October 24, 2014
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The Great Arizona Challah Bake draws more than 600 women of all ages to the Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus to bake challah for this Shabbat.



The challah bake was the local kick-off of The Shabbos Project, a worldwide initiative of Jewish unity. The project concludes Saturday night with a Havdalah concert. 

World and Israel


European rabbis call on governments across the continent to pass laws targeting anti-Semitic hate speech. 

 

The upper house of Ireland's parliament calls on the government to recognize Palestine. 

 

A Dutch mayor likens jihadis leaving the country to fight in Syria and Iraq to Jews leaving to fight in pre-state Israel. 

 

The head of Denmark's national health authority says that there is no reason to ban infant circumcision of boys.

 

Israel's ambassador to Jordan says that Jordan's king blasted Israel to appease Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt.     

 

Breaking rules of woship at the Kotel, Women of the Wall smuggle a small Torah into the Western Wall Plaza. 

 

Israel's new president, Reuven Rivlin,

a Likud member who supports annexing the West Bank, calls anti-Arab racism in Israel "a disease" that the nation must cure.


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Shabbat Shalom,


Jaime Stern
Jewish News

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