admin | April 11, 2024
Times of Israel correspondent Canaan Lidor and Channel 12 reporter Elad Simchayoff are announced as this years winners of Bnai Briths annual journalism award for coverage of the Jewish Diaspora. Lidor, The Times of Israels religion and Diaspora correspondent, receives the Bnai Brith World Center-Jerusalems Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage for 2024 in the written media category, Bnai Brith writes in a statement Wednesday. Simchayoff, European correspondent for Channel 12 News, is recognized in the broadcast media category
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admin | April 11, 2024
Lena Dunham made the emotional discovery that her family has connections to the Holocaust during last weeks episode of the PBS celebrity genealogy series Finding Your Roots. Historian and host Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed that Dunhams great-great-grandmother Regina Seltenwirth came to the US alone at just 14 years old, leaving 11 siblings behind in Europe
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admin | April 11, 2024
European Jewish Press, Europe's sole Jewish news and information service. Launched end 2005, the European Jewish Press is the sole online Jewish news agency in Europe
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admin | March 30, 2024
The United States in recent days authorized the transfer of billions of dollars worth of bombs and fighter jets to Israel even as it publicly expresses concerns about an anticipated military offensive in Rafah, The Washington Post reports.
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admin | March 30, 2024
The Israel Defense Forces announces the death of a soldier killed during fighting against Hamas in the Khan Younis area of the southern Gaza Strip earlier today. He is named as Sgt.
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admin | March 21, 2024
As the war between Israel and Hamas nears the six-month mark, the global community remains divided between support for Israel and support for the Palestinian people. Muslim-majority Middle Eastern countries continue to back the Palestinians and most Western governments are standing by Israel, but there is an outlying European Union nation that has consistently shown strong support for the Palestinians: Ireland. Nearly 80% of Irish people back the Palestinians and think that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, according to the most recent polling
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admin | March 21, 2024
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admin | March 21, 2024
BERLIN Germany says it has summoned the Iranian ambassador over an attempted arson attack on a synagogue in 2022 that Berlin believes was planned with the help of Tehran. A German-Iranian national was in December sentenced to two years and nine months in prison over the plot to attack a synagogue in the western German city of Bochum. The 36-year-old, identified only as Babak J., had planned to target the synagogue but ended up throwing an incendiary device at an adjacent school building
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admin | March 21, 2024
Shir Ami Reform Synagogue of Newtown collected 31,174 pounds of food for eight local hunger relief agencies during 2023. Not only does this collection help people experiencing food insecurity, it also supports the synagogues Code Blue initiative, where the congregation housed homeless persons overnight during extremely cold nights in the month of December. Marc Luber, Shir Ami board member and food insecurity chairperson, expressed his gratitude to the congregation and the community stating, Our local community came through in a big way with food donations over the past year
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admin | March 21, 2024
The planned reintroduction of a bill funding appointments of new municipal rabbis is ratcheting up tensions in the wartime coalition headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Erstwhile partners Benny Gantz and Gideon Saar both object to the planned relaunch of the bill from 2023, which was stalled by the war, to appoint hundreds of new city rabbis at a cost of tens of millions of shekels annually, representatives of their parties say. Zeev Elkin, a member of Gideon Saars New Hope party, has informed coalition whip Ofir Katz of Netanyahus Likud party of the objection, citing an agreement signed by all coalition members to refrain from advancing any legislation without the pre-approval of all coalition parties, Makor Rishon reports
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