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NJ Group Sees Haredi Orthodox As A Threat To ‘Quality Of Life’

The video, with suspenseful music playing in the background, opens with footage of a crowd of Orthodox Jews. Then it paraphrases a classic poem about the Holocaust. “First they came for my house, but I did not speak up,” the narrator says. “I said I am not willing to sell, and closed my door. … […]

Ilhan Omar Endorses Israel Boycott & Is On Influential Foreign Affairs Committee

WASHINGTON — The top two Jewish members of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee revile BDS, the boycott Israel movement. Its newest member, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has embraced the movement. It’s not a big deal, the Jewish Democrats say. Reps. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the committee chairman, and Ted Deutch, D-Fla., its Middle […]

Jewish Teen Indicted In Rock-Throwing Death Of Palestinian Woman

JERUSALEM — A Jewish yeshiva high school student was charged Thursday with manslaughter in the rock-throwing death of a Palestinian woman in the West Bank while she was riding in a car. The prosecution asked that the 16-year-old, from the central West Bank, remain in custody until the end of the trial. The minor’s name remains […]