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'Antisemitism is anti-American': Senate holds hearing for antisemitism envoy

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun’s nomination as US Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism sparks debate over his bipartisan approach.

 Yehuda Kaploun and Donald Trump.
An undated handout photo released by the Metropolitan Police shows Howard Phillips, who was jailed on Friday for assisting a foreign intelligence service.

UK Jewish man jailed for offering then-defense minister's information to Russian 'spies'

 Val Kilmer in "Top Secret!"

‘That’s Simchas Torah’: The Jewish Val Kilmer moment you might have missed

 A student walks on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut November 12, 2015.

AI website 'Jewish Onliner' linked to team behind Yale Scholar's suspension


Chabad Hassidim reach out to the disabled

Ruderman Family Foundation partnering with movement to change the culture to inclusivity.

Chabad headquarters in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York‏

Anger simmers over ouster of Jewish Agency fundraising chief

Director general Alan Hoffmann under fire, critics say “unable to balance a budget or actually accomplish much at all.”

Alan Hoffmann triannual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency 2014.

Lithuanian Jews, Zuroff spar over Holocaust research center

Zuroff has been a harsh critic of the Baltic states’ approach to the Holocaust, accusing countries such as Lithuania of rewriting the narrative to create equivalence between Soviet and Nazi crimes.

Efraim Zuroff

Dutch Jews demand government deploy troops near synagogues

The plea came from a number of Jewish communities in the Netherlands following an Islamist’s slaying on Jan. 9 of four Jews at a kosher supermarket near Paris.

A Jewish man gazes at the Peace Palace in The Hague

Osem, nervous that Heinz is starting to 'ketchup,' condemns the condiment

Osem has embarked on a campaign to get Heinz, which accounts for about a third of Israeli ketchup sales, off supermarket shelves.

Ketchup [illustrative]

Pro-Israel rally scrapped in Amsterdam over security concerns

Holland4Israel postponed the event over security concerns following the the targeting of Jewish sites in Paris.

Moran Samuel in a racing boat at the World Championships in Amsterdam.

Don’t blame the USY’ers – blame the adults

I’m proud of the times when USY’ers have led the way in publicly modeling Jewish observance – despite frequent poor choices by adult Conservative Jews.

Dating in the 21st century

PHOTO GALLERY: Jews, dignitaries worldwide mark third night of Hanukkah

From Washington to Montreal, Budapest to Berlin, Jews and world leaders lit the third candle on the menorah.

Hanukkah candle lighting in Sydney, 2012

Iranian lawmaker touts good relations between country's Jews and government

Memorial to Iranian Jews killed in Iran-Iraq war unveiled in Tehran.

Unveiling ceremony for memorial to Iranian Jews killed in Iran-Iraq war‏.

Cuba releases Jewish-American prisoner as Washington-Havana reset ties

Cuba arrested Gross in 2009, and later convicted the USAID subcontractor to 15 years in prison for importing banned technology, trying to establish clandestine internet service for Cuban Jews.

Alan Gross