WASHINGTON – In an interview with the New York Times, Jewish Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, considered a potential Democratic candidate for the 2028 presidential election, described the personal impact of a politically motivated arson…
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'French Jews don't know who their friends are anymore': Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur on the Gaza war's impact
'French Jews don't know who their friends are anymore': Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur on the Gaza war's impact
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Netanyahu ally Javier Milei wins big in Argentina's midterm election
Argentine President Javier Milei’s party emerged victorious and is expected to form a right-wing coalition to solidify its legislative power. Multiple Jewish candidates were elected to represent Milei’s party, the Peronist opposition and a…
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Pro-Israel, Far-right Geert Wilders Leads Netherlands’ Election in a Turbulent Time for Dutch Jews
ROTTERDAM – When Geert Wilders won the Dutch legislative elections in November 2023, it was an outcome no one saw coming. If, as seems likely, the far-right populist with his anti-immigration, anti-Islam, and pro-Israel platform wins for a second…
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Why Kafka’s Drawings Were Locked Away for Decades – and How They Were Rediscovered
It is doubtful that many of the tourists crowding around the sculpture of Franz Kafka’s head in the city where he was born have actually read his stories. More likely, they visit this peculiar sculpture simply because it appears on every list of…
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Was Judaism Really Invented by an Obscure Scribe Named Shaphan?
A simple scribe named Shaphan, recording the deeds of the Kingdom of Judah’s King Josiah in the 7th century B.C.E. – he and no other is credited with “inventing Judaism,” according to an article by Ofri Ilany in Haaretz last week. This was a…
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World Zionist Congress to kick off in Israel with 1,400 participants from around the world
An agreement on allocating $5 billion in funding to Jewish causes and senior appointments in ‘national institutions’ has yet to be signed. This could be the first time the Israeli prime minister does not address delegates
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Holocaust survivor Michael Smuss, who fought Nazis in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, dies at 99
Smuss joined the Jewish resistance in the ghetto, throwing Molotov cocktails at the Nazi soldiers from the rooftops of the ghetto. He was also one of the few resistance fighters to survive the almost one month of fighting
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The Gaza War Opened a Moral Chasm Between American Jews and Israel – Opinion
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‘I’m Not a Secret Nazi’: Maine Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate Under Fire for SS-themed Tattoo
WASHINGTON — Graham Platner, the progressive Democrat running for Maine’s Senate primary, has found himself sharply under fire from Jewish organizations over his recently revealed skull-and-crossbones tattoo on his chest, which is also a Nazi…
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