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USPS Issues Chanukah Stamp
The U.S. Postal Service announced on Oct. 20 the release of a new Chanukah stamp.

“I remember looking forward to Chanukah as a child, especially the traditional
foods, gifts and games,” said Lori Dym, USPS managing counsel for procurement and
property law, who served as the dedicating official at an event at an Ohio synagogue.

Chanukah begins this year at sundown on Dec. 18.

The stamp art features the design from an original wall hanging. The fiber art
was hand-dyed, appliquéd and quilted to form an abstract image of a hanukkiah.

Blue and purple represent the sky, while greens and browns represent the earth.

The bright yellows and oranges represent the Festival of Lights. At the bottom of
the stamp, the words Hanukkah, Forever and USA appear in white capital letters.

‘Hitler Truck’ Inflames Tensions in Berkeley
Three weeks after a prominent pro-Israel activist accused the University of
California, Berkeley of creating “Jew-free zones,” two trucks rolled into town to
address the controversy, JTA.org reported.

One displayed a massive picture of Adolf Hitler.

“All in favor of banning Jews, raise your right hand,” read the billboard on the
side of the truck.

The truck was dispatched by a political advocacy group called Accuracy in Media,
which has a history of finding ways to provoke liberals and progressives. The group’s
president Adam Guillette told J. The Jewish News of Northern California that the
truck was part of a larger campaign to combat antisemitism on college campuses and
was meant to oppose the Berkeley Law student groups that recently announced they
had adopted a bylaw pledging to bar Zionist speakers from campus.

“The amount of hatred, intolerance, and antisemitism is morally outrageous
and it’s time for us to (non-violently) fight back,” Guillette said.

But whatever the truck’s intended effect, its presence frightened students and
drew condemnation from the local branch of the Anti-Defamation League,
Berkeley Hillel and the local Jewish Community Relations Council, along with
offers of emotional support from university administrators. Some passersby
threw rocks at the vehicle.

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In Reversal, Australia Won’t Recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital
Australia’s new left-leaning government is reversing the decision made nearly four
years ago under a conservative administration to move the country’s embassy in
Israel to Jerusalem, JTA.org reported.

Then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced in December 2018 that
Australia would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The move put him in line
with then-U.S. President Donald Trump, who made a similar announcement a
year earlier, pleasing his base, and had already opened an embassy in Jerusalem.

But it made Morrison an outlier among the vast majority of world leaders, who
have long held that whether Jerusalem is Israel’s capital should be negotiated as
part of an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord.

Australia’s embassy never moved from Tel Aviv. And now, Morrison’s successor
is returning the country’s official position to the one it maintained until 2018.

“Australia is committed to a two-state solution in which Israel and a future
Palestinian state coexist, in peace and security, within internationally recognised
borders,” Penny Wong, Australia’s minister for foreign affairs, said in a statement.

“We will not support an approach that undermines this prospect.”
Israel, Bahrain Sign Accord on Agricultural Cooperation
Israel and Bahrain on Oct. 19 signed an agricultural cooperation declaration on
the sidelines of the first-ever International Summit on Food Technologies from
the Dead Sea and Desert that took place in Eilat, JNS.org reported.

The conference, an initiative of Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development, was attended by 70 senior officials, who focused on promoting coordi-
nation and innovation in aquaculture and the overall battle to combat food insecurity.

The declaration calls for the promotion and expansion of cooperation between
Jerusalem and Manama in the fields of agriculture, livestock and food security,
and the sharing of related knowledge, technology and diverse products. JE
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