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B’nai Brith Canada urged police to take action to end demonstrations at the intersection of Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue West.
Trenton Touch allegedly wrote in social media messages that he was going to kill the U.S. president and dress as a Nazi on Halloween to commit a mass shooting.
Ahmed Moor, who has called Hamas rocket fire “self-defense” and said that “‘Zionist Israel’ does not have the right to exist,” is the first candidate to announce that he’s taking on the pro-Israel stalwart.
“The knowledge that there are youth who are willing to perpetrate these attacks only adds to the fear of Jewish Canadians who have been grappling with a national crisis of antisemitism for the last several years,” Richard Robertson of B’nai Brith Canada told JNS.
Daniel Meron said that many countries that decry Israel publicly “in real life, they do business with Israel and they enjoy the great Israeli achievements in technology,” and “we are very pleased to cooperate with them.”
“It will open up some space for the Democrats, who do care deeply about the relationship with Israel, to have a more positive agenda on how to deal with Israel to counter those who just want to isolate and punish Israel,” Joel Rubin told JNS.
“There is no ongoing threat,” the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington stated of the incident at Washington Hebrew Congregation.
“These improperly obtained foreign antiquities have been recovered and will be repatriated back to their countries of origin,” stated the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, told JNS at the event that only leaders who have put forward plans to fight modern Jew-hatred should say “never again,” or else it’s a “shallow cliché.”
A magistrate judge’s recommendation to let the global body assert immunity on behalf of its adviser “overlooks the position of the U.S. government,” which sanctioned Albanese, and misinterprets the plaintiff’s position, the charities said.
“Most legislators don’t want this on the docket,” Dan Goldwin, a Jewish United Fund spokesman, told JNS.
The New York City Police Department told JNS that the 26-year-old was charged with assault and harassment.
Daniel Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, told JNS that Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, wasn’t invited to the 35th International Mayors Conference in Jerusalem.
Hate crimes against Jews, who make up about 10% of New Yorkers, are up more than 4% so far this year, according to official data from the New York City Police Department.
“This was more than solidarity. It was a refusal to let history repeat itself,” Jayne Zirkle of End Jew-Hatred told JNS.
MK Roy Folkman invites Shas and United Torah Judaism to back a vote at Tuesday’s opening session; incumbent Amir Ohana demands a request by at least 61 lawmakers.
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A former Satmar yeshiva student who volunteered as a medic during the Oct. 7 massacre tells JNS that an encounter with a wounded soldier changed his life forever.
Organizers say more than 200,000 joined the march, demanding tougher sanctions and an end to arms sales to the Jewish state.
“There is no difference between what is being done to us today and what was done to our grandparents in the ghettos of Europe 800 years ago,” said Israel’s ambassador to the United States.
The U.S. president defended the strikes on Iran as essential to Israel’s survival, while saying renewed fighting was “highly unlikely” if negotiations progressed.
“Today, there is nothing I can’t do,” Boris Shtonda tells JNS.