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August 30th, 2015 
Awake Goy (JTA) — Approximately 50 Israeli Jews, accompanied by police, moved into a five-story building in an Arab neighborhood of east Jerusalem.
Activists from Ateret Cohanim, a right-wing group, moved into the building in the Silwan section of Jerusalem on Thursday morning, claiming the property had belonged to Jews before Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, when east Jerusalem came under Jordanian control,The Associated Press reported.
Roughly 50,000 Palestinians and several hundred Jews currently live in Silwan, according to the AP.
Palestinian residents of the building, which Ateret Cohanim members purchased, claim they were unfairly evicted or illegally bullied into leaving.
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Capital’s secular community is making headway in longstanding conflict with Orthodox communities over freedom to open establishments on Shabbat.
Associated Press, 08.26.15, 17:27
Crowds of angry ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, wearing long beards, black and white garb and large black hats, protested in the streets of Jerusalem earlier this month against a new cinema opening its doors on the Sabbath.
The demonstration was meant to be a show of strength in a long-running dispute over the role of strict Jewish law in the cultural life of Jerusalem. But in many ways, it was also a sign of desperation after a series of gains by the city’s secular community in recent years.
(JTA) — A British Jewish group asked the country’s high court to review a municipality’s decision last year to support a boycott of products from the West Bank.
Jonathan Neumann, director of Jewish Human Rights Watch — a group devoted to monitoring efforts to boycott Israel — earlier this month filed with the High Court of Justice of England and Wales a request for judicial review of a nonbinding motion passed by the City Council of Leicester supporting a boycott of products from the West Bank.
The motion, passed in November and submitted by council member Mohammed Dawood, calls for boycotting such products “in so far as it is legal,” citing Israel’s “continuing to ignore and breach international law” and “continuing its occupation of Palestinian territories.”
But Neumann said the motion was anti-Semitic, because it was a boycott of goods produced by Jews.
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — On Friday, President Barack Obama will address American Jews in an effort to win their support for the nuclear deal with Iran. Here is what he should say:
My fellow Americans:
I understand your anxiety about the nuclear agreement my administration signed with Iran.
In the last century, most of the Jews of Europe — one-third of all Jews in the world — were murdered by a country whose leader had promised to murder them.
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(JTA) – When Ali Martell’s eldest daughter reached school age, Martell and her husband both assumed she’d go to a Jewish day school, as they had.
And for a while, she did. But after the couple’s two younger children started school, too, the Martells began to feel overburdened by tuition. They couldn’t afford to send their kids to the summer camp of their choice, replace their aging minivan or go to Israel for a cousin’s bar mitzvah. So three years ago, they pulled their kids out of their Toronto Jewish day school and enrolled them in public school.
But this fall, Martell’s kids are all going back to Jewish day schools.
“My husband I were both happy that we had a bit of financial flexibility, but we were really missing the Jewish day school system,” Martell told JTA. “We just didn’t feel connected to the community like the way our kids were when we were in Jewish day schools.”
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(JTA) — Princeton University will install an eruv around its campus and part of its surrounding town.
Rev. Dr. Alison L. Boden, Princeton’s dean of religious life, and Rabbi Julie Roth, the school’s Jewish chaplain and Hillel director, announced in an email to the campus community on Tuesday that the eruv will be completed in two to three weeks. It will encompass “much of the campus and some of the surrounding community,” Boden and Roth said.
The eruv, or ritual boundary that allows observant Jews to perform certain activities in the public domain during Shabbat, was first proposed by Roth and David Wolkenfeld, a former Orthodox rabbi at Princeton’s Center for Jewish Life, five years ago.
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Pre-state intel officers had Nazi on watch list to British Mandate Palestine; rare archive up for sale by Israeli auction house
A recently discovered document shows that a secret network of pre-state Jewish intelligence leaders were on alert for a possible Adolf Eichmann escape to British Mandate Palestine following World War II.
It would not have been Eichmann’s first time in the Holy Land. In 1937 he had toured Palestine before he was quickly expelled by the British, with the aim of discussing a large-scale Jewish immigration with Arab leaders.
On the taped-together yellowed document, dated October 20, 1947, it is written that because of Eichmann’s “vast experience” while working in the Nazis’ Jewish department, the Shay pre-state military intelligence division of the Haganah feared he would attempt to infiltrate Israel and pass himself off as a Jew.
Eichmann, who had headed the Nazi’s SD Scientific Museum of Jewish Affairs, was the Gestapo’s self-proclaimed “Jewish expert.” The document cites his knowledge of Hebrew and Yiddish, and his organizational skills as a high-level Nazi officer.
The eight-page “Alertness Pamphlet” is an internal Haganah watch list of criminals. Each page is filled with portraits of suspects, their written physical descriptions, why they are on the list, and what should be done with them when found.
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Famed Jewish actor and wife Anne’s newest beneficiaries include Jewish charities, a synagogue and the ADL
Actor Kirk Douglas and his wife Anne announced plans to donate $80 million in new gifts to an array of charitable causes.
In a Hollywood Reporter interview published Monday, Douglas, 98, said major beneficiaries will include Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Motion Picture & Television Fund. The two already have donated millions of dollars through their Douglas Charitable Foundation.
While most of the beneficiaries are secular organizations, the couple also is donating to the Sinai Temple of Los Angeles, which houses the Kirk and Anne Douglas Childhood Center.
Douglas is Jewish and the father of Hollywood actor Michael Douglas, who this year won the $1 million Genesis Prize, which is marketed as the “Jewish Nobel.”
In the interview, Douglas recalled his modest childhood as the son of Russian immigrants.
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