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 […]
Brussels Jewish Museum killings: Mehdi Nemmouche trial begins
Source: BBC News The trial of a man accused of killing four people at the Jewish Museum of Brussels has started in Belgium. Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche is accused of shooting […]
Muslim and Jewish holy books among many used to swear-in Congress
Source: CNN By Amanda Jackson, CNN (CNN)The 116th class of Congress is one of the most diverse to serve the United States — and nowhere is that more evident than in […]
Israeli police, settlers clash in evacuation of illegal outpost
Source: Reuters AMONA, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli paramilitary police dragged dozens of Jewish settlers out of an illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank on Thursday and said more […]
Europe’s Right Wing Woos a New Audience: Jewish Voters
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Bojan Pancevski December 31, 2018 BERLIN—Emanuel Bernhard Krauskopf’s trips to his synagogue in the German capital have become an awkward affair. The reason: Mr. […]
Israel’s Jewish Home party splits ahead of April election
Source: Reuters JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A religious-nationalist party in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government split on Saturday, with its leaders saying they were bolting to appeal to more […]
What Israelis say: A Different Perspective on the Temple Mount Crisis
Dome of the Rock, Temple Mount, Jerusalem, Israel, image via Wikimedia Commons BESA Center Perspectives No. 582, September 8, 2017 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Moderate leaders warn that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict […]
Americans are increasingly critical of Israel
Shibley Telhami Wednesday, December 12, 2018 Editor’s Note: New polling shows that the U.S. public’s views on Israel’s policies are shifting, writes Shibley Telhami. This piece originally appeared on […]
Evangelical, Muslim, Jewish. It’s time we all renew our commitment to religious freedom.
Source: USA Today BY Oliver Thomas and Charles C. Haynes, Opinion contributors In the turbulent 1960s, John Courtney Murray famously reminded Americans that the Constitution begins with “we the, people,” […]
Jewish religious candidate elected Jerusalem’s mayor
Source: Reuters JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A religious Jewish candidate won election as mayor of Jerusalem on Wednesday in a run-off against a secular contender for a post that shapes Israel’s […]
