26 people were detained, including five children with Interpol abduction notices. Cult survivors have previously reported kidnapping and forced marriages of minors with adult men. Officials said the sect arrived in Colombia in October, in search…
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Colombia expels members of Lev Tahor, ultra-Orthodox cult dubbed 'Jewish Taliban'
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Finally, a vivid Philip Roth biography not stung by strife
Steven Zipperstein’s new book, ‘Philip Roth: Stung by Life,’ harmoniously navigates Roth’s complex legacy while raising real questions about the author’s enduring intellectual invincibility
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U.K.’s Starmer Reportedly ‘Very Troubled’ by Intel That Led to Ban on Israeli Maccabi Soccer Fans
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday he is “very concerned” about the apparently inaccurate information received by the West Midlands Police that led to the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending the Europa League match against Aston…
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Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage dismisses antisemitism claims from ex-classmates after wave of allegations
The far-right politician told the BBC he had never made any offensive comments ‘with intent,’ after a former classmate alleged he threatened to ‘gas them.’ Prime Minister Starmer called Farage ‘spineless’ and urged him to apologize
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'A love letter to my Jewishness' | This author had to know why Sid Caesar shaped generations of comedians – and vanished
‘When Caesar Was King’ documents the rise and fall of 1950s TV comedian Sid Caesar. Author and longtime Vanity Fair journalist David Margolick describes the book as celebration of a ‘secular Jewish sensibility’ that’s disappearing
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Man arrested on suspicion of involvement in attack at a Manchester synagogue that killed two
Two congregation members were killed in the Yom Kippur attack, one of whom was accidentally shot by a police officer as congregants barricaded the synagogue to block the attacker from entering, who was killed by police. The man was detained on…
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Former Obama Aide Sarah Hurwitz Stirs Social Media Firestorm With Remarks About Holocaust Education
In the safe confines of a gathering of Jewish fundraising and communal professionals, Sarah Hurwitz’s remarks about antisemitism and Holocaust education earned polite applause. By the time they made it to social media, they’d become kindling in a…
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Is antisemitism as American as baseball and apple pie?
In ‘Antisemitism, an American Tradition,’ historian Pamela Nadell challenges the concept of a safe haven as she traces the persistence of anti-Jewish sentiment, from colonial times to contemporary attacks
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New York congressman confronts The New School over 'Hillel funds genocide' campaign
The congressman said of the campaign that ‘this kind of antisemitism has no place in our city.’ An anonymous student letter claimed Hillel ‘is complicit in genocide’ and ‘espouses Jewish supremacist ideology’
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‘I Don’t Want to Live in a Ghetto to Feel Safe’: Young Jews in Berlin Question a Future in Germany
BERLIN – Although a formal cease-fire in Gaza has been in effect for more than six weeks, it did not stop student protesters at Berlin’s Technical University from occupying a key campus building earlier this month and presenting the…
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