OSWIECIM, Poland – For years, the tombstone belonging to Icchak Isidor Hirsch lay hidden on the ground, covered by a tree trunk in a corner of the Jewish cemetery in Oswiecim, Poland – the town adjacent to the Auschwitz extermination camp….
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‘Extra Brain Power’: Hebrew Israelite Rabbinical Body Votes to Ordain Women After More Than a Decade of Debate
Rabbi Tamar Manasseh, left, during her 2021 ordination in a still from the documentary “Rabbi on the Block.” Credit: Red Shield Pictures
After the vote, Rabbis Malchah Netanyahu and Tamar Manasseh were swiftly welcomed to the movement’s board of…
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Gal Gadot wins Israel's Genesis Prize – 'Jewish Nobel' – for wartime support
During Israel’s war with Hamas, Gadot campaigned for the release of hostages and met with their families, and helped promote the screening of a graphic film in Los Angeles, documenting the Hamas attack on October 7 – but not without…
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Texas man charged with making antisemitic death threats to Jewish far-right provocateurs
Nicholas Lyn Ray of Spring of Texas is facing counts of extortion and making a threat to commit a mass shooting or act of terrorism. Ray accused Seth Dillon, the Christian CEO of conservative satire site The Babylon Bee, of ‘conspiring with…
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From Texas to Tel Aviv, invitations go out to Jews fleeing 'Mamdani's New York'
In Maryland, a new Jewish federation moved up its launch to capitalize on a threatened – but hardly guaranteed – exodus
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Two Israeli DJs in Berlin renounced their Israeliness. It didn't stop the boycott calls
Roi Perez and Avichai Partok fail to understand that even the complete erasure of the state wouldn’t satisfy groups like Ravers for Palestine, writes Nissan Shor
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‘I Couldn’t Vote for Trump, but I’m Glad He Won’: Top Jewish Podcaster Jonah Platt on Israel, Gaza and Antisemitism in America – Podcasts
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Kanye West meets Israeli Orthodox celebrity rabbi, says he wants to 'make amends' after antisemitic outbursts
The meeting came months after Ye appeared to distance himself from his antisemitic record, which included a song praising Hitler and several tirades on X, when he declared on social media that he was ‘done with antisemitism’
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'Withdrawal is not the answer': Leftist faction in World Zionist Congress accuses Yair Lapid of handing religious right a big win
In a statement, the World Labor Zionist Alliance said that the centrist Yesh Atid’s surprise withdrawal from the agreement governing power sharing in the main Zionist Institutions had sent a ‘damaging message’ to liberal Jews in the Diaspora
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Report: Pro-Palestinian Activists Arrested During Off-campus Israeli Event in Toronto
‘Literally an Attempted Lynching’
IDF soldier Yonatan Karten, present at the event, described the confrontation as an ‘attempted lynching’ while defending attendees. The counter-protest, organized by Students for Justice in Palestine, led to…
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