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A bar and bat mitzvah celebration for 80 Deaf and hard-of-hearing children from throughout Israel, Sponsored by the International Young Israel Movement and the Jewish Agency for Israel, was the culmination of a year of programming. Photo by Nachshon Philipson.

Online social network geared to Deaf, signing community launches in Israel

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SignTalk Foundation, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that promotes, fosters and advances public awareness of the signing community, celebrated the international launching of its online social network, SignTalkers in Jerusalem on Monday night with a signed performance by...
Yeshiva University officials, New York elected leaders, faculty, students and community members at the grand opening of the YU Innovation Lab, a partnership between New York and Israel, May 21, 2019. Credit: Yeshiva University.

New York’s Yeshiva University inaugurates Innovation Lab, in partnership with Israel

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eshiva University announced the grand opening of the YU Innovation Lab, a collaborative learning space focused on creating a hands-on entrepreneurial environment where Israeli-based startups can grow their U.S. market potential while leveraging YU’s...
The text on this cartoon from the Palestinian Authority mouthpiece “Al-Hayat Al-Jadida," reads: “Trump urges 'thinking outside the box' of international legitimacy.” Source: “Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,” April 30, 2019.

PA minister: Trump ‘acts as if he’s in charge of entire world’

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In a recent article in the Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam, titled “America and its Collusion in Crime,” Palestinian Authority Culture Minister Atef Abu Saif, a former Fatah spokesman, claimed that U.S. President Donald Trump, his senior...
Poway synagogue shooter John Earnest. Credit: Screenshot.

Chabad of Poway gunman indicted on 113 counts

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John Earnest, the 19-year-old man charged with shooting and killing congregant Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, and wounding three people, including senior Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, at Chabad of Poway in Southern California during Shabbat-morning services on April...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaking to the Iranian American community in California on July 22, 2018. Screenshot: YouTube.

Pompeo to meet with Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be meeting next week with the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, reported Jewish Insider on Tuesday. The Conference of Presidents is an umbrella organization consisting of groups, including the Zionist...
Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer. Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer wins truth award

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Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer will be recognized for his public statements in defense of Israel by the American nonprofit organization Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA)...
Rev. Al Sharpton speaking at the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center conference in Washington, D.C. on May 20, 2019. Credit: RAC.

Sharpton notes his ‘cheap’ rhetoric towards Jews during 1991 Crown Heights riots

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Rev. Al Sharpton recalled on Monday that the widow of civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took him to task for his “cheap” rhetoric behind the 1991 riots in the Crown Heights neighborhood...
View of the Yehudit Bridge and the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv on Feb. 17, 2019. Photo by Adam Shuldman/Flash90.

Reuters casts Tel Aviv pre-1948 as Palestinian Arab city of Tel Ar-Rabeea’

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In an article last week about refugees in the Gaza Strip yearning to return to their family homes, now located in Israel, Reuters misrepresented Tel Aviv as an Arab city prior to 1948. In the...
Jared Kushner, senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, is interviewed by Sky News Arabia. Credit: Screenshot.

White House says Mideast plan begins with economic workshop in Bahrain

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The Trump administration will roll out the first part of its highly anticipated Mideast peace plan between Israelis and Palestinians, dubbed the “deal of the century,” in late June at a conference in Bahrain...
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In rare move, Facebook blocks Israeli company over misinformation mission

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In a rather unusual move, Facebook has “removed hundreds of fake accounts, pages and groups” connected to the Tel Aviv-based firm Archimedes Group, which claims it can “change reality,” reported The Wall Street Journal. The social-media giant announced...