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Israeli Planes Strike In Syria, Intercept Anti-Aircraft Fire
(JTA) — Israel’s military carried out aerial strikes in Syria and intercepted missiles launched at its aircraft from the ground, the Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said in an unusual statement. The strikes took place Thursday night, according to the statement. No Israelis were hurt during the strikes or from the anti-aircraft fire, the statement also…
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Groundbreaking TV Comedy Introduces Israelis To Their Ethiopian Neighbors
TEL AVIV (JTA) – Last week, Israelis for the first time saw a black lead character on a homegrown, primetime television show. “Nevsu,” a half-hour comedy, focuses on an Ethiopian man who is married to an Ashkenazi Jewish woman. Misunderstanding ensues. “There is definitely a lot of cultural confusion in the show,” Yosi Vasa, the star and…
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Evangelicals In Alabama Plan To Raise $100,000 To Secure JCC
(JTA) — Several Evangelical Christian ministries in Alabama announced plans to raise $100,000 to help cover additional security at a local Jewish community center. The Levite JCC in Birmingham has suffered four bomb threats since the beginning of the year and been evacuated each time, disrupting its preschool and exercise facilities. More than half of…
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Jewish Orgs Praise Courts For Blocking Trump’s Muslim Ban
(JTA) — Several Jewish groups praised decisions by two federal courts to block President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting immigration from six Muslim-majority countries and blocking refugees. The Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and HIAS welcomed the Wednesday evening moves by federal judges in Hawaii and Maryland, calling the administration order discriminatory and callous….
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Netanyahu’s Office: Prime Minister And Greenblatt ‘Made Progress’ On Settlements
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s adviser on international relations, “made progress” on the issue of West Bank settlement construction, the Prime Minister’s Office said. The two met Thursday for the second time in a week and held “another positive discussion regarding the shared interest of the…
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Muslim Group Calls For Gorka’s Firing After Hungarian-Nazi Ties Revealed
America’s largest Muslim organization is calling on President Trump to fire his top adviser, Sebastian Gorka, following the Forward’s report about his membership in a Nazi-allied Hungarian organization. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called in a statement “on all Americans who oppose anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and all other forms of bigotry to contact the White…
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AJC Urges Congress To Back Letter To Trump Pushing Two-State Solution
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Jewish Committee is rallying support for a congressional letter to President Donald Trump urging him to reaffirm support for a two-state solution, the latest signal that the American Jewish establishment is committed to preserving the policy. On Wednesday, the AJC sent a letter to members of the U.S. House of…
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Europe Relieved At Geert WIlders Loss In Dutch Election
Dutch center-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte fought off the challenge of anti-Islam and anti-EU rival Geert Wilders to score an election victory that was hailed across Europe on Thursday by governments facing a rising wave of nationalism. The euro gained as the results of Wednesday’s vote showed a clear win for Rutte, albeit with fewer…
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Interactive Map Documents 300 Anti-Semitic Incidents
(JTA) — The investigative journalism nonprofit ProPublica has produced an interactive map that chronicles over 300 anti-Semitic crimes across the United States from the past few months. The graphic, which was published Wednesday, is a companion to an article ProPublica ran last week, “In an Angry and Fearful Nation, an Outbreak of Anti-Semitism,” which found…
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Twitter Accounts Hacked With Nazi-Themed Messages Amid Turkey Feud
A large number of Twitter accounts were hijacked and replaced with anti-Nazi messages in Turkish in a bizarre spinoff from a diplomatic spat between Turkey, the Netherlands and Germany. The attacks, using the hashtags #Nazialmanya (NaziGermany) or #Nazihollanda (NaziHolland), took over accounts of high-profile CEOs, publishers, government agencies, politicians and also some ordinary Twitter users….
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One White Nationalist Group Loses Non-Profit Status — But Not All
Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute has lost its non-profit status, but it’s not the only non-profit white nationalist group accepting tax-deductible donations. Three other prominent white nationalist organizations also shared the designation, according to an Associated Press review in December, and have so for over a decade. The groups share ideology and also have institutional…
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