Israeli police demolish eastern Jerusalem park that glorified Palestinian terror (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli police officers from the Jerusalem District and city officials on Tuesday demolished a memorial garden in the Arab neighborhood of Ras al-Amud in eastern Jerusalem, which was created to commemorate terrorists—or “shahids” (martyrs), as the garden’s founders described them—who […]
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Middle Easthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Schafer Natalie played Lovey Howell, the millionaire’s wife
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The family of jailed Jewish extremist Meir Ettinger held the circumcision for his son without him in a Jerusalem synagogue on Monday, after the Supreme Court earlier in the day upheld a ruling by a lower court against granting him furlough. Justices Noam Sohlberg, Uzi Fogelman and Esther Hayut agreed with the Beersheba District Court,
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Middle EastDuryan Bhagat-Clark of Aberdeen, seen with her husband Russel, will speak about her experiences growing up with a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. It’s not remarkable that mixed-faith marriages are sometimes tinged with the poignancy of “Romeo and Juliet.” But they don’t always have to end tragically, or even fail, said Duryan Bhagat-Clark, who
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Editor’s Note: Several pieces of legislation are currently being weighed by the California Legislature to counter the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. Two companion measures by Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) were introduced in January and another measure by Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) was introduced earlier this month. In the Op-Ed below, Rabbi
WASHINGTON — After a rocky week on the campaign trail, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will not attend the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Spring Retreat this coming weekend in Las Vegas. The Republican Jewish Coalition confirmed Monday that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz will be addressing the annual event, hosted by Republican billionaire donor Sheldon Adelson,
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Middle East, USADemocratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has accused Israel of killing over 10,000 innocent civilians during 2014’s war with Gazan terrorists – in a gross inflation of the casualty statistics enough to make even Hamas’s own propaganda chiefs blush. Sanders, who trails Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton by a significant margin, made the comments in a meeting
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Middle East, USANegotiating teams from Israel and Turkey will meet on Thursday in Europe in an effort to bridge the remaining gaps standing in the way of a reconciliation agreement between the two countries, Haaretz reported on Monday. Senior Israeli officials noted that in recent weeks, and since the latest round of negotiations between the two countries,
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — We all have to do what we have to do to get by. Some of us have had it easier than others. Our privileged positions give us the luxury of looking down. Rain brings us to a boarding house in Western Samoa in 1924. A ship en route
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & BroadcastU.S. and Israel strike new energy agreement (JNS.org) U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and his Israeli counterpart, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, signed a new joint energy deal in Jerusalem on Monday. The agreement expands areas of U.S.-Israel cooperation to include fuels and fuel alternatives, natural gas, smart grid technologies, desalination and water treatment, and the
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Middle EastStockholm (dpa) – US author Meg Rosoff was Tuesday named winner of Sweden’s 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in literature for children and young people. Rosoff’s novels for young adults “speak to the emotions as well as the intellect,” the jury said, adding that her “brave and humorous stories are one-of-a-kind. She leaves no reader
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Numerous maternity wards around Israel separate Jewish and Arab women, even though such a practice is completely forbidden by the Ministry of Health. Reshet B reported Tuesday morning that the hospitals in violation of Ministry instructions include Jerusalem’s Sha’arei Tzedek, Hadassah Ein Kerem and Hadassah Mount Scopus Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital and Kfar Saba’s Meir
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Educationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritz_Brothers
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –These columns reproduce themselves. Correspondents send me items I haven’t seen, and provide material for another session on the keyboard. Monday morning there were several items in my inbox that led to this item in my outbox. Nothing provided anything new about issues that have been developing for some time, but the
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