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Daily Archives: November 12, 2020

From the documentary “Golda,” about Israel’s first female prime minister’s term of office. Credit: National Library of Israel.

Festival of best Israeli documentaries goes digital, with special track in English

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The National Library of Israel’s sixth annual Docu.Text Film Festival is going digital, with a special track for English-speaking international audiences. The festival, running from Nov. 15-25, features award-winning documentary films, question-and-answer sessions and an array of special...
School library books. Credit: Pixabay.

Jewish preschools, day schools, win book grants from author James Patterson

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Teachers at Jewish preschools and day schools across the country are among educators who have won grants from bestselling author James Patterson to build their classroom libraries through the Patterson Partnership with Scholastic Book...

Antisemitism Commissioner Felix Klein: “Teachers are often unable to deal with antisemitism”

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Germany’s Commissioner for Jewish Life and the Fight against Antisemitism Felix Klein sat down recently for an exclusive interview with the German public-broadcasting radio station Deutschlandfunk to discuss how schools can become a part of the fight to combat antisemitism and bigotry. Deutschlandfunk’s Kate Maleike: 9 November is a...
Anti-aircraft guns at Iran's Natanz uranium-enrichment facility. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Contrary to nuclear deal, Iran moves first set of advanced centrifuges underground

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Iran completed the transfer of a cascade of advanced centrifuges from a plant above ground to an underground site, said a report released on Wednesday by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). “They finished installing...
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The US president-elect must heed the lessons of history when managing Iran

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One of the most crucial issues on the table for the Middle East is Iran. It is very likely that this will be one of the first briefings President-elect Joe Biden receives when he...
Photo: WorkingPreacher, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Warnock’s antipathy to Israel could cost Dems the Senate

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Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock must navigate an obstacle course to convert voting figures so they can join the U.S. Senate on Jan. 5  and Jewish Georgians wary of “apartheid” phrasing...
Virginia Imam Shaker Elsayed delivered a Friday sermon at the Dar Al-Hijra Islamic Center in Fairfax County, Virginia on November 6, 2020. (Credit: MEMRI)

Virginia imam: Why is there freedom of expression to insult the prophet, but not...

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Virginia Imam Shaker Elsayed delivered a Friday sermon at the Dar Al-Hijra Islamic Center in Fairfax County, Virginia saying that the West is trying to label Muslims as terrorists and destroy countries such as...
Ritz-Carlton Manama in Bahrain. Credit: Courtesy of Ritz-Carlton Manama.

OU works with Ritz-Carlton Manama to facilitate kosher food for residents, tourists

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Beginning this month, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Manama, Bahrain, will become the first hotel in the kingdom to offer kosher certified food through the help of Orthodox Union (OU) Kosher, the world’s largest kosher...
Israel Defense Forces Cpl. Sagi Ben-David, who was found dead on Nov. 12, 2020, after he had been missing for two days. Credit: IDF.

IDF reports that missing soldier found dead

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An Israel Defense Forces soldier who was missing for two days was found dead on Thursday near a military checkpoint close to eastern Jerusalem, the military confirmed, saying that an investigation of the incident has...
Alton Brown speaking at the Google Campus in Mountain View, Calif. on Nov. 19, 2009. Credit: Lawrence Lansing via Wikimedia Commons.

Celebrity chef Alton Brown apologizes for Holocaust joke

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Alton Brown, an American television personality and chef, apologized on Wednesday for tweeting a joke about the Holocaust. After issuing a series of since-deleted tweets speaking out against U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, Brown tweeted,...