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US Allows Gaza Cease-fire Resolution at the UN to Pass, Prompting Anger From...
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. envoy to the U.N., votes during a Security Council meeting in which a resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip for the month of Ramadan, leading...
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In Israel and Beyond, Purim Celebrations Are Tempered by Trauma and Thoughts...
Philissa Cramer In Jerusalem, a service omitted the loud noise-making associated with the holiday to accommodate soldiers traumatized by months of war. In Tel Aviv, bakeries peddled a triangular treat...
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What’s Behind Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ‘Firm’ Support for Hamas?
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey speaks at the official opening ceremony of Istanbul’s new airport on Oct. 29, 2018. (Burak Kara/Getty Images via JTA.org) Shira Li Bartov Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s...
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UNRWA Says it Has Enough Funding to Operate Through Spring
UNWRA’s office in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah/Shimon HaTzadik on Jan. 30. (Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90 via JNS.org) The U.N. Relief and Works Agency has enough money to continue...
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On the First Anniversary of Evan Gershkovich’s Arrest, Biden Says His...
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Amsterdam, Atoning for Role in Delivering Jews to the Nazis, Pledges...
Philissa Cramer Amsterdam’s public tram company, GVB, will place memorials at three central locations where it transported Dutch Jews into the clutches of the Nazis during the Holocaust. The city of...
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Palestinian Authority Submits Bid for Full UN Membership
PLO envoy to the U.N. Riyad Mansour addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East on April 25, 2022. (Mark Garten/U.N. Photo via JNS.org) The Palestinian Authority...
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Palestinian Bid for Full UN Membership Stuck in Committee
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas addresses members of his Cabinet in Ramallah on Sept. 3, 2020. (Photo by Flash90 via JNS.org). Mike Wagenheim The Palestinians’ revived application for full...
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Germany to Give Holocaust Survivors in Israel an Extra $238 Each Because of...
Mira Talalayevsky was 2 when her mother fled with her from the Nazis in Kyiv. On Oct. 8, 2023, a Hamas rocket destroyed her apartment in Ashkelon, Israel. (Photo by Mishel Amzallag, courtesy...
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In Landmark Ruling, Argentine Court Says Iran, Hezbollah Responsible for 1994...
Juan Melamed An Argentine court has ruled that Iran and Hezbollah were behind the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, a landmark development in the reckoning over the...
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US Vetoes Palestinian Bid for Full UN Membership
Robert Wood, deputy permanent representative of the United States to the United Nations, vetoes the Palestinian bid for admission as a member state of the United Nations at the U.N. Security Council on...
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March of Living to Mark 80 Years Since Destruction of Hungarian Jewry
The annual March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in Poland on April 28, 2022. (Photo by Aloni Mor/MOTL via JNS.org) International March of the Living will...
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Report: Saudi Arabia to Normalize Relations With Israel
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. (House of Saud/X viaJNS.org) Joshua Marks Saudi Arabia has decided to normalize relations with Israel and is debating the timing of the announcement, a foreign...
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How Yom HaShoah Is Being Marked 7 Months After the Deadliest Day for Jews...
A flag of Israel was seen on the railroad tracks in KL Birkenau during the International March of The Living on April 28, 2022. (Wojciech Grabowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images via JTA.org)...
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Israeli Security Officials at Eurovision Bracing for Pro-Hamas Provocations
Eden Golan, winner of the reality show “The Next Star to Eurovision,” during the final competition on the show on Feb. 6. Photo by Koko/Flash90 via JNS.org. Akiva Van Koningsveld Officials responsible...
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Lawyers Call on Biden to Halt ICC Warrants for Israeli Officials
International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands. (United Nations via JNS.org) Amelie Botbol A group of close to 200 lawyers from Israel, the United States and around the world have issued a letter...
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Should ‘From the River to the Sea’ Be Allowed on Facebook and Instagram?...
Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images via JTA.org Philissa Cramer The social media company Meta is adjudicating whether a key phrase used by pro-Palestinian...
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General Assembly to Vote on More Rights for Palestinians at UN
PLO envoy to the U.N. Riyad Mansour addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East on April 25, 2022. (Mark Garten/U.N. Photo via JNS.org). Mike Wagenheim The United Nations...
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Argentine-Israeli Hostage Lior Rudaeff Is Declared Dead as Number of Hostages...
Lawmakers, Jewish leaders and others hold posters of the remaining Argentinean hostages in Israel during an event at parliament in Buenos Aires on May 7. (Juan Melamed via JTA.org) Juan Melamed BUENOS...
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Israel’s Eden Golan Advances to Eurovision Final as Thousands Protest in Malmö
Eden Golan performs an emotional rendition of Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing,” surrounded by empty chairs representing the missing hostages, for her grand finale performance to represent...
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