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Venezuelan President Nicolas Máduro meets with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in November 2016. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Hezbollah operatives being sheltered in Venezuela, hacker group claims

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Hezbollah operatives are living freely in Venezuela under the protection of President Nicolás  Maduro’s government, according to a hacker collective aligned with the Venezuelan opposition. In an operation the hackers said had been carried out...
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...
Monsieur Chouchani taught many of the 20th century's Jewish scholars. Archive Photograph: No credit.

Shining a light on one of Judaism’s most enigmatic scholars

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For Israeli Philosophy Professor Shalom Rosenberg, the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who had the privilege of meeting Monsieur Choucani and those who did not. An enigmatic scholar, Choucani taught many...
Emissaries and other guests rejoice during the Chabad-Lubavitch movement's 44th International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries (Kinus Hashluchim) in Bayonne, N.J., on Nov. 19, 2017. Credit: Chabad-Lubavitch/Chabad.org.

In era of social acrimony, the Rebbe’s words and wisdom provide insight into bridging...

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Chabad may be synonymous with Jewish outreach, but once a year, for three days, the movement reaches in. The International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries (Kinus Hashluchim) usually draws as many as 6,000 rabbis and lay...

Book Details 200 Places Around the World of Jewish Interest

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The Complete Jewish Pilgrim is Howard Kramer’s fourth book in the Complete Pilgrim series. Kramer, a peripatetic, created the series by touring nearly thirty countries, forty American cities, and taking hundreds of pictures of the...

Respecting the Torah vs. respecting the Constitution

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“God who gave us life gave us liberty … Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that...