admin | August 22, 2020   
				
				 Vandals have scrawled graffiti denying the Holocaust on a wall in the village that was the site of the Nazis biggest massacre of civilians in France during the second world war. The justice minister vowed on Saturday to bring those responsible to justice. Officials in Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges in central France, put up a tarpaulin to cover the graffiti discovered on Friday on the wall at the entrance to the Centre de la Mmoire (Centre for Remembrance)
				
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 admin | August 22, 2020   
				
				 Well, you know how it is. Head out the door for a long-planned vacation, pray nothing major erupts before you get back, and before you can so much as pack a suitcase the president announces that ByteDance must sell TikTok or else TikTok will be banned in the United States. The timing was abrupt
				
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 admin | August 22, 2020   
				
				 What's OnThe antisemitic tweets from the rapper has resulted in a permanent ban from a variety of social media platforms, including Twitter, Instagram and TikTok Wednesday, 19th August 2020, 4:33 pm British rapper Wiley posted a thread of antisemitic comments on his Twitter account which has resulted in getting banned from various social media platforms. The incident also saw calls for social media platforms to tighten their policies around hate speech - including from Home Secretary Priti Patel. 
				
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 admin | August 22, 2020   
				
				 Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges once said, I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. Books have always been considered a natural asset of the Jewish people, the People of the Book
				
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 admin | August 22, 2020   
				
				 ANN ARBOR, MI While a federal judge has concluded protests outside an Ann Arbor synagogue amount to free speech, Rabbi Nadav Caine argues its still hate speech. It may well be that the court has made a correct decision according to the law, but the proceedings show that the protesters are liars and charlatans, said the rabbi at the Beth Israel Congregation on Washtenaw Avenue, which has been targeted by weekly anti-Israel protests for over 16 years
				
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 admin | August 22, 2020   
				
				 SAN FRANCISCO (J. the Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) When the evacuation orders came last night, Guerneville resident Sonia Tubridy and her daughter packed the car and left, joining a caravan of vehicles fleeing the North Bay area and the fires that threatened to engulf them
				
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 admin | August 22, 2020   
				
				 (JTA) As night falls on the second night of Rosh Hashanah this year, Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffet and two shofar blowers will ascend the 144-foot tower of St. Albans Cathedral, the 11th-century church that dominates the skyline of this city of the same name 20 miles northwest of London. As members of Zagoria-Moffets 200-family synagogue assemble at a safe distance in the large grassy area below, the blowers will sound the rams horn meant to rouse people to repentance at the Jewish New Year
				
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 admin | August 22, 2020   
				
				 Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Antisemitic slogans scratched outside the Philadelphia house of prayer widely known as the Synagogue of the American Revolution are being investigated by local police
				
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 admin | August 22, 2020   
				
				 When the evacuation orders came last night, Guerneville resident Sonia Tubridy and her daughter packed the car and left, joining a caravan of vehicles fleeing the North Bay area and the fires that threatened to engulf them. Tubridy, cultural director of the Russian River Jewish Community, was among the thousands of people ordered to evacuate from fires burning 46,000 acres across a vast area covering five counties and stretching from Vacaville north to Lake Berryessa and out to the Sonoma County coast
				
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 admin | August 22, 2020   
				
				 Most religious congregation continue to hold services and classes/lectures online due to the coronavirus pandemic concerns and restrictions. 
				
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