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Daily Archives: July 30, 2019

King Felipe VI of Spain (center), accompanied by Catalonia President Carles Puigdemont (left) and Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau, prepare to lay a wreath at the site of a truck-ramming attack two days earlier on La Rambla that left two people dead and more than 100 wounded, Aug. 19, 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

An Iranian lie unfolds in the Spanish media

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Amid the profusion of commentary about the hostile attitudes towards the Jewish community found on certain parts of the American political left along with the British Labour Party, there was a useful piece of...

Cutting To The American Core: A Durable Fix Lies Beyond Politics

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Whatever happens in the next presidential election, America’s most deeply urgent problems can never be fixed by politics. In essence, noAmerican government, Democrat or Republican – even an eccentric one that might function honestly, smoothly...
U.S. President Donald Trump. Credit: Sean Sullivan and Robert Costa via Flickr.

Trump to visit Poland on Sept. 1, marking 80 years since start of World...

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U.S. President Donald Trump will visit Poland on Sept. 1 to mark the 80th anniversary of the beginning of World War II, announced an aide to Polish President Andrzej Duda. It would be Trump’s second...
Temple Concord in Syracuse, N.Y. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Central New York’s oldest synagogue to be sold and replaced by student housing

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Members of central New York’s oldest Jewish congregation and the ninth oldest in the United States, Temple Concord, voted on Sunday to sell the 108-year-old building for $9 million to a developer of luxury...
Illustrative picture of a man wearing a kipah. Credit: Courtesy.

Jewish man donning ‘kipah’ insulted, spat on in Germany

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A 25-year-old Jewish man was insulted and spat on in front the Potsdam Central Station by two Syrian nationals, reported German daily Berliner Zeitung on Tuesday. The student, who told German press agency DPA that he wears...
Ofir Hasdai. Credit: Courtesy of the Hasdai family.

More than $186,000 donated to family of Israeli man shot dead in parking dispute

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As many as 3,200 people donated to an online fundraising campaign for the disabled wife and three daughters who survive Ofir Hasdai, 40, who was shot dead after getting into an argument over a...
Psagot Winery lables. Credit: Psagotwines.com

Canadian federal court: ‘Misleading’ to label West Bank wine ‘Products of Israel’

Canada’s Federal Court ruled on Monday that wine made in Judea and Samaria cannot be labeled as “products of Israel.” The decision is part of a three-year court dispute over bottles of Psagot Winery and...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at SXSW 2019. Credit: Flickr.

Ocasio-Cortez signs onto Omar’s pro-BDS resolution

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U.S. Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has signed onto Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) resolution that supports the anti-Israel BDS movement. Although the pro-boycott resolution introduced by Omar does not explicitly mention Israel, she told Al-Monitor shortly before filing it,...
New Right Party chair Ayelet Shaked arrives at the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem for a meeting with Jewish Home Party chair Rafi Peretz after announcing their union in Jerusalem ahead of the September elections, July 28, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Shaked shakes up politics again with new merger on Israeli right

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Israel’s politics got another major shakeup in recent days—this time on the right, with the announcement of the merger between Ayelet Shaked’s New Right Party and Jewish Home. Like similar moves on the left...
A plane full of 121 new immigrants from Ukraine arrives in Israel on July 29, 2019. Photo by Noam Moskowitz.

Israel welcomes 121 new immigrants from Ukraine

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed 121 new immigrants (olim) from Ukraine on Monday morning at a reception held at the foot of their plane. The olim, who arrived on a special flight organized by the...