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French President Emmanuel Macron holding a press conference while visiting Beirut, Lebanon in early September. Source: Screenshot.

France looks to restore influence in Lebanon, but Iran isn’t budging

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The multiple explosions in Beirut on Aug. 4 ravaged more than just part of Lebanon’s capital city. The government completely crumbled in the aftermath, and Hezbollah began to take heat from some quarters of...

Sukkot and Sukkah Songs

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The seven days of Sukkot—celebrated by dwelling in the sukkah, taking the Four Kinds, and rejoicing—is the holiday when we expose ourselves to the elements in covered huts, commemorating G‑d's sheltering our ancestors as...
Shechita (kosher slaughter) of a chicken. Credit: Yofial via Wikimedia Commons.

European Jewish group sounds alarm over Polish bill banning kosher-meat exports

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Europe’s largest Jewish umbrella organization expressed alarm on Thursday over an animal-welfare bill in Poland that would ban exports of kosher meat. “This draft law is of deep, deep, concern to European Jewry. It puts...
Maccabi Task Force staff and students participating in their 2020 virtual campus conference. Source: Screenshot.

Maccabee Task Force urges pro-Israel, Jewish students to forge ties with African-American community

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This year’s Maccabee Task Force conference for students and professionals across America and Canada highlighted the importance of forging ties between Jewish and Israel groups with black groups on campus. Because of the coronavirus...
A screenshot of an ad produced by the Jewish Democratic Council of America that detractors say unfairly equates the Trump administration to the rise of Nazi Germany. Source: Screenshot.

Trivializing the true evil of Nazism

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There is clearly no limit to the depths of moral perversity that the enemies of President Donald Trump are prepared to plumb, not least within America’s Jewish community. The Jewish Democratic Council of America has...
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A tale of two Palestinians

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Leila Khalad hijacked a TWA flight a half-century ago and her fans in America encourage her to blab her head off. Rami Aman reached out to young Israelis a half-year ago, and Hamas jails...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Saudi Arabia uncovers terror cell trained in Iran by Revolutionary Guards

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On September 23, Saudi Arabia revealed the existence of a terrorist cell in the kingdom trained by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). A Saudi government spokesman said that 10 operatives, three of whom...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Minister of Energy Yuval Steinitz visit the Leviathan gas-processing rig near the Israeli city of Caesarea on Jan. 31, 2019. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

Israel and Lebanon agree to US-mediated border talks

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Israel and Lebanon announced on Thursday their intention to participate in U.S.-mediated talks, with the aim of settling their maritime border dispute. The dispute has been ongoing for decades, but became more urgent following natural-gas...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaking with attendees at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention at the George R. Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr.

Gov. Newsom vetoes California ethnic-studies bill requiring high school anti-Israel curriculum

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would make ethnic-studies courses a high school graduation requirement. Newsom, a Democrat, cited the ongoing pushback over the curriculum for why he vetoed the measure, AB-331. “I value...
Israeli-British journalist Jonathan Spyer speaking at the India Foundation think tank on Sept. 21, 2017. Credit: Wikipedia.

Israeli-British journalist has been banned for life from entering America

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Israeli-British journalist Jonathan Spyer revealed in an article in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that he is “banned for life from entering America.” Spyer received a document from the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem in 2019, in...