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Daily Archives: May 3, 2019

Give feedback to the Rabbis of Schules who welcome the PLO

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Two synagogues welcome the PLO to their sanctuaries over the next few days. Sydney’s Emanuel Synagogue http://www.jwire.com.au/one-land-two-people-in-conversation/ Sixth and I Historic Synagogue https://israelbehindthenews.com/synagogue-will-mourn-palestinians-ignore-israeli-independence-day/18512/ People do not generally know that the PA, the PLO administrative arm, has enacted...
Flag of the Muslim Brotherhood [File photo]

The Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamophobia trap

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As far as administration critics are concerned, U.S. President Donald Trump is about to do it again. His plans to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group has the foreign-policy establishment wringing their hands...
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March of the Living transcends distinctions to provide a deeply meaningful Jewish experience

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There are no words for the experience of commemorating the horrific death, together with Holocaust survivors, on the sacred grounds of the Birkenau extermination camp, where more than 1 million Jews were sent to...
The U.S. Capitol building. Wikimedia Commons via Martin Falbisoner.

Sens. Cruz, Kaine introduce resolution condemning ‘all forms’ of anti-Semitism

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Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced a resolution on Thursday condemning “all forms” of anti-Semitism to mark Yom Hashoah, or Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. “Anti-Semitism is on the rise around the world...
Twitter graphic. Credit: edar/Pixabay.

Report: Bot accounts promoting Twitter campaign to boycott Eurovision

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Hundreds of fake and bot accounts have been promoting a Twitter campaign calling on artists and others to boycott this month’s Eurovision song contest in Israel, according to a report by the country’s Ministry...
One of the campus buildings at the University of California, Berkeley. Credit: Max Pixel/Creative Commons.

UC Berkeley establishes first faculty chair in Israel Studies

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Joining a select group of universities in the world with an endowed faculty chair in Israel Studies, the University of California, Berkeley, a hotbed of anti-Semitism, announced the creation of the Helen Diller Family Chair...
Canadian Opposition and Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

With Trudeau sliding in polls, next Canadian government may take a decidedly pro-Israel tilt

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With Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau falling in the polls due to allegedly pressuring the country’s attorney general not to prosecute the Canadian engineering company SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., the Conservative Party, or Tories, led...
Dr. Shmuel Rosenman, founder and co-chairman of March of the Living, is flanked by Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon; Jewish Agency chair Isaac Herzog; U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman; and a delegation of U.S. ambassadors and White House representatives headed by Friedman, including former Israeli Chief Rabbi Israel Lau, and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople, at the entrance to Birkenau during the 31st annual March of the Living. Credit: March of the Living.

March of the Living founder: ‘The only thing worse than Auschwitz is the world...

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On Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom Hashoah) on May 2, under the theme “Say No to Anti-Semitism,” more than 10,000 Jewish and non-Jewish youth from 40 different countries, together with dozens of Holocaust survivors and dignitaries from around...
Participants of the first-ever “Emerging Leadership Conference,” an initiative of the International March of the Living, launched in response to a rise in global anti-Semitism, May 1, 2019. Credit: International March of the Living.

Leadership conference in Krakow calls on millennials to grapple with anti-Semitism

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More than 200 young leaders, both Jewish and non-Jewish, from 10 countries gathered at Jageillonian University in Krakow, Poland, to take part in the first-ever “Emerging Leadership Conference,” an initiative of the International March of the Living launched...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas speaking to the U.N. Security Council. Credit: Screenshot.

Abbas draws line in the sand over payments to terrorists

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Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas said in an address that aired Monday on P.A. television that the P.A. is facing a financial crisis because the Israeli government has decided to deduct the amount the...