admin | May 20, 2021
Footage showing three people wearing torn shirts has been falsely linked to the ongoing violence between Israel and Hamas, and is falsely said to show Israelis who later pretended they were attacked by Palestinians. However, the video is several years old and shows people conducting a traditional Jewish custom known as tearing kriah. The video has been viewed by thousands of social media users and begins with a man tearing the shirt of a woman, before tearing his own.
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admin | May 20, 2021
TUCSON (KVOA) - An act of vandalism overnight at an eastside synagogue had members believing it was an act of hatred. With the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in the middle east, this Jewish community believes others see it as an invitation to attack them. A large rock was thrown through the front door of Chaverim Synagogue Tuesday night.
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admin | May 20, 2021
The Pew Research Center last week released a report of its survey, Jewish Americans in 2020. The new study of the size and character of U.S. Jewry coincidentally appeared just as Jews around the world prepared to celebrate Shabbat Bamidbar when we read the Book of Numbers description of the census of the Israelites in the desert.
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admin | May 20, 2021
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (WTXL) Harassment, vandalism, assault and even Zoom meetings have been disrupted by graphic and racist messages
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admin | May 20, 2021
The term pogrom is unfortunately back in our lexicon.Last week, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin described attacks by a bloodthirsty Arab mob in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Lod as a pogrom. A Jewish vigilante in Lod told The Washington Post that he was defending its Jewish residents from a pogrom
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admin | May 20, 2021
JTA Years ago, Jodi Bromberg met a woman at a Jewish event who said she had to call 65 rabbis before she found one who would officiate at her wedding to her non-Jewish husband.
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admin | May 20, 2021
From the beginning of my rabbinic career, I focused mightily on public relations and disseminating the Jewish message to the world. I was accused of being publicity-hungry and of shallowness. But I knew that the one area where we Jews have so significantly failed was in public relations.
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admin | May 20, 2021
Years after his death, the militant anti-Palestinian ideology of the Jewish Defence League leader lives on. In late April, a video of an Israeli girl, a Jewish resident of Jerusalems Old City, went viral on social media
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admin | May 20, 2021
Ultra-Orthodox Jews have been in the news a lot lately, partly due to their reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic. With a few exceptions, the stories present ultra-Orthodox Jews as a patriarchal community that is authoritarian and resistant to public health measures, even during a global pandemic.
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admin | May 20, 2021
Delegates to the 16th Socialist International were milling about the Montechoro Hotels lobby in Albufeira, a sleepy resort town off of Portugals Algarve coast, when a gunman nailed five bullets into Palestinian cardiologist Isam Sartawis chest and head. The assassin vanished under a hail of police bullets
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