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Jewish Agency for Israel chairman Isaac Herzog speaks during the Public Forum Conference on Nov. 15, 2018. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Jewish organizations rally behind Italian Jews amid coronavirus shutdown

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Amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis in Italy, which has brought the country to a virtual standstill, prominent Jewish organizations continue to engage the Jewish community in the country. Chairman Isaac Herzog and Chairman of Keren...
Anti-Defamation League CEO and national president Jonathan Greenblatt (left) testifies before the House Homeland Security Committee on Jan. 15, 2020. Photo courtesy of Jen Liseo/Anti-Defamation League.

ADL publishes guide on anti-Semitic tropes for candidates, members of Congress

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The Anti-Defamation League shared a new guide to contemporary anti-Semitism with Congress members and candidates running for national office in 2020. “Antisemitism Uncovered: A Guide to Old Myths in a New Era” examines “some of the most...
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden walks with supporters at a march in Clear Lake, Iowa, on Aug. 9, 2019. Photo: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons.

Biden’s victories reassure Jews worried about Sanders

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Maybe now the threat of anti-Semitism – government-sanctioned anti-Semitism, to be specific – could be slackening with Bernie Sanders’s slackening presidential campaign. American Jews feared that a Bernie Sanders presidency would intensify the anti-Semitic movement...
Israel Air Force General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon. Feb. 2, 2011. Credit: Ofer Zidon/Flash90.

Israeli defense firm Elbit, US Air Force sign $471 million contract

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The Israeli defense firm Elbit announced on Monday that its U.S. subsidiary has signed a contract with the U.S. Air Force worth up to $471 million. Over a 10-year period, Elbit Systems of America will equip F-16...
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The unexpurgated Oval Office address

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It was obvious by the detached and halting delivery of President Trump’s Oval Office speech that it was composed by someone else and read off the teleprompter.  Since I am close friends with the...

ADL’s anti-Semitism primer heading to candidates

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Beginning this week, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) will share a new comprehensive guide to contemporary antisemitism with candidates running for national office in 2020, as well as every member of Congress. Antisemitism Uncovered: A Guide...
A medieval depiction of Jews being burned alive during Europe's Black Death. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Pandemic panic a breeding ground for the virus of Jew-hatred

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Burned into the historical memory of the Jewish people is what happened in the period when the bubonic plague swept through Europe from 1347 to 1351. The “Black Death” was one of the greatest...
View of the U.N. Human Rights Council special session on “the deteriorating human-rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem,” May 2018. Photo by Elma Okic/U.N.

UNHRC delays Israeli-Palestinian debate due to coronavirus

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The U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has delayed its 43rd session in Geneva, therefore suspending the Agenda 7 debate on the Israeli-Palestinian debate, due to the coronavirus pandemic. “The Bureau discussed with the UNOG  Director...
The Pentagon. Credit: David B. Gleason/Flickr.

US strikes five Iranian-backed weapons storage facilities after attack on US soldiers in Iraq

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The United States launched on late Thursday strikes on five weapon storage facilities belonging to Kata’ib Hezbollah (Hezbollah Brigades) – an Iraqi Shia paramilitary group and part of the Popular Mobilization Forces supported by...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in Jerusalem on the coronavirus (COVID-19), March 11, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Netanyahu invites Gantz to form ‘emergency’ unity government

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has invited Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz to talks about forming an emergency unity government amid the coronavirus pandemic. The invitation comes as Israel has begun the process...