The JCC Association called for action from the federal authorities in response to the wave of bomb threats that struck 13 Jewish Community Centers and eight Jewish day schools on Monday. “Actions speak louder than words,” said the group’s director of strategic performance, David Posner on Monday afternoon. “Members of our community must see swift…
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — The Sobibor Museum located on the grounds of the former Nazi death camp will be closed to visitors during planned construction work including protection of mass graves containing the ashes of victims of the camp. This is the first stage of the international project to create a memorial on the grounds…
(JTA) — A record-breaking $1.127 billion in Israel Bonds was sold in the United States in 2016. The Development Corporation for Israel, also known as Israel Bonds – which issues debt securities by the government of Israel, also announced this week that it has sold more than $40 billion in global sales of Israel Bonds…
(JTA) — Two Philadelphia unions said they will provide free services to help repair and secure the Mt. Carmel Cemetery. More than 100 gravestones were toppled and damaged over the weekend at the Jewish cemetery in the city’s Wissinoming section. Bobby Henon, a Philadelphia council member with union ties who represents the Wissinoming neighborhood where…
(JTA) — The Muslim man who started a crowdfunding page to help repair a mosque in Tampa damaged in an arson attack realized that many of the donors were Jewish after noticing the donations came in multiples of 18. Adeel Karim set up the “Stand With New Tampa Muslims Against Hate” crowdfunding page on the…
(JTA) — The city council of a suburb of St. Louis is considering an anti-hate crime resolution which would create a database of hate crime offenders. The resolution was introduced to the University City council on Monday by Councilman Rod Jennings. Jennings told local media he had been considering introducing such legislation since November, long before…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The executive board of the municipality of The Hague advised the city government to offer $2.75 million in restitution for money wrongfully collected from Holocaust survivors. The recommendation, announced Monday, follows the vote last year by the City Council of Amsterdam to allocate $11 million to Jewish causes as compensation for similar…
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — Hundreds of Israeli police officers evacuated three of nine homes slated to be demolished in a West Bank settlement. The homes located in the West Bank settlement of Ofra were ordered demolished by Israel’s Supreme Court after it was determined that they were built on Palestinian-owned land. The evacuation began Tuesday…
BERLIN (JTA) – With anti-Semitic incidents reportedly on the rise in Berlin, Jewish leaders in the German capital are renewing their call for an official federal commissioner to deal with the problem. The Berlin-based Research and Information Office on Anti-Semitism, founded in 2015, reported Monday that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Germany’s capital has risen by 16 percent in 2016 over the previous…
Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog said that Israel should plan for a massive influx of diaspora Jews after security threats against American and French Jews. “I call on the government to urgently prepare and draw up a national emergency plan for the possibility of waves of immigration of our Jewish brothers to Israel,” Herzog said…
(JTA) — President Donald Trump is reportedly considering cutting a number of special envoy positions, including one dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism, as part of a forthcoming budget proposal. Trump will propose increasing defense spending by $54 billion, and make cuts to federal agencies to accommodate the 10 percent defense increase in the new budget plan, Bloomberg…
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