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Argentina Jews Reject ‘Suicide’ of Crusading Terror Prosecutor as Rage Spreads
Banging pots and pans, thousands of angry protesters, including many Jews, descended on the Plaza de Mayo square in front of Argentina’s presidential palace on January 19. With signs reading, “Yo Soy Nisman” (I Am Nisman), they came to mourn Alberto Nisman, a Jewish prosecutor whose sudden and mysterious death a day earlier was officially…
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Vaccination Rates Drop at Some Jewish Day Schools — Even as Diseases Spread
A recent measles outbreak originating at Disneyland that has infected more than 50 people has returned the issue of declining immunization rates to the national headlines. California health officials report that the outbreak began at the Anaheim theme park in mid-December and quickly spread throughout the country, helped along in part by the growing influence…
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How Igor Stravinsky Changed Our Lives
Violinist Zvi Zeitlin passed away in 2012. He had started to write his memoirs and planned to include a chapter on his experiences with Igor Stravinsky. He never got to do this, so his widow, Marianne Langner Zeitlin, has written her own memories of that episode in their lives. On a glorious day in the…
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Inside the Heads, Hearts and Yarmulkes of Jewish Cops
Rabbi Gary Moskowitz served on the New York City Police Department for nearly a decade, during which he worked as an undercover narcotics cop and patrolled Times Square. Still, he says that many people could never fully grasp the idea of a Jewish police officer. Moskowitz remembers chasing down a mugger near Columbus Circle in…
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My Daughter’s Bat Mitzvah Isn’t Jewish Enough for You?
The Seesaw is a new kind of advice column in which a broad range of columnists will address the real life issues faced by interfaith couples and families. Read the discussion and vote below for what you think is the best response to this particular quandary. You can email your own questions, which will remain…
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How Germany Is Attempting To De-Radicalize Muslim Extremists
Right-wing extremism is not the only kind of extremism Germany faces. An estimated 300 German citizens of Muslim background are currently fighting in Syria as part of the radical-militant organization Islamic State. The number of Muslim Germans who adopt extremist ideology is tiny in comparison with the portion of right-wing extremists in the German society….
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Was Terror Compensation Cash Diverted to Orthodox Yeshivas?
Thirty years after U.S. serviceman Kenneth Welch was killed in a Beirut suicide bombing by a terrorist group believed to be linked to Iran, a multimillion-dollar payout from seized Iranian assets seemed finally in sight. Welch’s brother, Michael Welch, wanted to thank the man he credited with this success: Michael Engelberg. Engelberg’s work was not…
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Will Spike in French Emigration Decimate Jewish Life?
(JTA) — Taken alone, the attack on the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket near Paris is nothing that French Jews haven’t seen before. Arguably, the 2012 attack that caught the Toulouse community unprepared was more traumatic because children were killed. And the 1982 attack on the Goldenberg Jewish restaurant in Paris was deadlier than last week’s…
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Jewish Leaders Join Massive Paris March To Honor Attack Victims
Dozens of world leaders including Muslim and Jewish statesmen joined hundreds of thousands of French citizens marching in Paris amid high security in an unprecedented tribute to victims of this week’s Islamist militant attacks. President Francois Hollande and leaders from Germany, Italy, Israel, Turkey, Britain and the Palestinian territories among others, moved off from the…
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College Students and Teacher Among 4 Jews Killed in Kosher Grocery Terror Attack
Just before Shabbat, Avishai Hattab told a Jewish radio station that he hoped to see his brother alive. But by Saturday morning, it was clear that Yoav Hattab, a 21-year-old Tunisia native living in the Paris suburb of Vincennes, had died at the hands of a radical Islamist, during a hostage situation Friday at a…
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Beauty Is a Beast — Hayat Boumeddiene Went From Bikini Girlfriend to Terror Fugitive
French police were still hunting Saturday for the girlfriend of the slain terrorist who killed four hostages at a Paris kosher grocery store — and several reports say she fled to lawless Syria. Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, whose boyfriend Amedy Coulibaly was killed when police stormed the grocery, apparently escaped the bloody scene and was on…
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