Posted on: January 7th, 2014

French interior Minister Manuel Valls instructed French mayors to ban performances by the antisemitic comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala. Valls sent the non-binding recommendation in a circular to French municipalities on Monday, days before Dieudonne is scheduled to launch a nationwide tour, the French news agency AFP reported. “I have sent an instruction today to all […]

Posted on: January 7th, 2014

Jonathan Sarna, a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University, was elected president of the Association for Jewish Studies at its annual meeting. Sarna is the fourth Brandeis professor to serve in the role — one was his father, Nahum Sarna. “This is a great honor to be a leading an organization that plays […]

Posted on: January 7th, 2014

Stark was remembered by friends and relatives as a “go-to guy.”

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Posted on: January 6th, 2014

Aaron Liberman of Northwestern checked in for the final minute of action against Michigan in the Wildcats’ 74-51 men’s basketball loss in Ann Arbor on Sunday and.in the process, the red-shirt freshman made history twice: According to the Big Ten News Network, Liberman was the first player to wear a yarmulke in Big Ten Conference […]

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Posted on: January 6th, 2014

New Year’s revelers shot fireworks and urinated in Germany’s Holocaust memorial in Berlin. Reacting to a disgusting and shocking video that also explicitly showed a man urinating amid young party-goers celebrating among the 2711 stone slabs at the memorial last week, spokesperson Jenifer Stolz told JTA that “we are all quite appalled. But it is […]

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Posted on: January 6th, 2014

A Dutch soccer team is facing criticism for playing in Abu Dhabi after agreeing to the emirate’s demand not to let in the team’s Israeli defender. Two Dutch politicians and several media criticized the soccer team Vitesse from Arnhem over the weekend for agreeing to play in Abu Dhabi despite the refusal Saturday to let […]

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Posted on: January 6th, 2014

Grabbing a Jewish girl, flicking a lighter next to her hair and saying "let's burn the Jew" is apparently not a racially motivated act in Winnipeg.

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Posted on: January 6th, 2014

So many of 2013's pro-Israel bright lights on U.S. campuses were the result of a single strong individual refusing to allow anti-Israel forces to get away with what they have for far too long on far too many campuses.

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Posted on: January 5th, 2014

Originally, New profile was founded to help Arab youths avoid the draft.

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Posted on: January 5th, 2014

French comedian Diedonne M’bala M’bala complained to police about threats to blow up the theater in which he performs. The bomb threat was made Thursday against the Main D’Or theater, which Dieudonne operates, in Paris’ 11th arrondissement, according to MetroNews.fr. Police rushed to the scene but found no explosives. Performances by Dieudonne, a professed anti-Semite […]

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Posted on: January 5th, 2014

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife are responsible for the largest on-record charitable donation in the United States in 2013. For the second straight year, Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave away 18 million Facebook shares — a gift worth more than $970 million — to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation in December, […]

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Posted on: January 5th, 2014

Rabbi Avi Weiss is learning the hard way about playing nice with others.

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Posted on: January 4th, 2014

“He owed a lot of people money.”

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Posted on: January 4th, 2014

It is wise to answer a wing-nut calmly, lest he recognizes that his assortment of horribly vicious lies gets to you.

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Posted on: January 3rd, 2014

A new Facebook campaign by McGill University American History professor Gil Troy, called “Troycott,” has garnered more than 1,100 “likes” in three days, topping the 827 votes of American Studies Association (ASA) members for a boycott of Israel. Troy, who is also an iEngage Project Fellow with the Shalom Hartman Institute, told JNS.org that he […]

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Posted on: January 2nd, 2014

The Modern Language Association does not want to listen to pro-Israel language at a discussion on academic boycotts.

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Posted on: January 2nd, 2014

Nazi lovers and sports fans now have chance to add a Nazi-era soccer poster, complete with a swastika, to their collections. A Nazi-era poster of soccer game between Ireland and Germany, represented by a picture of a swastika, is going on sale at an auction in Dublin.The poster is expected to bring in up to […]

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Posted on: January 2nd, 2014

French police are searching for an unidentified man who performed an anti-Semitic gesture at three locales connected to the murder of Jews. A photo of the suspect surfaced last week online in which he performed the quenelle, a quasi-Nazi salute, in front of the Toulouse school where the Muslim extremist Mohammed Merah murdered four Jews […]

Posted on: January 2nd, 2014

The IDF is not waiting for 2017

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Posted on: January 1st, 2014

Now quinoa is OK for Pesach says the OU.

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