Category: Jewish
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Connecticut man arrested after attempted abduction of 8-year-old Jewish girl
A man attempted to abduct an 8-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jewish girl from her yard in Waterbury, Connecticut. The suspect was arrested following a swift police response and assistance from local community members. The incident was captured by a… -
Record number of women turn to cancer support charity
Chai Cancer Care has released new figures highlighting a dramatic increase in the number of women seeking support through its services.
Over the past five years, the number of women attending appointments — ranging from counselling to…
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LFI chair Pearce visits Israel and UAE to learn of efforts to forge closer ties
Labour Friends of Israel chair Jon Pearce has become the first MP to travel between Israel and the United Arab Emirates on a visit to the region.
The MP for High Peak is meeting with Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, opposition leader…
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Nova Festival memorial site is JNF’s most visited site in Israel
The memorial site for the victims of the Nova Festival has become KKL-JNF’s most visited site across Israel in the past six months, with an estimated 7,000 visitors coming to pay tribute every day.
The initiative was launched by…
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New play depicts Holocaust through the eyes of a dog
It is always interesting to see an innovative theatre performance that takes a traditional theme and portrays it from an unusual angle. And Israeli-born theatre maker Shahaf Beer is doing exactly this with The Jewish Dog, a play that…
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Jewish cemetery first to track wildlife with app
Willesden Jewish Cemetery has become the first United Synagogue burial ground to use an app for tracking local wildlife, flora, and fauna.
Volunteers at its House of Life heritage centre have adopted social network iNaturalist to connect…
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US joins antisemitism lawsuit against NY town for blocking housing project for ultra-
‘Dirty money from the Jewish mafia is involved, and you wonder why Germans did what they say they did’, says one resident of Forestburgh, NY, which is obstructing the Lost Lake Holdings project; Town officials warn that the Jews ‘take over,…
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Woman denies terror charges over alleged pro-Hamas remarks
A 21-year-old woman has appeared in court accused of expressing support for Hamas and “celebrating” the 7 October massacre in Israel.
Sarah Cotte, from Camden in north London, is alleged to have delivered a speech at the University of…
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Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, compassionate voice in the Orthodox world, dies in road accident at 43
Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, a prominent and empathetic voice on contemporary issues facing Jews in the Orthodox world, died early Friday morning in a car accident on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. He was 43.
Fink, a married…
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Jeffrey Klein, 77, Mother Jones co-founder, saw ‘through line’ between investigative journalism and fighting antisemitism
When Jeffrey Klein traveled to the Soviet Union to report a long feature on Jewish refuseniks, his first stop was a sparsely attended synagogue in Moscow. Before he left, he wanted to make a donation.
“I ask in Yiddish, then…
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