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FILE - United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speak during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters, April 18, 2024. An independent review released Monday, April 22, of the neutrality of UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, has found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011. The review was carried out after Israel alleged that a dozen employees of the agency had participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. Guterres ordered the U.N. internal watchdog to carry out a separate investigation into the allegations. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

The UN’s Silence is Antisemitic: Antonio Guterres must go

By Danielle Ofek – Special to Higher Ground

NYPD officers from the Strategic Response Group form a wall of protection around Deputy Commissioner of Legal Matters Michael Gerber and Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kay Daughtry, not in the picture, during a press conference regarding the ongoing pro-Palestinians protest encampment at Columbia University in New York on Monday, April 22, 2024. U.S. colleges and universities are preparing for end-of-year commencement ceremonies with a unique challenge: providing safety for graduates while honoring the free speech rights of students involved in protests over the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

GOP senators urge Biden to mobilize National Guard to protect Jewish college students

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Israeli police detain a suspected attacker in an apparent car ramming that wounded three people on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Passover, in Jerusalem, Monday, April 22, 2024. Israeli police said they have arrested two people after a car slammed into pedestrians in Jerusalem on Monday, lightly wounding three. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

The Latest | Hezbollah fires dozens of rockets into northern Israel, drawing retaliatory strikes

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Salvage work continues on the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, Monday, April 15, 2024, in Baltimore. The FBI confirmed that agents were aboard the Dali conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Jewish educator links today’s environmental crises to biblical plagues of Passover, seeks change

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

This photo shows chocolate toffee covered matzoh. Chocolate-covered caramel matzo, also known as Matzoh Buttercrunch, has become a popular Passover dessert. (Cheyenne Cohen via AP).

Children learn matzo making and Passover’s traditions ahead of the Jewish holiday

Associated Press

Israeli soldiers look at chairs for hostages held in Gaza at a Passover Seder table on Thursday, April 11, 2024, at the communal dining hall at Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel, where a quarter of all residents were killed or captured by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. For many Jews, no matter how observant, Passover is a time to unite with family to eat and drink around what's known as a Seder table, remembering how the Jews persevered through harsh times. But this year, when Passover begins on Monday, many families are torn on how to celebrate, or if it's worth acknowledging at all. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

From Israel: What’s on my mind this Passover

By Yael Eckstein and International Fellowship of Christians and Jews – Higher Ground Partner

Chairs marked with images of the Bibas family, hostages held in Gaza, are placed at a Passover seder table, in the communal dining hall at Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel, April 11, 2024. For many Jews, Passover is a time to unite with family to eat and drink around what's known as a Seder table. But this year, when Passover begins on Monday, many families are torn on how to celebrate. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

War, hostages, antisemitism: A somber backdrop to this year’s Passover observances

Associated Press

This photo shows chocolate toffee covered matzoh. Chocolate-covered caramel matzo, also known as Matzoh Buttercrunch, has become a popular Passover dessert. (Cheyenne Cohen via AP).

A word-of-mouth sensation, Matzo Buttercrunch earns a place on the Passover dessert table

By Katie Workman - Associated Press

FILE - An early election ballot completion area is prepared at a collection location inside the North Park Ice Skating Rink Lodge area, Oct. 9, 2020, in McCandless, Pa. Pennsylvania's state Senate approved a bill Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, to move up the state's 2024 primary election by five weeks to March 19, aiming to avoid a conflict with the Jewish holiday of Passover and give voters more of a say in deciding presidential nominees. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Pennsylvania’s Senate wants an earlier 2024 presidential primary, partly to have a say on nominees

By Marc Levy - Associated Press

The news media has always found President Trump to be a compelling topic, whether it was during his time in the White House as shown here— or during press coverage of his recent court appearance associated with the Stormy Daniels case. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

658-0 — the gap between MSM coverage of Trump legal woes, Biden family corruption

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Israeli police are deployed at the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound following a raid at the site during the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan in the Old City of Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Palestinian media reported police attacked Palestinian worshippers, raising fears of wider tension as Islamic and Jewish holidays overlap. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Violence at holy Jerusalem site raises tension over holidays

By Mahmoud Illean and Fares Akram - Associated Press

Messianic Rabbi Jason Sobel speaks with a reporter during the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. (Mark A. Kellner/The Washington Times)

Messianic rabbi offers lessons for Christians in Jewish Passover ritual

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

A 1936 Maxwell House Haggadah sits on a desk alongside a Seder plate on March 15, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/Stace Maude, File)

At many Passover Seders, Israel unrest will be on the table

By Leanne Italie - Associated Press

Israeli security forces escort a group of Jews outside Damascus Gate, in Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Police prevented hundreds of ultra-nationalist Israelis from marching around predominantly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem's Old City. The event planned for Wednesday was similar to one that served as one of the triggers of last year's Israel-Gaza war. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Gaza violence intensifies as Jerusalem clashes resume

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Israeli police is deployed in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, April 17, 2022. Israeli police clashed with Palestinians outside Al-Aqsa Mosque after police cleared Palestinians from the sprawling compound to facilitate the routine visit of Jews to the holy site and accused Palestinians of stockpiling stones in anticipation of violence. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Clashes erupt again near flashpoint Jerusalem holy site

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Clashes erupt at Jerusalem holy site; 152 Palestinians hurt

By Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Chabad Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Mendy Cohen, 28, holds box of shmurah ("watched") matzah he will give away for Passover and to mark the 120th birth anniversary of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, shown in the portrait over his shoulder. (Photo by Mark A. Kellner/The Washington Times)

Handmade ‘watched’ matzah a hot Passover 2022 commodity; Lubavitchers set giveaway

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

From left, Danya, 21, Gabriel, 21 and Borden, 17 all refugees from Odesa, Ukraine help to deliver bags with food to needy people during preparations for the celebration of Jewish Passover at the Chabad Jewish Education Center in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, April 7, 2022. Rabbis and Jewish organizations are working round the clock within Ukraine, Eastern Europe and other parts of Europe to make sure that Jews who remain in Ukraine and refugees who have fled as far away as Israel are able to celebrate Passover. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

For Jews fleeing Ukraine, Passover takes on new meaning

By Deepa Bharath - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at a press conference on an Israeli Defense Force base in Beit El in the West Bank, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israel government loses majority as religious lawmaker quits

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man dips cooking utensils in boiling water to remove remains of leaven in preparation for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover in Ashdod, Israel, Thursday, March 25, 2021. Israelis will once again hold large family gatherings this weekend to celebrate Passover, the festive Jewish holiday recalling the biblical flight of the Israelites from Egypt. That's thanks to a highly successful coronavirus vaccination campaign that has inoculated 80% of the country's adult population. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israelis gather for Passover, celebrating freedom from virus

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press