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Inside the Jewish Brigade’s untold rescue operations | The Jerusalem Post Shlomo Shamir’s daughter, Yael Driver, uncovers her father’s hidden rescue efforts and role in shaping Israel’s future.

Jewish WWII hero Shlomo Shamir's daughter, Yael Driver, uncovers her father’s hidden rescue efforts and role in shaping Israel’s future.

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Rabbi Eliezer Diamond dies at 73 | The Jerusalem Post Diamond taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary for over three decades and left an indelible mark on generations of rabbis and Jewish scholars.

Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, who taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary for over three decades, passed away at age 73 following several years battling multiple forms of cancer.
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Top ADL leader quits, says group is Trump's 'useful idiot' | The Jerusalem Post Joe Berman, who chaired the ADL’s National Legal Affairs Committee from 2018 to 2022, pointed out the group's failure to aggressively respond to antisemitism on the right.

A former leader of ADL made public his resignation letter from the group, in the latest sign of Jewish discontent over the organization’s shifts during the current Trump administration.
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EJA denounces Bob Vylan's 'death to the IDF' chants | The Jerusalem Post The demand cites the show Robinson-Foster performed on December 2 at the Ancienne Belgique, a concert hall in Brussels, and argues that the singer "attacked every Jew and Israeli."

The European Jewish Association (EJA) initiated legal proceedings against Bob Vylan’s singer after he chanted “death to the IDF” on repeated occasions during a performance in Belgium.
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Nashville Jewish community center sues Goyim Defense League | The Jerusalem Post Travis Garland, a Tennessee man affiliated with the Goyim Defense League, allegedly disguised himself as an Orthodox Jewish man and infiltrated the Jewish center’s secured campus.

A Jewish community center in Nashville has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the neo-Nazi group Goyim Defense League and several of its leaders and affiliates.

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Primal Scream projects Benjamin Netanyahu with swastika eyes | The Jerusalem Post Primal Scream is also one of the most prominent acts to demand in recent months that its music not be available on the music platform Spotify to listeners in Israel

The Scottish rock band Primal Scream is rejecting criticism that it received after displaying Stars of David entwined with swastikas at a concert in London on Monday, as part of an anti-Israel demonstration.

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Gaza hostage Eitan Mor electrocuted, starved in Hamas hands | The Jerusalem Post Eitan Mor described how he was starved, beaten, and electrocuted during his captivity.

Former hostage Eitan Mor said that he encountered Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the current leader of Hamas's military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, while in Gaza in an interview Makor Rishon published on Friday.

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Zohran Mamdani charms New York Jewry in interview | The Jerusalem Post Ammiel Hirsch, senior rabbi of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue and one of Mamdani’s loudest critics from the pulpit, was relatively complimentary of the mayor-elect in an interview.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani met privately with about a dozen rabbis Thursday afternoon, including one of his most vocal rabbinic critics, who spoke positively about the meeting.

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Photojournalist Chen Schimmel: We must carry these stories | The Jerusalem Post At 'Post' Washington Conference, Schimmel shares searing scenes from “October 7: Bearing Witness.”

Photojournalist Chen Schimmel, 26, delivered a deeply personal and emotional speech at the Jerusalem Post Washington Conference, describing her journey from a young street photographer to a witness to the atrocities of October 7.

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Reviewing 'Choosing to Be Chosen,' on Jewish conversion | The Jerusalem Post In Choosing to Be Chosen: From Being an Atheist Non-Jew to Becoming an Orthodox Jew, Kylie Ora Lobell finds the God she didn’t know she was searching for within a Judaism she didn’t know existed.

In "Choosing to Be Chosen," Kylie Ora Lobell finds the God she didn’t know she was searching for within a Judaism she didn’t know existed. | Review
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Reviewing 'Jewish Roots of American Liberty' | The Jerusalem Post Jewish Roots of American Liberty explains and illuminates the tight historical, political, and cultural connection between the US and the Jewish people.

Jewish Roots of American Liberty is a collection of essays by 12 contributors who plumb the depths of what the editors term “the nature of the Hebraic impact on the United States.” | Review
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Israel gives Gaza mediators information. on final Hamas hostage | The Jerusalem Post In addition to the names of terrorists, Israel reportedly handed over a map with locations relevant to the search for Gvili’s remains.

A list of names of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists with the knowledge of St.-Sgt.-Maj. Ran Gvili’s location was handed over to mediators by Israel, N12 reported on Friday.

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US raids Chinese vessel on its way to Iran | The Jerusalem Post The ship was boarded on the Indian Ocean a month ago, with military equipment being seized, officials revealed to the Wall Street Journal.

US forces seized a Chinese cargo headed to Iran as part of an operation to avoid the rearming of the Islamic Republic forces. | Report
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Saudis, Emiratis arrive on Yemen to negotiate with STC | The Jerusalem Post Discussions by the delegation in Aden, the base of the Saudi-backed, internationally recognized Yemeni government, will address measures to rectify recent unilateral actions.

A Saudi-Emirati military delegation arrived in Aden to discuss the defusal of tensions in southern Yemen, days after the country’s main southern separatist group claimed broad control.
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How does CAR-T cancer treatment work? | The Jerusalem Post A rigorous medical journey ends in a breakthrough, in the form of CAR-T therapy, achieving a rare, hard-won cancer-free result.

