A far-right activist in Russia was arrested for creating a brigade to kill Jews.\n\nPolice in Zlatoust arrested the 34-year-old suspect accused of creating a \”punishment brigade\” to murder Jews and people from the Causcasus, the local news agency Ural Inform Byuro reported, according to the UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union.
Germany\’s only Jewish Film Festival is in danger of closing down due to lack of funding, the event\’s founder and director Nicola Galliner said on Monday.\n\nGalliner, a London native who launched the festival in 1994, said all her appeals for funding to the Berlin municipality, which had supported the festival in the past, had been rejected.\n
An outbreak of mumps in New York and New Jersey has affected more than 1,500 people since June, mostly Jewish boys ages 7-18.\n\nA report issued Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that the children with the mumps have high vaccination rates, but that the spread of the disease is likely due to the Orthodox Jewish community\’s large families and exposure in boys\’ yeshivas, where the boys study together up to 14 hours a day.\n
Schneur Simha, the former deputy director general of the Education Ministry, was in the City of David outside the Old City of Jerusalem last July when he realized he was close to a long lost relative . While drinking coffee with members of the Elad organization, which operates the site, he related that his grandfather, after whom he had been named, was buried on the Mount of Olives opposite where they were sitting but that he had never seen his grave since the area was lost after the War of Independence.
The founding of J Street in 2008 sparked much debate in the pro-Israel community. Many were concerned that the group would be overly critical of the Jewish state and thus erode the pro-Israel consensus in the United States.
With the turbulence surrounding diplomacy and the Middle East peace process, it is more urgent than ever for civil society to unite around the obvious reality that a conflict-ending solution can only be attained through the creation of a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace and security.
Is the cross purely a religious sign or a symbol of national heritage?
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is objecting to the appearance of Richard Goldstone at New York University.
JERUSALEM — World ORT is investing $12.6 million to install 400 \”smart classrooms\” throughout northern Israel.\n\nThrough its programmatic arm in Israel, Kadima Mada, World ORT said it will begin with 72 relatively under-resourced Jewish and non-Jewish schools, which will benefit some 40,000 students a year.
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