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Boulder Jewish Film Festival 2025: Explore Global Jewish Stories
Another season of outstanding cinema and stimulating conversation comes to Boulder October 26 – November 2 The 13th annual Boulder Jewish Film Festival, which runs October 26 – November 2 at the Dairy Arts Center, offers an entertaining and...

Beverly Hills Schools Halt Israeli Flag Display Despite School Board Vote
Superintendent Cites Safety Concerns After Narrow 3–2 Decision Despite a 3–2 Board of Education vote to display the Israeli flag on every campus each May, Beverly Hills Unified will not proceed with the plan this year after the superintendent...
Egypt national soccer team refuses to play Zambia due to Israeli coach Avram Grant
The Egyptian Football Association rejected a proposal for a friendly match against Zambia because the coaching staff of the Zambian team includes Israelis, Egyptian media reported on Wednesday. The objection was not directed personally at head...

UK Government office refuses to accept union letter urging action against Israel over murder of journalists in Gaza
Ty William Morgan House, Cardiff Central Square. Martin Shipton Staff at Cardiff’s UK Government Office in Wales refused to accept a hand-delivered letter from the National Union of Journalists urging Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens to argue for an end...

Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Sues FBI ‘Suspendable’ Whistleblower for $5 Million Over Israeli Spy ‘Honeypot’ Allegation
The country music-singer girlfriend of FBI director Kash Patel is suing a prominent FBI whistleblower for $5 million in damages after he accused her of being a “honeypot” and an Israeli spy seeking access to the Trump Administration. In her...

Indian Scientists Split Over Israel Boycott at International Astronomy Olympiad in Mumbai
A major row has erupted after faculty at International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics in Mumbai pushed a resolution suspending Israel’s participation. Nearly 300 scientists petitioned the government. The International Olympiad on Astronomy...

Microsoft terminates 4 employees for Israel-related protests, group claims fired employees received voicemails saying ...
Microsoft has fired two more employees – Nisreen Jardat and Julius Shan for a sit-in protest at President Brad Smith’s office against the software giant’s business ties to Israel. The protest, organised by No Azure for Apartheid demanded Microsoft...

Moroccan politician calls on Arab, Muslim leaders to save Gaza, open crossings
Abdelilah Benkirane, Secretary-General of Morocco’s Justice and Development Party, on Thursday urged Arab and Muslim leaders to take urgent action to open the crossings and rescue the Gaza Strip from the ongoing Israeli blockade. In a video...

Location where Jesus healed the blind is FOUND: Archaeologists in Jerusalem claim they've found the exact place where the biblical miracle took place
A huge ancient structure has been discovered in Jerusalem – and archaeologists believe it could be the place where Jesus healed a blind man in the Bible. The gospels describe how Christ restored sight to a beggar after sending him to wash in the...

What Is ‘Double Tap’ & Why Israel’s Use Of It At A Gaza Hospital Is Drawing Global Criticism?
Last Updated:August 29, 2025, 12:43 IST Israel targeted a camera near Nasser Hospital. One shell hit, followed nine minutes later by two more at the same location, killing medics, journalists, and civilians on site On August 25, a projectile...

Column: ADL’s Clumsy Misrepresentations Undermine the Jewish Community
Jonathan Greenblatt, Zohran Mamdani’s new mayoral campaign manager, helped build the candidate’s legitimacy as solidly as anyone could. The CEO of the Anti-Defamation League moonlighting as Mamdani’s campaign manager? Not officially, but...

Macron’s Hidden Game: Turn Against Israel Animated by Rising Political Clout of French Muslims
According to the latest Elabe/Les Echos polling, only 21 percent of the French — one citizen out of five — say they trust President Emmanuel Macron, writ large, and 73 percent say they don’t. More remarkably, only 41 percent of the French who...

Ancient wine flows again as 1,000-year-old grape seeds revive in Israel’s Negev
Vineyard at Avdat National Park, September 20, 2023. (Photo: Mahmoud Elziat/INPA) Once a global hub of wine production, an ancient tradition has been revived in the Negev desert with grape seeds that are 1,000 years old. Not long after the Bible...

Muslim organisations urge FG to break silence on reported arrest of Palestinian-Nigerian citizen
TWO prominent Muslim organisations in Nigeria, The Muslim Congress (TMC) and Muslim Awareness International (MAI), have raised concerns over the safety and whereabouts of Mr Ramzy Abu Ibrahim, a prominent Palestinian figure and community leader in...

Israeli minister calls to annex Gaza if Hamas doesnt surrender
Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has expressed support for re-establishing settlements in the Gaza Strip. (AP pic) JERUSALEM: Israel’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday called on the government to begin annexing parts of the...
Israeli forces raid six schools in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces raided six schools in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, detaining several teachers, the Wafa news agency reported. The soldiers searched schools in the Sheikh neighborhood, as well as in southern Hebron,...

Beverly Hills school board votes to fly Israeli flags in effort to fight antisemitism
JTA — The Beverly Hills Unified School District will display the Israeli flag in all of its facilities during Jewish Heritage Month starting next year, in an unusual move that split the school board in the ritzy and heavily Jewish enclave within...

Reversing course, Philadelphia Jewish museum to rehang vandalized Israeli flag
JTA — The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia announced Thursday that it will return an Israeli flag to its facade after two consecutive weeks of vandalism. The flag, which hangs on an exterior wall of the Jewish...

Israeli minister Smotrich calls on Netanyahu to annex Gaza Strip if Hamas resists surrender
JERUSALEM, Aug 29 — Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich yesterday called on the government to begin annexing parts of the Gaza Strip if Palestinian militant group Hamas stands by its refusal to lay down its weapons. The far-right minister,...

Netanyahu makes the whole world hate Israeli Jews and Arabs alike
My Jewish friend – and I have many good ones – was packing his bags, getting ready to leave Israel. "You're breaking my heart," I texted him just before his departure. He replied with a cry that seemed to echo, even though it was only written:...