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Chadian peacekeepers killed in Mali

Jan 24, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) An attack in the West African nation of Mali that left 10 Chadian United Nations (UN) peacekeepers dead was in reaction to the recent visit to Chad by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Israel versus Iran via Syria

Jan 24, 2019 Go comment!

Israeli soldiers went onto high alert this week along the country’s northern border with Syria.
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The ‘Forward’s’ woes deal the Jewish world a blow to the kishkes

Jan 24, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) My dad, who grew up in a time and place where his Judaism only marked him as an outsider, never really got my professional fascination with all things Jewish. That all changed when nearly 20 years ago, I got a job with the Forward, the English-language offspring of the venerable Yiddish daily.
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Jewish man killed in Kenya attack was 9/11 survivor

Jan 17, 2019 Go comment!

Jason Spindler, the Jewish American man who was one of 15 victims of a terrorist attack in Kenya on Tuesday, had previously survived the 11 September terrorist attack in 2001.
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Zimbabwe’s Jewish community keeps its head down in the chaos

Jan 17, 2019 Go comment!

“Mayhem and chaos reign supreme here,” said a Jewish Zimbabwe resident this week. “It is so scary to be cut off without accurate information or contact. People have no access to doctors or any medication, and don’t know when they will. We have no way of knowing what tomorrow will bring. I was tear-gassed on Friday, I am confined to my home now, and am completely in the dark about what will happen next.”
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Talmud-inspired learning craze sweeps South Korea

Jan 17, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) In 2014, Kim Hye-Kyung found herself staring into an educational abyss.
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Anti-Semitism among Yellow Vest protesters demoralises France’s Jews

Jan 17, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) Four years ago, a heartbroken Bernard-Henri Levy found some solace in how more than a million Frenchmen marched through this city to protest extremism.
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Teen copes with unimaginable tragedy by helping others

Jan 04, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) When Genevieve Liu was 13, an unimaginable tragedy changed her life.
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Berlin rabbinical school creates a new kind of rabbi

Jan 03, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) Though he was just six years old on the night of Kristallnacht, Rabbi Chanoch Ehrentreu can still recall the horror: Torah scrolls burning in the courtyard of his father’s synagogue. His father taken by the Gestapo to the concentration camp at Dachau.
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One of the most powerful moments in ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’

Jan 02, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) If Beale Street Could Talk, the new film from Moonlight director Barry Jenkins, is at heart a film about African-American love during a time of rampant racism. It’s an adaption of James Baldwin’s heart breaking 1974 novel of the same name, which depicts a young African-American couple in 1970s New York whose love story is unjustly derailed.
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Here’s why the arrest of a Chinese tech mogul matters for Iran and Israel

Dec 31, 2018 Go comment!

(JTA) Canadian authorities, acting on a request from the United States, arrested a major Chinese tech mogul in Vancouver between flights on 1 December.
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Mexico City’s Jewish mayor wants to be identified by her policies

Dec 28, 2018 Go comment!

(JTA) It was during her successful campaign for Mexico City mayor that Claudia Sheinbaum made a reference to her Jewish heritage. Speaking before a group of Jewish women, she said she was proud of those origins.
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Soviet immigration, once a bane of Germany’s Jews, has become their salvation

Dec 27, 2018 Go comment!

(JTA) Weeks after they emigrated from Russia and moved to Germany, the Nedlin family sought to join the local Jewish community.
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Can Jerusalem be turned into a high-tech hub?

Dec 26, 2018 Go comment!

(JTA) Jerusalem is a city of endless titles and designations: City of Gold. Zion. The Holy Sanctuary. City of Peace.
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The latest poll on anti-Semitism in Europe looks bad. Trust me, it's true.

Dec 23, 2018 Go comment!

(JTA) The last time that a stranger directed an anti-Semitic insult at me, I was carrying supplies for my son’s birthday party.
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School massacre polarizes grieving dads

Dec 21, 2018 Go comment!

(JTA) Jaime Guttenberg and Meadow Pollack shared many similarities. Both were brown-haired and bright-eyed girls, beloved by friends and family. Both were passionate about their hobbies.
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This Santa Claus is an Orthodox Jew

Dec 20, 2018 1 Comment

(JTA) Just like any other Santa Claus, Santa Rick will spend much of the next couple of weeks sitting children on his knee, asking whether they’ve been good, and listening to their Christmas wishes.
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Israel has a bobsled team, and it wants to compete in the Olympics

Dec 19, 2018 Go comment!

(JTA) In the span of just a couple of days, Chaim Raice went from never having been on a bobsled to being a contender to represent Israel in the 2022 Winter Olympics. And it all started with a Facebook post.
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EU Council calls on Europe to do more to fight anti-Semitism

Dec 13, 2018 Go comment!

European nations must increase their efforts to ensure security for the continent’s Jews in the face of widespread anti-Semitism, the Council of the European Union said in a declaration that one Jewish group called “unprecedented”.
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What does the UN vote on Hamas mean to us?

Dec 13, 2018 Go comment!

In the Middle East, everyone declares victory regardless of the results. So, it’s no surprise that the recent United Nations (UN) General Assembly resolution against Hamas was praised by both Jerusalem and Hamas. If it had passed, it would have condemned the Gaza-based movement for the first time ever in the world body.
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