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Fake Twitter accounts impersonate Jews and promote anti-Semitism

Aug 22, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) Fake Twitter accounts impersonating Jews and promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories have proliferated following a post on the online messaging forum 4chan.
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Muslim paper awards Jewish author for outstanding writing

Aug 22, 2019 Go comment!

Philip Feinstein, formerly of Johannesburg now resident in Sydney, Australia, earlier this month received an award from the Australasian Muslim Times (AMUST) for contribution to the paper.
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World News in Brief

Aug 22, 2019 Go comment!

Hamas threatens escalation of violence Hamas has threatened an escalation in violence on Israel’s southern border unless Israel allows financial aid from Qatar and an increase in electricity supply to Gaza.
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Author David Grossman eulogizes murdered settler teen

Aug 15, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) The body of Dvir Sorek, the 19-year-old student who was murdered last Thursday in a West Bank terrorist attack, was found clutching a book by David Grossman, a staunch opponent of Israeli settlements.
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The sordid saga of Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘suicide’

Aug 15, 2019 Go comment!

American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide last Saturday has triggered a wave of anti-Jewish conspiracies online.
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What drove philanthropist Leslie Wexner into Epstein’s arms?

Aug 15, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) One of the most befuddling questions surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein saga is why Leslie Wexner, a billionaire entrepreneur, entrusted all of his money to Epstein, a secretive financier with no college degree.
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Liberal Hungarian Jews swing far-right

Aug 15, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) In 2011, Hungary’s largest Jewish group called on the justice ministry to ban the far-right Jobbik party, describing it as “anti-Semitic” and “fascist”.
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Unearthed headstones tell story of Jews of Brest

Aug 15, 2019 Go comment!

The Belarusian city of Brest won’t mean much to many. It meant nothing to me until a few years ago. But it was here where former Israeli prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Menachem Begin, was born in 1913. The family of another former Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, also came from here. In fact, Sharon’s grandmother was the midwife at Begin’s birth.
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World News in Brief

Aug 15, 2019 Go comment!

Israeli voters concerned with economy Though the majority of Israeli Jews support change to the religious status quo in their nation, issues of religion and state appear to become irrelevant when they enter the voting booth, according to a new online survey released by the Israeli Democracy Institute.
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Former Peruvian president considered a flight risk to Israel

Aug 01, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) A former Peruvian president living in the Bay Area and facing bribery charges in his home country has been denied bail by a federal judge in San Francisco out of fear he will flee – to Israel.
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‘We no longer feel comfortable in our own shul,’ say Miami Jews

Aug 01, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) When Rabbi Mark Rosenberg’s family played back the footage on their home’s security cameras in North Miami Beach, they could hear the rat-tat-tat of bullets being fired at the synagogue a few blocks away. On Sunday, a man had been shot repeatedly in front of the Young Israel of Greater Miami as he waited for daily services.
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Epstein lawyer defends OpEd declaring statutory rape outdated

Aug 01, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) In 1997, Alan Dershowitz wrote an opinion piece headlined, “Statutory rape is an outdated concept.”
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World News in Brief

Aug 01, 2019 Go comment!

Countries suspend funding for UNRWA The Netherlands and Switzerland have announced the suspension of funding for United Nations aid agency UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine).
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New Latvian president is second Jewish head of state outside Israel

Jul 25, 2019 Go comment!

Egils Levits, the former Latvian justice minister and representative at the European Court of Justice, was recently elected president of the Latvian Republic.
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Jewish reporter brought 1969 moon landing into America’s living rooms

Jul 25, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) In the 1960s, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and John Glenn were household names, idolised as g-d-like figures by a public enraptured by NASA’s (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s) forays into space.
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Americans don’t know much about Judaism – but love Jews, survey shows

Jul 25, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) American Jews know more about religion in general than their non-Jewish neighbours, a new survey shows.
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World News in Brief

Jul 25, 2019 Go comment!

Corbyn says Labour has anti-Semitism issue Jeremy Corbyn said the Labour Party must recognise that anti-Jewish bigotry has become part of the movement, and drive out anti-Semitism.
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Epstein scandal shows sinister methodology of sexual predator

Jul 18, 2019 Go comment!

The United States billionaire, financier, and friend of presidents, Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested on 6 July for sex trafficking minors. Epstein is accused of paying girls hundreds of dollars in cash for massages, and then molesting them at his homes in Palm Beach, Florida, and New York from 2002 to 2005.
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Campaign against US detention centres ‘just getting started’

Jul 18, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) If you’re going to physically block an entrance to an ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) detention centre, the handbook says, don’t be nice about it.
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Emmy 2019: all the Jewish nominees

Jul 18, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) It’s Emmy season again, and Jews in the TV industry have plenty of reason to celebrate.
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