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Daily Archives: October 26, 2021

Václav Havel Airport Prague in May 2017. Credit: Renardo la Vulpo via Wikimedia Commons.

IDF, Israeli Defense Ministry to bring paratrooper remains from Prague for burial

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The Israel Defense Forces and Israeli Ministry of Defense’s Families, Commemoration and Heritage Division have sent a delegation to Prague to return the remains of IDF paratrooper Private Martin Davidovich to Israel for burial,...
Signs worn by those particating in a march from Manhattan to Brooklyn protesting a rise in anti-Semitism. Credit: Christopher Penler/Shutterstock.

Survey: US Jews start to see far-left as serious threat, four in 10 Jews...

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For the third year in a row, the American Jewish Committee has released a survey about anti-Semitism in the United States and found large discrepancies in results between Jewish and non-Jewish respondents. According to the...
Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pa. Credit: Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh.

Can a synagogue feel open with locked doors? Rabbis reflect on Pittsburgh, three years...

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In a sense, the Jewish communal reactions to the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh and the coronavirus pandemic were diametric opposites. After Robert Bowers shot and killed 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue...
A marketplace in Morocco. Credit: Pixabay.

Israel National Security Council ends longtime travel advisory for Morocco

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The Israeli National Security Council announced on Monday that it had canceled a travel alert that had been in effect for Morocco for more than a decade. The decision came following work conducted by security...
Rebbetzin Nechama Shemtov, director of education and women’s issues at American Friends of Lubavitch, moderated a panel with former U.S. Special Envoys for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Ira Forman, who served in the Obama administration, and Elan Carr, who served the same role in the Trump administration. Photo by Dmitriy Shapiro.

Former anti-Semitism envoys, leaders coach students on reversing Jew-hatred on campus

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As anti-Semitism continues to rise in the United States, especially on college campuses, speakers at George Washington University who attended an event last week showed students that they have allies against anti-Semitism in both...