Photo Credit: Solidarity Rally No Hate. No Fear. Jewish leaders are calling for tri-state Jews, “our friends in the Black community” and friends and supporters in every other community as well for that matter to “come out and stand with us” in a solidarity march and rally this coming Sunday, January 5, to say “NO […]
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Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel / Flash 90 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially presented a request for immunity Wednesday evening in a 71-point letter handed to Yuli Edelstein, Speaker of the Knesset, in connection with the indictments he faces in three criminal cases. The letter, written by the prime minister’s defense attorneys […]
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Photo Credit: courtesy, Neumann family via Twitter / OJPAC Yosef Neumann’s injuries after an anti-Semitic attacker with a machete stabbed and slashed him seven times at a Chanukah celebration in Monsey, Dec. 28 2019 A 70-year-old father of seven and grandfather of many more, hospitalized in critical condition after a machete attack on a Chanukah […]
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Photo Credit: Jewish Press Siyum HaShas in Yerushalayim for English Speakers 5780 The International Convention Center in Jerusalem was packed to the rafters Wednesday night (Jan. 1 2020) as Talmud scholars and regular Jews alike joined to celebrate the conclusion of daily study of the Talmud at the Siyum HaShas for English Speakers. There are […]
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Israeli tech companies raised a record $8.19 billion in 2019, easily surpassing the $6.4 billion in 2018, which was itself a record. According to IVC, Israeli tech companies raised $6.14 billion in the first nine months of the year. This amount an estimated $2.05 billion in the fourth quarter ($800 million in October, $900 million […]
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Photo Credit: Screenshot from ‘Pictorial History Of The Jewish People’, by Nathan Ausubel Chassidic warriors who served in the IDF in the 1948 War of Liberation. JTA, which probably would not invite Haredi authors to share their views on intermarriages, homosexuality, kosher slaughtering and circumcision, on Tuesday invited Shimon Rolnitzky, writer, activist and Chassidic resident […]
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Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir/TPS Rudy Giuliani visits Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, June 7, 2018. Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday told WOR AM radio that Mayor Bill de Blasio has failed to learn the lessons of the Holocaust, and charged: “You’re the mayor, you’re responsible, do your job.” “The two great lessons of the Holocaust […]
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Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS Transportation Minister, Bezalel Smotrich (C), Oct 28, 2019. Transport Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced on Wednesday that Rav-Kav, the reusable, contactless, stored value smart card for making electronic payments to the different public transportation operators across Israel, has been extended to residents of Judea and Samaria, starting January 1, 2020. (That’s today, […]
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Despite government reassurances, some local residents evacuate as pipeline expels pollutants ahead of launch; Electric Corp. says consumers to see a reduction in tariffs from Wednesday; Netanyahu praises new supply: ‘Today we made history’ After a series of delays, natural gas began to flow Tuesday afternoon from Israel’s Leviathan rig off the coast of Haifa. […]
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Photo Credit: Google Maps The synagogue of Trikala, Greece The Central board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) on Tuesday issued a press release protesting the anti-Semitic graffiti that had been sprayed on Monday night on the restored synagogue in the city of Trikala. They stated that the act of vandalism has caused “outrage and […]
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