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Lily Ebert and Walter Bingham at her home in London. Photo by Adam Lawrence/March of the Living UK.

Centenarian Holocaust survivors meet in London

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In an emotional encounter, two 100-year-old Holocaust survivors met last week in London, retracing their harrowing journeys through life. Germany-born Kindertransport survivor Walter Bingham, who holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for the world’s...
The colorful homes and buildings in Willemstad, the capital of Curaçao, in the Dutch Antilles. Credit: Fokke Baarssen/Shutterstock.

Curaçao or bust: A destination bat mitzvah scheduled for Israel goes Caribbean

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When the Hamas terrorist attacks occurred in Israel on Oct. 7 and war immediately broke out, the plans of hundreds of b’nai mitzvah students worldwide intent on traveling to Israel to celebrate their major...
Clarence B. Jones, a visiting professor at the University of San Francisco and scholar writer in residence for the Martin Luther King Jr. Research & Education Institute, with former President Barack Obama meets in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 2, 2015. Jones worked with King on the “I Have a Dream” speech. Credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.

Foundation to Combat Antisemitism buys 30-second Super Bowl ad

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The man who helped Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. write the “I Have a Dream” speech will appear in a Super Bowl commercial from the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism (FCAS). The organization, founded by New England Patriots...
An Iranian flag over a missile, April 2022. Credit: Mohasseyn/Shutterstock,

Three years of Biden’s Iran appeasement are not so easily undone

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It is to be hoped that three days of U.S. strikes on targets associated with Iranian-backed terror groups in Syria, Iraq and Yemen will be sufficient. After months of gradually escalating chaos unleashed by...
U.S. and Israeli flags. Credit: defenseimagery.mil via Wikimedia Commons.

American Jews and Israelis at the crossroads

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For 70 years, from 1948 to 2018, American Jews experienced a period of political access, social influence and winnable outcomes. This period has been described as “the greening of the American Jewish experience.”  Since 2018 we have...
FBI logo. Credit: Dzelat/Shutterstock.

‘You’re Jewish, I’m from Hamas … we’re going to blow you up’

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The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania charged Yaniv Gola, 50, of Philadelphia, with eight counts of interstate communication of threats on Monday. Gola, who faces up to 40 years in jail, three years...
U.S. Department of Education. Credit: DC Stock Photography/Shutterstock.

‘Campus Reform’: Indiana University under Title VI probe for Jew-hatred

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Indiana University-Bloomington, a 204-year-old institution which U.S. News & World Report ranks among the nation's top 75 universities and top 35 public schools, is under investigation for Jew-hatred under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The...
Israelis hold photographs of a mother and child held captive by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Nov. 2, 2023. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

IDF confirms 32 out of 136 remaining hostages dead

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At least 32 of the remaining 136 hostages captured by Hamas during its Oct. 7 terrorist onslaught are confirmed to have died, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing a confidential intelligence assessment by the...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi speak at Northern Command HQ in Safed, Dec. 7, 2023. Credit: Prime Minister's Office.

Netanyahu orders IDF to find UNRWA alternatives by end of week

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given the military until the end of the week to find alternatives to UNRWA for the distribution of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip. Israel Defense Forces Chief of...
Palestinians line up outside a bakery in Deir al Balah, the central Gaza Strip, to buy bread, Jan. 30, 2024. Photo by Majdi Fathi/TPS.

Hamas trying to take control in northern Gaza

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Despite Israeli efforts, Hamas is making significant efforts to renew its control of the northern Gaza Strip. “This is a deliberate effort by Hamas to prove control in the north, especially as long as the negotiations on the return...