Over flight intercom, El Al pilot links Israel’s judicial reform to the Holocaust
Pilot Doron Ginzburg made his remarks in a flight from Tel Aviv to New York on Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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UK’s Liberal and Reform movements merge as Progressive Judaism
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Barcelona synagogue defaced with anti-Israel graffiti
The head of the Conference of European Rabbis connected the graffiti to Barcelona’s decision to give up its twin city designation with Tel Aviv — an act he argued has 'put the city’s Jewish community in real danger.'
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Tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors live in poverty. This foundation wants to help
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Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian Jewish dissident, sentenced to 25 years in prison for treason
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1 in 4 Americans have not heard of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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Politics Risk of hate crimes against Jews and others could rise as 2024 election nears, report says
The authors called on social media companies to deplatform extremists and for Congress to mandate reporting hate crime data
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Marcus Mumford to perform at controversial joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial event
One of the groups organizing the memorial, Combatants for Peace, attributed defense minister Yoav Gallant’s decision to reject travel permits for Palestinians attending the event to his near-termination
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Retired Supreme Court Justice Breyer hopeful about compromise on Israel’s judicial overhaul
‘Beware of changes that are too fast, beware of changing too quickly,’ Breyer cautioned the Israeli government
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On display at Germany’s embassy in Israel: portraits of Holocaust survivors that seek to reclaim their stories
“The significance of exhibiting on Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day at the German embassy in sovereign Israel is not lost on me,” said photographer Erez Kaganovitz
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‘I will never support Nazis,’ GOP congressman with ties to white nationalists writes in post against US support for Ukraine
Rep. Paul Gosar, a Republican from Arizona, condemned America’s ‘support and military aid to Nazis’
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