Violent attacks by settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank are up nearly 50% from last year
There have been 397 attacks so far in 2021, compared to 272 attacks in 2020.
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Fox News removes cartoon depicting George Soros as a ‘puppet master’ after ADL complains
(JTA) — Fox News removed from social media a cartoon depicting George Soros as a puppet master after the Anti-Defamation League called out the conservative news giant for peddling antisemitic tropes. “As we have told @FoxNews numerous times, casting a Jewish individual as a puppet master who manipulates national events for malign purposes conjures up…
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Christmas pigs raised by Jewish farmers get pardoned by Jewish mayor
(JTA) — A Cuban restaurant is no place for a Jewish piglet to be so close to Christmas — unless of course, that pig is being pardoned in Miami’s annual pig pardoning ceremony. Since 2017, Miami has celebrated a pig pardoning event ahead of Christmas in recognition of the large Hispanic population in the South…
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NYC Mayor-elect Eric Adams reschedules his inauguration so it doesn’t fall on Shabbat
The swearing-in ceremony traditionally takes place at 12 p.m. on the first day of the year
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Berlin has 290 streets named for people who expressed antisemitic views, analysis finds
(JTA) — The 19th-century German historian who coined the phrase, later popularized by the Nazis, “the Jews are our misfortune” has a street named for him in Berlin. So does a 15th-century official who supported a murderous purge of Jews from his region, and a competitive athlete who was a darling of the Nazi regime….
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Intimidated by the Jerusalem Talmud? There’s now a more ‘accessible’ translation
Most people who study Talmud go with the Babylonian one, and pay scant attention to its older, more difficult cousin — the Jerusalem Talmud. Sefaria, the non-profit library, released a new, online English translation of it this week in hopes that more people will delve into the challenging compendium of Jewish law. It’s free. And…
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ADL joins lawsuit against groups allegedly behind Jan. 6 insurrection
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League has joined the District of Columbia attorney-general in a lawsuit against two extremist groups that allegedly help organize the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The civil rights group and antisemitism watchdog said it helped identify plaintiffs in the case. A congressional panel is scrutinizing the insurrection and…
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Dozens of rabbis call on City Council to end solitary confinement in NYC jails
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Dozens of New York City rabbis, including leaders of some of the city’s largest synagogues, signed an open letter calling on the New York City Council to pass legislation ending solitary confinement in the city’s prison system. The letter, published Tuesday by the liberal rabbinic human…
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New York Times says its story about Gaza poetry class ‘did not accurately reflect’ professor’s views on Israeli poetry
(JTA) — A professor in Gaza whom the New York Times profiled as “calmly teaching Israeli poetry” has in fact derided Israeli poems in class, according to a 266-word editor’s note the newspaper appended to the original story Tuesday. The article, written by the paper’s Jerusalem bureau chief Patrick Kingsley and published last month, “did…
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Hungary is Europe’s unlikely leader in kosher foie gras production — to Viktor Orban’s advantage
(JTA) — Europe’s two kosher foie gras factories aren’t in France, by far the leading consumer of the fatty liver product. Nor are they in England, home to Europe’s second-largest Jewish population. Instead, they are both in Hungary — where there are few Jews and no more than half a dozen kosher eateries in total. Part…
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New Jewish study programs in Chicago and Washington to offer egalitarian alternatives to traditional yeshivas
(JTA) — Programs of Jewish study that break with the gender-segregated traditions of the Orthodox yeshiva are coming to Chicago and Washington. Hadar, the New York-based egalitarian yeshiva, announced Sunday that it would hire a full-time staffer to run classes in Chicago. And in Washington, D.C., Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, rabbi of the Modern Orthodox synagogue…
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