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  • Public Memorial for Victims of Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Calls to ‘Remember. Repair. Together.’

    By: Marcy Oster – Jewish Telegraphic Agency; jta.org (JTA) — Eleven memorial candles stood on a table at the start of the public memorial service for the attack one year ago on the Tree of Life synagogue building. Family members of the 11 people killed in the attack walked around the table holding hands as…

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  • From Congress to Clasrooms: Reframing the Israel Narrative

    By: Melanie Phillips – melaniephillips.com Concern about resurgent antisemitism has been at fever-pitch among Diaspora Jews for years. In Britain, the veteran Jewish Labour MP Dame Louise Ellman resigned this week from the party to which she has belonged for more than half a century. A leaked Labour headquarters report on her Liverpool Riverside constituency…

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  • Pro-Israel Evangelical Group Categorized as “Hate Group” by Southern Poverty Law Center

    By: BIN Staff – Breaking Israel News; breakingisraelnews.com Proclaiming Justice to The Nations (PJTN) has recently been placed on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of hate groups, which is ironic since PJTN exists to fight the world’s oldest hatred – antisemitism. PJTN has gained wide international media acclaim as it encourages state legislators to…

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  • China Destroys 3,000-Seat Church, Detains Pastors

    By: Michael Gryboski – The Christian Post; christianpost.com The People’s Republic of China destroyed a church that reportedly could seat 3,000 people and detained its pastors, according to a human rights organization. China Aid, an international nonprofit Christian human rights group based in Texas, reported the incident in a statement released Saturday. According to the group,…

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  • Amazon Launches Series on Hi-Tech, with Focus on Israel’s Startup Nation

    By: Nadine Wojakovski – The Times of Israel; timesofisrael.com Released October 18, ‘TechTalk’ gives inside look at over 50 startups across the Jewish state, and is hosted by Anglo-Israelis Jonny Caplan and Jessy Katz of Israel’s ‘The Voice’ Over 50 cutting-edge Israeli tech companies are featured in the first season of a new series released…

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  • 5,000 Christians Show Their Support for Israel at Jerusalem’s 64th Sukkot March

    By: Eliana Rudee – Jewish News Syndicate; jns.org “The whole world is learning that the gentiles can come celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles with the people of Israel,” said spokesman David Parsons of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem. This year, more than 5,000 Christians from all parts of the world gathered on Thursday for the…

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