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Inside Tarrant County’s Dogged Prosecution of a Pro-Palestine Activist

Raunaq Alam has been in and out of jail five times in relation to anti-Israel graffiti on a Christian church. His lawyer says the case shows "how easily the government can roll back all of our civil rights."

Texas Observer

On Antisemitism by Mark Mazower review – parsing prejudice

A historian examines the age-old phenomenon of anti-Jewish hatred and the emergence of a word to define it

The Guardian - UK

Jews and Israel are not the same. Equating them is a propaganda technique

The claim is central to rationales for arming Israel even as leading human rights groups decry genocide in Gaza

The Guardian - US

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What Have the Rebels Ever Done for Us?

A balance sheet of three major Jewish revolts against Rome.

Reason

Barry Strauss Guest-Blogging About "Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire"

I'm delighted to report that my Hoover colleague (and emeritus professor at Cornell), Barry Strauss, will be guest-blogging this week… The post Barry Strauss Guest-Blogging About "Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire" appeared first on Reason.com.

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Daughter of Holocaust survivor plans to be arrested in support of Palestine Action

Carolyn Gelenter plans to be arrested when she joins over a thousand people supporting Palestine Action in Parliament Square on Saturday

Evening Standard

Alarm in Texas as activist faces hate-crimes trial over anti-Israel graffiti

Experts say use of hate-crimes statute conflates state of Israel with Judaism and infringes on free speech rights

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The Melbourne butcher’s son who converted to Judaism and guided 10,000 lives in death

Stella Prize shortlisted author Katia Ariel admits to a “pre-emptive regret” at not being able to include the personal details of each of the thousands of souls relayed to her by Ephraim Finch, director of Melbourne’s Chevra Kadisha – or, Jewish Burial Society. From the mid-1980s to 2015, he buried…

The Conversation

How Orthodox Jewish families are finding ways to support their trans children

Ziva Mann has been navigating the challenges of raising a transgender child within an Orthodox Jewish community

The Independent UK

‘A cipher for crazy self-projection’: why are architects so obsessed with Solomon’s Temple?

The palatial edifice, believed to have stood where God created Adam, has fired imaginations for two millennia. Now artist Pablo Bronstein has created wild mashups, complete with blue-bearded gargoyles, suggesting how it looked

The Guardian - UK

With growing urgency, more US Jews urge Israel to ensure ample food deliveries to Gaza

A growing number of Jewish Americans are urging Israel to ensure humanitarian aid reaches Gaza, though the ongoing war with Hamas remains a tension point

The Independent UK

Netanyahu's coalition under pressure as ultra-Orthodox party announces exit

The departure of United Torah Judaism leaves Netanyahu with a razor thin majority in a government coalition dominated by two far-right parties.

Euronews

Israeli ultra-Orthodox party quits Netanyahu government over conscription

Resignation of United Torah Judaism lawmakers leaves Netanyahu with razor-thin 61-seat majority in the 120 seat Knesset.

Al Jazeera

In an age of failing economies and a populist backlash, I’ll tell you what we need – Marxism

The corporations would asset-strip our brains, but we can take back control, says economist and former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis

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The Independent UK

After centuries of isolation, ultra-Orthodox Jews are engaging with the world more than ever

One in seven Jews worldwide are strictly Orthodox

The Conversation

What do the Bible, the Quran and the Torah say about the justification for war?

Wars are often waged in the name of religion. So what do key texts from Christianity, Islam and Judaism say about the justification for war?

The Guardian - US

Jewish Americans of all stripes reconsider safety protocols – but disagree on roots of recent violence

Many see attacks as part of a rise in anti-Jewish hate, while others object to conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism

The Guardian - UK

Progressive Judaism co-leaders pledge to welcome critics of Israel

‘Judaism has at its heart the idea that we grapple with one another,’ says Rabbi Josh Levy after historic UK merger of Liberal and Reform traditions

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The Independent UK

Voices: Criticising Netanyahu is not antisemitic – this Jewish rebellion shows why

COMMENT: Last month’s declaration by 36 members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews against an escalation of the war in Gaza – in which ‘Israel's soul is being ripped out’ – is not only still reverberating through their own community, but has a much wider significance, writes Donald…

The Independent UK

At Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural Mass and beyond, Jewish leaders show hope in Jewish-Catholic relations

Jewish leaders got front seats at Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration Mass

The Guardian - UK

Two UK Jewish movements vote to become one progressive group

Merger of Liberal Judaism and Reform Judaism will be first in any major religion for more than half a century

The Independent UK

Tens of thousands of Jews gather for traditional blessing in Jerusalem

Tens of thousands of people have gathered at Judaism’s holiest site in Jerusalem for the traditional priestly blessing prayer

The Independent UK

Freed Israeli hostage held onto faith to get through months of captivity in Gaza

An Israeli hostage freed in the current ceasefire between Israel and Hamas said faith sustained her during her captivity, and she used the few means that were available to her to observe Judaism

The Conversation

From Jewish summer camp to gospel to Chabad, Bob Dylan’s faith doesn’t fit in a box − but he’s long had a connection to Israel

James Mangold’s film “A Complete Unknown,” nominated for eight Oscars, captures the elusive, enigmatic quality of Bob Dylan in the early 1960s: the years he emerged as a major musical and cultural phenomenon. A scant few years after he came to New York from Minnesota, and legally changed his name…

The Guardian - US

‘A moral wreckage that we need to face’: Peter Beinart on being Jewish after Gaza’s destruction

With his new book, the author – once a prominent defender of Israel – hopes to change minds among his peers as he imagines a future of ‘collective liberation’

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