Northern California Jewish camp cancels final session over forest fires
The final summer session of Camp Tawonga in Northern California has been canceled due to smoke from the Ferguson Forest Fire. Read more.
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Anti-Semitic graffiti scrawled on childhood home of Elie Wiesel in Romania
The graffiti in a northwestern town in Romania — ugly, obscene and anti-Semitic — was clearly meant to shock. Read more.
600 NA rabbis to Orthodox rabbis in Israel: Retract homophobic letter
Nearly 600 rabbis from North America have signed an open letter calling on Orthodox rabbis in Israel to retract recent homophobic comments. Read more.
Gaza incendiary balloons spark 40 fires in southern Israel over weekend
Over forty fires broke out in southern Israel over the weekend sparked by incendiary balloons launched over the border from the Gaza Strip, according to reports in the Hebrew-language media. Read more.
Holocaust experts call on FB to axe anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial posts
Holocaust experts — including shoah survivor Sir Ben Helfgott — have called on Facebook to delete flagrantly antisemitic posts after it refused to do so. Read more.