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The last light of sunset lingered as Lena August walked down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena after celebrating her mother’s birthday at a Mexican restaurant. As she approached her car, she noticed a law enforcement vehicle double-parked next to hers. As soon as she turned the ignition, the glare of police lights flashed in her eyes….
Dozens of men at an anti-Israel demonstration in Antwerp shouted slogans about slaughtering Jews. Approximately 500 people attended Saturday’s protest in the capital of Belgium’s Flemish region, where one of the speakers used a loudspeaker to chant a call in Arabic that means “slaughter the Jews.” The demonstration against Israel’s assault on Hamas in Gaza…
Eighty years ago, on February 6, 1934, the French Republic had a near-death experience. On that wintry evening, tens of thousands of protestors, mostly young and mostly male, massed along the boulevards of Paris. Their aim was to bring down the Republic—or, as they called it, “la gueuse” or whore. In the eyes of contemporaries,…
Supporters of the Women Of The Wall will gather in New York on Tuesday, March 12, supporting women’s right to pray freely at the Western Wall, or Kotel, in Jerusalem. The New York event, expected to be the largest, is organized by New York’s Wake Up for Religious Tolerance!, and will take place at 9…
The struggle over the right of women to pray as they wish at the Western Wall has reached the U.S. as American Jews on Monday kicked a nationwide series of protests over the emotive issue. More than 100 protesters gathered Monday evening outside the Israeli embassy in Washington to show solidarity with the Women of…
Thousands gathered in Egyptian cities on Friday to protest against Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip as Egypt’s president vowed to support the enclave’s people in the face of “blatant aggression”. Western governments are watching Egypt’s response to the attacks for signs of a more assertive stance towards Israel since an Islamist came to…
Hundreds of Brazilian Jews joined a mass march for religious freedom in Rio de Janeiro. In total, the march on Sept. 16 along Rio’s Copacabana beach drew more than 200,000 people, according to CONIB, the umbrella group representing Brazil’s Jewish communities. The event was the 5th annual march organized by the Commission for Combating Religious…
Nearly 100 years ago, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously coined the phrase “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants” in praise of transparency and honesty in public policy. Not long after, Jewish communal organizations (within which Brandeis was an active supporter of the Zionist cause) appropriated the phrase for their own purposes,…
דער ירושלימער „בית־המקדש־אינסטיטוט‟ גרײט כּהנים צו צו דער עבֿודה וואָס זיי האָפֿן דורכצופֿירן אין אַ דריטן בית־המקדש.
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