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  • Jewish Groups Provide Relief, Physically and Emotionally, after Tornado Devastation in Kentucky

    By: Faygie Holt – Jewish News Syndicate; jns.org “We would bring stuff to one person and they would say, ‘I’m sure there’s someone who needs it more than me,’ ” relates Rabbi Shlomo Litvin. “Even as they were taking stock of their homes and everything they lost, they were saying their neighbor two doors down…

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  • Big Four Auditors Ditch NGOs Listed as Terror Groups by Israel

    Jewish News Syndicate – jns.org PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Ernst & Young Global Limited will no longer audit the Union of Agricultural Work Committees or Defense for Children International Palestine. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY), two of the Big Four accounting firms, have confirmed that they will no longer audit two Palestinian…

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  • Double Standard of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia

    By: Melanie Phillips – Jewish News Syndicate; jns.org Claims of moral equivalency are bogus. Bigotry is based on falsehoods, not fact. One of the most obvious characteristics of anti-Semitism is the double standards it perpetrates, through which Jews are singled out for harmful assumptions and treatment directed against no other people in the world. Yet…

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  • ‘A Wall of Iron, Sensors and Concrete’: IDF Completes Tunnel-busting Gaza Barrier

    By: Judah Ari Gross – The Times of Israel; timesofisrael.com IDF chief Aviv Kohavi says new 40-mile above- and below-ground fence is changing the reality along the restive border, where subterranean attacks have dogged the military for years NETIV HA’ASARA — Standing in the shadow of a 30-foot-high concrete wall, top defense officials announced Tuesday…

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  • UN again Denies Jewish Connection to the Temple Mount

    By: Israel Today Staff – israeltoday.co.il Resolution passed by 129-11 vote calls on Israel, among other things, to stop unilateral measures in the “occupied Palestinian territories” On December 1st, the General Assembly of the United Nations passed a resolution with an overwhelming majority of 129 to 11 votes denying the Jewish connection to the Temple…

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  • Edward Shames, Last Surviving Officer of the WWII Band of Brothers, Dies Aged 99: Jewish Soldier Raided Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ and was One of the First Americans to Help Liberate Dachau Concentration Camp

    By: Christina Colter – Daily Mail; dailymail.co.uk Col. Eddie Shames, 99, died peacefully in his home on Friday The World War II paratrooper in the Easy Company was played by Jonathan May in a 2001  in an HBO miniseries directed by Tom Hank and Steven Spielberg Shames parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, fought in Operation…

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