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A member of Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, Mich., is suing anti-Israel protesters and city leaders over weekly demonstrations outside the synagogue. The 85-page complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan. “The First Amendment right of free speech does not entitle a speaker to use that right repeatedly to bludgeon, for weeks and years at a time, in the same location,” stated the lawsuit. “The First Amendment … is subject to appropriate limitations on its continued and repeated usage.” The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Beth Israel Congregation member Marvin Gerber, claims that the demonstrations...

Oy to the World Schlepping through a Winter Wonderland Hava Negilah – The Megamix Bubby Got Run Over by a Reindeer Enough with those Jingle Bells Already…Jeez! Matzo Man (by the Lower East Side Village People) I Have a Little Dreidel (the Barking Dog Version) Come on Baby, Light My Menorah Deck the Halls with Balls of Matzoh Silent Night? I Should Be So Lucky

Israel’s world-renown Shalva Band wowed the crowd at a top Israel-US conference, receiving a heartwarming introduction from President Donald Trump. At the Israeli American Council (IAC) National Summit this weekend, Israel’s Shalva Band took the stage to perform the Irving Berlin classic, “God Bless America.” It was a truly one-of-a-kind moment for everyone present, including the Shalva Band, a group of incredibly talented Israelis with disabilities who make beautiful music together. Following the performance, the president hugged the band members as the crowd roared.

Oy vey! It seems like every other day a new on-demand car service pops up, with another outrageous promo pushing customers to download an app. Whether it's Uber, Lyft, Gett or any other service, they're all essentially offering competitive rates and services, threatening to put yellow cabs out of business, and leaving consumers flustered with so many options. But now there is one standing out from the rest... Introducing, Schlep: the first on-demand car service that uses "Jewish Geography" navigation. Rather than having a driver who doesn't speak English or has little to say, Schlep provides a nice Jewish mother...

The IJF said that the Iran Judo Federation was suspended from “all competitions, administrative and social activities organized or authorized” by the IJF. The International Judo Federation (IJF) on Wednesday announced it had officially suspended Iran over its directive to its Judoka Saeid Mollaei to withdraw from a recent competition to avoid a contest against Israel’s Sagi Muki. The IJF said that the Iran Judo Federation was suspended from “all competitions, administrative and social activities organized or authorized” by the IJF. During the 2019 World Championships in Tokyo in August, Mollaei lost to Belgian judoka Matthias Casse on purpose to...

After ousting other leaders over anti-Semitism, the Women’s March selected another individual who had to be quickly removed when her hateful anti-Israel tweets were exposed. By United With Israel Staff Lawyer Zhara Billoo, executive director of the San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), was set to fill an empty seat on the board of the Women’s March group following the resignation of its previous leaders who faced persistent accusations of anti-Semitism. After her appointment, Billoo’s history of vehemently anti-Israel remarks, including several that many viewed as crossing the line into anti-Semitism, was revealed. She...

It’s a safe bet to say that Firas al-Najim’s boycott efforts didn’t go the way he hoped they would. About a week after the anti-Israel agitator posted videos on his Facebook page calling for a boycott of Toronto businesses that support Israel, the owner of one of the targets of his campaign, the Taste of Israel grocery store, said sales had more than doubled. And if the comments section of his pro-BDS Facebook page are any indication, the response there didn’t go so well, either. Many of the commenters commended al-Najim for telling them about businesses they can patronize. Others...

Like the boy in the tale of the emperor’s new clothes, President Trump has once again spoken a taboo truth: Some American Jews seem to be more loyal to an increasingly anti-Jewish and far-left Democratic Party than they are to the Jewish people. That’s not necessarily an immoral position for most American Jews to take: As individuals, they have no concrete duty of loyalty to the Jewish people, and it is their absolute right to seek stronger allegiances through political, rather than through religious or ethnic affinity. But American Jewish leaders, picked and paid as such by the Jewish community,...

What a sick and evil self-hating kapo Ariel Gold is. The United States should classify Code Pink as an anti-Semitic hate-group. Code Pink National Co-Director Ariel Gold tries to use El Paso shooting against Israel “That the victims of the El Paso shooting were exploited in the anti-Israel cause says everything about the face of left-wing anti-Zionism.” By William A Jacobson, Legal Insurrection, August 4th, 2019: The spread of inaccurate information by mistake is compounded by the deliberate spread of false information enabled by social media. This initial media incompetence is often fed by an implicit bias to believe that...

{Originally posted to the CAMERA website} If there was any doubt that lies told about the modern state of Israel incite violence against American Jews, it was demolished after the recent appearance of professional Jew-baiter E. Michael Jones on the YouTube channel of Catholics Against Militarism (CAM). During the interview, Jones, a failed academic who bills himself as being at the “absolute dead center of Catholic tradition,” argued that the deaths of civilians at the “March of Return” riots organized by Hamas logically justifies the murder of Jews in synagogues in the United States. Instead of confronting Jones’s statement for...

