Posted on: January 28th, 2014

The Anti-Defamation League has accepted the “heartfelt apology” from venture capitalist Thomas Perkins, who likened criticism of the wealthy to Kristallnacht. “We believe that Mr. Perkins now realizes why his Holocaust comparison was so offensive,” the ADL said in a statement after a long conversation Monday between Perkins and the ADL’s national director, Abraham Foxman. […]

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Posted on: January 28th, 2014

The official Palestinian Authority daily last week, days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, published an op-ed demonizing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who it said has Nazi genes that he may have “acquired it genetically from the days of the Nazis and the Aryan race.” The report, translated and published by the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), […]

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Posted on: January 28th, 2014

The Helmsley Charitable trust, which was bankrolled by the late hotel tycoon “Queen of Mean” Leona Helmsley, has donated $25 million to Haifa University, which will use the funds for undersea robots and automated vehicles and undersea laboratories for its new Mediterranean Sea Research Center. Her name became more widely known for her including her […]

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Posted on: January 28th, 2014

Chile’s Palestine Football Club, after being fined for wearing uniforms on which the number one in players’ numbers in the backs of their shirts were represented by a map of Israel as Palestine, unveiled its new uniforms that now show exactly the same thing on the front of the shirt. Inset into the players’ numbers […]

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Posted on: January 28th, 2014

Neturei Karta is shooting itself in the head with its anti-Zionist antics, and that might be all for the best.

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Posted on: January 28th, 2014

Remember Life of Brian, where the Judean splinter groups run into each other and start a brawl? You're in for a treat.

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Posted on: January 28th, 2014

It's fun to push back. God bless you, Mr. Silver, keep 'em running!

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Posted on: January 28th, 2014

The Ruderman Foundation Prize went to a global leader in extending rights to those with disabilities

Posted on: January 27th, 2014

Maybe the crow and the seagull know something that most of us know but the pope won’t believe.

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Posted on: January 27th, 2014

A march through Paris against French President Francois Hollande ended with anti-Semitic chants and cries of support for an anti-Semitic comedian. At least 150 protesters were arrested in the “Day of Anger” demonstrations on Sunday, according to reports. Nineteen police officers were injured in clashes with protesters, one seriously, the French news agency AFP reported. […]

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Posted on: January 27th, 2014

Jewish leaders may be taking a big risk by charging that refusing to free Pollard is a vendetta against US Jews

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Posted on: January 27th, 2014

A recently-discovered letter sent to Hitler in 1939 offered him 100,000 Palestine lira in exchange for allowing Jews to buy land in Gush Etzion and move to Israel. The proposal, which was sent in a letter dated April 9, 1939, but was not carried out. Researchers at the Kfar Etzion Museum found a copy of […]

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Posted on: January 27th, 2014

Dozens of lawmakers from Israel, the United States and Europe convened at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau for ceremonies commemorating its liberation 69 years ago. The largest foreign parliamentary delegation landed in Poland from Israel on Monday, Jan. 27 — the day that the United Nations in 2005 designated as International Holocaust Remembrance […]

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Posted on: January 26th, 2014

“If we prohibit it [circumcision], we must also address the issue of the Christian ritual of baptism.”

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Posted on: January 26th, 2014

Holocaust historian Randoph Braham is returning a high honor from the Hungarian state as a protest against attempts to whitewash Hungary’s role in the Holocaust, Braham said in a letter quoted by the Hungarian state news agency MTI on Sunday. Braham, 91, a Holocaust survivor, wrote that he was handing back the Cross of the […]

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Posted on: January 26th, 2014

The Lehava Organization for the Prevention of Assimilation in the Holy Land appealed to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Sunday to break up his son Yair’s relationship with a Norwegian non-Jew. Yair Netanyahu is dating Sandra  Leikange a fellow student, Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, The Jewish Press reported here earlier today. Citing the Prime Minister’s late […]

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Posted on: January 26th, 2014

Two unusual events relating to Holocaust remembrance recently took place in the Arab world – a first official conference on the Holocaust in Tunisia and the first visit by an Arab diplomat to a Holocaust memorial site, when Bahraini ambassador to France Nasser Al-Balushi visited a memorial near Paris. The Middle East Media Research Institute […]

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Posted on: January 26th, 2014

The White House on Friday announced the appointment of Aviva Sufian as the first Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Special Envoy for U.S. Holocaust Survivor Services. Vice President Joe Biden had announced the formation of the new position in December 2013. Sufian “will focus on those [Holocaust] survivors currently living in poverty, as […]

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Posted on: January 26th, 2014

Nearly one-third of European Jews are considering emigrating because of rising anti-Semitism, and 25 percent of Jews in Europe are afraid to appear in public with cloths or symbols that would identify them as Jews, a new report reveals. There was no indication of which countries were the desired new homes of those wanting to […]

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Posted on: January 26th, 2014

Yair and Leikanger met at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.

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