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The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles has started the revocation process for a vanity license plate that bears an anti-Semitic acronym. The license plate, which belongs to a Queens

The chief medical examiner of Pittsburgh’s Allegheny County released the names of the victims of the Pittsburgh shooting at Tree of Life Congregation. In addition to the 11 who were

Lauren Gordon, a Jewish mother from Texas, says that her daughter’s school asked for proof that the child is Jewish in order to excuse her for Yom Kippur. The Garland

Next month, Marilyn Monroe’s personal siddur will be put up for auction in Cedarhurst, NY, by J. Greenstein & Co. The starting bid is $4,600. The cream-colored siddur was published

Holocaust commemorations typically involve participants wearing somber clothes, a cantor mournfully chanting “Keil Malei Rachamim,” and a recitation including the names of Nazi death camps and the atocities committed there.

Australia is considering officially recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moving their embassy in Israel there. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison may also reconsider Australia’s support of the

Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said that his country will not recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights unless it is approved by the international community. The statement was made

An Israeli court fined two New Zealand women over $12,000 in damages for helping to persuade pop singer Lorde to cancel her concert schedued for Israel. The suit was filed under

A lecture required for University of Michigan art students featured a speaker who compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler. The Stamps School of Art & Design hosted speaker

Saturday morning, 19 swastikas were discovered spray-painted on the walls of the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia, located in Fairfax, VA. Surveillance video showed a man in dark clothing spraying