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Cherrie Daniels, the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues. Credit: State Department/D.A. Peterson.

US State Department envoy works to secure compensation for Nazi-era wrongs

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Cherrie Daniels was tapped last year as the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues. Founded in 1999, the Office of the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues “develops and implements U.S. policy to return...
The words "Free Palestine" were spray-painted on the driveway of Beth Hillel Temple in Kenosha, Wis., on Aug. 27, 2020. Source: Screenshot.

Amid riots, synagogue in Kenosha, Wis., vandalized with ‘Free Palestine’

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A synagogue in Kenosha, Wis., was vandalized during demonstrations and riots on Thursday morning. A reporter for the right-wing news site Townhall posted a video of a Black Lives Matter activist spray-painting the words “Free Palestine” on...
A fire at the University of Delaware Chabad in Newark, Del., has been ruled an arson, Aug. 25, 2020. Credit: Dave Wilson/Aetna Hose, Hook & Ladder Company.

Investigators confirm arson as cause of fire at University of Delaware Chabad

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A fire at the Chabad House at the University of Delaware in Newark has been ruled an arson, according to investigators. The building was set ablaze on Tuesday at about 11 p.m. Damages were estimated...
French President Emmanuel Macron has demanded that France’s judiciary “bring total clarity around the death of Sarah Halimi.” Credit: Kremlin.ru via Wikimedia Commons.

Wiesenthal Centre Appeals to French President Emmanuel Macron Regarding Antisemitism Spike over the Last...

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Paris, 28 August In a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron, the Wiesenthal Centre Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels, presented a panoply of Jew-hatred across France in only the last week. Samuels with President...
Family and friends attend the funeral of Rabbi Shai Ohayon at the Segula cemetery in Petach Tikvah on Aug. 27, 2020. Ohayon was stabbed to death just hours earlier in an apparent terrorist attack. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Rabbi slain in apparent terror attack laid to rest; assailant’s background probed

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Rabbi Shay Ohayon of Petach Tikvah was laid to rest in the city on Wednesday, just hours after being murdered by a Palestinian in an apparent terrorist attack. Ohayon, 39, leaves behind four children and...
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence addresses the Republican National Convention on Aug. 26, 2020. Source: Screenshot.

Pence, Grenell, Kellogg applaud administration’s pro-Israel accomplishments

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On the third night of the Republican National Convention, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany and acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, and Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg—Pence’s national security...
Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi (right) with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas at the Liebermann Villa on the shores of Lake Wannsee in Berlin. Aug. 27, 2020. Source: Twitter/Gabi Ashkenazi.

‘Israeli government’s policy moved from annexation to normalization’

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Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said on Thursday that his government has moved away from plans to extend sovereignty to the Jordan Valley, and Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, in the wake of...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosts Hamas leaders in Istanbul on Aug. 22, 2020. Credit: Twitter @rafsanchez.

Israel calls out Turkey for giving Hamas members passports

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Israel’s charge d’affaires in Turkey, Roey Gilad, on Wednesday confirmed reports that Turkey is granting passports to members of the Hamas terrorist organization. “Some are in the process, some already got , but we are...
Members of the Palestinian security forces enforce a coronavirus lockdown in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Aug. 25, 2020. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Gaza lockdown extended by 72 hours amid rise in COVID-19 cases

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Hamas on Thursday extended the lockdown in the Gaza Strip for an additional three days, after two deaths and 26 new COVID-19 cases were recorded outside border quarantine facilities. Earlier this week, a Hamas spokesman confirmed four...
Then-Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman (left) and Health Ministry Director-General Ronni Gamzu attend a press conference at the Health Ministry in Jerusalem on Aug. 7, 2011. Photo by Kobi Gideon/Flash90.

Israel’s COVID-19 task force director apologizes for asking Ukraine to ban Uman visits

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Israel’s national coronavirus project coordinator Ronni Gamzu apologized on Thursday for bypassing the country’s political echelon and directly contacting Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to ask that he bar Chassidic pilgrims from visiting the city...