ROME — Italy’s Jewish community is expressing outrage at the removal of three cobblestone plaques honoring Italian victims of the Holocaust . German artist Gunter Demnig has laid thousands of such plaques around Europe in front of the homes of people … Read More »
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Egypt cancels Jewish festival amid security concerns
CAIRO — Egypt on Wednesday canceled a Jewish festival held in the Nile Delta each year, citing concerns about the local response to heightened security at a time of uncertainty between Egypt and Israel. Read More »
Israeli bill would make it a crime to compare people to Nazis
JERUSALEM — A proposed bill would make it a crime in Israel to criticize people by comparing them to Nazis. The draft legislation would impose penalties of up to six months in jail and a $25000 fine for using the word “Nazi” or Holocaust symbols for … Read More »
Jewish militants banned from West Bank
JERUSALEM — Israel temporarily banished a dozen suspected Jewish extremists from the West Bank on Thursday as part of a crackdown ordered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a series of attacks on Palestinians and the military. Read More »
Jewish militants banned from West Bank
JERUSALEM — Israel temporarily banished a dozen suspected Jewish extremists from the West Bank on Thursday as part of a crackdown ordered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a series of attacks on Palestinians and the military. Read More »
Israel bans 12 Jews from West Bank over suspicions of violence against Palestinians, soldiers
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military has banned 12 Jewish extremists from the West Bank for three to nine months because they are suspected in violence against Palestinians and Israeli soldiers. The military had no comment when asked why the radicals were not arrested. The extremists were not identified in the military’s statement Thursday. Read More »
Using the Holocaust , again
By Brad Hirschfield Ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrators look at a boy (low L) wearing a cloth cap and a yellow Star of David inscribed with “Jude,” Jew , in German, sewn on his jacket as he raises his hands during a protest in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim … Read More »
Holocaust survivors outraged at ultra-Orthodox Jewish use of Nazi imagery at …
Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial denounced the use of Nazi imagery as “disgraceful,” and several other survivors’ groups and politicians condemned the acts. “We must leave the Holocaust and its symbols outside the arguments in Israeli society,” … Read More »
Holocaust survivors outraged at ultra-Orthodox Jewish use of Nazi imagery at Jerusalem protest
JERUSALEM — Images of ultra-Orthodox Jews dressing up as Nazi concentration camp inmates during a protest drew widespread condemnation Sunday and added a new twist to a simmering battle over growing extremism inside Israel’s insular ultra-Orthodox community. Read More »
Morning Bits
Alana Goodman has the details on the latest controversy and concludes: “The Democratic Party now has to decide whether it wants to let this strain of anti- Zionism trickle into its mainstream institutions, or whether it will reject these ideas, … Read More »
Jewish hipsters find a place to call home at the Star and Shamrock in DC
On the first night of the eight-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, Feldman, 37, was wearing a backward Mets cap and eating a hot pastrami on rye at a carved wooden bar. Feldman is the grandson of Holocaust survivors, “but I was born in Brooklyn, … Read More »
Israeli schoolgirl’s story highlights growing violence by Jewish religious extremists
BEIT SHEMESH, Israel — A shy 8-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel’s latest religious war. Read More »
German Jews ride renaissance against tide of assimilation
LUEBECK, Germany — Yelizaveta Paliy arrived in this northern port city from Ukraine in 1995 on the second day of Hanukkah. After years of celebrating the Jewish festival of lights behind drawn curtains in her homeland, Paliy went to Luebeck’s historic synagogue and lit the candles in freedom for the first time. Read More »
Israel rejects diplomats’ criticism of Jewish settlement construction and settler attacks
JERUSALEM — Israel is lashing out at diplomats at the U.N. who condemned Israeli settlement construction in territory claimed by the Palestinians and attacks apparently carried out by Jewish settlers. Fourteen diplomats voiced their concerns Tuesday. South Africa’s U.N. Read More »
Jingle Bells in Tel Aviv: In Israel, migrant workers give Christmas a new visibility
TEL AVIV, Israel — The founders of Neve Shaanan, a neighborhood in southern Tel Aviv, planned their streets in the shape of a seven-branched candelabra — a symbol of their Jewish faith. Ninety years later, the streets are full of Christmas decorations, reflecting a flowering of Christianity in Israel’s economic and cultural capital. Read More »
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, flouting Supreme Court ruling, still try to segregate Israeli buses
JERUSALEM — Israel’s political leaders and chief rabbis on Sunday condemned persistent efforts by ultra-Orthodox Jewish men to shunt Israeli women to the back of public buses, a year after the country’s Supreme Court outlawed the practice. Read More »
Obama defends Israel policy in speech to Jewish group
President Obama delivered an impassioned defense of his policy toward Israel in an appearance Friday before a conference of progressive Jews, tacitly scolding his Republican rivals for characterizing his support for the Jewish state as uncertain. Read More »
Crowd-sourcing for Holocaust research
“My family’s Jewish , and I thought maybe there were records there that would be interesting.” Shein knew from her family oral history that her great-,great-grandmother had died in the Holocaust . And she wanted to help others find information about … Read More »
Arsonists torch Jerusalem mosque as Israelis call for crackdown on Jewish radicals
JERUSALEM — A Jerusalem mosque was torched Wednesday, provoking calls in Israel for a more effective crackdown on Jewish extremists suspected in a string of increasingly brazen acts of violence. Read More »
Simon Wiesenthal Center: Time to clean up the discourse
Unfortunately, it’s becoming increasingly difficult in this country to take a position sympathetic to the Jewish state and in favor of the continuation of America’s historic strong alliance with Israel without being called “an Israel Firster” and … Read More »
New statistics project ultra-Orthodox Jewish population will more than triple in Israel
