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09 AUGUST 2019

The Cable

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WJC President Ronald S. Lauder: We are one people, and we should start acting like it

"If our enemies don't care which synagogue we go to, why should we?" There is a critical need for world Jewry to unite as one Jewish people.

Focus Areas

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Jewish community of Munich reports two recent antisemitic attacks
Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Jewish Community for Munich and Upper Bavaria and WJC Commissioner on Holocaust Memory, says: "Safety in public spaces, which should be a matter of course for all citizens, is becoming a more distant prospect, especially for members of the Jewish community."
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Israeli soldier killed in West Bank stabbing attack
A 19-year-old Israel Defense Forces soldier and student at the Machanayim yeshiva was stabbed to death in a terrorist attack the West Bank settlement bloc of Gush Etzion late Wednesday. His body was found on the side of a road near the seminary. (Photo courtesy of the IDF)
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Holocaust survivor celebrates 104th birthday with 400 descendants
An Auschwitz survivor celebrated her 104th birthday in Jerusalem, joined by about 400 of her descendants. Schoschana Ovitz reportedly requested all her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren join her for a celebration at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall.
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Australian prime minister meets faith leaders, including from Jewish community
Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Peter Wertheim, who represented the Jewish community, said the meeting was “constructive” with a diverse range of faith community leaders represented.
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Canadian Jews launch $10 million campaign to keep Montreal community safe
The Federation CJA said it has partnered with 31 Jewish institutions as art of its community Security Network initiative and hired an outside firm to develop strategies for protecting the community.
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California ethnic studies curriculum omits Jews and promotes anti-Israel bias
The California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, which was recently released by the California Department of Education for high schools, has brought the fear that American Jews have about being unwelcome to younger students.
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Belgian publication drops the phrase "ugly Jeiwsh noses' from controversial op-ed
In a July 27 column of the Belgian daily De Morgen, journalist Dimitri Verhulst sought to criticize Israel but reverted into blatant antisemitism. In the piece, he joked about Jews’ noses and accusing Israelis of stealing Palestinian land.
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Deconstruction zone: The pogroms of the Middle East
A look at developments in the Middle East over the past decades gives the clear impression that the region is becoming “cleansed” of minorities, especially the Christians who have inhabited it for millennia.
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Former Nazi camp guard, 92, is healthy enough to face trial, German court rules
The SS guard, identified in the German media as Bruno Dey, was charged in April with aiding and abetting the deaths of 5,230 prisoners at Stutthof during the nine months he served in a watch tower at the camp in Poland. His trial, set to begin in October, will be one of the last for former Nazis.
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Iran quadruples Hamas funding
Iranian support for the terror group has skyrocketed to more than $30 million per month in exchange for intelligence gathering from the previous level of under $6 million per month.
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Youth travel through Minsk to learn about its Jewish history
For more than a week, 75 Russian-speaking young people from Belarus itself, America, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Poland took part in Project MEGA, travelling throughout the country to learn about its history and the contribution made by its Jewish community.
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Anti-Israel scholar to give ‘academic freedom’ lecture at University of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has invited Israel-hater Dr Steven Salaita to give its annual academic freedom lecture this week. A proponent of academic boycotts of Israel, Salaita was scheduled to speak about the “Inhumanity of Academic Freedom” on Wednesday night.
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