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Breaking News Hamas Blasts New Muhammed Cartoon on Charlie Hebdo Cover as ‘Zionist’ Plot
Hamas said the Charlie Hebdo cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on the satirical magazine’s latest cover was part of a plot by the “Zionist lobby.” “We condemn the latest publication of ‘Charlie Hebdo,’ which has caricatures offending the Prophet Muhammad,” spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said Wednesday, according to reports. “The way the Israeli newspapers have dealt…
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Breaking News Right-Wing Extremists Flock to Milan for Meeting of New Pan-European Party
For the second time in less than a month, right-wing extremists from around Europe met in Milan. About 300 people, among them representatives of European far-right parties and movements including Greece’s Golden Dawn and the British National Party, met at a Milan hotel on Saturday, according to local media. The gathering was organized by the…
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Opinion Tunisians Turn ‘Ashkenormative’ Judaism Upside Down
A Tunisian Jewish family on the island of Djerba / Getty Images The Tunisian Ambassador to the United Kingdom recently came to the Chabad here in Oxford to give a Shabbat dinner talk. Needless to say, this event was not an ordinary Shabbat dinner by any means. After a meal of traditional Tunisian foods, the…
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Opinion Bibi’s $40M Settlement Giveaway Blocked
Hours before Israel’s Knesset voted Monday evening to disperse and head to elections, Prime Minister Netanyahu asked the finance committee to approve an “emergency” grant to settlements in the West Bank of some 160 million shekels ($40 million). Netanyahu was acting in his capacity as acting finance minister, following his firing last week of incumbent…
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Breaking News Zionist Leader Kalman Sultanik Dies at 97
Zionist leader Kalman Sultanik, who for decades served as a leader in the World Jewish Congress, has died. Sultanik, who was also a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council and president of the Federation of Polish Jews, died Sunday in New York at the age of 97. Born in Miechow, Poland in 1917, Sultanik…
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Culture Irgun Fighter Remembers the Altalena
Malca Fein is a fit, sharp, outspoken, perfectly groomed octogenarian with a just a hint of an accent. But get her talking about the past and the fiery Zionist freedom fighter burns through her grandmotherly facade. At the age of 16, Malca, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1925 and now makes her home…
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Opinion Summer’s Missing Question: What Is Zionism?
In October 1998, in a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y., an obstetrician-gynecologist named Barnett Slepian was assassinated while standing in his kitchen, shot by an anti-abortion sniper hiding in the woods behind the house. It was a Friday night, and Slepian had just returned from synagogue where he was saying Kaddish for his late father. Eight…
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Breaking News Dutch Minister Suspends Official Who Claimed ISIS as Zionist Conspiracy
A Dutch government employee who said the ISIS terrorist group was a Zionists conspiracy has been suspended pending further disciplinary steps. Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten announced the decision about Yasmina Haifi, a former project manager for the ministry’s Cyber Security Center, on Friday, the news agencies ANP and Novum reported. On Wednesday, Haifi wrote…
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