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Solidarity rally held for synagogue in Germany following attempted arson attack

(JTA) Jews and non-Jews in Germany are rallying to the side of the Jewish community in Oldenburg after an attempted arson attack on its synagogue. Hundreds of local residents held a solidarity...

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ADL report card: America’s elite universities failing Jewish students

(JNS) America’s elite universities are failing to address Jew-hatred on campus, according to a new tracker released by the Anti-Defamation League on April 11th. The ADL’s Campus Antisemitism Report...

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US Jewish summer camps are preparing to welcome Israeli staff

(JTA) After spending three summers as an Israeli emissary at Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake in upstate New York, Shahar Vaknin made a decision. “I was 100% sure I’m done with camp,” he said. Then came...

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Report: Donations to Israel since Oct. 7 top $1.4 billion

(JTA) Organizations and individuals around the world have donated at least $1.4 billion toward Israel’s recovery from the attack of Oct. 7, according to a new report published by Israel’s Ministry of...

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CAMERA reports: ABC’S THIS WEEK AMPLIFIES VIRULENTLY ANTISEMITIC SLUR,...

“The Jews wanted war, and now they have it. … Every Jew is our enemy in this historic struggle,” Joseph Goebbels wrote on November 16, 1941. One recent antisemitic slur didn’t sound so different: “This...

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El Al, emerging from ‘emergency mode,’ is set to launch regularly scheduled...

In the days and weeks that followed the mass murders and kidnappings orchestrated by Hamas terrorists in Israel last Oct. 7, El Al Israel Airlines, the nation’s flagship carrier, declared itself to be...

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Metzora parsha: To rehabilitate, one must take the first step | Commentary

The process of purifying the metzora (a person afflicted by a rare skin disease) is described in the portion of Metzora: “This shall be the law of the metzora in the days of his cleansing: he shall be...

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Holocaust survivor Gary Eichenwald remembers the farmer who saved his life

I recently attended the annual Shoah Memorial program held at the Polo Club in Boca Raton co-chaired by Nate Miller and Sharon Barash. Nate said, “The survivors are tasked with ensuring that the memory...

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Angie Radosh stars in ‘Hello Dolly!’ at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center

One of the most beloved musicals in Broadway history, will close out the 2024 Broadway at LPAC season.  The production, which will star three-time Carbonell Award-winning actress Angie Radosh as the...

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Inaugural El Al service starts in Fort Lauderdale in wake of failed Iranian...

After a daunting but failed weekend missile attack by Iran on Israel, a Boeing 787 operated by El Al Airlines arrived at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Monday, inaugurating...

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Forty-eight countries condemn Tehran for attack on Israel

(JNS) Forty-eight countries condemned Iran and its proxies for the April 14 missile and drone attack on Israel in a joint statement issued on April 18th. “We unequivocally condemn” the attacks, read...

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In landmark ruling, Argentine court says Iran and Hezbollah were responsible...

(JTA) An Argentine court has ruled that Iran and Hezbollah were behind the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, a landmark development in the reckoning over the antisemitic...

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Mother of Hamas hostage makes TIME’s 100 list

(JNS) Time magazine on April 17th featured Rachel Goldberg-Polin, the mother of 23-year-old Hamas captive Hersh Goldberg-Polin, in its 2024 list of the 100 most influential people in the world....

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Zelensky visits Kyiv school for model Passover seder

(JTA) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has met with Jewish leaders several times in the two years since war came to his country, but he had never met with Jewish teenagers until April 18th — when...

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Herzog gives Talmud that survived the Holocaust to Yad Vashem

(JNS) A rare volume of the Talmud printed before World War II and found unscathed in a historic Munich beer hall after the Holocaust was given to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum by the family of...

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Faculty Against Antisemitism Movement launched

When Professor Ron Hassner made the decision to stage a sit-in protest at his University of California, Berkeley office until the school’s administration agreed to take seriously rising campus...

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Israel’s canceled ski season reveals a ripple effect of war

(JTA) For each of the last four winters, Mount Hermon ski area CEO Refael Nave spent practically every day at the mountain whose peaks straddle the borders of Syria, Lebanon and Israel. As the only...

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Farmer who lost his wife, son and leg on Oct. 7 returns to his fields

(JNS) “A farmer does not leave his land.” Six months after losing his wife, his 15-year-old son and one of his legs in the Oct. 7 massacre perpetrated by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel, Avida...

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Chabad rabbi-rapper reaches top of the charts in Israel

(JNS) A rap artist who turned around his hard-partying lifestyle after a near-death experience when he was a teenager and became a rabbi now sees surging success with his newest single. Rabbi Moshe...

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Hostage families hold mock seder to demand: Let our people go!

(JNS) Families of Israelis still being held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip gathered in Kibbutz Nir Oz’s bullet-riddled dining hall on April 11 for a mock seder to demand the return of their loved...

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