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Daily Archives: November 8, 2018

The Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh, where a mass shooting took place during Shabbat services on Oct. 27. Credit: Google Maps screenshot.

‘Real Time’ Jewish America and Trump

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In an interview with HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” ahead of Tuesday’s midterm congressional elections, New York Times op-ed staff editor Bari Weiss blamed U.S. President Donald Trump for the Oct. 27 massacre of Jews at the...

Nuclear decision-making and nuclear war: an urgent American problem

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Carl von Clausewitz wrote, “Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.” His classic warning remains starkly relevant to the United States, nowhere more so than in the context of nuclear war....
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Canadian premier apologizes for nation’s failure to save German Jews on ‘St. Louis’

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau officially apologized for his country’s 1939 refusal to allow entry to a ship carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi oppression. Trudeau made the statement at the House of...
Thousands of Ethiopian Jews take part in a prayer of the Sigd holiday on the Armon Hanatziv Promenade overlooking Jerusalem on Nov. 7, 2018. The prayer is performed by Ethiopian Jews every year to celebrate their community's connection and commitment to Israel. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Ethiopian Israelis celebrate annual Sigd holiday

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Jewish Ethiopians celebrated the holiday of Sigd on Wednesday, with schools around Israel engaging students in special programming to teach about the unique Ethiopian Jewish holiday. Sigd, a holiday of supplication and yearning to return...
Alpha DaRT Applicators. Credit: Screenshot.

Israeli startup develops breakthrough in radiation cancer therapy

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An Israeli medical technology company that developed a breakthrough in radiation cancer therapy announced on Wednesday it would begin clinical trials with leading medical institutions in Italy with the target of receiving approval from...
File photo: Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Twitter.

Netanyahu to visit Austria for anti-Semitism conference

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Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Vienna for meetings and to attend a conference on anti-Semitism, the first visit by an Israeli prime minister...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Credit: European University Institute/Flickr.

US Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg being treated at DC hospital after fall

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been hospitalized after falling in her Supreme Court office on Wednesday night, fracturing three ribs on her left side, according to the court in a statement. Ginsburg,...
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu meeting with Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said. Credit: Benjamin Netanyahu via Twitter.

Contrasting reactions in Arab world to Gulf states’ harbingers of normalization with Israel

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Three events in three Arab Gulf states in the past week have reflected these countries’ process of normalization with Israel. On October 26, 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Oman, accompanied by the...
Republican Ron DeSantis squares off in a Florida gubernatorial debate with Democrat Andrew Gillum. Credit: Screenshot.

Florida governor-elect Ron DeSantis: ‘I will be aggressive against BDS’

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If there is one American politician who has made support for Israel a daily agenda item, Florida governor-elect Ron DeSantis is that person. DeSantis,a Republican who for six years served in the U.S. House of...
The inside of the new synagogue in Mainz, Germany. Credit: Sascha Kopp via Mainz Tourism Office.

Nearly 30 percent of Germans believe Jews use ‘dirty tricks’

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Eighty years after the Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”) pogrom, nearly one-third of Germans harbor varying degrees of anti-Semitic beliefs, new research has revealed. Although the research, conducted by Leipzig University in conjunction with the...