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| January 27, 2015
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Israel’s President Rivlin calls for UN action against anti-Semitism

 

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin tells U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at NYC meeting,  there must be increased global awareness of anti-Semitism.
• Int’l Holocaust Remembrance Day event at UN HQ in New York was postponed due to snowstorm.

By Yoni Hersch & Shlomo Cesana

 

The blizzard in the northeastern U.S. did not pass over President Reuven Rivlin, whose scheduled speech for International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the United Nations on Tuesday was postponed by one day due to the harsh weather.

President Reuven Rivlin and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Monday – Photo: Reuters

With a forecast of more than three feet of snow in New York, Rivlin’s entourage attempted to stick to the original schedule as best as they could.

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| January 23, 2015
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Israel Economy Minister Boosts Arab Hi-Tech Employment In $2.5 million Training Program

Economy Ministry has enacted strategic goal to expand hi-tech employment among Israel’s Arabs, especially the women.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett this week awarded tenders totaling $2.5 million to two organizations tasked with training and integrating more local Arabs into the hi-tech industry.

Arab women in high-tech

The two companies, Tsofen and ITworks, will examine hi-tech manpower needs around the country, and accordingly train and provide job placement services for Arab hi-tech students.

“There is a skilled and high-quality workforce in Israel in the form of hundreds of male and female academics from the Arab, Druze and Circassian sectors, available for employment,” said Michal Tzuk, deputy director-general at the Ministry of Economy.

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| January 22, 2015
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Argentine President’s Latest Letter: Prosecutor did not commit suicide

In President Cristina Kirchner latest letter, she professes no doubt that Nisman’s death was not a suicide, contrary to her previous claims but goes on to say the Prosecutor’s report was riddled with inaccurate information.

By Ynet

 

In a strange turn of events, the president of Argentina says the death of prosecutor who tried to pin her with covering up Iran’s role in the deadly bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994 was not a suicide, saying she had no doubt there was foul play.

President Cristina Kirchner. – Photo: Getty Image

Argentine President Cristina Kirchner took to Twitter to voice her opinion on the death of Alberto Nisman, which many have said she might have played a role in. Continue Reading »

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| January 22, 2015
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10 Israeli tourists terrorized & injured in protracted anti-Semitic attack in Argentina

 

In a long, drawn-out attack lasting hours, that took place at a hostel that seeks Israeli tourists, the local residents shot guns and threw fire-bombs with impunity.

By JTA

 

Ten Israeli tourists were wounded in an anti-Semitic attack at a hostel in a small Argentine village.

Lago Puelo National Park – Photo courtesy: Wikipedia

Three assailants burned, robbed and beat the tourists at the Onda Azul hostel in Lago Puelo, in southern Argentina, between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. Monday, the Argentine media reported. Police in the Chubut province are investigating.

“It was a terrifying moment, several hours of fear,” hostel owner Sergio Polak told the local media.

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| January 20, 2015
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UK Home Secretary: UK must confront appalling rise in anti-Semitism

UK Home Secretary Theresa May: “I never thought I would see that day when members of the Jewish community in the United Kingdom would say they were fearful of remaining here.”

By Eli Leon, Erez Linn, Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

British Home Secretary Theresa May said on Sunday that Britain must step up its efforts to eradicate anti-Semitism across the country in a speech designed to address the Jewish community’s security concerns after an Islamist gunman killed four French Jews in Paris.

British Home Secretary Theresa May on Sunday – Photo: Reuters

“I know that many Jewish people in this country are feeling vulnerable and fearful and you are saying you are anxious for your families, for your children and yourselves.

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| January 15, 2015
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Seriously? Mossad shape-shifting Jews Attacked France to Feed Islamophobia

 

French Algerian Muslims to the Mayor of Turkey’s capital, believe (Mossad or shape-shifting) Jews carried out the French murders to further inflame Islamophobia.

By Ryan Jones

 

It’s inevitable. Any time there is a high profile terrorist attack, someone, somewhere will say the Jews did it. And that is precisely what is starting to happen following last week’s string of shootings that took the lives of 17 innocent people in Paris.

I’m not talking about the BBC reporter who told a Jewish descendant of Holocaust survivors, of all people, that in the eyes of some, the Paris attacks could appear justified in light of what he called Israel’s maltreatment of the Palestinians.

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| January 12, 2015
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Did ‘Smiling’ Palestinian president Abbas go to Paris to Honor the Victims or the Terrorists?

Op-Ed: Abbas’ arrival in Paris was brazen hypocrisy. He names streets, city squares & schools after mass murderers, so who did he really come to honor, the fallen victims, 4 of whom were Jewish or the 3 killed Muslim terrorists?

By Jack Engelhard

 

One man came to the party and ruined it for anyone who believed in the sanctity of the occasion. Mahmoud Abbas showed up.

The only one smiling in the Paris ceremony (2nd from right; front row), marking the murder of innocent civilians, the Holocaust denier Mahmoud Abbas seems to be enjoying the memorial protest. – Photo: AP

As the result of Islamic terror that bloodied Paris and ripped out the heart of civilization, a million people, citizens and visitors, assembled in Place de la Republique in a march of support for free speech and tolerance.

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| January 11, 2015
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French Jewish Community Living in Fear

Friday’s antisemitic terrorist attack didn’t rattle the already nervous Jewish community, but it did instill genuine heartache and concern.
• Paris’ major synagogues suspended their Shabbat services for the 1st time since World War II.

