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2,500 Mourn Victims Of Pittsburgh’s ‘Darkest Day’ Synagogue Rampage
Some 2,500 people gathered on Sunday at a memorial service for the 11 Jewish worshipers slain in their Pittsburgh synagogue during Shabbat services, a mass murder the mayor called the city’s “darkest hour” while exhorting mourners to “defeat hate with love.” Several speakers addressing an overflow crowd at the University of Pittsburgh’s Soldiers and Sailors…
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Pope Condemns ‘Inhuman’ Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
Pope Francis on Sunday strongly condemned the attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh, calling for the stamping out of “hotbeds of hate” and for stronger moral and civil values. Speaking to pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square after a Mass, Francis said that Saturday’s attack, in which 11 worshippers were killed and six others injured, was…
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Jewish World Stunned By ‘Devastating’ Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack
Jewish leaders, politicians and Israeli leaders react with horror
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As Shabbat Ends, A Wounded Pittsburgh Neighborhood Gathers To Mourn
The day that the American Jewish community experienced the most deadly anti-Semitic hate crime directed at it in the history of the United States was also Shabbat, the weekly Jewish day of rest. So when Shabbat ended at sundown in the densely Jewish town of Squirrel Hill, where a gunman killed 11 Jews at prayer,…
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American Jews Seek To Talk — And Air Grievances — With Israelis In Conference
TEL AVIV (JTA) — On Sunday, a day before thousands of American Jews descended on this Israeli city to air their differences with the nation’s government, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin had a listening session. Rivlin invited a select group of about 100 American Jews to his official residence in Jerusalem. While he sat in the…
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Pro-Israel Voices Join Smear Campaign Against Jamal Khashoggi
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Two weeks after he disappeared, Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi Washington Post columnist, is getting his reputation run through a wringer, and some pro-Israel voices are joining the pile-on. Even as gruesome allegations emerge that he was tortured, murdered and dismembered after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, some Israel supporters have joined other…
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Is Harvard Doing To Asians What It Once Did To Jews?
(JTA) — In 1922, Harvard University President Abbott Lawrence Lowell had a problem: His school had too many Jews. At least that’s what he thought. As the country’s Jewish population ballooned in the early 20th century, the Jewish proportion of Harvard students increased exponentially, too. In 1900, just 7 percent of the Ivy League school’s…
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5 Key Moments In Jared Kushner’s Bromance With Saudi Crown Prince
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In March, Saudi Arabia was on the brink of a new age of modernity. At the epicenter of the transformation were Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser. But allegations this week that bin Salman — or MBS, as he is known — ordered the…
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Rabbi Moves To Florida’s Panhandle — Hours Before Hurricane Michael Strikes
(JTA) — When he and his wife moved to Pensacola, Florida, on Sunday afternoon, Rabbi Mendel Danow expected to spend the following couple of weeks settling in and buying supplies for their new home. Instead, two days after getting off the plane, Danow found himself driving to a Walmart in Alabama to buy five 40-packs…
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Jewish Day School Vandalized With Pro-Hamas Graffiti
(JTA) — A Jewish day school in Toronto was vandalized by graffiti supporting the Palestinian cause and the Gaza terrorist group Hamas. “Free Palestine,” “Long Live Palestine” and “Long Life to the Hamas” were found Tuesday morning on signs in front of the Leo Baeck Day School. The vandalism occurred the previous evening, which was observed as…
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Jewish Women’s Groups Slam Kavanaugh Confirmation
(JTA) — Liberal Jewish groups and Jewish groups representing women slammed the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. National Council of Jewish Women CEO Nancy Kaufman called Kavanaugh’s ascension to the Supreme Court “a devastating blow to the confirmation process, and to women and all survivors of sexual assault.” “The expectation that…
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