Was the Russian Revolution Jewish?
A hundred years after the Bolsheviks swept to power, historians and contemporaries still struggle to understand the prominent role played by Jews. By SETH J. FRANTZMAN NOVEMBER 15, 2017 A BOLSHEVIK […]
132,000 descendants of expelled Jews apply for Spanish citizenship
Application deadline passes under law designed to atone for 15th-century ‘historical wrong’ @swajones Wed 2 Oct 2019 A gift shop in the old Jewish quarters of Toledo, where Jews were […]
These are presidential candidate Joe Biden’s Jews
Who will he turn to for fundraising? What does it mean for his foreign policy? By RON KAMPEAS/JTA APRIL 26, 2020 – THE JERUSALEM POST Biden’s Jews Heading into Passover, […]
’42 Knees in One Day’: Israeli Snipers Open Up About Shooting Gaza Protesters
Over 200 Palestinians were killed and nearly 8,000 were injured during almost two years of weekly protests at the Israel-Gaza border. Israeli army snipers tell their stories I know exactly […]
France anti-Semitism: Jewish graves defaced with Nazi swastikas
Source: BBC More than 100 graves at a Jewish cemetery in France have been defaced with Nazi swastikas in the latest in a wave of anti-Semitic attacks. Vandals spray-painted the gravestones in the eastern town of Westhoffen, near Strasbourg, days after another incident in a nearby village. In response, President […]
Conversations with the Rabbi – Imam Faheem Arshad of the Ahmadiyya Muslim to join the discussion
Source: https://www.evjcc.org/conversation/ Join us for Conversations with the Rabbi, a new series featuring Rabbi Michael Beyo, EVJCC CEO, and local faith leaders. On Sept. 15, Rabbi Beyo will speak with Imam Faheem Arshad of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community about being a minority religion in America. They will explore maintaining religious […]
Jordan halts film that refers to historical Jewish presence
Source: Associated Press By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A fictional caper about an antiquities heist set in an ancient Jordanian city has stirred widespread outrage over the […]
Police suspect hate crime after Jewish boys assaulted in Toronto
Source: The Times Of Israel By TOI STAFF and JTA Canadian police have opened a hate crime investigation after two Jewish boys were assaulted in an apparent anti-Semitic incident in Toronto on Saturday. […]
New Zealand Christchurch Terror Attacks : Jewish leaders donate $1m to mosque victims
17 Jul 2019 Jewish community leaders joined Muslim officials in Christchurch today, to hand over a million dollars raised in an American city for the victims of the Christchurch mosque […]
American duty free owners fund controversial Israeli settlements
ASSOCIATED PRESS HEBRON, West Bank Published 01.07.2019 When travelers shop at dozens of duty free stores at airports worldwide, they may be paying for more than a bottle of vodka […]
New Israeli election highlights tense ties to ultra-Orthodox
Source: Associated Press BY ARON HELLER JERUSALEM (AP) — The trigger for Israel’s unprecedented repeat election touches upon one of the major fault lines in Israeli society — the role […]
As Catholic-Jewish relations warm in Rome, they cool in Chicago
Source: Religion News Service BY Yonat Shimron and Emily McFarlan Miller CHICAGO (RNS) — During a standing-room-only speech at a Roman Catholic church in Chicago this week, Minister Louis Farrakhan attempted to […]
An alleged hate crime at a Jewish cafe was ‘the most brazen’ a community had seen. It was all fake, police now say.
Source: The Washington Post By Meagan Flynn It was the eve before Passover and the Jewish community in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was on edge. They could tell from the yellow police tape […]
I Am the Rabbi of Tree of Life Synagogue. Here Is a Simple Thing We All Can Do to Help Stop the Next Christchurch
Source: Time BY JEFFREY MYERS Myers is the Rabbi of Tree of Life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I am a victim, a witness and a survivor of the worst massacre in the […]
Where was God during Purim?
Source: CT The festival of Purim takes place tonight. Our road will be closed for the carnival and the biblical book of Esther will be read all over the world tonight and tomorrow morning. In some places, especially in Israel, the festival is extended until Friday. Everywhere, people dress up […]
Israel’s High Court Won’t Stand for Jewish Supremacism
Source: Bloomberg By Noah Feldman With elections looming, Israel is locked in a constitutional struggle for its democratic soul. The latest development: Israel’s high court, in a decision reversing the nation’s elections […]
The meeting was supposed to ease tensions between Muslim and Jewish Democrats. It ended with tears.
Source: The Washington Post By Rachael Bade and Mike DeBonis March 18 at 7:58 PM It was supposed to be a chance for Muslim and Jewish House Democrats to ease tensions and […]
Netanyahu: Israel is the state of ‘Jewish people alone’
Source: Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is the homeland “only of the Jewish people,” in a new jab at the country’s Arab minority ahead […]
A Jewish Republican called Ilhan Omar anti-Semitic. She suggested he’s Islamophobic. Then came a voice mail.
Source: The Washington Post By Meagan Flynn Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), who is Jewish, received a voice mail on Thursday that he wanted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who is Muslim, […]
The Melbourne bakeries that tell a story of Jewish migration
Source: BBC News By Ian Lloyd Neubauer Image copyrightMONARCH CAKE SHOPImage captionPearl Levine opened Monaco Cake Shop, Melbourne’s first Jewish bakery, in 1931 Australia’s largest Jewish community is found in […]
