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Benny Gantz declines Netanyahu invite into ‘broad unity government’

October 17, 2019David Rutman

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How Tel Aviv’s Pussycat strip club became a Jewish values center

October 17, 2019David Rutman

TEL AVIV (JTA) — For years, the round mirrored building overlooking the Tel Aviv Marina embodied this city’s reputation as the Middle East’s capital of sin. Sandwiched between the Sheraton and the Hilton hotels on some of the priciest real estate in Israel, the building on Atarim Square was home to the Pussycat, an upscale […]

British teacher fired for threatening to send Jewish students to gas chambers

October 17, 2019David Rutman

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Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg pledges $2.5 million to ADL

October 17, 2019David Rutman

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Jewish lawmaker quits British Labour Party after 55 years over anti-Semitism

October 17, 2019David Rutman

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Elijah Cummings, congressman who built bridges between African-American and Jewish communities, dies at 68

October 17, 2019David Rutman

(JTA) — Rep. Elijah Cummings, a longtime Baltimore congressman who worked to build ties between the African-American and Jewish communities in his district, died Thursday in his home city. He was 68. A spokeswoman, Trudy Perkins, said in a statement that he died of “complications concerning longstanding health challenges.” As the head of the House […]

Ukrainian-Jewish billionaire’s effigy doused with red paint outside synagogue

October 17, 2019David Rutman

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Letters To The Editor

October 17, 2019David Rutman

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Protest Against P Is For Palestine As of now, we are still planning to picket outside the Highland Park Library on October 20. The reading of P Is for Palestine is scheduled for 2:00 p.m., so the protest will probably begin at 1:30 p.m. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, […]

Turkish Sources: Erdogan ‘Threw Trump’s Syria Letter in the Trash Bin’

October 17, 2019David Rutman

Photo Credit: The White House President Trump with Turkish President Erdogan, June 28, 2019. Turkish presidential sources told BBC in Turkish that President Donald Trump’s October 9 letter to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was “thoroughly rejected” by the Turkish president. How thoroughly? The same Turkish presidential sources said: “President Erdogan received the letter, thoroughly rejected […]

The Kuzari – The Original, The Second, The Third, And The New

October 17, 2019David Rutman

Photo Credit: Israel Mizrahi The Kuzarim. Their very name recalls wonderful tales of a people we know little about but who have nonetheless left a lasting impression on Jewish history, folklore, identity, and, most conspicuously, literature. The Khazars were a semi-nomadic people who lived from the 7th to 10th centuries in what is today southwestern […]