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  • 2 weeks ago | jewishexponent.com | Jarrad Saffren

    In the early morning hours after the first night of Passover, Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor, Josh Shapiro, and his family were able to evacuate the Governor’s Residence without injury during a fire, according to PA State Police. Around 2 a.m. Sunday morning, members of the Harrisburg Bureau of Fire responded to a report of a fire at the North Front Street mansion Harrisburg, per the state police’s press release.

  • 2 months ago | jewishexponent.com | Jarrad Saffren

    Jarrad Saffren | Managing EditorIn July 2023, Howie Roseman was interviewed on stage by Michael Barkann at the Milton & Betty Katz JCC. The occasion was the Margate JCC’s annual Jackie & Hank Herskowitz Sports Night. Most attendees who asked questions asked about football and the Eagles.

  • Dec 4, 2024 | jewishtimes.com | Jarrad Saffren

    She claimed Auschwitz was just a work camp, not a death camp, and that nobody had been gassed to death there. She challenged a German court to prove that the Nazis committed mass murder, and declared on TV that the Holocaust was “the biggest and most sustainable lie in history.”She spent years in prison, as an elderly widow, for lying about the Holocaust, and was deemed the “Nazi grandma” by German media. On Nov.

  • Dec 4, 2024 | jewishtimes.com | Jarrad Saffren

    Israeli authorities announced early on Nov. 24 that the body of a rabbi who disappeared Nov. 21 in the United Arab Emirates had been found, JTA reported. Israel had previously warned that Rabbi Zvi Kogan, who worked in the capital of Abu Dhabi as an emissary of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, may have been the victim of terrorism. The Mossad and other security agencies were involved in searching for him, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement late on Nov. 23.

  • Dec 4, 2024 | jewishtimes.com | Jarrad Saffren

    Justin Trudeau said Canada’s government would not tolerate antisemitism after a violent pro-Palestinian demonstration in Montreal where protesters burned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in effigy, JTA reported. The Canadian prime minister was one of several officials to condemn the protest, which opposed a NATO conference on Nov. 22 and after which three protesters were arrested.

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Jarrad Saffren
Jarrad Saffren @JarradSaff
10 Nov 23

Jewish Exponent Podcast: Yoni Ari hosts security trainings for Philadelphia-area synagogues. He also lives in Israel. On Oct. 7, he awoke to a call from a friend. Hamas was attacking. Ari realized that his own community would have to respond. https://t.co/q9wPD8IxNZ

Jarrad Saffren
Jarrad Saffren @JarradSaff
13 Oct 23

Jackson Frank had just started a new job covering the Sixers for PhillyVoice. Then he sent a pro-Palestine tweet. It got him fired. He talked about why he sent it. https://t.co/Xn2hW3RR5r

Jarrad Saffren
Jarrad Saffren @JarradSaff
1 Mar 23

Temple Judea of Bucks County opened in 1959 as the first synagogue in Doylestown. This many decades later, it remains a spiritual center for Jews in the Central Bucks area. But over the next two years, the community will fight for its life. https://t.co/ajXHL2cMe1