Lauder thanks Trump for critical message on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
NEW YORK - World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has praised US President Donald Trump’s “poignant and respectful” tribute to the six million Jews who were murdered at the hands of the Nazis...
Israel has developed a system to track anti-Semitism in social media
Thursday, January 25, was presented to the detection system in social networks anti-Semitic remarks (Anti-semitism Cyber Monitoring System, or ACMS). According to Walla News, she was developed by order of the Ministry for Jerusalem Affairs...
Parents outraged by schoolwork saying Jews, Christians and Muslims worship same God
Do Christians, Muslims and Jews believe in the same God?
A homework assignment given to sixth-grade students last month in Illinois asserted they do. When an Elgin Area School District board member caught wind of...
Mike Pence’s Love Of Israel Is Dangerous For Jews
Vice President Mike Pence may have just become the first Christian visitor to Israel not to set foot inside a church. Palestinian Christians boycotted his visit this week, still furious over the Trump administration’s...
Singer-Songwriter Erykah Badu Says She ‘Saw Something Good’ In Adolf Hitler
Erykah Badu raised some eyebrows in an interview with Vulture after she seemingly expressed empathy for Adolf Hitler after being asked about accusations that she’s anti-Semitic.
The wide-ranging interview covered a broad number of topics but took...
Hungary Jews angered by rightwing memorial on Holocaust day
Hungary's main Jewish organisation lashed out Wednesday against a senior member of the ruling Fidesz party for participating in a memorial for a Nazi-allied wartime leader to be held on a Holocaust remembrance day.
Sandor...
Store stops selling Holocaust-style patches
A St. Peters gun store has stopped selling yellow star patches like the ones Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust. Instead of “Jude,” the patches say “Gun Owner.”
The idea behind the product...
Organisation of Bulgarian Jews supports Istanbul Convention
Both the Central Israelite Spiritual Council in Bulgaria, and Shalom, the organisation of Bulgarian Jews, support the Istanbul Convention and called for its ratification by the National Assembly in Sofia. They joined parts of...
‘Abbas says one thing in English, another in Arabic
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein met with European Union Foreign Affairs High Representative Federica Mogherini Tuesday.
Edelstein described the meeting, which lasted 45 minutes, as cordial.
The Knesset Speaker asked Mogherini to respond to the two-hour anti-Semitic rant...
Senior Yemen Qaeda leader calls for knife and car attacks on Jews
DUBAI: A senior leader of al Qaeda's Yemen branch has called for knife and car attacks on Jews in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,...