norm Coleman, a former U.S. senator and national board chair of the Republican Jewish Coalition, speaks at the RJC annual summit in Las Vegas on Oct. 28, 2023. Credit: Courtesy of the RJC.

Republican Jewish Coalition ‘thrilled’ by Trump win

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The Republican Jewish Coalition overnight Tuesday congratulated Donald J. Trump on his "decisive victory" in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. A statement released by RJC National Chairman Senator Norm Coleman and CEO Matt Brooks...
The headquarters of the French Football Federation at Boulevard de Grenelle in Paris, France, Oct. 4, 2024. Photo by Ricardo Milani/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images.

Protesters storm French Football Federation over Israel game

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Scores of anti-Israel protesters burst into the French Football Federation offices in Paris on Monday, and demanded the cancellation of an upcoming Nations League game between France and the Jewish state. In video footage posted...
Likud Party lawmaker Amit Halevi attends a National Security Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, Oct. 15, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Knesset passes law to immediately fire teachers with terror sympathies

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An Israeli law that will allow Jerusalem's Education Ministry to dismiss teachers who carry out or publicly support acts of terrorism, as well as cut off funding for educational institutions that glorify terror, passed...
Home Depot CEO Bernie Marcus poses for a portrait in a Home Depot store October 15, 1998. Photo by Erik Lesser/Liaison via Getty Images.

Bernie Marcus, billionaire Home Depot founder and Jewish philanthropist, 95

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Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, the Jewish billionaire founder of Home Depot who donated extensively to Jewish causes, died in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 95. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called Marcus "a good friend...

Still learning of liberators, all these years later

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Like many children of survivors, Bernice Lerner has spent most of her life ruminating on the Holocaust and writing about big questions. How was the Holocaust allowed to occur? What is the connection between...
The Undergraduate Admissions Center at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. Credit: Leo Felici via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Brandeis University being ‘Palestinized?’

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Why is the Israel Studies Center at Brandeis University describing the Hamas war against Israel merely as the “suffering of Israelis and Palestinians?” Why is the center boasting that it “brings Palestinian scholars” to...
A 1919 testimonial to Ze’ev Jabotinsky by men of 38th battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. Credit: יעל via Wikimedia Commons.

The other ‘Iron Wall’ article

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This week a century and one year ago, Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s article “The Iron Wall” was published in the Russian-language weekly, Razsvet, on Nov. 4 in Berlin. So famous has it become that last month, The New...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Netanyahu fires Gallant, names Israel Katz as defense minister

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that he fired Yoav Gallant as defense minister and named Israel Katz, the Israeli foreign minister, as the new head of the Defense Ministry. The announcement came...
Jewish businessman Eitan Neishlos (second from left) and Emirati strategist Amjad Tahad (second from right) meet with Australian Israel Parliamentary Group Senators Debra O'Neill and David Fawcett in Canberra, Australia, Nov. 5, 2024. Credit: Courtesy.

A Muslim and a Jew from Dubai spread message of coexistence in Australia

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A Muslim political strategist from the United Arab Emirates and a Jewish entrepreneur based in Dubai are promoting the landmark Abraham Accords during a joint tour of Australia this week, seeking to combat antisemitism...