admin | April 20, 2024
The FBI is monitoring for threats against Jewish Americans ahead of the Passover holiday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said, adding that the number was already high before Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel. Wray mentioned the FBI’s work in investigating anti-Jewish hate crimes while speaking at an event Wednesday hosted by the Secure Community Network, the largest Jewish security organization on the continent. “Today, we at the bureau remain particularly concerned that lone actors could target large gatherings, high-profile events, or symbolic or religious locations for violence — particularly a concern, of course, as we look to the start of Passover on Monday evening,” he said.
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admin | April 20, 2024
Image by Joshua Frank. As a longtime anti-Zionist and member of Jewish Voice for Peace, it has been a fact of my life that the organized Jewish community has considered me a pariah. When I was president of my Jewish congregation, the executive director of the local Jewish Federation refused to speak with me; when communication was required, he always found a workaround
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admin | April 20, 2024
(New York Jewish Week) When Jewish comedian Michael Hirsch took the stage in the Catskills last month, he quickly realized that the crowd was much older than his typical audience people who may have gone to shows back when the area was a hotbed of Jewish comedy. It was really people who were there for the original run of that, when it was in its heyday, Hirsch told the New York Jewish Week about the audience at Shadowland Stages in Ellenville, New York
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admin | April 20, 2024
The Hebrew Universitys Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian was arrested by police on suspicion of inciting against the State of Israel two weeks after the Israel Police appealed to the court to issue an arrest warrant against her, Ynet learned Thursday. An additional search warrant was also issued against Shalhoub-Kevorkian, who has been taken in for further questioning.
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admin | April 20, 2024
(April 19, 2024 / JNS) Jerusalem police on Thursday arrested Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, after she called into questionatrocities committed by Hamas terrorists on Oct.
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admin | April 20, 2024
Susan Andrea Loether, a Hebrew teacher who tutored hundreds of Pittsburgh-area teens for their bnei mitzvah during a 40-year career, passed away March 21 after a lengthy battle with cancer. She was 67. What we all saw, what everyone saw, what was impossible not to see, was how much Susan Loether loved life, said Rodef Shalom Rabbi Sharyn Henry, who met Loether after moving to Pittsburgh in 1991
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admin | April 20, 2024
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admin | April 20, 2024
An Arab Israeli professor from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has been arrested on suspicion of incitement after questioning Hamas rapes and other atrocities during the October 7 attacks and saying Israelis are criminals and should be afraid. Officers bring in Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a criminologist and law professor, for questioning at a police station in the Jerusalem suburb of Mevasseret Zion
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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
This year marks a watershed moment for democracy, as over half of the global population gears up to vote. India anticipates over 970 million eligible voters for its 2024 general election, which will be held this summer
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