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Jewish group urges education and local partnerships to put the Catholic Church’s commitment into practice.
The Majdal Shams mother has become an outspoken advocate for resilience and unity since losing her 11-year-old daughter, Alma.
The move comes as Canada is experiencing record-high levels of antisemitism, including at universities, and at a time of heightened security at Jewish institutions in the country.
A monument, replacing one that was vandalized, has stood outside a church for more than two decades as the court weighs whether it can be displayed at the Statehouse.
“When a former president of the United States tells a European arena that Israel was founded on theft, he hands a talking point to every campus mob, every synagogue vandal and every ideologue who has spent half a century teaching that the Jewish state is a colonial crime.”
“While it does not add substantially to what we already know about the synagogue, it serves as a reminder of the deep roots of Jewish life in New York,” the ritual director of Congregation Shearith Israel told JNS.
“The State of Israel, for us as Orthodox Jews, is the beginning of the flowering of the redemption of our people,” Rabbi Elie Buechler told JNS. “If that’s not their perspective, that’s OK too.”
The findings, which come nearly two years after the fall of the Assad regime, raise serious concerns about Syria’s direction under its current leader, according to London-based watchdog IMPACT-se.
“This is a tremendous victory not only for our clients but for all religious release time programs,” an attorney for the Christian group said.
The broadcast from Jerusalem reached people in 176 countries.
“The Jews have moved their entire lives, and they finally have a homeland,” Pastor Aaron Taylor told JNS. “Let them be. There’s one Jewish country.”
