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March 1, 2016
7:10 pm

Toronto police on February 29, 2016 charged ex-teacher Stephen Joseph Schacter, 55, with a range of sex offenses. (screen capture: YouTube)

Ex-teacher at 2 Toronto Jewish schools charged with sex crimes

Stephen Joseph Schacter accused of sexual offenses; former director of Leo Baeck School also arrested on child pornography charges

By JTA

March 1, 2016
6:19 pm

Benjamin Amsellem, right, a Jewish teacher stabbed by a 15-year-old with a machete who claimed Islamic State inspiration, speaks to the press as he leaves the main police headquarters in Marseille, southeastern France, January 12, 2016. (AFP/ BORIS HORVAT)

40% of Europe’s Jewish leaders say anti-Semitism a threat to Jewish life

But alienation from communal life, weakening status of Jewish organizations and demographic decline ranked as more serious threats

By JTA and Times of Israel staff

March 1, 2016
6:15 pm

Diana Blog, a Holocaust survivor who was brutally attacked in an anti-Semitic assault last year, accepts a check for over €25,000 ($27,000) on February 23, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Site raises $30,000 for assaulted Holocaust survivors

Samuel and Diana Blog suffered severe injuries in 2015 anti-Semitic attack in their Amsterdam home

By JTA

March 1, 2016
4:42 pm

File: Americans rally in support of Israel, Chicago, November 2013. (photo credit: Courtesy JUF Chicago/JTA)

Two thirds of Americans favor Israel over Palestinians

More Americans are for a Palestinian state than against; religious Republican over-50s strongest Israel supporters

By Sue Surkes

March 1, 2016
3:56 pm

Maree Miller, of Cairo, Ga., reacts to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as he speaks to supporters during a rally at Valdosta State University February 29, 2016 in Valdosta, Georgia, on the eve of the Super Tuesday primaries (Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images/AFP)

As Super Tuesday voting begins, Clinton and Trump hope to wipe out rivals

Pivotal day in presidential nomination race finds Clinton riding high after South Carolina, Trump leading in polls in at least eight of the 11 states up for grabs

By Michael Mathes

March 1, 2016
3:05 pm

Refugees who have arrived by train from Salzburg, Austria, wait on a platform at the central station in Munich, Germany, on September 6, 2015. (Photo by Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)

As refugees flood in, German Jews are torn between embrace and worry

The Cologne Jewish community’s dilemma over teenage refugees living opposite the city’s synagogue is a microcosm of German Jewry’s concerns over the migrant wave

By Raphael Ahren

March 1, 2016
3:00 pm

Alex Chalmers was until recently the co-chairman of the Oxford University Labor Club (Facebook)

UK Labour Party probes Oxford U anti-Semitism claim

Student Labourites have ‘some kind of problem with Jews,’ non-Jewish co-chair charged upon resigning

By JTA

March 1, 2016
2:08 pm

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at the Signature Flight Hangar at Port-Columbus International Airport, Tuesday, March 1, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Trump says Clinton lacks the ‘stamina’ to be president

Ya’alon: Syrian forces used chemical weapons during truce; PA official won’t meet Israeli MK after getting death threats

By Elie Leshem

March 1, 2016
1:55 pm

Reform Rabbi Nicole Greninger prays at the Western Wall, February 25, 2016 (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

American Reform rabbis warn of alienation from Israel

Venomous rhetoric against Reform movement from Israeli politicians dampens celebratory mood after Western Wall win

By Tia Goldenberg

March 1, 2016
1:47 pm

Winston Churchill and Stefan Lorant, 1939. Detail from front cover of 'Jews and Photography in Britain.' (Kurt Hutton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

How Jews shot their way into Britain’s photographic memory

Historian Michael Berkowitz’s research exposes the disproportionate Jewish contribution to all things photography in the UK

By Renee Ghert-Zand

March 1, 2016
9:30 am

Oil painting in the style of "The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo, depicting the Flying Spaghetti Monster; two large meatballs wrapped in noodles, with eyes on stalks which are also noodles, floating in mid-air. ( Wikimedia Fair Use Image)

New Zealand gets first ‘Pastafarian’ pastor

Noodle-worshipping locals can now be legally married by the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

By AFP

March 1, 2016
8:44 am

Illustrative photo of anti-Semitic graffiti (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Police probing months-old anti-Semitic incidents at Boston school

Principal apologizes for being late in reporting ‘hateful graffiti’ and swastika carved in snow

By JTA

March 1, 2016
8:06 am

File: High schoolers from Columbia at the 19th Maccabiah (photo credit: Aaron Kalman)

Colombia Jews host first Limmud learning festival, with Muslims

Orthodox, liberal, atheist, feminist and LGBT Jews learn together, along with local Palestinians

By JTA

March 1, 2016
6:41 am

People wait in line to enter the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC (photo credit: AP/Evan Vucci/File)

US Supreme Court turns down Jewish inmate’s discrimination case

Prison officials in North Carolina deny Israel Ben-Levi right to form prayer group in what dissenting justice calls ‘disappointing’ indifference

By JTA

March 1, 2016
5:31 am

Women of the Wall pray at the Western Wall on February 7, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Why one haredi rabbi backs Kotel deal with ‘heretical’ Reform Jews

Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl argues separate egalitarian section at Western Wall consolidates ultra-Orthodox control

By Ben Sales

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