Female mayor attacked by Haredi mob in religious Israeli city
The incident in Beit Shemesh occurred while Mayor Aliza Bloch was visiting a school belonging to the Vizhnitz Hasidic sect, and is the second such mob assault against her in two months
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Netanyahu minister wants to revoke credentials of journalists critical of Israel
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s allies have advocated steps to put pressure on the independent media in Israel. Distal Atbaryan’s past attacks on the international press 'could endanger reporters in Israel,' says the foreign press association
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NJ township will pay $575,000 to settle lawsuit alleging discrimination against Orthodox Jews
The lawsuit alleged that Jackson Township’s zoning laws discriminated against Orthodox Jews who sought to build sukkahs, yeshivas, dormitories and eruvs
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Israel wins first-ever gold medals at rhythmic gymnastics world championships
'I think you can hear in my voice how excited we were and how we screamed yesterday,' said Linoy Ashram, who made Israeli history in the sport at the Tokyo Olympics
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Shellfish dumped on UC Berkeley’s Jewish fraternity house on first Shabbat of semester
Given that the perpetrators used shellfish, a food forbidden under the laws of keeping kosher, and that they targeted the Jewish fraternity on the first Shabbat of the school year, AEPi considers the incident to be antisemitic
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Claire Golomb, Holocaust survivor and scholar of children’s art and dreams, dies at 95
Her own childhood ended when the Nazis knocked at her door and arrested her father
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First passenger flight from Saudi Arabia arrives in Israel after emergency landing
An Air Seychelles flight to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing on Monday in the the port city of Jeddah, where passengers spent the night
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‘Joe the Plumber,’ activist who said gun control doomed Europe’s Jews, dies at 49
Samuel Wurzelbacher became a Republican celebrity in 2008 after confronting former President Barack Obama about his economic policies
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Libyan foreign minister is fired and flees to Turkey after meeting her Israeli counterpart
The countries’ chief diplomats had never met
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NY congregation can evict tenants of historic Touro Synagogue, Rhode Island judge rules
The ruling is a major development in a legal saga that has stretched for more than a decade
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Swastikas drawn on gun used in racist Jacksonville shooting
The suspect killed three Black victims in a racially motivated shooting at a Dollar General store
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