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America provided safe refuge to some who now seek to dismantle it from within – opinion

US Rep. Ilhan Omar and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani are just two examples in a long line of turncoats – those who strive to undermine the very values that protect them.

A shaft of light illuminates the Star of David atop the Park East Synagogue in New York City. American Jewry knows what this country that gave it refuge stands for: Democracy, religious liberty, and freedom, the writer maintains.
President of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt delivers a speech after he and the Jewish people in Europe received the International Charlemagne Prize (Karlspreis) 2024, in Aachen, Germany, May 9, 2024.

When the republic loses the street, its Jews lose first

Influencer and political commentator Hasan Piker is introduced during a campaign rally in Wisconsin in August.

Hasan Piker incites millions against Jews, and the silence is deafening - opinion

PRO-PALESTINE demonstration in Nancy, France, 2024

France: A license to kill


4 decades later, new trial of alleged 1980 Paris synagogue bomber offers victims closure

An arrest warrant in the 1980 bombing that killed four people and wounded 46 was first issued for Diab, a Lebanese academic who lives in Canada, in 2008.

A man wearing a yarmulke looks at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

Solidarity of French Jews with Israel must not weaken - opinion

For the Diaspora, being Jewish means knowing what we owe to liberal democracy and the rule of law.

 FRENCH PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Elysee Palace, last month

Smotrich to meet senior Orthodox Jewish officials in US, France

Smotrich will be meeting with rabbis and teachers at Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst as well as the Zionist Organization of America.

 Religious Zionist party head MK Bezalel Smotrich seen after coalition talks with Shas chairman MK Arie Deri and  Likud Head MK Benjamin Netanyahu outside a hotel in Jerusalem, December 5, 2022.

Aliyah minister: Decreased US, France immigration urges us to invest

Ofir Sofer is “expected to allocate budgets for programs intended to integrate new immigrants into the employment market.”

 ALIYAH AND INTEGRATION Minister Ofir Sofer: There is an assumption that olim from financially established countries don’t need any support or assistance. That isn’t true.

French PM shares story of Holocaust-survivor father’s suicide when she was a child

The prime minister’s father, Joseph Bornstein (who later became “Borne”) suffered from trauma and severe depression.

 Élisabeth Borne, the Jewish woman who became prime minister of France.

The hidden aliyah crisis

For everyone who cares about this country and recognizes how vital immigration is to its future, we need to roll up our sleeves and get to work, and do our part to tackle the aliyah crisis.

 NEW ‘OLIM’ from North America arrive on an ‘aliyah flight’ arranged by Nefesh B’Nefesh.

Israel wants more Western immigrants - aliyah minister

IMMIGRATION AFFAIRS: Israeli Aliyah Minister Ofir Sofer plans to put an emphasis on immigrants from the US and France.

 ALIYAH AND INTEGRATION Minister Ofir Sofer: There is an assumption that olim from financially established countries don’t need any support or assistance. That isn’t true.

Yael German resigns as ambassador to France in protest of new gov't

German was appointed to the role by former prime minister Yair Lapid and previously served as a member of the Yesh Atid Party.

 Israel's ambassador to France Yael German attends a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the wartime Vel d'Hiv round-ups of Jews, in Paris, on July 17, 2022.

Famous Nazi-fighting duo speak about a documentary about their lives

The Klarsfelds, have been making headlines for decades and now have a documentary about their lives being shown at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival.

 BEATE AND Serge Klarsfeld.

In viral clip, French TV host asks Jewish guest why he wears a kippah in public

Though brief, the exchange illustrated the starkly different perspectives on religious expression in France, the United States and elsewhere in the western world.

A man wearing a yarmulke looks at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.