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  • Florida High School Principal Fired after Not Recognizing Holocaust as Fact

    Jewish News Syndicate; jns.org The board voted on Wednesday, 5-2, with “just cause” to terminate Spanish River Community High School principal William Latson’s employment, effective Nov. 21. The principal of a high school in the heavily Jewish-populated Florida city of Boca Raton has been fired by the school board in Palm Beach County after he…

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  • ‘Washington Post’ Calls Dead ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi an ‘Austere Religious Scholar’

    By: Sean Durns – Jewish News Syndicate; jns.org “The Washington Post” quickly changed its headline following backlash, acknowledging that it “should never have read that way,” but the real problem here goes deeper than a headline. On Oct. 27, 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the…

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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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