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Daily Archives: December 17, 2018

Le président égyptien Al-Sissi : Prenez soin de votre pays et n’imposez pas votre...

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Lors d’une session du Forum mondial de la jeunesse qui s’est tenu à Charm el-Cheikh, le président égyptien Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi a été interrogé sur le sujet des pays occidentaux qui ferment leurs portes...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 27, 2018. Photo: Alaa Badarneh/A.P.

עבאס לא גינה את הרציחות : Documentation: Abbas never condemned the murders.‬

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It has been widely reported that Machmud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority, condemned the murders of Israelis which took place last week. No such thing took place.   Here is the Abbas text, in English and...
Airbnb logo. Credit: Screenshot.

SWC Welcomes Airbnb’s Reported Reversal on Removing West Bank Listings

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“If confirmed, this is welcome news and we will inform our constituency of 400,000 families that we are dropping our boycott of Airbnb," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Associate Dean and Director...

Good Australian intentions

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Jerusalem’s unofficial response to Australia’s decision to recognize “west Jerusalem” as the capital of Israel was “No, thanks.” The question of whether Israel should embrace or spurn nations that recognize “west Jerusalem” as Israel’s capital...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Dec. 4, 2018. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Outside influences always have impacted Judaism

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Sir Simon Schama, celebrated historian, best-selling author, and TV personality was in Jerusalem the other day to give a lecture called, “Jewish Arguments Then and Now.” Starting with the two creation stories in the...
Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman wore these cleats on Dec. 16, 2018 to remember the 11 Jewish victims of the Oct. 27 shooting at the Tree of Life*Or L'Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Credit: Julian Edelman/Twitter.

New England Patriots pay respect to Tree of Life synagogue victims

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Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, visited the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday to pay his respects to the 11 victims of the deadliest shooting in American Jewish...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Hall of Names during her visit at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on October 4, 2018. Credit: Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL.

Germany to compensate Holocaust survivors who fled Nazis as kids, 80 years later

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Eighty years later, Germany has said that it will compensate Jewish men and women who survived the Holocaust as children—most of whom lost their parents during the Shoah and years of World War II—according...
Israel will send a time capsule along with an Israeli spacecraft on the Jewish state’s first mission to the moon, expected to launch in February 2019. Credit: Yoav Weiss.

Israel to send time capsule in historic mission to the moon

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Israel will send a time capsule along with an Israeli spacecraft on the Jewish state’s first mission to the moon in 2019. The capsule will consist of the Bible, pictures of Israeli symbols like the flag, Israeli...
A monument of Maimonides in Córdoba, Spain. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

New exhibit on Maimonides celebrates renowned Jewish scholar with internationally accrued collection

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An exhibit showcasing original manuscripts and writings of one of Judaism’s most revered rabbis is opening at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Maimonides, otherwise known as the Rambam or Moshe Ben Maimon, is one of...
Rabbi Mendy Zwiebel of Chabad of Chico, Calif., has been providing comfort and support to those who lost their homes, vehicles and possessions to fires that ravaged Northern California in November 2018. Credit: Chabad of Chico.

After the fires: Californians start to pick up the pieces of their lives

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A little more than a month after a brush fire raced through the Northern California countryside on its way to becoming one of the deadliest and costliest wildfires in U.S. history, people from Paradise,...