A Scottish man arrested for teaching his girlfriend’s dog to do the Nazi salute denied in court that he committed a hate crime.
Mark Meechan, 29, taught the pug, named Buddha (pictured), to …
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JTA
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8/2/17
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It might be just one more brick in virulently anti-Semitic rock superstar Roger Waters’ wall of hate, but for several Nassau County elected officials, it’s one step too far onto the dark …
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By Ed Weintrob
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7/19/17
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N
ow that the furor over Linda Sarsour’s commencement speech at CUNY’s Graduate School of Public Health is over, it is the right time for me to draw some conclusions and express some …
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By Dani Dayan
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6/21/17
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Marchers in the annual Al-Quds Day parade in London blamed a fire in a low-income apartment complex that left at least 58 dead on “Zionists.” Al-Quds is the Muslim name for Jerusalem. The …
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By JTA
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6/21/17
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A group of Jewish academics who oppose the boycott Israel movement decried a campaign against a Dartmouth professor who backed BDS.
N. Bruce Duthu, an associate dean and faculty member in Native …
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By JTA
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6/21/17
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Israel and New Zealand have restored diplomatic ties following the island nation’s sponsorship last year of an anti-settlement United Nations resolution.
Following monthlong …
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By JTA
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6/15/17
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The decision by the Jewish weekly newspaper The Forward to publish a paid advertisement sup-porting imprisoned Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti is being questioned by some editors of other …
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By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org
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6/15/17
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The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has launched a $250,000 Kickstarter campaign to translate and digitize the diaries of Nazi victims and survivors.
Funds from the 31-day campaign, which started …
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By JTA
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6/15/17
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Three Los Angeles synagogue locations were temporarily closed after receiving bomb threats on Shabbat. Police used bomb-sniffing dogs to check the buildings for explosives and none were found.
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By JTA
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6/15/17
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As Israeli actress Gal Gadot’s “Wonder Woman” film heads toward $400 million in earnings after debuting in early June, and numerous big-name musical acts line up to perform in …
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By Adam Abrams, JNS.org
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6/14/17
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