JERUSALEM — In new research, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics is predicting that the fast-growing ultra-Orthodox Jewish community will make up nearly a third of the country’s population within 50 years. Read More »
Rocket fired from Lebanon at Israel lands in border town, wounding Lebanese woman
BEIRUT — A rocket fired from Lebanon toward Israel fell short, wounding a Lebanese woman, a senior Lebanese military official said Monday. The attack comes nearly two weeks after rockets fired from Lebanese territory hit the Jewish state for the first time in two years. Read More »
In Israel , gathering fragments of the Holocaust
Still, he said, bringing the materials to Yad Vashem “will benefit the Jewish people and refute the Holocaust deniers.” Sara Peled, 65, a retired teacher, grew tearful after handing over a sheaf of family papers, including her father’s report cards … Read More »
Young hip Jews leading a Hanukkah music makeover
Put on your boogie shoes — the new Hanukkah songs are here! What last year seemed like a happy coincidence has become a hip new Hanukkah tradition: groups of harmonizing young Jews releasing seriously Jewish, yet seriously danceable, songs for the Festival of Lights. Read More »
Jewish New York, from the Lower East Side to the world’s largest menorah
NEW YORK — Museums and historic sites, the world’s largest menorah, and a trendy new Tribeca restaurant inspired by an old-school Catskills resort. They’re all part of Jewish New York, with a heritage that stretches back 400 years and a vital contemporary community that’s reinterpreting old traditions for the 21st century. Read More »
Obama’s policy toward Israel draws strong criticism from GOP hopefuls before Jewish activists
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential hopefuls took turns lambasting President Barack Obama’s policy toward Israel on Wednesday, accusing him of being timid in the face of Iran’s attempt to build nuclear weapons and allowing a dangerous distance to develop between the U.S. and its long-time ally in the Middle East. Read More »
US billionaire Sheldon Adelson gives Israeli Holocaust memorial $25 million …
JERUSALEM — Israel’s official Holocaust memorial says it has received its largest private donation ever — a $25 million gift from US casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. Yad Vashem says most of the money will go to its International School for Holocaust … Read More »
Vatican U hosts unusual tattoo conference, Israel’s Holy See ambassador an …
… permanent role that tattooed serial numbers played during the Holocaust . Ambassador Mordechay Lewy acknowledged the paradox Tuesday, saying the living memory of Auschwitz’s blue death stamps added another layer to Jewish aversion to tattooing. … Read More »
Obama fights to maintain support from Jewish backers amid GOP attacks over Israel
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is working to court Jewish voters leading into the 2012 election, as Republicans seek to chip away at the president’s support in the Jewish community by attacking him over Israel. Read More »
Obama administration backs ambassador after his comments about anti-Semitism …
Howard Gutman, who is Jewish and whose father survived the Holocaust , told a European Jewish gathering last week that some hatred of Jews reflected hostility toward Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. He said it was different from traditional … Read More »
UK lawmaker under fire after suggesting ambassador to Israel may be biased because he’s Jewish
LONDON — A British lawmaker has been criticized after suggesting the country’s ambassador to Israel may be biased because he is Jewish. Labour legislator Paul Flynn told a parliamentary committee that two constituents had complained that ambassador Matthew Gould “was serving the interest of the Israeli government. Read More »
Jewish group applauds arrest in Germany of former KKK leader David Duke
BERLIN — An American Jewish group is applauding German police for taking former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke into custody before he could address a far-right gathering. Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors … Read More »
Washington Jewish Film Festival offers 47 films
The 22nd annual Washington Jewish Film Festival, which runs from Thursday to Dec. 11, will present 47 films from 15 countries, including such perennial contributors as Israel, Germany, Britain and Argentina. Read More »
Israeli military: 3 rockets fired from Lebanon strike Israel for first time in 2 years
JERUSALEM — Rockets fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel early Tuesday for the first time in more than two years, drawing a burst of Israeli artillery fire across the tense border, the Israeli military said. No casualties or major damage were reported on the Israeli side and no one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Read More »
Holocaust survivors donating ‘everyday objects’ to museums as survivors age …
The Holocaust and Intolerance Museum of New Mexico, for example, officially unveils this week an exhibit entitled “Hidden Treasures” featuring a 158-year-old doll house owned by a German- Jewish family and was hidden away during World War II. … Read More »
3 rare oil paintings of synagogue interiors by Marc Chagall to be auctioned in NYC
NEW YORK — Three rare oil paintings of synagogue interiors by Marc Chagall are going on the auction block in New York City. Read More »
Law firm takes Holocaust case to Congress
Y.) would have given US courts the jurisdiction to hear civil claims over the railway’s Holocaust role. Though that bill never reached a vote, … Read More »
American Jewish leaders visit Greece
A member of a delegation from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, passed a Holocaust memorial on Freedom Square in … Read More »
Publisher defends book on Polish plunder of Jews
AP WARSAW, Poland — A Polish publisher is defending his decision to publish a book arguing that Poles plundered Jewish wealth during the Holocaust . … Read More »
Natural gas supply to Israel cut off after blast at Egyptian terminal
JERUSALEM – Egypt temporarily suspended its natural gas supply to Israel as a security precaution after an explosion at a terminal in the northern Sinai Peninsula, Israel radio said Saturday. Read More »
Natural gas supply to Israel cut off after blast at Egyptian terminal
JERUSALEM — Egypt temporarily suspended its natural gas supply to Israel as a security precaution after an explosion at a terminal in the northern Sinai Peninsula, Israel radio said Saturday. Read More »
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