Islamic State attack on synagogue foiled in Tunisia (JNS.org) A Tunisian newspaper has revealed that the Islamic State plotted to attack a synagogue in the country, but the plan was foiled. The local Al Chourouk newspaper reported on Monday that the terror group meant to target a synagogue in the coastal town of El Marsa, […]
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Among the flaps centered on this noisy little place is Prime Minister Netanyahu’s meeting with government ministers on the Golan Heights, and his declaration that the area would be Israeli for time eternal. A number of senior officials from ostensibly friendly governments expressed their reservations, and the UN Security Council
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO –If you had a chance to dine with celebrities and bigwigs, would you feel delighted, intimidated … or both? This was a once in a lifetime opportunity offered to Eric Hanes, the late father of Dr. Ann Charlotte Harvey, Professor Emerita of SDSU’s School of Theatre, Television and Film.
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BOSTON — When teacher Mary Beth Donovan prepared her students to read Anne Frank’s diary 10 years ago, she screened a selection of the famous newsreel clips shot during the liberation of Nazi camps in 1945. Astoundingly, after watching the films, some of Donovan’s students began referring to the genocide and Anne Frank as “fake”
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USAMinister Tzipi Livni says Israeli-Palestinian conflict ‘is managing us’ Tzipi Livni, in her talk in Princeton, said the price of not having an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians is greater than the price of having one. Tzipi Livni, coleader of Israel’s Zionist Union party, explained to a Princeton audience of 200 on April 18
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Middle EastA proposal by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) to apply Israeli law on citizens living in Judea and Samaria appears to be gaining momentum. If passed, the “Norms bill” would place Israeli citizens living beyond the Green Line under Israeli law, ending the army”s authority over citizens residing in the area. Currently, Israelis living
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Middle EastStudents injected Holocaust imagery into drinking contest A student pours beer into a cup before a game of “Holocaust Pong.” Photo courtesy Jamaica Ponder The Jewish Federation of Princeton Mercer Bucks and the Board of Rabbis of Princeton Mercer Bucks issued a joint statement condemning an underage drinking game of beer pong that took an
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USA
Britain”s Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Sunday night rejected calls from Jewish leaders to denounce the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations, vowing to continue talking to them, reports The Telegraph. “Jeremy Corbyn has been a longstanding supporter of Palestinian rights and the pursuit of peace and justice in the Middle East through dialogue and negotiation,”
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International, Middle EastThe U.K.’s Labour Party is on course to lose 175 council seats in Thursday’s elections, a setback that would amount to the party’s worst local election performance for 35 years. A new projection, conducted for the Guardian newspaper, shows that while Labour is set to suffer catastrophic losses, the ruling Conservative Party could gain 30
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InternationalMIAMI — A Hollywood, Fla., man accused of trying to blow up an Aventura synagogue stood in Miami federal court on Monday and gave the judge two names — one real, the other an alias. “My name is James Medina, also known as ‘James Muhammad,’” Medina told Magistrate Judge William Turnoff. James G. Medina,
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USAIsrael’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, and Palau: WASHINGTON, May 2, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In an unprecedented global call to action, more than 50 countries have agreed to co-sponsor one or more of the proposals to nominate all species of thresher shark, the silky shark, and all species of mobula ray
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International, The World We ShareWar and peace. The line between the two is often razor-thin. For people caught up in conflicts, war does not begin with a single shot, or end with the signing of a treaty. It is a continuum that may start with sporadic hostilities and end only after generations. In this year’s Hot Docs film festival,
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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastKeeping track of Israel’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau Sydney (dpa) – A female asylum seeker set herself on fire in the Australian-run immigration detention centre on Nauru just days after another refugee died from self-immolation, news reports said Monday. The 21-year-old Somali woman suffered critical injuries and was being
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