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United Arab Emirates Rabbi Levi Duchman (right), and Dubai rabbis Mendel Blau and Mendel Duchman, with handmade shmurah matzah destined for the UAE, Kfar Chabad, Israel, March 21, 2022. Photo by Shneor Shif/Jewish UAE.

Passover in UAE: 1,000 people take part in history-making seder

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More than a thousand people gathered in Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates on April 15 to celebrate the Passover seder, the largest one to ever take place in the UAE. “Our...
Zahra Billoo executive director of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Photo by Lorie Shaull via Flickr

Zahra Billoo’s anti-Semitism unleashed with CAIR’s backing

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I’ve spent a lot of time in recent months chronicling the unabashed hatred spewed by Zahra Billoo, one of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)’s highest-profile chapter directors. That’s because when it comes to anti-Semitism, Billoo...
Palestinian and Arab-Israeli rioters hurl rocks at Israeli security forces during Ramadan prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, April 15, 2022. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.

How the US perpetuates Palestinian violence

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The U.S. State Department welcomed the first night of Passover with an admonition against violence. “We are closely monitoring events in Jerusalem during this sacred holiday period for Jews, Muslims and Christians,” read the official...
Iranian missiles on display at a Quds Day rally in 2017. Credit: Saeediex/Shutterstock.

Iran assembles ‘building blocks for long-range ballistic missiles,’ says Israeli space expert

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Iran is gradually assembling the building blocks necessary to construct ballistic missiles with very long ranges, an Israeli missile and space expert has said, adding that Islamic Republic’s elite military Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
Ukrainian refugee Anastasiia Zinevych arrived in Israel with her husband and is continuing her research at Hebrew University as part of a donor-funded program, April 2022. Credit: Tali Aronsky/the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Ukrainian academics arrive at Hebrew University under emergency aid program

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As part of a donor-funded emergency-aid program established at Hebrew University, 18 Ukrainian refugees have been accepted to programs to continue their studies. Ten of them have already begun, including Anastasiia Zinevych, who has a Ph.D. and...
At the Tomb of Maimonides (the Rambam) in central Tiberias, on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. Photo by Judy Lash Balint.

A New York rabbi and medieval sage help revitalize struggling Israeli city of Tiberias

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Rehabilitating a crack house in Tiberias was not exactly in the job description of Yamin Levy, rabbi of an orthodox synagogue in Great Neck, N.Y. But that house happened to be located right next...
A fighter carries the Islamic State's flag overlooking the town of Dabiq, Syria, in 2013. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

ISIS calls for more attacks in Israel, criticizes Palestinian terror groups

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Islamic State’s official media platform, Al-Furqan, released a statement on Sunday calling on its supporters in Israel to conduct further terror attacks, Israeli media reported on Monday. The message, which was released by an ISIS spokesman, called...
Israeli Ambassador to Russia Alexander Ben Zvi. Source: Twitter.

Russia summons Israeli ambassador over Lapid’s criticism of invasion

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Israel’s Ambassador to Russia Alexander Ben Zvi was summoned on Sunday to appear at the Russian Foreign Ministry. News of the summons arrived after Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and a number of other Israeli...
Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi during the election campaign, June 14, 2021. Credit: Armin2210 via Wikimedia Commons.

Raisi: Tehran ‘will target Israel’s heart if it makes slightest move’

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday that the Islamic Republic would strike Israel’s “heart” if the Jewish state conducted any form of attack against it. In a televised speech delivered during a military parade,...
Members of the ZAKA organization remove a body at the scene of a terrorist shooting attack in Bnei Brak on March 29, 2022. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

IDF commander signs demolition order for home of Bnei Brak terrorist

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The head of the Israeli military’s Central Command on Sunday signed a demolition order for the home of the terrorist who murdered five people in Bnei Brak last month. The decree was signed after Israel’s...