How does CAR-T, a cancer treatment that feels like something out of sci-fi and helps fight blood-related tumors like lymphoma, leukemia, and multiple myeloma, work? | Explainer.
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US reportedly withheld wartime intelligence from Israel | The Jerusalem Post In the second half of 2024, the US cut off a live video feed from a US drone over Gaza, which the Israeli government was using in its hunt for hostages and Hamas terrorists.

US intelligence officials temporarily suspended sharing key information with Israel during the Biden administration over concerns about its operations during the Israel-Hamas War.

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Nobel Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi arrested in Iran | The Jerusalem Post Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, following her three-decade campaign for women's rights and the abolition of the death penalty in Iran.

The Iranian regime arrested Nobel Peace Prize laureate and women's rights advocate Narges Mohammadi during a memorial service for a lawyer who died under suspicious circumstances.

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Donald Trump says Thailand, Cambodia agree halt to fighting again | The Jerusalem Post "They have agreed to CEASE all shooting effective this evening, and go back to the original Peace Accord," US President Donald Trump posted on social media.

US President Donald Trump announced that Thailand and Cambodia had agreed to renew their ceasefire after a previous peace attempt over border disputes collapsed.

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Iran's Islamic axis still standing as Iraq militias surge | The Jerusalem Post BEHIND THE LINES: Despite setbacks, Iraq’s Iranian-backed militias continue to thrive politically, posing a lasting threat to Israel’s security.

It has long been known to Israel that the Iran-backed Iraqi militias have missiles deployed in the large deserts close to Iraq’s western borders. The distance from western Iraq to Israel’s north is only 400 km.

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Voices from the Arab press: Pope Leo and the Shi'ites | The Jerusalem Post A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Lebanon offered a much-needed lift to Christian morale after years of hardship, coming amid sweeping regional upheaval, reaffirming the enduring role of Christianity within Lebanon’s social fabric.

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UNRWA is beyond repair, so it's time to move on - opinion Evidence mounts of UNRWA’s terror ties; the agency must be closed. It is the first step to rebuilding Palestinian society.

We have long known that UNRWA is a biased, inefficient, and radicalizing actor, and that it cannot be fixed simply by “better oversight.” It is time to finish it off now. | Opinion

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UNGA adopts resolution calling Israel cooperate with UNRWA | The Jerusalem Post 12 countries voted against the resolution, and 19 others abstained.

The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution demanding that Israel cooperate with UNRWA by a majority of 139 countries on Friday.

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Karim Khan allegedly threatened by UK official | The Jerusalem Post Khan claimed that the unnamed UK official who made the threat during a phone call in April 2024 also warned that the UK might leave the ICC if the court acted on the warrant for Netanyahu's arrest.

Karim Khan, lead prosecutor in the International Criminal Court's case against Israel, alleged that a UK official threatened to cut funding for the court over an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Egyptian President Sisi to visit Washington | The Jerusalem Post Subjects to be discussed at the meeting include the relations between Egypt and Israel in the aftermath of the war in Gaza.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will travel to Washington, DC, sometime this month to meet with his US counterpart, President Donald Trump, and may also meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. - report

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Jerusalem Highlights: December 12-18 | The Jerusalem Post What's new to do in Israel's capital?

From light shows to plays performed in the English-language these are the cultural events happening in Israel's capital of Jerusalem next week.

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Lebanon's FM says IDF planning military operation in north | The Jerusalem Post Rajji said in the interview that Beirut was holding diplomatic talks to "prevent the expected Israeli attack."

Lebanon's foreign minister, Youssef Rajji, alleged that Israel is planning to carry out a large-scale military operation against Lebanon during an interview with Qatari state-funded news source Al Jazeera that was published on Friday.

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Donald Trump appears in newly revealed Epstein estate photos | The Jerusalem Post Trump is featured in three of the 19 photos shared by House Oversight Committee Democrats, who said they are reviewing more than 95,000 images produced by the estate.

A US congressional oversight panel released 19 new images from the estate of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, including three photos of US President Donald Trump.

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Donald Trump's Gaza plan could push Pakistan toward Israel | The Jerusalem Post Talking to The Post from Islamabad, Ahmed Quraishi reflects on the backlash to his 2022 trip, Pakistan’s long-hidden points of contact with Israel, and the Gaza deal's historic opportunities.

Ahmed Quraishi never expected that a week-long interfaith visit to Israel would end his two-decade journalism career. But in 2022, after joining a Pakistani-American delegation and meeting President Isaac Herzog, the Pakistani state broadcaster fired him.

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Israel must strengthen ties with India for true allyship | The Jerusalem Post Israel's traditional focus on Western partners, Europe, and the US, served it well for decades, but it's time to aim east. Emerging as a major power, India mirrors Israel's own story.

Israel's traditional focus on Western partners, Europe, and the US, served it well for decades, but it's time to aim east. Emerging as a major power, India mirrors Israel's own story. | Opinion

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American Zionist Movement: Outdated, ideological collapse | The Jerusalem Post The American Zionist Movement’s problem is not merely organizational incompetence. It is an ideological collapse.

The American Zionist Movement’s recent biennial showed what the organization had become, unable to create relevance, urgency, or meaning in the very moment it claims to shape the future. | Opinion

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