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The Florida Senate on Monday unanimously passed a bill prohibiting anti-Semitism in public schools and universities, two days after a gunman shot Jewish worshippers in Poway, California at a Chabad synagogue. “Antisemitism is on the rise and we have the ability to do something about it,” said Sen. Joe Gruters...

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On Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, we gather to remember the Shoah. Although it happened almost 75 years ago, it has left scars on us all and forever blemished humanity. But for me, it is very personal. I was born in a refugee camp in Lansberg, Germany, near the ashes...

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Israeli video creation company Magisto of Ness Ziona and Mountain View, California, will be bought out by ad-free open video platform Vimeo in a deal reportedly worth about $200 million. Founded in 2010, Magisto offers apps that have been used by 13 million people to make 450 million videos in 24 languages....

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The New York Times has been slammed for running in its international edition on Thursday an openly anti-Semitic cartoon that depicts U.S. President Donald Trump as a blind man wearing a Jewish skullcap, led by a guide dog with a Star of David collar and the face of Israeli Prime...

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Israeli leaders have condemned the terrorist attack at a Chabad synagogue in Poway, north of San Diego, in which one woman was killed and three people were wounded. Congregant Lori Gilbert-Kaye died as she shielded Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein from the gunman, who stormed into the building and opened fire on...

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Hamas, the Islamist terrorist organization in complete political and military control of the Gaza Strip, has developed a pilot program that uses a complex cryptocurrency system to avoid international measures against terrorist funding, Reuters reported Friday. The Izz ad-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, the terrorist group’s military arm, launched on its website...

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The Swedish Transport Administration chose a wholly owned Swedish subsidiary of Israeli company Electreon Wireless to lead a consortium in building the world’s first demo of a road that will wirelessly charge an electric truck and an electric bus as they travel. Led by Electreon AB, the international consortium will build the...

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Several global payment providers have cut ties with the BDS organization Samidoun over its alleged links to a Palestinian terrorist group. In an email obtained by JNS, PayPal said it would “thoroughly review” Samidoun’s account after the online payment giant was alerted to the group’s purported links to a designated...

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The Israeli Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday that Israel will take part in the World Expo 2020 to be held in Dubai, in another sign of warming relations with the United Arab Emirates. “We are excited about the opportunity to share the spirit of Israeli innovation and entrepreneurship and to...

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The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) confirmed on Thursday that a tunnel discovered by Israel earlier this year had crossed the Lebanese-Israeli border, in the third such breach of a ceasefire resolution. “UNIFIL’s independent assessment confirms that this tunnel crosses the Blue Line in violation of Resolution 1701,”...

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