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Eight-year sentence for abuse in Australia

SYDNEY — A former security guard at a Chabad school in Melbourne was sentenced to eight years in prison for raping one boy and sexually abusing eight others. David...

No Christmas tree on display in the Knesset

JERUSALEM — Israeli Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein said it would be inappropriate to place a Christmas tree on prominent display in the Knesset following a request from...

Backlash against ASA

WASHINGTON — The American studies departments of Brandeis University and Penn State Harrisburg withdrew from the American Studies Assn. after it voted to boycott...

ASA votes to boycott Israeli universities

WASHINGTON — The membership of the American Studies Association endorsed its national council’s call for a boycott of Israeli universities. Two-thirds of the 1,252...

Arab diplomat visits Holocaust memorial

PARIS — Bahrain’s ambassador to France became the first Arab diplomat to pay an official visit to the Holocaust memorial in Drancy, Holocaust commemoration officials...

Young Jews take part in Ukrainian protests

By Talia Lavin, JTA KIEV —— On the last evening in November, at least 31 protesters were taken into custody and dozens treated for injuries following a violent...

Nelson Mandela strong on Jews, weak on Israel

By Moira Schneider, JTA CAPE TOWN —— In the early 1940s, at a time when it was virtually impossible for a South African of color to secure a professional...

Speak Hebrew! It’s the Jewish way

NEW YORK — For the first 3 1/2 weeks of the summer, one group of 5-year-olds at Ramah Day Camp in Nyack, NY, was “very quiet” as the children went […]

Chabad menorah in Utah vandalized

Salt Lake City — A six-foot menorah in front of the Chabad Lubavitch of Utah was vandalized last weekend. Three branches of the menorah were ripped off its left side...

Outlaw contact with Israelis?

MARRAKECH, Morocco — A Moroccan Jewish leader said proposed bills by Moroccan lawmakers to outlaw all contact with Israelis stand no chance of passing. The two bills,...