The Daily Beast published an article Sunday accusing Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Mariano Rivera of “secret far-right politics,” solely on the basis of the fact that he is a Christian who supports the State of Israel. The story, by Robert Silverman, is titled, “Inside Baseball Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera’s Secret Far-Right Politics.” But there is no evidence of “secret far-right politics” in the article. Instead, there is just an extensive recounting of Rivera’s support for Israel. Silverman says that despite the admiration the legendary New York Yankees closer has received from fans, he has “served at the pleasure...

Commentary: The Congresswoman Representing Somalia July 18, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff BY GEORGE S. BARDMESSER I am an immigrant. I want Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) to go back to the shithole country she came from. And I want her to stay there. I spent some time on the Internet looking for even one positive thing that Omar has said about America—but my search was in vain. Omar hates and despises her adoptive country unequivocally and unconditionally. She hates everything about America today, and she hates everything about the America of yesterday. Omar hates white people. Omar hates Jews—and she is...

Photos of Saikat Chakrabarti in a T-shirt with the image of an admirer of Adolf Hitler resurfaced days after Ocasio-Cortez quoted Eva Peron, a figure who was linked to the Nazis via her husband. Media outlets are again questioning why Saikat Chakrabarti, who serves as chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), wore a T-shirt in a December 2018 video with an image of Subhas Chandra Bose. Bose was an Indian political figure who admired the Nazis, met with Adolf Hitler and Holocaust-mastermind Heinrich Himmler, and lived in Berlin from 1941 until 1943, during the height of World...

Anka will be performing in Israel for the 4th time. He recently performed in Israel in March. Canadian-American singer, Paul Anka, told those pressuring him to not perform in Israel to "f-- off," in interview with Mako on Thursday.  "I told them very delicately to f-- off," Anka, who is of Syrian and Lebanese descent, said with a laugh, "Can you say that on television?"  Anka will be performing in Israel for the 4th time soon, Mako reported. He recently held a concert in Israel in March. The 60s and 70s legend said he received calls from people urging him not to preform...

describe the Holocaust as ‘factual’ Late last week, I reported on a Florida principal’s who could not saythat the Holocaust was a historical fact. I asked readers to sign the petition for the removal of the holocaust denying Florida principal. It worked. First and foremost, I applaud the parents, the mother, who refused to accept the left’s systematic academic antisemitism. One person can make a difference A high school in Boca Raton, Florida, removed a principal who told a parent that he needed to remain neutral on whether or not the Holocaust occurred. The Palm Beach County School District said...

There is a petition asking for the resignation of a Florida principal who wrote that he could not say the Holocaust was a “factual, historical event.” He should be fired. Period. But sign it anyway. SIGN PETITION HERE. The things I saw beggar description. While I was touring the camp I encountered three men who had been inmates and by one ruse or another had made their escape. I interviewed them through an interpreter. The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me sick. In one room, where they [there]...

It should not surprise anyone that Rep. Rashida Tlaib would trivialize the Holocaust. Tlaib is a product of the Palestinian education system, despite being raised in Michigan. Holocaust denial (here, here, here) is rampant in Palestinian schools. In fact, the Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas, has written and spoken extensively about the subject. In 2018, Abbas stated that the “Holocaust were related to the “social function” of Jews in banking” and in his 1982 doctoral thesis he minimized the extent of the Jewish genocide at the hands of the Nazis. This is the kind of grotesque anti-Semitism that Tlaib was...

The 50 yr-old rabid anti-Israel Irish lawyer/activist who was jailed for 6 months after a drunken, racist incident onboard an Air India flight to London has been found dead on an English beach. A disgraced anti-Israel activist from Britain who was jailed for staging a rowdy and racist scene aboard an airplane was found dead in what police are treating as a suicide. The lifeless body of Simone Burns, 50, also known as Simone O’Broin, was found last month on a beach, the Daily Telegraph reported Thursday. Sussex Police confirmed her death “is not being treated as suspicious” and next of kin have been...

A Massachusetts rabbi is urging his congregation to bring their guns to Shabbat — claiming their thoughts and prayers are not enough to save them during a mass shooting. “We can’t think, ‘I’m just praying, and God will save me,’ ” said Rabbi Dan Rodkin, of Shaloh House in Boston, in an interview with WBUR. “No,” he told the radio station, “we need to take care of situations ourselves.” Rodkin points to the country’s recent rise in domestic extremism and hate crimes over the past few years as his reasoning for making such a demand — the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting,...

A Palestinian professor takes a group of Arab students to visit Auschwitz.