UMAN, Ukraine — Yaakov Bermann made his way from Jerusalem to this Ukrainian city in time for Rosh Hashanah this year, when the population swells with pilgrims seeking to pray at the grave of the Hasidic rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. But one of his close friends, he said, wasn’t so fortunate. The friend was arrested […]
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British pop singer Dua Lipa has reportedly dropped her Jewish agent for signing onto a letter to remove the pro-Palestinian Irish rap group Kneecap from the Glastonbury music festival. The development comes as a growing number of musical acts are seeking to block streaming services from letting their songs play in Israel, in what they […]
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The United Kingdom, Portugal, Australia and Canada followed through on their pledges to recognize an independent Palestinian state on Sunday, teeing up a tense week in New York as the United Nations General Assembly gets underway. France, Belgium and other countries are expected to follow suit during the convening, which comes nearly two years into […]
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The Palestinian Authority has arrested a key suspect in a deadly antisemitic terror attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris in 1982, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Friday. The Palestinian suspect, Hicham Harb, 70, was arrested in the West Bank for allegedly orchestrating the Aug. 9, 1982, terror attack on Chez Jo Goldenberg in which […]
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After studying the world’s oldest synagogue paintings for nearly a decade, Jill Joshowitz had accepted that she might never be able to stand before them as they remained locked away in Syria amid its civil war. Jewish sites and synagogues suffered lootings and bombardment over the course of the war, which followed the emigration of […]
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BERLIN — An antisemitic sign in a shop window in a northern German town has gone viral. Now, even Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid is threatening to sue the shopkeeper in Flensburg “for every cent he owns.” On Wednesday, passersby in the town of Flensburg spotted a sign in the window of a used bookstore […]
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Multi-platinum pop star Billie Eilish, Oscar-nominated actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Florence Pugh, and Jewish comedian Amelia Dimoldenberg were among the famous names who appeared at or promoted a sold-out Wednesday benefit concert for Gaza in the United Kingdom. The four-hour “Together For Palestine” concert in Wembley, organized by superstar music producer Brian Eno, took place […]
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Israel’s culture minister says he will funding to the country’s version of the Oscars after a drama about a Palestinian boy won the top prize on Tuesday. “The Sea” won the Ophir Award for best film during a ceremony in Tel Aviv where speakers condemned the ongoing war in Gaza and lamented the growing Hollywood […]
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This past Saturday night, during Selichot services, I led members of our congregation in our first recitation of “Ashamnu,” the confessional acrostic that we accompany by striking our hearts. There will be many recitations of the confessional to follow in the coming weeks. Yet it is the first — said late at night, and not, […]
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Three synagogues in Halifax, Nova Scotia, were defaced with antisemitic graffiti over the weekend, following a contentious period in the Canadian city over an athletic match that included the Israeli team. Beth Israel Synagogue and a building associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch of the Maritimes had the phrase “Jews did 9/11” written on them with spray […]
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