Why is Ireland one of the most pro-Palestinian countries? – The Week

| 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

Police probing if Kfar Saba synagogue destroyed overnight was broken into – The Times of Israel

| March 21, 2024

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Germany summons Iranian envoy over 2022 synagogue attack plot – The Times of Israel

| 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

Congregation Shir Ami comes together to help alleviate food insecurity – The Bucks County Herald

| 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

Relaunch of municipal rabbi bill piques tensions in wartime coalition – The Times of Israel

| 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

Now, as throughout Jewish history, we must be a people of hope – opinion – The Jerusalem Post

| March 21, 2024

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks described Judaism as the religion of hope. Israel is the country of hope after all, our National Anthem is called Hatikva The Hope. But right now, as I write these words with the tears in my eyes obscuring the keyboard, it doesnt feel like there is any hope

Here’s What North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Said About Adolf Hitler, Jews and the Holocaust – Snopes.com

| March 13, 2024

On March 5, 2024, North Carolina Lt.

French police searching for suspect who assaulted man near Paris synagogue – The Times of Israel

| March 5, 2024

French authorities are searching for an assailant who attacked a man leaving a synagogue in Paris, says Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. Darmanin says the alleged attack on a man in his early 60s was a new antisemitic attack that occurred in Paris Friday evening. Everything is being done to apprehend the perpetrator of this unspeakable act, Darmanin says in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

Musk to address anti-Semitism online in Poland – Lenoir News-Topic

| January 22, 2024

Musk to address anti-Semitism online in Poland   Lenoir News-Topic



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