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UK cabinet minister blasts major Jewish group for criticizing immigration policy

A British cabinet minister lambasted a Jewish group Wednesday during an announcement on increased government funding for the security of Jewish...

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Bnei Brak presents: How to turn a tense anti-overhaul rally into a ‘cholent party’

As thousands of protesters against the judicial overhaul prepared to rally in the predominantly ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak last week, Haim Uzan...

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Art in spotlight as 9 countries’ Holocaust envoys hold 1st gathering on restitution

In 2018, a Dutch court issued a highly controversial ruling, allowing an Amsterdam museum to keep a Nazi-looted painting for free, saying this would...

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Judicial overhaul divides ex-Prisoners of Zion from former Soviet Union

The proposed judicial overhaul dividing Israeli society and the Jewish People is also splitting a small group of Israelis who are profoundly familiar...

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Jews plant palm trees in Medina, Saudi Arabia, in rare interfaith gesture

In a rare gesture of interfaith friendship, several British Jews were allowed to plant palm trees in Saudi Arabia’s city of Medina, one of Islam’s...

27.03.2023 30

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Activists plan Passover ‘pizza party’ to protest hospital hametz law

Two prominent anti-government activists announced plans to distribute pizza outside a hospital on the first day of Passover to protest legislation to...

26.03.2023 10

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In Or Akiva, social strife driving overhaul conflict rises to the surface

Like a general steadying his troops before an enemy onslaught, Haim Barda shouted out orders to a few hundred right-wing protesters gathered Saturday...

26.03.2023 10

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Between the court and the Knesset, overhaul critics and advocates pray for unity

To a casual observer, Wednesday’s rally outside the Knesset might have looked like just another protest against the government’s judicial...

23.03.2023 40

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Judicial overhaul can’t trump civil war, Jewish Agency and its US backers tell PM

The heads of the Jewish Agency and a range of other major US Jewish organizations warned in a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and...

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In new poll, 63% of Israeli Jews call Diaspora coreligionists ‘brethren’

More Israelis feel fraternity with Diaspora Jews now than they did five years ago, according to an annual survey on the subject. In the representative...

22.03.2023 20

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Leading rabbi calls for public day of fasting to heal overhaul discord

Rabbi David Stav, founder of the influential Orthodox rabbinical group Tzohar, has called for Israelis to fast on Wednesday in a plea for unity and...

22.03.2023 20

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Bill to let hospitals ban leavened bread over Passover cleared for final readings

A Knesset committee has advanced a controversial bill that would allow hospital directors to ban leavened bread from their institutions during...

20.03.2023 10

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Mysterious mikveh fish helps educate kids about ritual bath

Many grownups go to the mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath, in search of ritual or spiritual purification. But preschooler Yonah is on a different quest:...

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Ahead of ghetto uprising anniversary, Polish and Israeli flags again fly over Warsaw

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a Holocaust commemoration group is flying the Israeli and Polish flags atop a building...

19.03.2023 10

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67% of young US Jews say ‘ideal rabbi’ could better connect them to Jewish identity

Many American Jews may be ambivalent about organized religion, but they don’t have to be. That is, not if they have the right rabbi, according to a...

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How the removal of Jewish scripture from Turkey marred Israel’s rescue operation

In the wake of the tragic earthquake that claimed the lives of more than 50,000 people in Turkey and parts of Syria last month, countries from across...

16.03.2023 20

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‘It’s your families that were burned’ in Holocaust, Likud minister tells critics

Critics reacted with outrage and disgust Wednesday to a speech by Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan, in which she appeared to draw a...

16.03.2023 30

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France 24 TV network suspends 4 journalists for alleged anti-Israel vitriol

France 24, a state-owned news network based in the Paris region, has suspended four of its journalists following allegations that they used vitriolic...

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Jewish group, German org urge EU authorities to end pro-Nazi marches

A prominent Jewish organization and a German human rights group have called on European authorities to fully ban far-right marches taking place...

14.03.2023 30

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At rallies against government, a right-wing anti-overhaul movement takes shape

Supporters of Israel’s judicial overhaul like to describe the fight around it as a partisan issue, promoted by the right-wing coalition of Prime...

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Dutch church leaders take back Holocaust-related reference to Palestinians

Following an outcry, Dutch church leaders who recently visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem removed a reference to the perceived...

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