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WATCH: Does Secret 11-Minute Video Reveal Abuse of Boy by Hasidic School Principal?
(JTA) — The story is an all-too-familiar horror tale: An adult in a position of power – in this case a Hasidic school principal – is accused of sexually abusing a child in his care. But one thing makes this episode very different: The encounter was captured on a hidden camera and posted online this week…
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Republican Jews Bow to Reality of Donald Trump as Their Nominee
WASHINGTON – Jewish Republicans have been trying to avoid this moment ever since the tumultuous primary campaign kicked off. But after Indiana voters dealt a deathblow Tuesday night to Ted Cruz, the question is inescapable for Jewish backers of the GOP: Can they rally behind Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee? The answer for many…
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Is China Cracking Down on Jewish Community in Kaifeng?
The Jewish community in Kaifeng, China, is facing a government “crackdown,” according to Jewish activists. “It is time to break the silence,” said Anson Laytner, former president of the Sino-Judaic Institute, which has been working in China since the 1980s. “Their very survival as Jews is at stake.” Government police have shut down the only…
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Police Probe Video of Ultra-Orthodox Principal Kissing Boy in Kiryas Joel School: Report
Police are looking into a video circulating widely among Orthodox social media users that shows a teacher at an Orthodox school kissing a young male student, the Journal News reported. The video, which emerged from Orthodox groups on the social networking service WhatsApp on Sunday before being posted by various advocates on Facebook, appears to…
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Israel Blames Ultra-Orthodox Parents for Failings of Schools
The Israeli government says that Haredi parents and schools — rather than the government itself — are to blame for denying secular education to ultra-Orthodox youth in Israel. That was the government’s response to a lawsuit filed by 53 ex-Orthodox individuals against the Ministry of Education for failing to teach them basic secular subjects like…
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BDS Battle Heats Up on New Front — Socially Responsible Investing
WASHINGTON – While “Israel apartheid week” events on campus and student government boycott resolutions have been grabbing the attention of pro-Israel organizations, a potentially more consequential battle over pressuring Israel has been raging in corporate boardrooms and shareholder meetings. The target audience for these efforts: investors concerned about the social and moral aspects of their…
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Anti-Occupation Group If Not Now Wins Attention of Millennials — and Ire of Jewish Establishment
A controversial new organization calling itself If Not Now is rapidly gaining attention, members and steam. But critics say that its mostly millennial members aren’t accomplishing anything substantive with its current approach. The group’s profile recently climbed when its founder, Simone Zimmerman, was very publicly fired by United States presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who had…
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Israeli Artist’s Agreement To Honor Righteous Gentiles in Warsaw Ghetto Sparks Furor
An Israeli sculptor’s acceptance of a commission to design a Warsaw Ghetto memorial to non-Jewish Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust has reignited a furor over the project. Opponents had been trying to persuade Tel Aviv sculptor Danny Karavan to turn down the commission. But on April 12 Karavan wrote critics of the project,…
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Firestorm Follows Israeli Sculptor’s Agreement to Design Warsaw Ghetto Memorial to Righteous Gentiles
Controversy has reignited over plans for a memorial in the Warsaw Ghetto honoring non-Jewish Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust following an Israeli sculptor’s apparent acceptance of a commission to design the project. The plans, now taking place amid efforts by Poland’s right-wing government to portray the role of Poles as heroic during the…
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The New Jewish Diaspora?
For centuries, world travelers dreamed of finding distant Jewish tribes in the faraway corners of their known world — over the mountains, in remote villages, practicing customs preserved in isolation. Today, a quick Google search will do. In Facebook groups and on Skype, on Whatsapp and Instagram, communities from Africa, Asia and the Americas gather…
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Republican Jews Ring Alarm Bells About Fall Vote — but Refuse To Name Donald Trump as Problem
The Republican Jewish Coalition is ringing alarm bells about the fall election but it refuses to point the finger at the man likely to be on top of the ticket. In fact, they refuse to mention Donald Trump by name at all. “I’m not going to sugarcoat this: we could lose our Republican majority in…
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