Articles for Jews

In a calendar rarity, Hanukkah starts this year on Christmas Day
2 days, 4 hours ago

In a calendar rarity, Hanukkah starts this year on Christmas Day

Associated Press  

Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day, which has only happened four times since 1900. “This can be a profound opportunity for learning and collaboration and togetherness,” said Rabbi Josh Stanton, a vice president of the Jewish Federations of North America. The doughnut-like pastries were sufganiyot — a Hanukkah specialty — and buñuelos, And the …

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For thousands of Jews, Israel still doesn’t feel safe after the Oct. 7 attacks. So they’re leaving
3 days, 11 hours ago

For thousands of Jews, Israel still doesn’t feel safe after the Oct. 7 attacks. So they’re leaving

Associated Press  

LONDON — Leaving Israel is easier, Shira Z. Carmel thinks, by saying it’s just for now. “They said to us, ‘We will stay another year, maybe two years, maybe more.’” Fire says it’s “an issue of concern” enough for him to plan in-person visits with these doctors in the coming months to try to draw them back to Israel. “Right …

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Letters to the Editor: I’m from L.A.’s Jewish community. This is why Pico-Robertson backed Trump
1 week, 1 day ago

Letters to the Editor: I’m from L.A.’s Jewish community. This is why Pico-Robertson backed Trump

LA Times  

A customer exits Bibi’s Bakery & Cafe, where U.S. and Israeli flags hang side by side, in L.A.’s Pico-Robertson neighborhood last month. To the editor: I am the author of the book “Los Angeles Jew: A Memoir.” Although I now reside in Orange County, I know my native-born L.A. Jewish community well. Yes, the Pico-Robertson area is heavily Jewish, but …

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A Holocaust novel zigzags through fact and fiction to memorialize a Polish teenager
1 week, 4 days ago

A Holocaust novel zigzags through fact and fiction to memorialize a Polish teenager

LA Times  

Book Review The Rest Is Memory: A Novel By Lily Tuck Liveright: 144 pages, $24.99 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. A black-and-white photograph of a pretty young girl with a bruised lip, a striped uniform and a numbered tag adorns the cover of Lily …

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Suspect who declared "Jew hunt" in Amsterdam riots could face 8 months in prison
1 week, 4 days ago

Suspect who declared "Jew hunt" in Amsterdam riots could face 8 months in prison

NL Times  

The Public Prosecution Service demanded eight months in prison against a suspect who allegedly spoke about a “Jew hunt” while attacking Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters in Amsterdam following a match against Ajax on November 7. “Words are also very dangerous,” the OM said in court about messages describing ‘Jew hunts’ found on the suspects’ phones. In deleted messages recovered from …

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Australian PM condemns anti-Israel graffiti in Sydney as ‘outrage’ and ‘hate crime’
1 week, 5 days ago

Australian PM condemns anti-Israel graffiti in Sydney as ‘outrage’ and ‘hate crime’

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A car was torched and …

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Albanese visits Jewish museum
1 week, 5 days ago

Albanese visits Jewish museum

ABC  

Samantha Donovan: Hello, welcome to PM. Also, Syria has an interim Prime Minister to guide the country after the ousting of the Assad regime and meet the biologist on a mission in one of Antarctica's most remote areas. Sarah Maunder: No arrests have been made in relation to today's attack in Sydney, but police say they want to speak to …

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Amsterdam riot suspects on trial say anti-Semitic slurs were not meant for all Jews
1 week, 5 days ago

Amsterdam riot suspects on trial say anti-Semitic slurs were not meant for all Jews

NL Times  

The first day of trials against a group of five suspects accused of violence in Amsterdam around the Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv football match on November 7 began on Wednesday, largely with claims of innocence. "The suspect was anything but passive in this.” Sefa Ö. facing two years in prison, six months could be conditionally suspended The second suspect whose case …

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Vandals burn a car and spray graffiti in latest antisemitic attack in Australia
1 week, 5 days ago

Vandals burn a car and spray graffiti in latest antisemitic attack in Australia

Associated Press  

MELBOURNE, Australia — Vandals torched a car and sprayed graffiti with anti-Israel slogans including an apparently misspelled “Kill Israiel” on Wednesday in a Sydney suburb that is home to Australia’s largest Jewish community. Premier Chris Minns, the Sydney-based leader of the New South Wales state government, described the attack as an attempt to “intimidate the Jewish community in Sydney.” “This …

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Once strongly liberal, Pico-Robertson surged for Trump in 2024. Why?
1 week, 6 days ago

Once strongly liberal, Pico-Robertson surged for Trump in 2024. Why?

LA Times  

In 2020, the Jewish haven of Pico-Robertson voted for Joe Biden over Donald Trump, taking its place among the large swath of liberal Westside communities. On the Monday after the election, there weren’t many Trump signs left around the neighborhood, but there were plenty of Nathan Hochman signs — a potential insight into the tough-on-crime priorities of Pico-Robertson voters. “Trump’s …

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Queensland man charged over alleged threats to Victorian Jewish community centre
1 week, 6 days ago

Queensland man charged over alleged threats to Victorian Jewish community centre

ABC  

Queensland police have charged a man who they will allege made online threats towards a Jewish community centre in Victoria. Police said investigations indicated the man was not involved with the arson of a Melbourne synagogue last week. For Jews, the attack on Adass Israel Synagogue is a painful reminder of past horrors Last week’s firebombing of a synagogue in …

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For Jews, the burning of the Adass Israel Synagogue is not just a violent attack — it is a painful reminder of past horrors
2 weeks ago

