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Townhouses in New York City's Upper West Side. Credit: Tupungato/Shutterstock.

Aide for New York city council candidate says Upper West Side ‘too Jewish and...

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The campaign manager for a Democratic New York City Council candidate said last week that Manhattan’s Upper West Side is too white and Jewish, the New York Post reported. Quinn Mootz, who is Jewish, serves as campaign...
Manhattan, New York City, Aug. 14, 2015. Credit: Ivan2010 via Wikimedia Commons.

Twenty-One Israeli unicorns now call New York City home

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Following a flurry of investment activity in recent months, New York is now home to 21 Israeli-founded unicorns—privately held companies valued at $1 billion or more—according to the United States-Israel Business Alliance. Each of...
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren during her presidential campaign in 2019. Credit: David Garcia/Shutterstock.

Warren urges US to explore conditioning aid to Israel to help it ‘adjust course’

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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) urged the Biden administration to consider conditioning military aid to Israel in order to help the Jewish state “adjust course.” “We should talk about the elephant in the room—America’s military assistance to...
Temple University. Credit: Roman Babakin/Shutterstock.

Temple University’s Jewish center to host online event about Israeli ‘occupation’

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The Feinstein Center for American Jewish History at Temple University is co-sponsoring a virtual event on April 20 that promotes false narratives about Israel. The Jewish center founded by the late Murray Friedman—a historian and...
A rally against anti-Semitism in London in December 2019. Credit: Brian Minkoff/Shutterstock.

US report: Nearly a dozen European countries are failing to meet anti-Semitism challenges

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Nearly a dozen European countries are “insufficient” in their efforts to meet the challenges of anti-Semitism, a report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom found. “Sadly, 2020 was another difficult year for global anti-Semitism”...
The fashion company Georgio Armani pulled an item from sale that resembled prison uniforms worn in concentration camps, April 2021. Source: Twitter.

Armani removes from sale blazer resembling Holocaust concentration-camp uniform

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The Italian high-end fashion house Giorgio Armani recently removed from sale a blazer that resembled a Holocaust concentration-camp uniform following a request by the pro-Israel organization StandWithUs. Roz Rothstein, CEO and co-founder of StandWithUs, first...
Students from the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy perform an Israeli flag routine at a Yom Ha’azmaut event in Livingston, N.J., on April 15, 2021. Photo by Faygie Holt.

New Jersey town celebrates Israel with flag-raising, student performance

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The Township of Livingston, N.J., less than 30 miles west of New York City, raised an Israeli flag over its town hall in celebration of Yom Ha’azmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, on Thursday. The annual event is...

BDS Co-founder Omar Barghouti Advocates Anti-Israel Litmus Test for Interfaith Dialogue

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Appearing on a March 31, 2021 webinar organized by University of California-Berkeley lecturer and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) board chairman Hatem Bazian, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement co-founder Omar Barghouti veered into troubling rhetoric,...
U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.). Source: Betty McCollum via Twitter.

AIPAC blasts bill proposed by Minnesota Rep. McCollum to condition US aid to Israel

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AIPAC blasted a new bill introduced by Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) that would condition U.S. aid to Israel to ensure that no tax dollars contribute to alleged civil-rights and human-rights abuses against Palestinians. The proposed...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcoming Israel's 73rd Independence Day celebration. Source: Screenshot.

Blinken: US commitment to Israel ‘ironclad,’ welcomes more normalization agreements

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that America’s commitment to Israel is “ironclad,” and that he—and the Biden administration—supports more normalization agreements. Blinken appeared as part of a virtual event hosted by Israel’s embassy...