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News Chabad Prize to Putin Spurring Debate Over Russian’s Actions
WARSAW — Just before the sun set over Auschwitz on January 27, ending the international ceremonies that marked the 60th anniversary of the notorious death camp’s liberation, President Vladimir Putin of Russia stepped forward to receive a medal from Rabbi Berel Lazar, one of the two men who claims the title of chief rabbi of…
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News Paris Yeshiva Student Stabbed While Leaving School
PARIS — A teenage Jewish yeshiva student was stabbed and seriously wounded last Friday in a Paris suburb by a knife-wielding assailant shouting “Allahu akhbar,” Arabic for “God is great.” The teenager, Yisrael Yifrah, 17, was stabbed in the chest at approximately 4:00 p.m. on June 4 as he left a Jewish school, the Mekor…
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News Rift Marks Conference on Antisemitism
The first-ever international, governmental conference dedicated exclusively to antisemitism ended in Vienna this week, amid a German-Austrian squabble over accusations that Vienna was a less than gracious host. The two-day meeting brought together nearly 400 delegates from the 55 member-states of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, an international body founded in 1995…
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News Few Large Donations Go to Jewish Causes
Jewish philanthropists may be more generous than other Americans at cutting supersized checks to charities, according to a new study, but they give mere pennies on the dollar of their largest donations to Jewish causes. The study, titled Mega-Gifts in American Philanthropy, found that among the 865 Americans who awarded a single grant of $10…
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