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WATCH: Jewish National Fund-USA’s “Conversations on Zionism”
The twelfth grader, a member of the Druze community, was involved in a car accident after entering Jenin • The head of Israel’s Druze community claims the youth was still alive when he was taken.
UCLA’s Aomar Boum has spent 22 years championing interfaith familiarity and amity
Talib Shareef, a prominent imam from Washington, D.C., will speak about the role of religious leaders in promoting peace.
More than 100 alumni of Passages Israel trips gathered at a conference in Texas on “the importance of speaking out against anti-Semitism whenever we witness it.”
At the annual Feast of Tabernacles, lawmaker Sharren Haskel cuts her hair in solidarity with Iranian women protesting against oppression, and tells MPs that Judeo-Christian values require urgent action on behalf of the Persian people.
The allies include Hollywood stars and politicians, from Pat Boone and Chuck Norris to Stephen Harper and Nikki Haley.
The six members of the cell had also plotted attacks on a bus station in northern Israel and a police station in Nazareth, according to Israel’s security services.
Biden offered prayers for Jewish families affected by the deadly Florida hurricane and said the American Jewish community can’t remain silent on anti-Semitism during the call.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have all labelled Youssef al-Qaradawi’s International Union of Muslim Scholars as a terrorist entity; Hamas mourns his passing.
“Jordan has dropped from the warmest peace with Israel some five years ago to the coldest,” said Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
“We’re the people of the book, but we don’t read our own book,” says Robert Weinger, a master shofar-blower who lives in Israel.
