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2 days ago · The Waqf’s own guide recognizes, that the Jews and Holy Temple were there long before the Arabs began their occupation of Jerusalem. Leonard Grunstein Dec. 31, 2024
Gaza and its Jews, their past and their future - JNS.org
Nov 27, 2024 · The history of Jews and Gaza has been consistent as it has been turbulent, and at times, terrible. Some 3,000 years ago, Samson carried away the gates of Gaza. In 145 BCE, Yonatan the Hasmonean besieged Gaza, and even after the city surrendered, it remained hostile to the Hasmoneans; in 96 BCE, it was overrun by Alexander Jannaeus.
‘Pogrom’ in Amsterdam: five in hospital, 62 arrested, police say
Nov 8, 2024 · Jews being brutally attacked on the streets of Amsterdam. Run down by terrorists in cars, lynched by mobs, stabbings. This kind of thing has not been seen on those streets since the 1930s. Local heroic Jews coordinated by @Chabad are rescuing people from downtown and getting… — Motti Seligson (@mottiseligson) November 8, 2024
Activist who saved Syrian Jews glad few Jews remain in Arab republic
Dec 24, 2024 · Only two Jews, a brother and sister, remain in Syria today, according to Judy Feld Carr, a musicologist in Toronto who quietly rescued more than 3,000 Syrian Jews between 1977 and 2001. That’s a good thing, the 86-year-old told JNS.
With eyes on winning war, building third Jewish Temple, Ark …
Oct 21, 2024 · The replica ark stopped in Jericho, the first Israeli city inhabited by Jews after the biblical Exodus from Egypt, and in Shiloh, the site that served as the Jewish capital for 369 years after Jews settled in Israel and the location of the Tabernacle before the building of the First Temple. ‘Process of discovery, mystery’
Study reveals $10b theft from Syria’s vanished Jewish community
Dec 24, 2024 · From a population of approximately 50,000 Jews at the century’s start, numbers fell to roughly 30,000 by Israel’s establishment. Within a decade, only 5,000 remained. By 1991, the community had virtually disappeared, with reports indicating only one hundred Jews still in Syria. The overwhelming majority sought refuge in Israel.
The origins of antisemitism in Canada and why it has spiked
In the 1880s, Jews immigrated to Canada escaping pogroms raging across Europe. Canada’s first prime minister, John MacDonald, welcomed Jews, and the first Jewish rural settlement was New Jerusalem in 1884. Sir Wilfred Laurier, who followed MacDonald as prime minister, was a staunch defender of Jews and continued to welcome them to the country.
Where Jews fit in America’s realigned parties - JNS.org
Nov 5, 2024 · While the surge in antisemitism may break this pattern, to date, there’s little evidence that concerns about Israel or even growing hatred in the United States are stronger than the pull of class to shift many Jews from the Democrats to the Republicans. Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate).
British Jews, pro-Israel supporters to rally in London against hate
Dec 6, 2024 · “Over the past year, antisemitic hate crime has quadrupled, and Jews are now the most targeted faith minority in the country, despite our minuscule numbers,” a spokesperson for the Campaign Against Antisemitism, which is organizing the event, told JNS. “Week after week, our capital city and other urban areas have become ‘no-go’ zones ...