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20 Jul 2016 Organized tours take place during weapons exhibition marking second anniversary of 2014 war with Israel.  READ MORE »

20 Jul 2016 FBI agent says 18-year-old wanted to inspire an insurgency in the United States to carry out the sort of attacks that had occurred in Paris and Brussels and had online exchanges with a person believed to be a member of the Islamic State terrorist group.  READ MORE »

20 Jul 2016 Foreign Ministry chief Dore Gold signs agreement with West African Muslim nation, calls on others to follow suit.  READ MORE »

20 Jul 2016 “We are always alert to anti-Semitic expressions and take the appropriate actions in order to avoid the proliferation of this type of discrimination,” the Sao Paulo Jewish federation’s executive president, Ricardo Berkiensztat, told JTA.  READ MORE »

20 Jul 2016 After the city council of Santiago de Compostela in Spain’s northwestern region of Galicia adopted a motion to boycott Israel last year, the airline El Al reportedly canceled plans to provide direct flights from Israel.  READ MORE »

20 Jul 2016 Shuttered by communists in 1930 and nearly destroyed by Nazi artillery during the vicious fight for Leningrad during World War II, the synagogue was rebuilt in the 1940s but was allowed to function only as a sham shul — a prop in the Soviet Union’s propaganda about its citizens nonexistent freedoms.  READ MORE »

20 Jul 2016 Jewish students in Britain will no longer have a say on who represents them in the National Union of Students (NUS)’ Anti-Racism, Anti-Fascist taskforce, it has emerged.   READ MORE »

20 Jul 2016 German Jewish leaders warned that all German institutions, not just Jewish ones, should take extra precautions against terrorism in the wake of an Islamic State-inspired ax attack on a train in Wurzburg.  READ MORE »