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Daily Archives: July 1, 2020

An artist’s rendering of the planned Nefesh B’Nefesh Aliyah Center in Jerusalem. Credit: Thomas M. Leitersdorf Planning & Architecture LTD.

Nefesh B’Nefesh lands center in Jerusalem for new olim to Israel

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The Jerusalem Municipality and Nefesh B’Nefesh have just announced plans to build a full-service 2,200-square-meter Aliyah Center in the heart of the city. A piece of land across from the Supreme Court building has officially...
A joint project is underway in Italy to catalogue an estimated 35,000 volumes from 14 Jewish communities and 25 state institutions, June 2020. Credit: The National Library of Israel.

Joint effort begins to identify and catalogue every Hebrew book in Italy

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A ground-breaking collaborative effort to create a unified listing of all Hebrew books in Italy has been announced by the Union of Jewish Communities in Italy (UCEI), the Rome National Central Library (BNCR) and...

BLM and the poison of anti-Semitism

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It is a just cause, poisoned by anti-Semitism. The drive to end racism merits all our participation, and we should all stand against the anti-Semitic acts and attitudes that have attached themselves to this unexpected...
Rev. Al Sharpton speaking at the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center conference in Washington, D.C. on May 20, 2019. Credit: RAC.

Can the ADL ‘stop the hate’ by embracing Al Sharpton?

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Is there any red line that the Anti-Defamation League won’t cross in order to pursue its current agenda that prioritizes partisan politics over combating anti-Semitism? In the five years since Jonathan Greenblatt succeeded longtime...
Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi at a Calcalist conference in Tel Aviv on Dec. 31, 2019. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Israeli foreign minister: Sovereignty moves unlikely to proceed as scheduled

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Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said on Wednesday that the government’s plan to extend sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria was unlikely to be carried out as scheduled. “It seems unlikely that anything will...
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, June 12, 2018. Credit: Tasnim News Agency via Wikimedia Commons.

Former Malaysian premier: Muslims should target Israelis, not Europeans or Americans

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Israel was created by world powers to solve the “Jewish problem,” and Muslims should not carry out terrorist attacks against European countries and the United States, but rather against the Israelis directly, Malaysia’s former...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in London on Sept. 5, 2019. Photo by Chaim Tzach/GPO.

Boris Johnson: London will not recognize Israeli sovereignty

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on Israel not to extend its sovereignty to Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley in a front-page Hebrew op-ed published by Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot on Wednesday. Calling himself a “passionate...
Palestinian security forces block the entrance to Ramallah on March 23, 2020, to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Photo by Flash90.

Palestinians seem more worried about COVID-19 than Israeli sovereignty

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The Palestinian leadership may be up in arms over the impending Israeli announcement on the application of sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria, but the Palestinian public seems largely indifferent to it. In Ramallah,...
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on Feb. 2, 2014. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Netanyahu accuses attorney general of orchestrating a coup against him

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday accused the country’s attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit, of orchestrating a coup attempt, just hours after Mandelblit officially opposed Netanyahu’s request that he be allowed to receive NIS...
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002. Source: Screenshot.

State Department: ‘There must be justice’ for slain Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl

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The U.S. State Department called for “justice” one day after Pakistan’s Supreme Court refused to suspend a lower court’s ruling freeing Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was convicted of being part of the 2002 killing in...