By Raphael Poch JERUSALEM– Each year over 300,000 people from across the country descend upon the small town of Meron for a yearly pilgrimage on the 33rd day of the Omer, known as the holiday of La’g Ba’omer. The sheer amount of visitors to the town’s holy site, the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, […]
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastIslamic State reportedly planning to attack Israel from Sinai (JNS.org) The Israeli military is concerned that the Islamic State terror group is planning a large-scale attack against Israel from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Germany’s Bild newspaper reported on Sunday, citing an Israel Defense Forces officer. The Sinai has become an Islamic State stronghold in recent years.
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — As of Saturday morning, May 7, there had been several days of virtual dueling. There is no better way for describing the mortars that have been fired toward Israel or soldiers patrolling near the Gaza border, and responses from Israeli tanks and aircraft. There have also been fierce words of
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastIn response to the revelations of the leaked state comptroller’s report on 2014 Operation Protective Edge, former IDF Southern Commander Maj. Gen. (res.) Yom-Tov Samia criticized the state for having no strategy vis-a-vis Hamas in Gaza. The as-yet-unpublished report strongly condemns Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud), and then-IDF Chief of Staff
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Middle EastTel Aviv (dpa) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted Israel’s deputy chief of military staff on Sunday for drawing similarities between the “sickening processes” of pre-Nazi Germany in the 1920s and 1930s and present-day Israel. Netanyahu called Yair Golan’s comparison, which was made on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, “infuriating” and “unacceptable.” In a speech Wednesday
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Travel and Food
By William Booth May 7 at 12:37 PM Follow @boothwilliam HEBRON, West Bank — Arriving aboard a tour bus, accompanied by a former Israeli machine-gunner turned human rights activist, an international delegation of pretty famous…
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle EastOne night last summer, Jeffrey Tanenhaus did in Manhattan what people in New York do about 35,000 times each day: He unlocked a Citi Bike from a bike-share station. With more than 300 such kiosks sprinkled mostly around Manhattan and Brooklyn, Citi Bike had become New York’s newest mode of transportation, and one of its
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USA
Former minister and Knesset member Haim Ramon warned Saturday of a Palestinian demographic threat in Jerusalem, saying Israel must separate from the city’s eastern part if it hopes to maintain control of its capital. Speaking at a cultural event in the city’s French Hill neighborhood, Ramon — who was a member of the Labor and
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Middle East
By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — As an investment adviser, I am often asked questions like: “What kind of return will we get this year?” “Is the marker heading for a big downturn?” “Are we about to experience a rally?” Answers to these questions really take a crystal ball. Unfortunately, nobody has found one that
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Travel and FoodIsraeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is surprisingly popular in the United States, ranking among the top 10 most admired men. According to a poll published Saturday by the UK-based YouGov polling service, Netanyahu was tied with the Dalai Lama as the 9th most admired man in the United States. That ranking put him ahead of
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Middle East, USADisgraced former Israeli President Moshe Katsav has officially submitted a new request for clemency to President Reuven Rivlin, the President’s Office confirmed Sunday. “As is the case with all requests for clemency, it will be passed on to the legal department of the President’s Office for review,” a statement from the President’s Office said. The
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Middle EastThey say you can’t go home again, but that’s exactly what Betsy Lerner did… albeit reluctantly. Decades after leaving Connecticut for college, the literary agent and author found herself back in her native New Haven, living near her mother — something she swore would never happen again. Being in such close proximity to her widowed
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories
Sadiq Khan: My story will be familiar to many Jewish Londoners. My parents moved to Britain from Pakistan in search of a better life, just like so many Jewish people who arrived here generations before. When my parents arrived in Britain, they worked around the clock to rebuild from scratch. They had an incredible work
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