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US President Donald Trump's Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt addresses the American Jewish Committee's Women’s Leadership Board Spring Luncheon in New York on April 24, 2018. (Courtesy / Ellen Dubin Photography)
Trump’s Mideast envoy: Peace impossible when Palestinians celebrate violence
By Eric Cortellessa
Jason Greenblatt tells American Jewish Committee Hamas is solely to blame for Gaza violence and should turn its attention to helping residents
US President Donald Trump's Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt addresses the American Jewish Committee's Women’s Leadership Board Spring Luncheon in New York on April 24, 2018. (Courtesy / Ellen Dubin Photography)
April 25, 2018, 1:31 am
Trump’s Mideast envoy: Peace impossible when Palestinians celebrate violence
Jason Greenblatt tells American Jewish Committee Hamas is solely to blame for Gaza violence and should turn its attention to helping residents
By Eric Cortellessa
One of numerous photographs taken following the Kishinev pogrom of 1903. Here, a Jewish family stands outside of their ransacked home (public domain)
April 9, 2018, 5:05 am
How a small pogrom in Russia changed the course of history
Until the Holocaust, the Kishinev pogrom of 1903 was the archetype for anti-Jewish persecution, according to a new book about the massacre's long afterlife
By Matt Lebovic
US President Donald Trump speaks during a visit to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters on August 4, 2017 in Washington, DC. Trump visited FEMA headquarters to receive a briefing on the hurricane season. (Michael Reynolds - Pool/Getty Images via JTA)
March 13, 2018, 3:59 am
The US government is funding houses of worship. Here’s why no one noticed
Obama's support for once-controversial faith-based partnerships helped Jewish groups embrace a move to provide federal disaster relief to churches and synagogues
By Ron Kampeas
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, is greeted by Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar in Moscow, June 13, 2013. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Images/via JTA)
March 10, 2018, 8:10 pm
AJC says Putin’s comments on Jews like ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’
After Russian leader suggests Jews could be behind US election tampering, opposition lawmakers in Israel calls on government to condemn him
By TOI staff and Agencies
An Israeli cartoon criticizing human rights violations in Iran, displayed next to the European Parliament in Brussels starting Wednesday, February 20, 2018. (Photo by AJC, TICP)
February 20, 2018, 3:44 pm
Snubbed by EU, Israeli cartoons slamming Iran go on display
European Parliament vetoes exhibition focusing on human rights violations in Islamic Republic as 'too controversial'
By Michael Bachner
Oskar Schindler during one of more than one dozen visits he made to Israel, beginning in 1961. During the Holocaust, Schindler used his factory and bribes to help save Jews from deportation to Nazi-built death camps (public domain)
January 28, 2018, 3:40 am
In Boston, Holocaust-era rescue stories pierce the darkness of genocide
To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a conversation about individual efforts to rescue Jews from the Nazis' 'Final Solution,' and why the accounts still resonate
By Matt Lebovic
A woman walks past a placard with the words European Parliament inscribed in several languages of the European Union member states outside the Espace Leopold on February 25, 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. (Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images via JTA)
January 24, 2018, 2:11 am
EU lawmakers grill visiting Iranian delegation on Holocaust denial, terror links
Tehran official dodges questions about 'disturbing' reports of regime spying on Israeli and Jewish targets in Germany
By JTA
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (left) lights a menorah at Israel's Embassy in Berlin on December 15, 2017, alongside Israel's Ambassador to Germany Jeremy Issacharoff (Courtesy Israeli Embassy, via Facebook)
December 15, 2017, 1:26 pm
German president: Immigrants must reject anti-Semitism, it’s ‘non-negotiable’
Frank-Walter Steinmeier says he was 'horrified and ashamed' to see 'Israeli flags on fire at German squares' during anti-Israel protests
By TOI staff
Illustrative: Muslim asylum seekers wait for their registration after arriving at a center for refugees in Giessen, Germany, on December 2, 2015 (AFP/DPA/Boris Roessler)
December 14, 2017, 10:05 pm
Anti-Semitism rampant among Muslim refugees in Germany — study
While refugees from persecuted minorities tend to oppose anti-Semitism, many Muslims come with conspiracy theories about Jews and Israel controlling world
By JTA
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) addresses the Anti-Defamation League annual National Summit at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC on May 9, 2017 (screen capture)
December 6, 2017, 7:58 pm
Senate committee advances restitution bill for Holocaust survivors
Sponsoring lawmakers Tammy Baldwin and Marco Rubio say JUST Act stronger on matters of Jewish communal, private and heirless property than an existing international pact
By JTA
This image provided by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum shows Bulgarian policemen overseeing the deportation of Macedonian Jews to the German death camps in March 1943 in Bulgarian occupied Skopje. (AP Photo/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade)
November 7, 2017, 10:02 am
Russian official wrongly claims Soviets saved Bulgarian Jews from deportation
After monument defaced, Moscow says it saved 50,000 Jews in WWII, but the 'Red Army was thousands of kilometers away' at the time
By JTA
White nationalist Richard Spencer reacts to the audience as he speaks at the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Gainesville, Florida, October 19, 2017. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)
October 26, 2017, 7:45 pm
Ban white nationalist from Polish Independence Day event, Jewish group urges
European office of US-based AJC asks authorities to prevent visit by Richard Spencer, invited for Warsaw meeting
By JTA
US President Donald Trump speaks during the Family Research Council's 2017 Value Voters Summit on October 13, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski)
October 17, 2017, 4:54 am
What happens now with the Iran deal
Trump wants Congress to scrap the 2015 nuclear accord, but is it possible to 'fix' it without breaking it?
By Ron Kampeas
Screen capture from video of the German American Bund rally at Madison Square Garden, February 1939. (YouTube/Field of Vision - A Night at the Garden)
October 16, 2017, 4:40 pm
When a Jewish laborer took on 20,000 US Nazis in Madison Square Garden
Documentary compiles archive footage to recall 1939 German American Bund rally in New York, and the Jew who tried to disrupt it
By Stuart Winer
Prime Minister Netanyahu meets with senior leaders of the US Jewish community in New York, September 17, 2017 (Avi Ohayun/GPO)
September 18, 2017, 5:51 am
In shadow of Israel-Diaspora Western Wall crisis, PM meets US Jewish leaders
Representatives ask Netanyahu to 'clarify' his position on egalitarian prayer platform; Israeli leader also meets with Trump envoys Kushner and Greenblatt
By Raphael Ahren
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