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Asaf Elia-Shalev

Asaf Elia-Shalev

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Inside the New York auction house driving the rare-book craze in the Orthodox world

JTA – Israel Mizrahi joined dozens of fellow connoisseurs of rare Jewish books last December to watch the livestream of Genazym, the hottest...

28.03.2023 20

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Wikipedia’s ‘Supreme Court’ tackles alleged conspiracy to distort Holocaust articles

JTA — When a pair of professors earlier this month published a paper accusing a group of Wikipedia editors from Poland of revising articles to...

02.03.2023 20

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Major Diaspora philanthropists warn judicial overhaul threatens Israeli democracy

JTA — They have donated untold millions to develop Israel and defend it from its detractors. Now, a group of major philanthropists in North America...

21.02.2023 60

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Uneasy calm in LA Jewish neighborhood after arrest of suspect in Jews’ shooting

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The morning after Los Angeles police arrested a man suspected of shooting two Jews outside their synagogues, the biggest...

18.02.2023 30

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New York antiquities trafficking unit focuses on US patron of Israeli archaeology

JTA — The crusading New York prosecutor  who has been exposing illicit trafficking in the antiquities market through a succession of...

18.02.2023 50

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Ex-Reform movement chief expelled from rabbinical group after allegations reexamined

JTA — The Reform movement’s rabbinical association has expelled Sheldon Zimmerman, a former leader of major Reform institutions, after an ethics...

15.02.2023 20

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FBI memo: Bay Area Soviet Jewry protest leaders secretly sought Jews for Jesus’ help

JTA — Organizers of protests on behalf of Soviet Jewry in San Francisco in the early 1970s might have bolstered crowds by secretly recruiting...

07.02.2023 20

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Far-right Maoz seeks to end Diaspora donations to pluralistic school education

JTA — In 2019, the Noam party drafted an internal report about an alleged plot by foreign forces to take control of the country’s schools in order...

01.02.2023 30

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Half of US’ 25 most generous philanthropists are Jews. Few give to Jewish groups

(JTA) — Jews made up nearly half of America’s biggest philanthropic donors last year, according to a calculation by Forbes of who gave the most...

26.01.2023 90

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Israeli immigration records dating back to 1919 now accessible online

JTA — The genealogy website MyHeritage posted 1.7 million Israeli immigration records online this week, making accessible a trove of ship and plane...

12.01.2023 50

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New York yeshivas exploit special education funding, latest NYT report claims

JTA — Hasidic schools in New York are taking advantage of a policy designed to make special education more widely available by siphoning public...

30.12.2022 20

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Churches urged to act against antisemitism, including by scrutinizing own practices

JTA — A group of educators dedicated to solidarity between Christians and Jews is urging churches to take action against the growing prevalence of...

18.12.2022 10

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Will synagogues shun ‘effective altruism’ movement after Sam Bankman-Fried scandal?

JTA — A few years ago, Adam Azari was frustrated over how little he could do to alleviate suffering in the world with his modest income as a writer...

07.12.2022 20

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$2.3 million plan to improve ties with non-Orthodox Jews uncertain after election

Watchdog reveals existence of plan to bring American youth to Israel and hold communal events in the US, without any apparent reference to issues...

11.11.2022 10

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New Jersey teen charged after Islamist manifesto threatened synagogue attack

JTA — Federal prosecutors have arrested and charged a New Jersey teenager with extremist Islamist views with making the threat that led to a...

11.11.2022 20

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Amazon under pressure to remove antisemitic film promoted by Irving as sales soar

JTA — As the antisemitic book and film that NBA star Kyrie Irving promoted on social media continues to occupy best-seller lists on Amazon, the...

08.11.2022 50

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New Mexico’s cash-strapped, lawsuit-plagued Jewish federation announces dissolution

JTA — After a series of bitter legal and boardroom battles within the Jewish Federation of New Mexico over the past two years, the 75-year-old...

05.11.2022 10

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‘Now that Elon is taking over’: Antisemites see opening as Musk takes Twitter

JTA — Online extremists emboldened by Kanye West’s recent antisemitic diatribes and by Elon Musk’s pledge to loosen content moderation policies...

29.10.2022 40

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Chinese censors ban the printing of Hasidic woman’s memoir for a US publisher

JTA — Hasidic book publisher Dovid Zaklikowski was looking forward to getting his latest title — the memoir of a Jewish woman who immigrated from...

09.10.2022 70

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Progressive Jewish group launches think tank to counter spread of conservative ideas

JTA — Progressive Jewish leaders have launched a new think tank meant to counter what its founders see as an effort by a few billionaires to flood...

23.09.2022 20

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