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Jewish Day School’s Legal Battle Accents Mounting Tensions Over Israel
Hollis Gauss visited her dentist in the middle of February to get a broken filling replaced. While Gauss and the dentist waited for the Novocain to kick in, they chatted about recent events in their hometown of Durham, North Carolina. It was the dentist who brought up the local Jewish elementary school, of which Gauss…
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The Nazi Who Became a Mossad Hitman
On September 11, 1962, a German scientist vanished. The basic facts were simple: Heinz Krug had been at his office, and he never came home. The only other salient detail known to police in Munich was that Krug commuted to Cairo frequently. He was one of dozens of Nazi rocket experts who had been hired…
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VIDEO: Bernie and the Bird
Bernie Sanders didn’t flinch when he was interrupted by a finch — and the crowd went bonkers. It’s been a good few days for the Vermont senator and thorn in Hillary Clinton’s side. On Saturday, he trounced the former secretary of state in Democratic nominating contests in Washington state, Hawaii, and Alaska. “I think, I…
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NY Senate Passes $485 Million In CUNY Cuts, Citing Anti-Semitism
The New York State Senate has voted to slash $485 million in funding to senior colleges in the City University of New York system to “send a message” that they have not done enough to fight campus anti-Semitism. On March 14, a state budget resolution championed by Republicans passed after a sprawling two-hour debate on…
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Can Belgium Protect Its Jews? A Community Has Its Doubts
ANTWERP (JTA) – The hundreds of rifle-toting police and soldiers who patrol Isaac Michaeli’s neighborhood have done little to improve his sense of safety. “When the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing, the soldiers might as well be cardboard cutouts,” he said. A jeweler in his 40s, Michaeli lives with his…
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Turkish Terror Attack Helps Ties With Israel but Hurts Tourism
TEL AVIV — In the immediate aftermath of the Istanbul suicide attack that killed three Israeli tourists March 19, Turkish leaders sent condolences to the victims’ families and otherwise seemed to move to repair diplomatic ties between the two nations. The terrorism even may have inadvertently created momentum for normalization talks. But that doesn’t mean…
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Racial GOP Rhetoric Propels Jewish Not-For-Profits Into the Fray
Washington – Taking on politicians, especially during election season, has always been a tricky issue for Jewish not-for-profit organizations. The fear of being painted in partisan colors and tax regulations limiting charities’ political speech, have led Jewish organizations to take extra caution before speaking out on issues relating to political candidates. But not this year….
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Second FBI Probe Of Orthodox Yeshivas Eyeing School Lunch Fraud
Federal raids last week of yeshivas in Brooklyn and in Rockland and Orange Counties in New York have set Hasidic communities on edge, as concern spreads about a possible government crackdown on Orthodox exploitation of the federal E-Rate technology subsidy program. Now, the Forward has learned that Hasidic leaders believe that the Federal Bureau of…
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During World War II, U.S. Intelligence Targeted American Jews
Washington — World War II was at its height; American forces were fighting on two fronts, and the government cast its intelligence nets as widely as they could for any bit of information on the moves and intentions of the country’s enemies — and even its friends. A vast information gathering operation — part clandestine…
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Israeli Tech Firm Helping FBI Hack Into San Bernardino Shooter’s iPhone — Report
An Israeli tech company named “Cellebrite” is reportedly helping the FBI hack into the iPhone of San Bernadino mass killer Syed Rizwan Farook. Apple has refused to help the feds unlock an iPhone 5c belonging to Farook, who killed 14 people. IPhone data gets wiped after multiple failed logins. Apple contends that writing the program…
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Trump Appoints Aide With Anti-Semitic Ties
On Monday, Donald Trump appointed a top foreign policy advisor whose father was an active member of the John Birch Society, which has a history of segregationist and racist views. Trump named Joe Schmitz, a former inspector general in the Defense Department, his top foreign policy advisor. Joe Schmitz’ father, John Schmitz, won election as…
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