For Jews, the burning of the Adass Israel Synagogue is not just a violent attack — it is a painful reminder of past horrors

ABC  

In this third decade of the twenty-first century, the safe season for Jewish people is coming to an end. We see this clearly with last week’s horrific attack on, and ultimate destruction of, the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne. On 6 December 1938, a notable response to these events came from Aboriginal activist William Cooper who, together with the Australian …

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Labour MP’s bid to end ‘alienating’ discrimination against Jews and Sikhs
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Labour MP’s bid to end ‘alienating’ discrimination against Jews and Sikhs

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Jews and Sikhs are two of the top three ethnic groups to experience hate crimes …

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US military takes pride in religious diversity. Would things change if Pete Hegseth takes charge?
2 weeks, 5 days ago

US military takes pride in religious diversity. Would things change if Pete Hegseth takes charge?

Associated Press  

It was a history-making event: In a chapel at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, 2nd Lt. Khady Ndiaye stood proudly -- wearing a hijab – as she became the first Muslim woman commissioned by the U.S. Army as a chaplain candidate. Today’s military “is one of the most diverse institutions in American society, racially, ethnically and especially religiously,” said Ronit Stahl, …

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MPs agree to register cultural, religious values of immigrants
2 weeks, 5 days ago

MPs agree to register cultural, religious values of immigrants

Dutch News  

The Dutch parliament has voted in favour of a motion that will require government bodies to research and record the “cultural and religious” values held by Dutch nationals with roots abroad. The motion calls on the government to “keep details of the cultural and religious norms and values held by Dutch people with an immigration background”. “While the ‘real’ Dutch …

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How America was not founded as 'a Christian country' based on 'Judeo-Christian' values
2 weeks, 6 days ago

How America was not founded as 'a Christian country' based on 'Judeo-Christian' values

Raw Story  

A common rallying cry of the right in America, to justify regressive morality laws, is often to say that "America was founded as a Christian country" with "Judeo-Christian values" while the common response from the left is to declare that the United States was founded as an explicitly secular country with a separation of church and state. First of all, …

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How the killing of a rabbi in Dubai upended a community that thought it was safe
3 weeks, 1 day ago

How the killing of a rabbi in Dubai upended a community that thought it was safe

Live Mint  

DUBAI—The morning of Nov. 21, Rabbi Zvi Kogan left his home with no signs that anything was wrong. The killing has shaken the small community of Jews who set up in the Gulf state in the wake of the Abraham Accords brokered during Donald Trump’s first term as president and which normalized relations between Israel and the U.A.E. He delivered …

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Twist in the pot: Indian cookbooks are celebrating new kinds of mixed heritage
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Twist in the pot: Indian cookbooks are celebrating new kinds of mixed heritage

Hindustan Times  

The map is simply all over the place, in the most delicious and puzzling ways, when it comes to food. “That’s why many Guyanese-Indians have dishes that are very simple yet stellar,” Rajkumar says. “Words like jeera, kothmir and ginger-garlic — uttered quickly as one word — were frequently heard in my mother’s kosher kitchen,” she says, laughing. She had …

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Game evoking Oct. 7 Hamas attack pulled after police appeal, creator says
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Game evoking Oct. 7 Hamas attack pulled after police appeal, creator says

Al Jazeera  

Game distributor said Operation al-Aqsa Flood removed from Stream at request of UK police, emails show. An updated version of the game called Operation al-Aqsa Flood, the name Hamas uses for its October 7, 2023 attack, was released on Steam earlier this month. Operation al-Aqsa Flood’s cut scene was intended to be provocative and “to ‘trigger’ Zionists”, Nim said, but …

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26/11: The day India changed forever
3 weeks, 6 days ago

26/11: The day India changed forever

Firstpost  

26/11, often called the 9/11 of India, was a dark chapter in India’s security history, an event that shook the collective security consciousness of India and changed the security paradigm in the region forever The night of November 26, 2008, 10 terrorists from the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group of Pakistan entered Mumbai city across the sea route in inflatable speedboats after …

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How India’s Socialists and Hindu Nationalists Forged Historic Friendship with Israel
4 weeks ago

How India’s Socialists and Hindu Nationalists Forged Historic Friendship with Israel

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 25, 2024 19:10 IST - 11 MINS READ Much before the establishment of Israel in May 1948, the Indian National Congress had opposed it. Please pay fresh attention to this problem.” However, the Congress Socialist Party, an avowedly “secular” socialist bloc within the Indian National Congress that Congress members founded in 1934, went against Gandhi’s declared policy …

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Dubai rabbi Zvi Kogan killed in ‘heinous terror incident’ says Israel
4 weeks ago

Dubai rabbi Zvi Kogan killed in ‘heinous terror incident’ says Israel

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A statement from Benjamin Netanyahu’s office called Kogan’s death a “heinous antisemitic terror incident” and said …

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3 arrested in UAE in killing of Israeli scholar
4 weeks ago

3 arrested in UAE in killing of Israeli scholar

India Today  

Three people have been arrested in the United Arab Emirates in connection with the alleged murder of an Israeli citizen, the Emirati interior ministry said on Sunday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office had denounced the killing of the rabbi, Zvi Kogan, 28, as a "heinous antisemitic terrorist act" and said Israel would do everything it could to bring those …

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Everything we know about the rabbi missing in UAE who Israel says was murdered
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Everything we know about the rabbi missing in UAE who Israel says was murdered

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been …

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