Nobel Prize winning author of Fateless BUDAPEST (JNS.org)– Hungarian writer Imre Kertesz, a Holocaust survivor who won the the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature for his fiction work, died on Thursday in Budapest at age 86 after a long battle with illness, the Magveto Kiado publishing firm said. Kertesz was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Obituaries & memorialsIsraeli Navy trains in Red Sea with Islamic State threat in mind (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israeli Navy conducted a major training exercise off the coast of Eilat in the Red Sea on Wednesday, simulating several possible scenarios that could unfold on the high seas. Some of the scenarios the navy wants to
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Middle EastBy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — Isidor Straus was born in Otterberg, Bavaria in 1845 and his brother Nathan in 1848. They were the sons of Lazarus Straus, an observant Jew. Lazarus emigrated to the U.S. in 1852, settling in Talbotton, Georgia where he started out as a pushcart peddler and then established a general
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Jewish HistoryJERUSALEM –Brussels International Airport remains closed a week after the attack, with pictures of extensive damage, and officials warning that the facility may remain closed “for months.” An article in The Economist laments the problems in airport check-in halls, entrances to the building, drop off points outside, and the greater problems in providing security
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle Easthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvyn_Douglas
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Travel and Food
By David Amos SAN DIEGO — If you ring the doorbell at our home, you will not hear the traditional “buzz” or “ding-dong.” Instead, you will hear Paganini’s 24th Caprice for solo violin. This is by far not an obscure tune. I am sure that you have heard it played in various arrangements and transformations.
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Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — “You will never hear me say, ‘The IDF is the most moral army in the world,’” declares Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Danny Efroni. “I think that our army has good values, but some of this has to do with the fact that it investigates and examines suspected
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Middle East, Steve KramerBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Though the 15-20 minute five-times-a-week of television news broadcast that viewers in Israel get in English from the Israeli Broadcast Authority has deteriorated almost to the point of embarrassment, I still like to watch it, especially on Thursdays when Amotz Asa-el, one of the best informed and most sensible
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Middle East‘We cannot accept’ terrorism, Greek president says in Israel (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli President Reuven Rivlin hosted Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos for a meeting in Jerusalem on Wednesday. Before the meeting, during which Rivlin and Pavlopoulos discussed strengthening bilateral Israel-Greece ties, the two leaders toured the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial together. Rivlin called Pavlopoulos
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Middle East
-50th in a Series- Exit 18, Mollison Avenue, El Cajon ~ Refugee Resettlement Program By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California –With millions of refugees lingering in camps around the world, receiving refugee status in the United States is a difficult process – only a fraction of the refugees ever make it. And for those
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USAhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Da_Silva
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Travel and FoodBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK–The horrific attacks in Brussels by terrorists affiliated with ISIS that claimed the lives of 35 people and injured more than 200 was all but inevitable. These attacks may well increase in frequency and intensity in many European cities where citizens travel freely and violent extremists among them can plot attacks
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USA
NEW YORK (WJC) –The world’s leading press agency, the ‘Associated Press’ (AP), willingly collaborated with Germany from 1935 to 1941 to disseminate Nazi propaganda photos in the United States and agreed to provide pictures for Nazi publications, including anti-Semitic SS manuals, a researcher reports. The Associated Press released a statement Wednesday rejecting the allegations. In an article for the German
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — I was prompted into writing my first blog of 2016 by yet another appalling report on the BBC World Service The Science Hour 27/3/16. Just after the Jewish festival of Purim, the Biased Broadcasting Corporation erased the name of Israel, Jews and Israeli companies from a program discussing the
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Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education