By Boaz Bismuth

 

The last time I saw a Jewish minyan relocate from a synagogue to a private residence for security reasons was in 2010. I was in Rayda, Yemen, where the Jews were still reeling from the assassination of Moshe Nahari, the brother of a prominent rabbi.

I never thought I would find myself at the same exact same setting in Paris, only four years later.

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| January 11, 2015
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French PM Declares, ‘If 100,000 Jews leave, France will no longer be France’

 

With possibility of 100,000 Jews fleeing France, French PM urges Jews not to leave the country, in an interview with The Atlantic.
• European Union rabbi urges Jerusalem to help fund security for French Jews, as 2nd option, not just urge Aliyah.

By Ynet

 

“If 100,000 French people of Spanish origin were to leave, I would never say that France is not France anymore. But if 100,000 Jews leave, France will no longer be France. The French Republic will be judged a failure,” French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Sunday ahead of a memorial rally in honor of those killed in France in recent days. Continue Reading »

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| January 11, 2015
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Israel’s PM Spoke with Freed French Hostage About Slain Jewish Man’s Heroism

Prime Minister Netanyahu said, “Celine (Charki) told me about the terrorist’s unfathomable cruelty & the heroism of a Jewish youth who tried to take his gun & shoot him.”

By Hezki Ezra, Gil Ronen

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Saturday evening that he spoke by phone with Celine Charki, who was one of the hostages held at the kosher supermarket in Paris Friday. “Celine told me about the terrorist’s unfathomable cruelty and the heroism of a Jewish youth who tried to take his gun and shoot him,” he said.

The heroic action was apparently taken by hostage Johan Cohen, who was killed.

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| January 9, 2015
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2nd Paris Hostage Crisis – Now at Kosher Deli

BREAKING NEWS

AFP report 2 dead (unconfirmed) amidst tense standoff in Dammartin-en-Goele, developments on police shooting, as many as 5 hostages at kosher deli.

By Tova Dvorin

A second hostage crisis is unfolding in Paris Friday, French police announced to the media Friday afternoon: an armed man has taken a hostage in a kosher grocery store in the French capital.

1-2 people have been shot and wounded by a gunman with a Kalashnikov-type rifle, according to French media, who has taken the hostage at the Hypercasher supermarket in Vincennes.

French media has now begun to report that there are 5 hostages there, including women and children, but this has not been officially confirmed.

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| December 29, 2014
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Arab Muslims Rewriting the Bible: Jesus was the first Palestinian

Both Palestinian leaders & Islamic religious clerics alike continue to preach that Jesus was one of their own, and their lie has caught on.

By Israel Today Staff

 

As has become custom, Palestinian Authority last week made a show of claiming Jesus as one of their own in the run-up to Christmas.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends a Christmas Midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem December 25. – Photo: REUTERS – Considering what’s happened to the Christian population in Bethlehem since the formation of the Palestinian Authority, isn’t this like Hitler going to a Bar-Mitzvah?

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| December 29, 2014
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Lower Egyptian court forbids Jews from celebrating at Jewish mystic’s grave

The Egyptian court said its ruling was based on “moral offenses” committed during previous years at the 3-day Jewish festival celebrating Rabbi Jacob Abu Hasira’s birth.

By REUTERS

 

CAIRO – An Egyptian court permanently banned a Jewish celebration that has taken place since the 1979 peace deal with Israel and asked the government to remove the tomb where it takes place from a list of official shrines, judicial sources said on Monday.

Jacob Abu Hasira

Jacob Abu Hasira.- Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

The court said its decision was due to “moral offenses” committed in previous years at the three-day festival celebrating the birth of Rabbi Jacob Abu Hasira. Continue Reading »

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| December 23, 2014
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Muslim Cleric Advocates for Jews to Pray on Judaism’s Temple Mount

Jordanian Sheikh Yassin Al-‘Ajlouni acknowledges Judaism’s historical & spiritual  connection to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount & wants Muslims to establish a Jewish place of worship.

By Israel Today Staff

 

A prominent Jordanian Muslim cleric last week said that Jews should be permitted to pray atop Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, which is Judaism’s holiest site. Though the holy site is currently under Israeli sovereignty, Jews and Christians are strictly prohibited from even mouthing silent prayers while visiting.

Jordanian Salafi Cleric Sheik Yassin Al-'Ajlouni - MEMRI screenshot

Jordanian Salafi Cleric Sheik Yassin Al-‘Ajlouni – MEMRI screenshot

Like most Jews and many Christians, Sheikh Yassin Al-’Ajlouni ascertained that control of the Temple Mount is “the most important issue of our times,” but said he saw no problem in permitting Jews to pray there.

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| December 18, 2014
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American Jew Alan Gross Released From 5 Years Imprisonment as US & Cuba Make Peace

 

After 5 years in a Cuban jail, released US Jew says “It’s the best Hanukkah I’ll be celebrating in a long time,” following being set free as part of historic deal between US & Cuba.

By Associated Press

 

 

American Alan Gross emerged Wednesday from five years of captivity in Cuba praising the Cuban people and offering a lesson he said he learned: Freedom is not free.

Alan Gorss – Photo: AFP

“It’s good to be home,” Gross said at a news conference in Washington D.C. “It’s the best Hanukkah I’ll be celebrating in a long time,” he said with reports claiming he even enjoyed latkes and applesauce on the flight home. Continue Reading »

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