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Belgium Region Moves Toward Ban On Ritual Slaughter
(JTA) — A committee of the Walloon Parliament in southern Belgium has voted to ban the slaughter of unstunned animals, a requirement for both kosher and halal ritual slaughter. The environment committee of the Walloon Parliament voted unanimously on Friday for the ban, which takes effect on Sept. 1, 2019. The issue is set to…
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Michigan Synagogue Cancels Concert By Israeli Singer After Right-Wing Protests
(JTA) — A Detroit-area synagogue cancelled a scheduled appearance by the Israeli singer Achinoam Nini, known as Noa, claiming that threats attributed to right-wing Jewish protesters posed a security risk. Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills informed its members of the cancellation of the concert in a May 4 letter obtained by the Detroit Jewish News. “Several credible…
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French Settlers Get Election Letters Addressed To Palestinian Territories
JERUSALEM (JTA) — French citizens living in the West Bank received official letters from the French Foreign Ministry addressed to the Palestinian territories. The settlement residents were among thousands of French people in Israel who received the letters urging them to vote in Sunday’s election in France. Israel’s Channel 2 reported that some letter recipients…
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How Payments To Terrorists Became An Issue At The Trump-Abbas Meeting
Persistent advocacy by right-of-center pro-Israel groups succeeded in impacting the agenda of President Trump’s meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday. At issue was the Palestinian Authority’s policy of providing funds to families of terrorists killed by Israeli forces and prisoners jailed in Israel on terrorism charges. The Israeli government has highlighted this issue…
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Israelis Are Famously Bad Drivers, But They’re Leading The Automotive Tech Revolution
Self-driving cars, a car battery that charges in five minutes, a sensor that can analyze a car’s surroundings and cars that talk to each other about road conditions. These are just a handful of the projects that Israeli technology companies are working on to improve the experience of driving — or do away with it…
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H.R. McMaster Insists ‘Disruptive’ Trump Is Good For Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In an Israel Independence Day message, U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, said President Donald Trump’s disruptive approach to governing coupled with the rise of the Islamic State presented new opportunities for regional peace. Trump “is a results-oriented businessman who feels an intense responsibility to succeed for his investors, in this case…
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Israeli President Issues Independence Day Greeting In English
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli President Reuven Rivlin released an Israel Independence Day greeting in English, in which he called it “the Independence Day of all the Jewish people.” “Sixty-nine years ago, in the moments just after David Ben Gurion declared the birth of the State of Israel, we all went out to dance in the streets….
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Spokane Community Building Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Graffiti
(JTA) — A building housing community support services and non-profit groups in downtown Spokane, Washington was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti. The epithets written in chalk on the side of the building were discovered on Friday morning. Among the anti-Semitic statements were: “Hitler did nothing wrong,” “Gas the Kikes,” and “Juden Raus,” German for Jews Out….
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Danger Mouse And The Music Of The Resistance
NEW YORK (JTA) — Let’s imagine, for a moment, that the Nazis won World War II and occupied the United States. If that had happened, what would postwar American pop music have sounded like? Would music have even been created in the forms we know today? Those are just a few of the questions the…
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Kansas State Hit By Anti-Semitic Poster On Holocaust Day
(JTA) — An anti-Semitic poster was hung on the campus of Kansas State University on Holocaust Remembrance Day. The poster was discovered on the morning of April 24 on a telephone pole opposite Ahearn Field House, the local Manhattan Mercury reported. “Ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege,” said the poster, which contained a…
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On Jews And The Holocaust, Trump Tries To Show That He Finally Gets It
WASHINGTON (JTA) – President Donald Trump got the memo on the Holocaust and the Jews — at least for now. In a barrage of statements this week from the president and his aides, the Trump administration wants you to know, he gets it, he really gets it: The Holocaust describes a genocide committed only against…
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