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A monument of Maimonides in Córdoba, Spain. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

New exhibit on Maimonides celebrates renowned Jewish scholar with internationally accrued collection

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An exhibit showcasing original manuscripts and writings of one of Judaism’s most revered rabbis is opening at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Maimonides, otherwise known as the Rambam or Moshe Ben Maimon, is one of...
Rabbi Mendy Zwiebel of Chabad of Chico, Calif., has been providing comfort and support to those who lost their homes, vehicles and possessions to fires that ravaged Northern California in November 2018. Credit: Chabad of Chico.

After the fires: Californians start to pick up the pieces of their lives

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A little more than a month after a brush fire raced through the Northern California countryside on its way to becoming one of the deadliest and costliest wildfires in U.S. history, people from Paradise,...

Edirne – Andrinopolis

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Keridos Amigos i mis Amigitas Buenos diyas ! Vos auguro una demanyanada klara i ermoza en este diya de Mierkoles, el 12 de Decembre 2018. Estan las 6.oo de la demanyana i dayinda no amanesyo. Las...
The 30-week-old son of Shira and Amichai Ish-Ran is cradled in a prayer shawl by his grandfather during his funeral at the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem on Dec. 12, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Hundreds attend funeral for premature baby murdered by Arab drive-by shooter

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Some 300 mourners huddled under umbrellas in the steadily falling rain at Jerusalem’s ancient Mount of Olives cemetery on Wednesday night to lay to rest the newborn boy whose mother was shot Sunday night...
“Boycott Israel” is spray-painted on the street sign marking the Yitzhak Rabin Garden in Paris. Aug. 28, 2017. Photo by Serge Attal/Flash90.

Jews in EU see anti-Zionism as form of anti-Semitism

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European Jews increasingly see anti-Zionism as a form of anti-Semitism according to a report released earlier this week by the European Union, Daniel Schwammenthal, director of the AJC Transatlantic Institute, wrote in an op-ed published on Tuesday in The Wall...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, incoming House Democrat representing Queens, N.Y. Credit: Ocasio-Cortez campaign.

Is Ocasio-Cortez really Jewish?

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At a time when DNA tests are a national craze, as well as source of political controversy, we shouldn’t be surprised about claims of Jewish identity from anyone. But when they come from someone...
The ancient wick found at the Shivta archaeological dig in the Negev. Courtesy: Israel Antiquities Authority.

On last day of Hanukkah, archaeologists find ancient wick in the Negev

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A unique lamp wick dating back to the Byzantine period was uncovered by the Antiquities Authority at the Negev Desert Roman Empire settlement of Shivta, according to an announcement on the last day of...
Israeli-American violinist Itzhak Perlman (seated) with music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck at a Nov. 27, 2018 concert in honor of the 11 Jewish victims of the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue shooting. The concert will be aired nationwide on PBS on Dec. 11, 2018, as well as available afterwards by live-streaming. Credit: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on http://www.itzhakperlman.com.

PBS to air ‘Tree of Life’ concert of unity and hope after Pittsburgh shooting

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PBS will broadcast WQED’s locally produced “Tree of Life: A Concert for Peace and Unity,” presented and hosted by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to honor the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue victims and first responders, in...
Rabbi Polichenco, with microphone, explains the significance of Chanukah as Nancy Harrison gives a hand-held light to a youngster

March of Light concludes with chanukiah lighting

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Story by Donald H. Harrison, Photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – Undeterred by last month’s massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, or by more recent anti-Semitic vandalism in Poway, more...
Ron Huldai, the mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo, inaugurated the renewed Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv by lighting the fourth Hanukkah candle of the central Chabad menorah, together with Rabbi Joseph Gerlitzky. Dec. 5, 2018.

Tel Aviv-Yafo mayor lights Hanukkah menorah in renewed Dizengoff Square

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Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo Ron Huldai inaugurated the renewed Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv by lighting the fourth Hanukkah candle of the central Chabad menorah with Rabbi Joseph Gerlitzky, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to the city...