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The FBI is monitoring for threats against Jewish Americans ahead of the Passover holiday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said, adding that the number was already high before Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel. Wray mentioned the FBI’s work in investigating anti-Jewish hate crimes while speaking at an event Wednesday hosted by the Secure Community Network, the largest Jewish security organization on the continent. “Today, we at the bureau remain particularly concerned that lone actors could target large gatherings, high-profile events, or symbolic or religious locations for violence — particularly a concern, of course, as we look to the start of Passover on Monday evening,” he said.
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admin | April 20, 2024
My dear friend Jerri Livingston died peacefully in her sleep at home on April 3 at the age of 72. She and I had a been entwined in one anothers lives for 59 years
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A new survey found that the war in Israel is continuing to take a heavy toll on Jewish Americans as opposed to other Americans, and that many are concerned about their safety, especially if they wear anything that identifies them as Jewish. These were among the findings of a new survey conducted via text messages on behalf of the Jewish Federations of North America
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Image by Joshua Frank. As a longtime anti-Zionist and member of Jewish Voice for Peace, it has been a fact of my life that the organized Jewish community has considered me a pariah. When I was president of my Jewish congregation, the executive director of the local Jewish Federation refused to speak with me; when communication was required, he always found a workaround
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admin | April 20, 2024
On Shabbat, I was on a mountain bike ride south of Boulder, when my 14-year-old cousin texted from Jerusalem. The bombs are coming here, he wrote.
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admin | April 20, 2024
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report
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admin | April 20, 2024
(New York Jewish Week) When Jewish comedian Michael Hirsch took the stage in the Catskills last month, he quickly realized that the crowd was much older than his typical audience people who may have gone to shows back when the area was a hotbed of Jewish comedy. It was really people who were there for the original run of that, when it was in its heyday, Hirsch told the New York Jewish Week about the audience at Shadowland Stages in Ellenville, New York
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admin | April 20, 2024
The days and weeks following October 7thwere some of the most difficult in the lives of Jewish educators. Those of us who had spent the past three years adapting our programs for Zoom learning, hybrid learning, pandemic learning, and any other effects of COVID-19 were now faced with the need to adjust once again, to provide both comfort and information to our learners and their families. We fielded countless calls about antisemitism in schools, planned programs, and lessons to reflect the ever-changing reality in Israel, and gave space to students to mourn and ask questions
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admin | April 20, 2024
Were really pleased that youve read X Times of Israel articles in the past month. Thats why we started the Times of Israel eleven years ago - to provide discerning readers like you with must-read coverage of Israel and the Jewish world. So now we have a request
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Judaism is famous for its dietary restrictions, but Passover takes it to another level by prohibiting the consumption or even any benefit derived from hametz. But while this is universal among observant Jews, there is another restriction that is far more divisive and continues to this day: kitniyot.
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