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Thousands of British Jews rally against anti-Semitism
JTASep 27, 2018
LONDON — More than 2,500 people demonstrated last week in Manchester, England, in a display of Jewish unity against increasing anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom and...
58 group object to University of Michigan boycott
JTASep 27, 2018
ANN ARBOR — Fifty-eight organizations called on the University of Michigan to sanction professors who boycott Israel — such as by refusing to write a letter of...
Thousands of women gather to wage peace
TPSSep 27, 2018
By Mara Vigevani Some 4,500 women — Jews and Arabs, religious and secular, all dressed in white and turquoise —made their way from Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem’s Old...
Who will be Jerusalem’s next mayor?
Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, JNSSep 20, 2018
JERUSALEM — The late Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek used to say that if one wants to uproot and replant a tree in Jerusalem, it might require the UN Security Council. He...
Ari Fuld, Israel activist, killed by terrorist in Gush Etzion
JNSSep 18, 2018
JERUSLAEM — Ari Fuld, a 45-year-old father of four, and a prolific English-language social-media activist and media pundit, was killed by a 17-year-old Palestinian...
Warsaw phonebook from ’39 aids in restitution
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTASep 13, 2018
WARSAW — In the small park behind the only synagogue in this city to have survived WW II, Yoram Sztykgold looks around with a perplexed expression. An 82-year-old...
Deadly crime puts light on Mainz
JNSSep 13, 2018
By Orit Arfa MAINZ, Germany — In recent months, the Rhine city of Mainz captured worldwide headlines for the murder and rape of one of its Jewish members, 14-year-old...
Trump shuts PLO out of Washington
JTASep 13, 2018
WASHINGTON — The Trump Administration ordered the close of the PLO office in Washington DC this week. “We have permitted the PLO office to conduct operations that...
In Boston, Pressley will press Israel on Palestinians
JTASep 13, 2018
BOSTON — Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley scored a major upset on Sept. 4 over 10-term incumbent congressman Michael Capuano in the Democratic primary. Pressley...
US curtails UNRWA funding
JTASep 06, 2018
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5779 SECTION A PAGE 10 JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the US announcement that it would halt all funding to the UN...
