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“Purposefully yanking on an Israeli flag tied around a Jewish person’s neck to choke them is direct evidence of racial discrimination,” a district court judge for the District of Columbia stated.
“Packing with a Purpose” is a way for immigrants “to help IDF soldiers and show solidarity with our Druze community,” said Telfed CEO Doron Kline.
“Rabbi Wein was a uniquely impactful Rav whose work, perspective and voice profoundly influenced generations of Orthodox Jewry,” the OU said.
Ahmed al-Sharaa accused Israel of “meddling” in a speech in which he assigned blame to “all sides” in addition to his security forces.
The Druze villages in the northern Syrian Hermon, now under Israeli control, are cut off from the world, with their only connection through IDF troops.
JNS has learned that Sharren Haskel is also expected to visit South Sudan in the first official Israeli delegation to the country.
A Jewish suspect was apprehended in the investigation into the vandalism.
Since Rosh Hashanah 2024, 60,587 Jews ascended Judaism’s holiest site, up 25% from the same period the previous year.
“The idea is to support Israel, and to strengthen connections with individual Israeli farmers,” Kobi Assaf, the initiative’s founder and CEO, told JNS.
Presumed Jewish artifacts, and the absence of Christian ones and graves, support a hypothesis that Castulo housed Iberia’s first known shul.
Mario Bramnick, co-founder of the Conference of Christian Presidents for Israel, told JNS that the group is making a task force to “call out the perpetrators of anti-Israel rhetoric and antisemitism and hold accountability.”
“Our government and leaders must take these numbers seriously and enact adequate measures to protect all Americans from the scourge of hate crimes,” the ADL said of the FBI hate crime statistics.
