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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Education Minister Yifat Shasha Biton visit students at a school in Kfar Saba, Feb. 9, 2022. Photo by Dana Kopel/POOL.

Israel to lift indoor mask mandate

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Israel’s indoor mask mandate is to be lifted on April 23 at 8 p.m., pending approval by the Knesset Health Committee, Israel’s prime minister and health minister announced in a joint statement on Wednesday. The...
Israelis light candles at the scene of a deadly terror attack, on Dizengoff Street in central Tel Aviv. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Father of Tel Aviv shooter demands return of son’s body before he’ll turn himself...

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Fathi Hazem, whose son, Ra’ad Hazem, killed three Israelis in a terrorist shooting at a bar in Tel Aviv earlier this month, has said he will not turn himself in unless Israel returns his son’s body....
Etihad Airways Boeing 777-300ER at Brisbane International Airport, Feb. 21, 2008. Credit: Kwlothrop/Wikipedia.

Emirati airlines pull out of Israel’s Independence Day flyover

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United Arab Emirates airlines Etihad and Wizz Air Abu Dhabi announced on Tuesday that they will not be participating in a flyover of civilian aircraft as part of Israel’s Independence Day celebrations on May...
Islamic Movement leader Raed Salah visited the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on April 19, 2022. Source: Twitter.

Radical Islamic Movement leader visits Temple Mount amid tensions

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Raed Salah, head of the outlawed northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, stopped in the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem amid the ongoing Arab violence on the Temple Mount. He arrived with other Israeli...
United Arab Emirates Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem Al Hashimy at the “Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict” on June 12, 2014 Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Emirates summons Israeli ambassador for handling of Arab riots in Jerusalem

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The United Arab Emirates summoned Israeli Ambassador to the UAE Amir Hayek on Tuesday to criticize security forces in Jerusalem for upholding order amid Arab rioting on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. UAE Minister of...
Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova was born in Mariupol, Ukraine, in 1930 and survived the Nazi roundups that took her mother and family. Obiedkova, an active member of Mariupol's Jewish community, died in a freezing basement in Mariupol on April 4. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

Holocaust survivor, 91, perishes in store basement in Mariupol

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As she lay dying in a Mariupol basement, freezing and pleading for water, Holocaust survivor Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova wanted to know only one thing: “Why is this happening?” Ill and emaciated during the last two...
Actor Ben Foster as Harry Haft, boxing for his life in “The Survivor.” Photo by Leo Pinter/HBO.

Ben Foster fights for his life in ‘The Survivor’

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First, Harry Haft fought to save his life. Then, he boxed to find the woman he wanted to be his wife. Born Jewish in Poland, Haft was sent to Auschwitz after the Nazi Germans invade in...
Boston. Credit: Pixabay.

Couple plans to build first Holocaust museum in Boston

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Jewish philanthropists Jody Kipnis and Todd Ruderman of Massachusetts bought a 15,000-square-foot building in Boston to create a Holocaust museum. “Look what’s going on in Europe again,” she said, referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...
Oleksandr Ratushniak, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Fragmentation, Aggression, Genocide: Deeper Meanings of Russia’s War Against Ukraine

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“But tell me, my brothers, if humanity still lacks a goal, is humanity itself not still lacking? Thus inquired Zarathustra.”-Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra It’s hard to imagine anything decent emerging from Vladimir Putin’s genocidal aggression against Ukraine, but...
Jewish worshipers reciting the Priestly Blessing at the Western Wall in Jerusalem during Passover, April 18, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Obfuscating the particularity of Passover

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In an op-ed in The Jerusalem Post on Friday, Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai described visiting the Poland-Ukraine border, where he witnessed a “never-ending stream of refugees fleeing the savage war that has torn apart their lives.” The aim of...