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Canadian indigenous rights activist: The Arabs are colonizers, not the indigenous Jews

Ryan Bellerose is a Métis from Northern Alberta, founder of Canadians for Accountability, a native rights advocacy group and co-founder of Calgary United With Israel Ryan Bellerose is a Métis from Northern Alberta, founder of Canadians for Accountability, a native rights advocacy group and co-founder of Calgary United With Israel, a grassroots pro-Israel advocacy group. […]

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IS leader says ‘Palestine will become the Jews’ cemetery’ in new video

Video appears to be shot in Sinai and relies heavily on tropes from the group’s infamous Flames of War feature – Islamic State Threat The Islamic State issued a new video threatening Israel on Monday, featuring the message that the land of Palestine shall become a cemetery for Jews, delivered in what appears to be […]

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Nice terror: First they came for the Jews

Israel, the target the world didn’t care about, was a laboratory for Islamist terror. By Jack Engelhard As I write this the terrorist who used a truck to kill dozens in Nice, France has not been identified. Chances are he, or she, is the usual Muslim extremist. Even if that is not the case, the result […]

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South Africa: Terror attacks planned against Jews

A Johannesburg court filed an indictment against 24-year-old twins, who supported ISIS and planned on blowing up Jewish institutions and the US Embassy in the country. The suspects were first identified by local security forces after the two attempted to leave South Africa in order to join ISIS forces in Syria. By Judith Abramson  Is […]

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Jews and Muslims actually defend Donald Trump

GOP candidate’s controversial comments sometimes make task of bringing their communities to his camp more difficult, though change in discourse now happening, say Eve Stieglitz, Sajid Tarar. By Danielle Ziri New York — Over the course of his campaign, the discourse of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has offended many groups in the United States: […]

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Study: 1 in 4 British Jews intermarry, half the rate of US Jews

LONDON (JTA) — Intermarriage among British Jews in 2011 stood at 26 percent, or roughly half the rate documented among American Jews, according to a new demographic study. The report published Tuesday by the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research is based on data from the National Jewish Community Survey and the 2001 and 2011 national […]

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Christians, Muslims and Jews to build a joint house of worship in Jerusalem

No, it is not the beginning of a bad joke. It’s a profound initiative In theory, this should not be a big deal: men and women of faith, who share a belief in one God and a love for the city of Jerusalem, coming together to pray, study and sing. In practice, it is about […]

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5 Fascinating Facts about Jews in India

India’s Jewish community is thousands of years old. Here are five little-known facts about the role Jews have played in India through the ages. By Dr Yvette Alt Miller Meeting Marco Polo When Marco Polo traveled through India in the year 1293, he recorded a surprising encounter in his diaries about meeting Jews there who’d […]

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Lithuania lifts major obstruction to citizenship applications by Jews

(JTA) — Lithuania’s parliament passed legislation that is expected to simplify the naturalization of Litvak Jews abroad and their descendants. Under amendments passed Thursday by the Seimas in Vilnius, Lithuanians who left before 1990 and their direct descendants may be naturalized without renouncing their other nationalities. The legislation passed with 96 its 141 lawmakers voting […]

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And so we fight…

By Justin Amler Jews are not usually known as fighting people – unless of course, it’s for that last salmon and cream cheese bagel at a wedding! Throughout history, and in particular the last couple of thousand years, we’ve always kept our heads down, avoiding attention, knowing full well that when attention came our way – […]

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