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2 days ago · Activists called on Defense Minister Israel Katz to allow Jews to rebuild and live in the community, which was destroyed in the 2005 disengagement. Jan. 12, 2025 Biden shifts $100m in military aid from Israel and Egypt to Lebanon
Activist who saved Syrian Jews glad few Jews remain in Arab republic
Dec 24, 2024 · Only two Jews, a brother and sister, remain in Syria today, according to Judy Feld Carr, a musicologist in Toronto who quietly rescued more than 3,000 Syrian Jews between 1977 and 2001. That’s a good thing, the 86-year-old told JNS.
Millions of Christians are under Islamist assault, so Pope Francis ...
By turning reality on its head, the pope’s shameful defamation of the Jews complements his passivity in the face of Islamic jihad against Christians. Perhaps he believes that pointing a finger at the Jews will divert Muslim rage from the Vatican. Surely, it distracts the world from his own cowardice and failure to protect Christians.
‘Judenrein’ Hollywood? The troubling trend in Jewish representation
Dec 26, 2024 · Orthodox Jews fare worse, often being portrayed as “other.” This monochromatic depiction of Jews in popular entertainment is having serious and significant consequences. Perceptions that Jews have wealth and power drive antisemitic conspiracy theories—theories that might be countered by more stories about working-class Jews.
Jimmy Carter was no saint for Jews - JNS.org
Jan 2, 2025 · Jews voted against Carter for the same reasons as other Americans, but his policy towards Israel undoubtedly led to the drop in his share of the Jewish vote from 71% in 1976. Carter’s disdain for Israel’s leaders is a recurring theme in his diary, referring to them as “obstinate and difficult,” “recalcitrant” and “intransigent.”
Police says violent crime dropped in 2024, but Baltimore Jews …
5 days ago · About 20,000 non-Jews lived in those households as well. (More recent estimates say the Jewish community now numbers more than 100,000.) “The community is exceptionally strong in Pikesville, Owings Mills, and the Park Heights and Cheswolde neighborhoods of the City of Baltimore, where many of the central institutions of the Baltimore Jewish ...
South African Jews ask President Ramaphosa to condemn hate crime
Dec 16, 2024 · The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to condemn a hate crime against the Jewish community.
First, they came for Syria’s Jews - JNS.org
Dec 27, 2024 · It puts a figure on their material losses at $10 billion in today’s prices. If taken together with the losses of Jews in nine other Arab countries, the total could run to hundreds of billions of dollars. Not only have the Jews lost their property, they have lost their roots and their history. The region is the poorer for having lost its Jews.
A Jimmy Carter surprise: He hated Jews, not just Israel
Jan 3, 2025 · The sermons contain a slew of chillingly pre-modern antisemitic prejudices. For example, he claimed that Judaism teaches Jews to feel superior to non-Jews, that Jewish religious practices are a sleazy “trick” to enhance personal wealth, and that current Israeli policy towards Palestinians is based upon these “Jewish” values and practices.