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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.

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…

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/

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…

By: Emily Jones – CBN News; cbn.com A lone gunman entered the Chabad of Poway Synagogue in San Diego Saturday and opened fire on Jews celebrating the last day of Passover.  He killed one woman and wounded several others. For one family, this was not their first encounter with terrorism. The Dahan family left their…

By: Raymond Ibrahim – raymondibrahim.com Today, April 24, marks the “Great Crime,” that is, the genocide of Christians—mostly Armenians but also Assyrians and Greeks—that took place under the Islamic Ottoman Empire, throughout World War I.  Then, in an attempt to wipe out as many Christians as possible, the Turks massacred approximately 1.5 million Armenians, 300,000…