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Bomb threats were made Tuesday against at least 11 Jewish Community Centers and institutions across North America, as well as four offices of the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported. These are the first threats made against Jewish targets in the United States since Juan Thompson was arrested on Friday for calling...

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The International Women’s Strike, a grassroots organization connected to the Women’s March on Washington, is using Wednesday as an “international day of action” to support “resistance not just against Trump and his misogynist policies, but also against the conditions that produced Trump, namely the decades long economic inequality, racial and sexual violence, and imperial...

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A St. Louis man was arrested on Friday for making threats against at least eight Jewish Community Centers across the United States. Juan Thompson is accused of calling in bomb threats to multiple JCCs and the headquarters of the Anti-Defamation League. According to authorities, Thompson made the calls as part...

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The United Nations Human Rights Council’s “obsession” with Israel has diverted attention from its mission and made a “mockery” of its proceedings, limiting the good it could otherwise accomplish across the world, the American representative to the council said in a speech Wednesday. Erin Barclay, deputy assistant secretary of state for international organization...

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A Palestinian terrorist convicted of killing two university students is scheduled to appear on a panel at Jewish Voice for Peace’s national meeting in Chicago next month, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Rasmea Odeh, a member of the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), is set to speak alongside three activists, including...

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A number of Jewish day schools and community centers were targeted by bomb threats across the United States on Monday, a day after a Jewish cemetery was vandalized in Philadelphia. The threats were directed at Jewish community centers in Asheville, North Carolina; Birmingham, Alabama; York and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Tarrytown and Staten Island,...

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