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  • Knesset Approves First Reading of Bill to Dissolve Government

    Jewish News Syndicate – jns.org In a vote of 64-44, the Israeli Knesset on Monday night approved in its first reading a bill to disband the legislature. Second and third readings will likely be held Wednesday night if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to secure a coalition by then. Only if the bill is…

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  • 11-Year-Old Sent to Principal’s Office for Telling Fellow Students to Stop Making Nazi Salute

    By: Marci Oster; Jewish Telegraphic Agency – jta.org (JTA) — An 11-year-old Tennessee girl who told her classmates to stop making the Nazi salute was sent to the principal’s office, her father said in a tweet in which he asked the public to send her messages of support. https://www.jta.org/quick-reads

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  • Two Identifiably Jewish Men Attacked in Separate Brooklyn Incidents

    By: Marcy Oster – Jewish Telegraphic Agency; jta.org Police in Brooklyn are investigating two unprovoked attacks on visibly Jewish men in the majority Hasidic neighborhood of Williamsburg.

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  • With Flags Unfurled, Jets Overhead, and Grills Galore, Israel Marks 71 Years

    By: Times of Israel Staff – timesofisrael.com Independence Day celebrations across the country see hundreds of thousands turn out to enjoy nature, watch Air Force flybys, and cook up a BBQ Hundreds of thousands of Israelis were flocking to beaches and parks, lighting grills, waving flags and craning their necks for a glimpse of Israel’s…

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  • How to Subdue Our Gazan Cousins

    By: Victor Rosenthal; Jewish News Syndicate – jns.org Israel has the capability to completely destroy Hamas. But in countless minor confrontations and several operations that most people call “wars,” it has not done so. Why? https://www.jns.org/opinion/how-to-subdue-our-gazan-cousins/

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  • March of the Living founder: ‘The only thing worse than Auschwitz is the world forgetting Auschwitz’

    By: Jewish News Syndicate – jns.org The ceremony included the lighting of six torches, each one honoring a different group of Holocaust heroes. On Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom Hashoah) on May 2, under the theme “Say No to Anti-Semitism,” more than 10,000 Jewish and non-Jewish youth from 40 different countries, together with dozens of Holocaust survivors and dignitaries…

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