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Breaking News Facing Charges, German Mohel Defends Circumcision
Rabbi David Goldberg, spiritual leader of the Jewish community in the small Bavarian town of Hof, spent the weekend far from the media circus that erupted last week after a German psychologist filed a criminal complaint against him for performing a circumcision. After having given dozens of interviews to media outlets in Israel, Germany and…
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News Israeli Mother’s Cancer Fight Unfolds on Facebook
The tragic ordeal of Ayala Pamela Weisfeld – the 40-year-old immigrant mother of two from New Jersey who died this week in Jerusalem following a public five-week bout with cancer – unfolded on a Facebook page in real time and in riveting detail, with twists and turns that veered from hope to nail-biting angst to…
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Breaking News Illegal Migron Settlers Facing Eviction
Israel’s security forces are preparing to forcibly evict the 30 Migron families living on land that is undisputedly privately owned by Palestinians. The settlers were said to have met during the night to decide whether or not to cooperate and leave the settlement on Sunday or defy the orders and stay. On Tuesday, the Israeli…
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Breaking News Australians Reopen Probe Into ’82 Bombings
Australian counter-terror agents have reopened an investigation into the bombings of the Israeli Consulate and a Jewish social club in Sydney 30 years ago. Police confirmed Saturday that members of a special force called “Operation Forbearance,” established to investigate these two bombings on December 23, 1982, had interviewed a prime suspect in an American jail….
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News Turning an Eye on Jews of Shanghai
Between 1933 and June 22, 1941, when Germany declared war against the Soviet Union, roughly 20,000-25,000 Jewish refugees escaped Nazi persecution and the coming Holocaust by fleeing to the Far Eastern port city of Shanghai. Because of its extra-territorial status prior to Japanese occupation in 1941, Shanghai was one of the few places in the…
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Breaking News Lost Jewish Babies of Cyprus
Yitzhak Teutsch, director of the American Joint Distribution Committee’s archives in Jerusalem, is trying to document more than 2,000 babies born to Jewish refugees interned in Cypriot camps between 1946 and 1949. The infants’ parents had been on their way to Israel after World War II when the British seized their ships and sent them…
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Breaking News Palestinian Tasered By Police in Front of Children
A Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem complained to the Justice Ministry department that investigates police misconduct on Thursday after a police officer shocked him five times with an electric stun gun in front of his five children on Tuesday. The Palestinian, 42-year-old Talal Siad of the A-Tur neighborhood, was shot while out with his family…
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Breaking News Peres To Germans: Let Jews Perform Circumcision
Israel’s President Shimon Peres urged his German counterpart Joachim Guack on Thursday to allow Jews to continue circumcising their children, in a letter calling on Germany to allow Jews to practice the ancient ritual. With the letter, Peres became the third Israeli leader who has tried pressure Germany over this issue, after a Cologne court…
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