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2024-05-09
(JTA) — Police in Washington, DC cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment
(JTA) — Police in Washington, DC cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment from the campus of and arrested 33 people early Wednesday, hours before a Congressional hearing was set to pressure local leaders on their response to the protest. Shortly after the arrests, the Republican-led congressional committee canceled the hearing. Lawmakers had planned t...
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2024-05-08
(JTA) — An ad decrying antisemitism amid the recent wave
(JTA) — An ad decrying antisemitism amid the recent wave of campus pro-Palestinian encampments will air during NBA playoff games this week, the latest effort by a national Jewish organization to spotlight threats against Jews at the protests. The 30-second spot, produced by s Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, features images from recent demonstrat...
قراءة المزيد على موقع The Jerusalem PostThe Jerusalem Post
2024-05-07
AUSCHWITZ (JTA) - Bellha Haim, who was born in 1938
AUSCHWITZ (JTA) - Bellha Haim, who was born in 1938 and fled the Nazis with her family, swore she would never step foot again in Poland. Then, on October 7, , perpetrating the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust - and bringing another tragedy to Haim’s family: Yotam, her grandson, was taken hostage by the terror group. He escaped with friend...
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2024-05-07
(JTA) — Jewish tennis player Diego Schwartzman announced Sunday that
(JTA) — Jewish tennis player Diego Schwartzman announced Sunday that he will retire from professional tennis after his hometown Argentina Open in February 2025. The 31-year-old Argentine star, who currently sits at No. 142 in the Association of Tennis Professionals men’s rankings, shared the news on Instagram, calling it a “very difficult decision....
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2024-05-07
(JTA) - Last fall, Mo Husseini wrote a series of
(JTA) - Last fall, Mo Husseini wrote a series of propositions - what he called “50 Completely True Things” - about the Israel-Hamas war, and posted it on the social media site Threads. Identifying himself as “a who is tired of stupid people,” Husseini set out to puncture myths on both sides of the conflict, suggesting that neither Palestinians nor...
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2024-05-03
When he announced this week that had reached an agreement
When he announced this week that had reached an agreement with the groups behind the school’s pro-Palestinian encampment, President Michael Schill was hopeful he could salvage the rest of the semester and commencement. “I am proud of our community for achieving what has been a challenge across the country: a sustainable, de-escalated path forward,”...
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2024-05-03
For the past couple of days, Eli Tsives has watched
For the past couple of days, Eli Tsives has watched a video of himself spread online. It shows him trying to enter his campus, the University of California, Los Angeles, and go to class, only to be of pro-Palestinian activists wearing keffiyehs, or Palestinian scarves. Tsives, who is in his first year, handed his phone to another Jewish student wh...
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2024-05-02
While hundreds of Israel protesters on campuses across the country
While hundreds of Israel protesters on campuses across the country came to blows and arrests continued to mount this week, students in Providence, Rhode Island, faced a calmer reality on Wednesday. There, the tents in demonstration came down peacefully. And the organizers of the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” celebrated, dancing and partying on. That...
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2024-04-29
A New York rabbi is reiterating his call for his
A New York rabbi is reiterating his call for his music not to be after students at Yale University used his song during protests there. Rabbi Menachem Creditor said he was “distraught” to learn that “Olam Chesed Yibaneh,” a song he wrote after 9/11 that has become a mainstay at progressive Jewish activists, was sung at the conclusion of a seder hel...
قراءة المزيد على موقع The Jerusalem PostThe Jerusalem Post
2024-04-26
Israeli police arrested Ayelet Waldman, a author, while she was
Israeli police arrested Ayelet Waldman, a author, while she was with a group trying to deliver relief to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Waldman, who is Israeli-born, was one of seven people arrested Friday morning at a protest action organized by Rabbis for , and one of five Americans. Two were released before Shabbat, organizers said, but Waldma...
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2024-04-26
In all other years, the Massachusetts House of Representatives begins
In all other years, the Massachusetts House of Representatives begins its annual budget debate on the Monday after Patriots’ Day, the state holiday that commemorates the first battles of the Revolutionary War. But this year, lawmakers broke from their time-honored traditions and postponed the ritual — in deference to their Jewish colleagues. That’s...
قراءة المزيد على موقع The Jerusalem PostThe Jerusalem Post
2024-04-22
A Holocaust romance, sparked when a is forced to tattoo
A Holocaust romance, sparked when a is forced to tattoo a number on another prisoner’s arm and they fall in love at first sight, sounds almost implausibly uplifting for a story set in a concentration camp. But “The Tattooist of Auschwitz,” a new television series, is based on two Slovakian Jewish prisoners — Lali Sokolov and Gita Furman — who real...
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2024-04-20
WASHINGTON (JTA) - Shortly after Hamas’ October 7 attack on
WASHINGTON (JTA) - Shortly after Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, the leadership of the requested a meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa to discuss rising antisemitism. The meeting took place in December, and the course it took surprised the South African Jewish Board of Deputies: Instead of discussing the safety concerns of his Jewish constit...
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2024-04-19
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Police arrested the son of a prominent
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Police arrested the son of a prominent Washington DC-area rabbi after he allegedly got into an altercation with Two witnesses quoted in a Secret Service police arrest sheet accused Ezra Weinblatt, a real estate agent and the son of Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt, who leads Congregation B’nai Tzedek in Potomac, Maryland, of pushing them ...
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2024-04-19
When Aaron Moshe Shalman was recalled for another round of
When Aaron Moshe Shalman was recalled for another round of reserve duty in Israel’s army last month, he took to Facebook, seeking help for his 35-member . “We are in dire need of equipment: tactical helmets, tactical uniforms, tactical boots (in all sizes), tactical eyeglasses, knee pads, leathermans, good gun straps, and decent tactical gloves,” S...
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2024-04-19
Ukrainian President has met with Jewish leaders several times in
Ukrainian President has met with Jewish leaders several times in the two years since , but he had never met with Jewish teenagers until Thursday — when he joined students at a Kyiv Jewish school for their mock Passover seder. “Do you remember what the Passover holiday is all about?” one student from the Simcha School asked Zelensky, who is Jewish....
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2024-04-18
As Jews around the world read the haggadah at their
As Jews around the world read the haggadah at their seder tables every year, they encounter a passage instructing them to see themselves as if they personally left Egypt. This year, some of them will also have on their seder tables a symbol of the perseverance of women traumatized in captivity. In light of testimony that Israeli women have suffered...
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2024-04-17
(JTA) - As Mary Jane Rein prepared to publicly exit
(JTA) - As Mary Jane Rein prepared to publicly exit her role as executive director of Clark University’s Holocaust center, she attended a local fundraiser for Catholic schools. After 20 years, she was leaving her job at Clark on bad terms. A member of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Ph.D. program had heckled her at a public event while she prepa...
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2024-04-17
(JTA) - A Holocaust research center founded by Steven Spielberg
(JTA) - A Holocaust research center founded by Steven Spielberg has gotten embroiled in a drama over campus Israel speech that is dividing the University of Southern California, where it is housed. The USC Shoah Foundation is downplaying its role in the school’s academics after the university’s valedictorian, a who earned a minor in “resistance to...
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2024-04-10
(JTA) – In one of the more dizzying episodes of
(JTA) – In one of the more dizzying episodes of controversy surrounding since the Israel-Hamas war, a court ordered a Philadelphia-area movie theater Tuesday to move forward with less than a day after the theater’s Jewish director tried to call it off. The injunction issued by Montgomery County Court instructed the Bryn Mawr Film Institute to move...
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