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Georgia police executives learn from leadership training in Israel
During a recent intensive two-week leadership training program in Israel, 17 Georgia police chiefs, sheriffs and other public safety officials, as well as the deputy director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, participated in...
Anti-Israel resolutions on docket for US teachers union
At its upcoming convention in Houston, which begins on July 22, the American Federation of Teachers plans to vote on several anti-Israel resolutions, including those that oppose “weaponization” of Jew-hatred, and advocate divestment from...
Safer for Jews at GOP convention than ‘other side,’ says RNC publicist
Republicans address antisemitism in their ranks more effectively than Democrats do, and after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack, the best way to protect Jews is via implementing policy, according to the Jewish spokeswoman for...
A fighting chance for the West
This week, there has been a palpable feeling of tectonic plates on the move. Suddenly, the cultural elites who regard themselves as masters of the universe have paused disconcerted as they disbelievingly feel the...
The Trump assassination attempt resonates in Israel
In the wake of the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the Israeli government’s Sunday cabinet meeting was dedicated to dangerous incitement by public officials against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that...
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik appointed to US religious freedom commission
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) appointed Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, of the Manhattan Orthodox synagogue Congregation Shearith Israel, to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom earlier this month.
The rabbi, who holds a doctorate in religion...
Biden COVID diagnosis could affect Netanyahu meeting
Wednesday’s announcement that U.S. President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 may force the rescheduling or cancellation of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly set for Monday.
Netanyahu is set to address a joint...
Justice ‘not yet achieved’ 30 years after Argentina Jewish center bombing, Latino-Jewish Caucus says
Reps. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-Fla.), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) and Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), the co-chairs of the Latino-Jewish Caucus, called for accountability three decades after the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in...
US, 31 countries launch global ground rules for countering Jew-hatred
The United States was one of 32 countries to sign onto a non-legally binding Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism plan in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, the day before the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the...
Proud Jews ‘have gone into their shells’ since Oct. 7, Shopify president says
An anti-Israel protester protested a podcast hosted by the Jewish president of Shopify, to accuse a Jewish guest, who wasn’t talking about Israel, of supporting genocide.
Harley Finkelstein—of the $81.86 billion Ottawa-based e-commerce company Shopify—and...