The whole world’s eyes are on the far east, wondering how a Boeing 777 can just disappear without a trace. Malaysia Air Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur at 12:43am this past Saturday morning and has yet to be located. Flying is the safest mode of transportation that exists today, so the disappearance of an airplane like this is […]
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Doing Jewish at the Sochi OlympicsKosher food, including gefilte fish, available for order online, and extra rabbis on call for visiting Jews, athletes. ROSA KHUTOR, Russia – Sochi’s lone rabbi has drawn on reinforcements from the United States and shipped in 7,000 kosher meals to help cater for Jewish visitors to the Winter Olympics in Russia, a country where Judaism […]
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Jewish ice dancer wins gold medal at Sochi OlympicsThe team of Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the first Olympics ice dancing gold medal ever for the United States. Davis and White, who is Jewish, finished Monday with a score of 195.52 in Sochi, Russia, to edge the 2010 gold medalists, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada. The Americans […]
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Scarlett Johansson Cuts Ties With Oxfam Over Group’s Support for BDS MovementActress Scarlett Johansson ended her relationship with Oxfam International citing “a fundamental difference of opinion” over the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, the Associated Press reported Wednesday evening, citing her spokesman. “Scarlett Johansson has respectfully decided to end her ambassador role with Oxfam after eight years,” her […]
Read more »In the fight against online antisemitism, Jardena Lande is an unsung heroine. While David Cameron and other world leaders try to convince sites such as Facebook to do more to block users spreading hatred, Ms Lande and her colleagues at the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism (ICCA) have already enjoyed notable success. As director of the group, Swiss-born Ms Lande […]
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