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Paris court fines social-media users for hate posts targeting ‘Miss France’ runner-up
Seven people have been fined for targeting the runner-up of the “Miss France” 2021 competition with anti-Semitic verbal abuse on social media, reported France 24.
April Benayoum, 21, received anti-Semitic messages after saying at the beauty...
The Dark Side Of Good Works
It seems to be increasingly popular and even fashionable these days for people to get involved in doing what they perceive as good works. A lot of these good works on the left involve...
Who is knocking at your door?
Surely you have quoted many times Pastor Niemöller's poem, the one that refers to “now they are coming for me, but yet there is nobody who can raise their voice in my defense”.
These words,...
UAE soccer team set to make history by competing in Israeli tournament
A national soccer team from the United Arab Emirates will compete in a soccer tournament in Israel for the first time ever.
The UAE’s national youth team will take part in Israel’s international Gavri Levy...
European Commission’s first coordinator on combating anti-Semitism to receive CER Moshe Rosen Prize
The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) will present one of its highest awards to Katharina Von Schnurbein, the first European Commission Co-ordinator on Combatting Antisemitism at a ceremony held in Munich, Germany, later this month.
The 2021...
ORT to host live ceremony for Teacher of the Year Award on November 9
ORT, the global education network driven by Jewish values, will host a live ceremony on Nov. 9 at 9 a.m. ET to announce its Teacher of the Year for 2021.
The Teacher of the Year...
The distinctiveness of the Balfour Declaration
For years, Arab-Palestinian advocates have worked to diminish importance of the November 1917 Balfour Declaration, where the British Government declared its support for “a national home for the Jewish people,” going as far as...
Following The “Magicians”: Origins of America’s Political Defilement
“The masses have followed the magicians again and again…Socrates and Plato were the first to take up the struggle against them in a clear awareness of what was at stake.”-Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in...
Israel, US social-service agencies home in on post-COVID issues, from elderly to economy
The Latet humanitarian-aid organization—the largest nonprofit organization that combats poverty and food insecurity in Israel—held its second annual virtual conference this week, titled “The Road to Resilience.”
The event brought together community leaders from the Israeli and American philanthropic...
Online campaign ridicules ‘Times’ article describing Israelis as ‘angry,’ ‘displeased’
A viral social-media campaign poking fun at The New York Times was the No. 1 Twitter trend in Israel, even garnering the attention of the nation’s official Twitter account.
The newspaper published an article on Oct. 26,...