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OUTREACH

American Jews Turning Inward? Not So Fast 

Beit Hatfutsot Invites Your Community to Join the Global Online Purim Picture Album 

 

 PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING

5 Tips for Engaging Jewish Millenials 

 

NORTH AMERICA 

Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel Lends Support to Netanyahu's Congress Speech 

CIA Headquarters in Langley Reportedly on Lockdown 

The True Rift Between Netanyahu and Obama is About Policy, Not Politesse 

                

ISRAEL

INTERNATIONAL

 'Wake-Up Call' for Denmark's Jews 

Yemen's Last Jews Eye Exodus After Islamist Militia Takeover

French PM Repeats Plea for France's Jews to Stay

 Case Against Argentine President Moves Forward

Police Complaints Filed Over Antisemitic Bullying in Two French Schools

A Month After Kosher Market Attack, French Jews Plan Exodus

 

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

Study: Luxembourg Wartime Bosses Willingly Helped Nazis Find Jews 

 Ex-Cop Sues NYPD for $150 Million Over Antisemitic Abuse

                             

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This past Tuesday, February 17, something astounding occurred in the world of Jewish outreach. Continue Reading 



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Outreach1American Jews Turning Inward? Not So Fast

An Article from The Jewish Week 


Over the past century, American Jews have been deeply involved in the fate of Jewish communities overseas, raising billions of dollars for their aid and helping them survive two World Wars, recover and rebuild after the tragedy of the Holocaust and communist oppression, and build Israel. Continue Reading

An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

So how did our costumes look throughout the ages in different countries? How did Queen Esther look in the 1950's? Continue Reading 

 


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Fundraising15 Tips for Engaging Jewish Millenials
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy
  
After three years of consulting with "engagers" - professionals engaging Taglit-Birthright Israel alumni and young Jewish adults in local communities - we've learned a lot about what they need to be successful in their work. Continue Reading  
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Namart1Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel Lends Support to Netanyahu's Congress Speech 

An Article from Haaretz 

 

 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel is lending his support to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's March 3 speech to Congress on the dangers of Iran's nuclear program - an address that has antagonized the White House and divided American Jews. Continue Reading 

  
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An Article from Tablet

Last week, I had some unkind words for the New York Times, whose account of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress had to be amended to reflect the fact that Bibi accepted the invitation after the White House was informed, not before. Continue Reading 
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israel1Israel Economy Surges 7.2% in Fourth Quarter, Fastest Pace Since 2007 

An Article from Reuters 


Israel's economy is poised to rebound further in 2015 from the effects of last summer's Gaza war after a strong recovery in the final three months of 2014 led to the fastest quarterly growth in nearly eight years. 

An Article from Arutz 7

With four weeks until elections for the 20th Knesset, Likud and Labor-Hatnua appear to be neck and neck. Continue Reading 

 

An Article from The Times of Israel

t's too early to be certain, but it seems the battles waged by Hezbollah, along with thousands of Syrian army troops and members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, against the anti-Syrian opposition militias on the Syrian Golan Heights, are only getting started. Continue Reading
An Article from The Algemeiner

The student representative council at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) in South Africa has issued what it describes as an 'apology' for an earlier demand that "Jewish students, especially those who do not support the Palestinian struggle," should be expelled from the campus. Continue Reading
An Article from The Associated Press

At first glance, the ancient Babylonian tablets on exhibit for the first time at a Jerusalem museum look like nothing more than pockmarked lumps of clay.
An Article from The Jewish Week
 
Pavel Gadakshan thinks Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should stand up before the U.S. Congress on March 3 and speak his mind about the threat Iran poses. Continue Reading

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Intl1'Wake Up Call' for Denmark's Jews
An Article from The Jewish Week

From the window of the Jewish Community of Copenhagen's crisis center, Finn Schwarz can see his country changing before his eyes. Continue Reading

Internatioanl2French PM Slams 'Islamo-Fascism', is 'Under Jewish Influence' 

An Article from Elder of Arutz 7 


French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Monday slammed the attacks in Denmark by Islamist terrorist Omar Abdel Hamid Hussein on Saturday, in which two people were murdered, as being an act of "Islamo-fascism." Continue Reading  
 

International3Yemen's Last Jews Eye Exodus After Islamist Militia Takeover 

An Article from Yahoo News
 

A few worried families are all that remain of Yemen's ancient Jewish community, and they too may soon flee after a Shi'ite Muslim militia seized power in the strife-torn country this month. Continue Reading 

International3French PM Repeats Plea for France's Jews to Stay
An Article from Ynet News

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Monday urged France's Jews to stay in the country, after hundreds of Jewish tombs were defaced in the eastern part of the country, and in the wake of calls by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Europe's Jews to emigrate to Israel. Continue Reading
 

International4Case Against Argentine President Moves Forward 

An Article from ABC News

 

The Argentine prosecutor who inherited a high-profile case against President Cristina Fernandez reaffirmed the accusations Friday, formally renewing the investigation into whether she helped Iranian officials cover up their alleged role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center. Continue Reading     

 

International5Police Complaints Files Over Antisemitic Bullying in Two French Schools 

An Article from JTA

 

A high school in western France suspended three pupils for anti-Semitic bullying, and similar incidents forced a Jewish girl to leave her school in the country's South. Continue Reading 

 

International6A Month After Kosher Market Attack, French Jews Plan Exodus 

An Article from The Washington Post

 

For all her 30 years, Jennifer Sebag has lived in a community that embodies everything modern Europe is supposed to be. Continue Reading 

 

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Interest1Study: Luxembourg Wartime Bosses Willingly Helped Nazis Find Jews 

An Article from JTA

 

Luxembourg's wartime bosses willingly cooperated with German Nazis in the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust, a government-commissioned study determined. Continue Reading 


An Article from JP Updates

A former New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer is suing the force for $150 million after facing what he claims was years of vicious anti-Semitic discrimination and abuse at the hands of his fellow officers, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by JNS.org. Continue Reading  
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