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ADL accuses Mamdani transition members of engaging in 'antisemitic, anti-Zionist' activities

Haaretz - 21:28 Dec 22, 2025

Zohran Mamdani, who will be sworn in as New York City mayor on January 1, slammed the ADL report, saying it diverts attention from actual antisemitism and that a distinction must be made between Jew hatred and criticism of the Israeli government, which the ADL 'oftentimes ignores'
'Why choose this fight?' How the daughter of a Korean-Buddhist became one of America's most distinguished rabbis

Haaretz - 21:08 Dec 22, 2025

In a new memoir, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl traces her journey from a young immigrant whose Jewishness was often challenged, to the rabbi called on to lead Hanukkah at the White House. Last month, she called out Zohran Mamdani for 'mainstreaming some of the most abhorrent antisemitism'
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Haaretz - 21:06 Dec 22, 2025
Fierce Trump critic George Conway to run in crowded New York Democratic congressional primary

Haaretz - 20:53 Dec 22, 2025

Conway, a former Republican, will run as a Democrat in the primary to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler in what is considered the nation's most Jewish district. He has been critical of Israel and of the Biden administration's actions in the Gaza war
13% of Republicans attending Turning Point USA deem Israel 'not a U.S. ally'

Haaretz - 20:37 Dec 22, 2025

'Israel is an important ally, and there are things we'll certainly work on together,' Vice President JD Vance said at a conference of the movement once led by the slain Charlie Kirk, 'but we're also going to have very substantive disagreements with Israel, and that's OK'

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The poison of Israel's Jewish extremists is seeping out of the West Bank

Haaretz - 20:07 Dec 22, 2025

Israelis have largely ignored a surge in settler violence in the West Bank, but as it reaches Israeli cities, they'd do well to ensure it doesn't destroy the country from within

Tags: West Bank
Israel Police arrest man dressed as Santa Claus at Haifa Christmas festival

Haaretz - 19:53 Dec 22, 2025

Police were seen interrupting a traditional Palestinian dabke dance in a predominantly Arab neighborhood of Haifa, before dispersing the celebrations, confiscating equipment and arresting three men, one of whom was dressed as Santa Claus

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From Bondi Beach to Africa and back to Syria: Where are Islamic State hotspots today?

Haaretz - 19:46 Dec 22, 2025

The recent massacre in Sydney and U.S. strikes in Syria raise the question of whether the Islamic State is resurging or has shifted to a low-level global model driven by ideology and technology. 'While not everybody is inspired by slaughter,' one expert warns, IS targets the small number of people who are

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No longer the butt of jokes: New museum in Haifa celebrates prim and proper Yekke culture

Haaretz - 19:29 Dec 22, 2025

Opening Monday on the University of Haifa campus, the German-Speaking Jewry Heritage Wing of the Hecht Museum houses a collection of art and artifacts donated by descendants of immigrants who fled the Nazis. The exhibit includes a replica of a bare-bones hut inhabited by immigrants to Nahariya

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Culture minister targets funding for Israel's film industry, branding it 'extremist leftist'

Haaretz - 19:20 Dec 22, 2025

The law allocates $40.6 million a year in grants to Israel's film industry. Culture Minister Miki Zohar's move followed the Ophir Awards – Israel's equivalent of the Oscars – where The Sea, about a West Bank Palestinian boy, won best film. Zohar has since launched a rival state film award, but six nominees have withdrawn

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'Why beat Hezbollah if you can't save our home?': Northern Israelis protest postwar plight

Haaretz - 18:37 Dec 22, 2025

Demonstrators shut down most businesses in Kiryat Shmona on Monday morning, including two shopping malls, burned tires and blocked access to nearby communities. 'This place will turn into a giant old-age home,' one protester warned, a year after a cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon
Far-right Smotrich says Netanyahu pressed him to legalize more West Bank settler outposts

Haaretz - 18:21 Dec 22, 2025

Smotrich claims Israeli settlements in the southern West Bank are required to prevent 'a Palestinian invasion' of Israel. On Sunday, the Netanyahu government finalized the legalization of 19 previously unauthorized settler outposts in the West Bank

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Netanyahu: Gov't-backed Oct. 7 inquiry to probe Oslo Accords, anti–judicial coup protests

Haaretz - 18:01 Dec 22, 2025

Netanyahu made the remarks at the first meeting of a ministerial committee formed to determine the powers of a politicized probe set to be sent to the Knesset for approval. Other ministers called for the inquiry to examine the Supreme Court's role and the 2005 Gaza disengagement

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Selfies at Auschwitz: main character energy or bearing witness?

Haaretz - 16:53 Dec 22, 2025

Posting a smiling selfie from a death camp is generally frowned upon. But as the survivor population shrinks, Prof. Jackie Feldman asks: Could sharing selfies be how a phone-obsessed society witnesses the Holocaust?
God's chariot and secrets in stone: Top biblical archaeology stories of 2025

Haaretz - 16:26 Dec 22, 2025
Huckabee: Iran missed 'full message' of strikes on nuclear sites, is 'digging deeper'

Haaretz - 15:34 Dec 22, 2025

The U.S. ambassador to Israel also said that, if the Europeans have not yet grasped that a nuclear Iran presents a threat to them as well, 'then they're even dumber than I sometimes think they are'

Tags: Iran
Australian Jewish sports club renames mascot in honor of 10-year-old killed in Bondi Beach massacre

Haaretz - 15:04 Dec 22, 2025

Melbourne's Maccabi FC Caulfield announced that their 'MaccaBee' mascot will now be known as Matilda, after the parents of the youngest victim of the mass shooting urged the public to 'remember her name'
Failed homemade bombs, months of planning: Australian police reveals new findings in Bondi massacre

Haaretz - 14:01 Dec 22, 2025

Police say the alleged gunmen had planned the attack for several months, training with firearms in isolated rural parts of Australia. The Sydney Morning Herald said one of the perpetrators reportedly traveled to an area in the Philippines known to have connections to ISIS-inspired terrorist organizations
Bereaved families protest Netanyahu-led probe into Oct. 7 massacre outside PM's office

Haaretz - 13:08 Dec 22, 2025

Three protesters were arrested outside the Prime Minister's Office calling for a state commission of inquiry, ahead of the Knesset's first vote on Wednesday.
U.K. Holocaust charity faces pushback for sacking staffer involved in Standing Together

Haaretz - 13:05 Dec 22, 2025

Melanie Goldberg, who had been in the midst of organizing an event at the Scottish parliament, was told that her contract was terminated because the Jewish-Arab movement used the term 'genocide' to describe Israel's actions in Gaza

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