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Do American Journalists Envy Their Israeli Colleagues?
[ White House press room policy seems engineered to belittle reporters and set them against each other “like a bunch of braying jackals,” according to a New Yorker report, in which President Donald Trump’s treatment of an Israeli reporter stood out as a moment of sanity in a circus. Marantz detailed White House press secretary…
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Detroit Walk For Israel Site Hacked With Anti-Semitic Messages
(JTA) — The website for the metropolitan Detroit area’s Walk for Israel was hacked and peppered with hate-filled and anti-Semitic expressions. The messages appeared on the site’s home page for about three hours on Tuesday, according to local reports. Thousands of people, both Jews and non-Jews, participate in the march, which is marking its 12th…
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Trump Mideast Envoy Meets With Mahmoud Abbas
President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy held his first talks on Tuesday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, amid Palestinian concerns that the new administration in Washington is more favorably disposed towards Israel. Jason Greenblatt’s talks with Abbas took place in Ramallah, the Palestinian seat of government, a day after he held a lengthy meeting with…
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Woman Charged By U.S. For 2001 Jerusalem Suicide Bombing
(JTA) — The United States charged a Jordanian woman with involvement in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed 15, including two Americans. The U.S. Justice Department unsealed Tuesday the charge against Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi, who is in her mid 30s and is also known as “Khalti” and “Halati,” for conspiring to use a…
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Limmud Scoops Jerusalem Unity Prize
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Jerusalem Unity Prize named Limmud, the international network of Jewish learning communities, and its first non-Jewish winner. The winners of the prize, launched in 2015 in memory of three slain Israeli teenagers, were announced Wednesday. Limmud was awarded in the Diaspora category and Dr. Janaan Frajj Falah, who has worked to…
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At Jewish Schools, Teaching Students To Cope Amid Bomb Threats
NEW YORK (JTA) — On the morning of March 7, Rabbi Beth Naditch found out that two of her three children’s schools had received bomb threats. The anonymous calls placed to the MetroWest Jewish Day School and the Solomon Schechter Day School in suburban Boston turned out to be hoaxes, like the rest of the…
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Troubling Signs For Jews In Feud Between Turkey And Netherlands
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — The thousands of people who gathered outside the Turkish consulate of this port city on Saturday patiently waited for hours, chatting with friends and relatives. Waving Turkish flags, they had gathered on a chilly evening to listen to a Cabinet minister from Turkey arguing in favor of a government-led referendum next…
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Budapest Rabbi Raises Hackles With Interview To Far-Right News Site
(JTA) — A senior rabbi from Budapest stirred controversy in his community by granting an interview to a news website that is widely identified with the far-right Jobbik party. Zoltan Radnoti, the chairman of the rabbinical council of the Mazsihisz Jewish umbrella group in Hungary, spoke with a reporter for the Alfahir news website in…
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JCC Bomb Threat Suspect Is Denied Bail
(JTA) — The St. Louis man accused of making at least eight bomb threats against Jewish community centers and the Anti-Defamation League must remain in jail until his trial, a federal judge in that city ruled. The allegations against Juan Thompson, 32, are “very serious,” U.S. District Court Judge David Noce said Monday, the St….
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Why Does Celebrity Muslim Scholar Reza Aslan Have A Hebrew Tattoo?
Reza Aslan, the popular religion scholar and Iranian-American Muslim, has a Hebrew tattoo. If you watch Aslan’s CNN series “Believer,” chances are you’ll catch a glimpse of his inked upper arm, which says “hillel,” during various rituals with the religions he explores, such as when he dunks under a waterfall with Voodoo practitioners in Haiti….
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Rabbis Slam European Ruling Allowing Ban On Religious Garb
**PARIS (JTA) — European rabbis condemned an E.U. court’s ruling allowing firms to prohibit employees’ religious clothes and symbols, saying the ruling amounts to saying that “faith communities are no longer welcome.” The ruling Tuesday by the European court of justice in Luxembourg also said that customers cannot simply demand that workers remove headscarves if…
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