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Orthodox Union leaders meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to talk about boosting Jewish-identity issues and funding for adults and youth in the United States, July 16, 2019. Photo by Eliyahu Yanai.

In Israel, OU leaders talk of increasing Jewish-identity initiatives in Diaspora

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Orthodox Union leaders from the United States and Canada met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday to talk about the need to increase and expand initiatives focused on Diaspora Jewish education and...
An Israeli family who lost their home in a fire that consumed moshav Mevo Modi’im in May gets some welcome financial assistance to help rebuild their lives, July 2019. Credit: IFCJ.

International Fellowship emergency effort helps raise $500,000 for Mevo Modi’im

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In its continued efforts to help the families of the incinerated community of Mevo Modi’im get back on their feet, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has helped the small moshav raise more than $500,000...
Among the young people who turned out in Jerusalem on July 8, 2019, to celebrate the Lubavitcher Rebbe on his 25th yahrtzeit was London’s Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet (first row, second from right), who came to inspire the crowd. Photo by Shoshana Reiter Halpern.

A quarter-century after his passing, the Rebbe’s sphere of influence continues to grow

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For the Lubavitcher Rebbe, rather than his memory and influence shrinking in the 25 years since his passing, his legacy has only served to create a phenomenal growth in the movement he nurtured, inspired...
Israel is missing out on an opportunity to settle "tens of thousands" of French Jews in Israel, says Ariel Kendall of the Qualita organization, which provides outreach for French immigrants. Credit: Courtesy.

French immigrants’ organization says Israel is ‘unprepared’ to take in French Jews

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Data published Tuesday by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics pointing to a continued decrease in the number of French Jews immigrating to the Jewish State come as no surprise to officials involved in efforts to help...
Some 300 new immigrants from France arrive on a special flight organized by the Jewish Agency, at Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport on July 23, 2018. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Immigration to Israel up in 2018, with more Russians, fewer French arriving

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A total of 28,099 new immigrants arrived in Israel in 2018, an increase of 6.6 percent compared to 2017, according to statistics published Tuesday by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics. According to the data, over...
Goldene Kamera 2012 - Artur Brauner - Maria Brauner. Credit: © JCS, via Wikimedia Commons

Artur Brauner, Holocaust Survivor and German Film Producer, Dies at 100

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He was born the oldest son of a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland. His father was a timber wholesaler. Brauner attended a general education liceum in Łódź, where he took the matura final exam, and then studied at a...

The Rebbe fought anti-Semitism by spreading pro-Semitism

We take it for granted that the way to address the evil of anti-Semitism is to fight it. It’s a natural part of our vocabulary. We fight, we confront, we condemn, we call out....
International supermodel Naomi Campbell. Credit: Flickr.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell praises Lubavitcher Rebbe on 25th anniversary of his death

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International supermodel Naomi Campbell on Sunday remembered Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, on the 25th anniversary of his death, which this year corresponded to July 6. “An inspirational leader, scholar and...
People from all walks of Jewish life, in communities large and small, are coming together to mark the 25th anniversary of the passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. Credit: Bentzi Sasson, Chabad.org/News.

Gatherings worldwide mark the 25th anniversary of the Rebbe’s passing

All across the globe—from the more than 50,000 visitors expected at the Ohel in Queens, N.Y., to gatherings and study groups in community centers, synagogues, camps and private homes—people from all walks of Jewish life, in...
Jewish protesters shut down Boston traffic on July 2, 2019, over migrant detention centers on the U.S. southern border. Credit: Screenshot.

Jewish protesters shut down Boston traffic over migrant detention centers

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More than 1,000 demonstrators, including Jewish ones, shut down traffic in Boston on Tuesday, some chanting the post-Holocaust rallying cry “Never again” to protest the reportedly horrific conditions at migrant detention centers in the United States. The...