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Eighth-grade teacher Logan Greene receives the 2023 Robert I. Goldman Award for Excellence in Holocaust Education, presented by Stanlee Stahl, executive vice president of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, Jan. 15, 2024. Credit: Courtesy.

Alabama English teacher wins award for excellence in Holocaust education

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Logan Greene, who teaches eighth-grade English in Hoover, Ala.—smack-dab in the center of the state (population 92,606, according to the 2020 U.S. Census)—has been honored for what the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous calls...
Sagiv Jehezkel played for the Turkish soccer team Antalyaspor. Credit: Antalyaspor.

Time to huddle: Antisemitism on the field

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As unsettling and painful as the current wave of global antisemitism that followed the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in Israel is, it’s still important to remember that those bestial atrocities were an episode in,...
Adeel Mangi. Source: Senate Judiciary Committee/X.

What they really mean when they cry ‘Islamophobia’

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Islamophobia struck again in the U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee this week. Or so we’re supposed to believe. During the confirmation hearings for Adeel Mangi, a nominee to the Third Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals—one...
Kanye (“Ye”) West. Credit: Jason Persse via Wikimedia Commons.

Kanye West to release 40-minute ‘apology video’ before new album launch

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“Ye” (Kanye West), the Grammy-winning musician-turned-neo-Nazi-advocate, will reportedly attempt another effort to offer forgiveness for the antisemitic invective he made on social-media platforms in 2022. Sources told the entertainment journalism site TMZ that weeks ago, he had...
Israeli police guard while Palestinians perform Friday prayers in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras Al Amud on Jan. 19, 2024. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.

IDF eliminates Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s deputy head of psychological warfare operations

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The Israel Defense Forces eliminated a senior Palestinian Islamic member who was instrumental in propagating the organization’s narrative through media, the military announced on Friday. Wael Abu-Fanounah was the deputy head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s...
Barcelona's skyline seen from atop the Basílica de la Sagrada Família, 2016. Photo by Menachem Wecker/JNS.

Barcelona mayor cancels meeting with Israeli official sans explanation

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Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem, was slated to meet in Madrid with the Spanish capital’s mayor on Wednesday. The mayor ended up being sick, so she met with deputy mayor Inma Sanz. In Madrid,...
A press photographer covers an IDF exercise in northern Israel, Jan. 4, 2024. Photo by Yoav Dudkevitch/TPS.

Gaza photojournalists accused of Oct. 7 war crimes

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Two Gaza-based Palestinian photojournalists who infiltrated Israel during Hamas’s massacres on Oct. 7 committed war crimes, experts say. “I believe that this is clearly an incidence that would come under and be covered by both...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds a press conference in Tel Aviv on Jan. 9. 2024. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

US working on grand regional bargain to end Israel-Hamas war

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An Israeli source confirmed Thursday that the Biden administration was currently working on a regional grand bargain that comprises several tenets aimed at long-term stability as part of a post-war reality. Apart from ending the...
A man lights candles inside Jaffa's St. Peter's Russian Orthodox Church as Israel's Orthodox Christian communities celebrate Christmas, Jan. 7, 2024. Photo by Eitan Elhadez-Barak/TPS.

Palestinian attack on Christian holy site raises concern

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A Palestinian mob caused extensive damage to a Christian holy site in Nablus (Shechem) known as Jacob’s Well on Sunday night. Christian sources said that Palestinians from the Balata refugee camp on the outskirts of...
The Koby Mandell Foundation stages a 'Comedy for Koby' performance in Israel, Jan. 17, 2024. Photo by Tamar Lustman.

Bringing laughter to the war zone

Graphic designer Kim Glassman’s first reaction when she heard of the Koby Mandell Foundation's plan to stage Comedy for Koby performances all over Israel during the war was, “What? Who do you think you...