JERUSALEM (AP) ” Israel’s defense minister says the U.S. has notified Israel that imposing Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank would lead to an “immediate crisis” with the Trump administration.

Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday that, “We received a direct message ” not an indirect message and not a hint ” from the United States. Imposing Israeli sovereignty on Judea and Samaria would mean an immediate crisis with the new administration.”

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The story of an ancient Jewish family has been told for the first time in 2,000 years after a university professor used new techniques to examine documents found in a Dead Sea cave.Get The Jewish News’s Weekly Edition by emailand never miss our top stories Free Sign up!The remarkable tale of how Shim‘on ben Menahem purchased a date-palm orchard on the southern shores has been revealed after four legal papyri dated 94-90 AD were examined at the University of Gloucestershire.

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John W Schnellenberg, businessman, political candidate and Jewish community identity: b Berlin, Germany, September 14, 1935; m Sonia, 1d, 1s; d Masterton, February 14, 2017, aged 81.

John Schnellenberg was born in Berlin the day before the Nuremberg laws were enacted, depriving German Jews of their rights as citizens. He and his parents narrowly escaped the Holocaust, fleeing Germany in 1938 with the aid of a British diplomat who knew his father. His grandparents were not so fortunate, dying in Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Read more: From war refugee to liberal thinker, businessman and books man | Stuff.co.nz

BRUSSELS (AP) ” European Union foreign ministers are to discuss whether to hold high-level talks with Israel soon amid concern over its settlement policy and commitment to a two-state solution, diplomats said Friday.The diplomats said the EU must be clear in its dealings with Israel, especially given the U.S. administration’s unclear position on the decades-long conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.One said that any future official talks with Israel could not be “business as usual. Things have to be said very clearly to the Israelis.”

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NEW YORK (AP) ” A former journalist fired for fabricating details in stories made at least eight of the scores of threats against Jewish institutions nationwide, including a bomb threat to the Anti-Defamation League, as part of a bizarre campaign to harass and frame his ex-girlfriend, federal officials said Friday.

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(CNN)  Police in Philadelphia are trying to determine who vandalized a Jewish cemetery over the weekend.

Between 75 and 100 tombstones were overturned and damaged Saturday night at the Mt. Carmel Cemetery in the Wissinoming neighborhood.

The incident is being classified as institutional vandalism, but investigators have not established a motive, said Det. Jim McReynolds of the police department’s Northeast Detectives Division.

Cemeteries are located on each corner of the intersection, but no vandalism was found at the three Christian cemeteries, he said.”

As far as we know it’s limited to the Jewish cemetery,” he said.

Read more: Jewish cemetery vandalized in Philadelphia – CNN.com

Two days before the publication of an official report on Operation Protective Edge, Israeli officials say that Hamas currently operates at least 15 active tunnels leading from Gaza into Israeli territory.

Read more: IDF Officials report at least 15 active tunnels on border | JerusalemOnline

UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. — Families waited in silent clusters in a century-old Jewish cemetery here on Tuesday.

Some clutched slips of paper describing where relatives were buried. Others carried small plastic bags full of rocks to leave beside graves, a tradition.

They came with a single question: Was the grave of a loved one among the nearly 200 that had been vandalized here sometime over the weekend?

“You hope it’s not a resurgence of something, of anti-Semitism, but I don’t know,” Herschel Price, 87,

Read more: At Jewish Cemetery, Seeking Answers Amid Heartbreak – The New York Times

PARIS (AP) ” No more Muslim women in the Metro wearing the latest in headscarf attire. No more young Jewish boys in kippas dashing into the bakery for the family’s dinner baquette.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s plan to ban religious symbols from French streets if elected president this spring would dramatically alter the country’s urban landscape.Le Pen gave a real-life demonstration of her far-reaching but little-noticed proposal during a trip this week to Lebanon, refusing to don a head covering for a visit with a Muslim religious leader. She lost out on the meeting but won new publicity just as she is topping polls.

The ban would stigmatize France’s large Muslim population anew and force Europe’s largest Jewish community to give up a cherished custom.

Read more: Far-right candidate sees a France sans kippas, headscarves – World – NZ Herald News