Thursday July 19, 2018 | 7 Av 5778
(JTA) — For the third time this year, French police sent to psychiatric evaluation a man who displayed violent behavior toward Jews. The latest incident occurred on Tuesday in Paris’ 20th district, where a young Arab man hit a 69-year-old Jewish man wearing a kippah, pushed him to the ground and dragged him by his...
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(JTA) — While Jews are no more likely to be sexually abused than other Americans, individuals who have left the Orthodox community are more than four times as likely to have been molested as children than the general population, a new study has found. The study, by two Orthodox Jewish researchers, surveyed more than 300...
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(JTA) — Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to give everyone in the world a voice. But what happens when some of those wishing a voice are Holocaust deniers? That question was posed to the Facebook founder in an interview Wednesday with Recode, a tech news site, about the social network giant’s role in fighting false...
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Peace Now, citing government figures obtained through a freedom of information request, reported that 99.7 percent of allocations of state land in Israeli-controlled parts of the West Bank have been granted to Jewish settlers. More than 347,000 acres, or 40 percent, of Area C, the part of the West Bank under Israeli military...
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BERLIN (JTA) — American Jews joined local Muslims and Jews for a “kippah walk” through the heart of Berlin in a show of solidarity with Jews in the German capital. Sunday’s march came against a backdrop of recent sensational anti-Semitic incidents in Germany; most of the perpetrators were of Muslim background. Muslim students were among...
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(JTA) — An enormous statue of Jewish actor Jeff Goldblum has been placed on the bank of the River Thames near London’s famed Tower Bridge. The statue, which is 25 feet long and portrays Goldblum lounging with his shirt open, was erected by a British streaming service as a temporary exhibition in honor of the...
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