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Participants pay tribute to Rabbi Yaish ben Yahya, a 12th-century scholar and adviser to the king of Portugal, during an event sponsored by the International Observatory for Human Rights and B'nai B'rith Portugal. Credit: Courtesy.

Portuguese officials pay tribute to historic Jewish leader

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The International Observatory for Human Rights and B’nai B’rith Portugal paid tribute last night, at the headquarters of B’nai B’rith, to the first chief rabbi of the kingdom, Yaish ben Yahya, whose cooperation in...

Escape by marriage: how some fled the Nazis

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Persecuted. Engaged. Married. Marriages of convenience in exile by Sabine Bergler and Irene Messinger, Jewish Museum Vienna, 2018, 147 pages We marry for love, romance, money, and to procreate and extend family lineages. Marriages of convenience...
Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, speaks to reporters in the spin room after debating Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Sept. 10, 2024 in Philadelphia. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images.

Democracy suffers when the media can’t be trusted

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Believe it or not, journalists are not at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to being trusted the least by the American public. According to the most recent annual Gallup poll of attitudes towards...
Rosh Yehudi's lawyer, Harel Arnon (right), with petitioner Irit Linur at a hearing in Tel Aviv District Court on Sept. 4, 2024. Photo by Canaan Lidor.

Judge seeks rabbis’ input on separated prayer in Tel Aviv

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For the second time this month, the Tel Aviv District Court postponed ruling on a petition asking it to order the municipality to allow sex-separated prayers on Yom Kippur on public grounds. In the hearing...
The White House is lit in red, white and blue in support of Team USA in the Paris Summer Olympics, July 26, 2024. Credit: Abe McNatt/White House.

Mixed reactions to Trump, Harris comments on Iran, Israel during debate

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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump referred to Iran a few times each during their televised debate on Tuesday night. “I will always give Israel the ability to defend itself,...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, Sept. 2, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Netanyahu: World must demand hostages’ freedom

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The international community must demand that Hamas free the remaining captives held in Gaza "immediately," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, accusing the terrorist group of frustrating the indirect talks towards a...
Hamas supporters wave the movement's flags during a rally at Birzeit University, north of Ramallah, May 19, 2022. Photo by Flash90.

‘I am Hamas,’ says South African religious leader

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The president of the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) in South Africa's Western Cape, Sheikh Riad Fataar, chanted, “I am Hamas! Cape Town is Hamas! Viva Hamas, viva!” at a gathering in Cape Town last...
PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, undated. Credt: Palestinian Authority via Abed Al Rahim Al Khatib/Flash90.

NYC museum fires three employees for wearing keffiyehs

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A New York City museum has fired three employees for wearing keffiyehs in solidarity with Palestinians—a violation of a new dress code instituted last month against "political messages, slogans or symbols." The Noguchi Museum, located...

War with Iran: Nuclear dialectics of an expected conflict

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On its face, the current strategic balance between Israel and Iran favors the Jewish state. In extremis, because it represents the only already nuclear adversary, Israel is in a dominant position to achieve “escalation...