By Garry Fabian MELBOURNE, Australia — The lights of the B’nai B’rith Menorah were snuffed out across Europe in the late 1930’s, when the forces gathering to inflict the tragedy of the Holocaust disbanded the organisation. The majority of European B’nai B’rith members perished in the Holocaust, but a handful managed to find safe havens in
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — The 2014 Gaza conflict threw up an alarming outburst of anti-Semitism that ranged from personal and collective insults, petty violence, and the targeted murder of European Jews. The phenomenon of rabid demonstrations against Israel turned into the targeting of local Jews under the blanket of anti-Zionism campaigning in support
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Barry Shaw, International, Middle East, USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich visited Tom Brady prior to this year’s Super Bowl to interview him for an article. Leibovich noticed that there was a Chanukkah menorah on a shelf in Brady’s house. When he asked Brady about it, what was Tom’s response? “When I was first
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Sports & Competitions, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Tzipi Livni has appeared in the media in the last few days. Perhaps she needed to assure us that she’s not about to leave the Zionist Union to join the new Netanyahu government. This may be in response to rumors that the Prime Minister has been fishing among members of
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Middle EastIsraeli man stabbed in suspected terror attack (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A 19-year-old Israeli man was stabbed in Maaleh Adumim, east of Jerusalem, on Sunday. He sustained moderate wounds and was rushed to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. Security forces, assisted by police helicopters, began searching the area for the assailant, who according
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It isn’t easy. Deciding what is right or proper is one problem. Deciding about preferences is another. Most people don’t do it well. It’s not simply a matter of following one crowd or another, and expressing the slogans that politicians and activists use to campaign for or against a candidate or a program.
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit)– A new program has been launched for Christian student leaders, modeled after Taglit-Birthright Israel trips for young American Jews. Covenant Journey, a program of trips to Israel for Christian student leaders at colleges and universities, was unveiled on Friday, May 8, at the Israeli Embassy in Washington’s Annual Christian Solidarity
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Middle East, USABy Lloyd Levy LONDON, England — The General Election in UK has resulted in the first majority Conservative Party victory in a generation. As usual, the British electorate has spoken with great common sense, apart from the Scots, who seem to be carried away on their own trajectory. The election results were extremely “good for
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International, Lloyd Levy, Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Britain has just reelected a Conservative government, avoiding a “hung parliament,” a situation in which no single party wins an absolute majority of the votes. That, despite the fact that British polls had steadfastly predicted that neither the Conservative or Labor parties would win a majority. Israel, which
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Middle East, Steve KramerBy Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California –I don’t remember much about war in Israel. I remember the orange trees, the thick breezes, my friends who had arrived from all over the world, and my grandmother, a stout, sturdy woman named Yona. I remember feeling warm and special, talking to her for hours on end, on her
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Middle EastBy Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California – The image of a successful life is fairly universal: a spacious home on a well-manicured lot, a relatively new car, and a job title that commands respect and admiration. Throw in the ability to take a family vacation twice a year and enjoy fine dining and attend sporting
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Travel and FoodBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The Defiant Requiem: Verdi in Terezin, the remarkable concert-drama about music in the Nazi show ghetto of Terezin, created by Conductor Murry Sidlin, is a testament to the human spirit. It exemplifies how mankind can rise above the most oppressive conditions. A choir of 150 inmates, replenished frequently because
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Travel and FoodBy Natasha Josefowitz SAN DIEGO — “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.” These are the first two lines of Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s 1883 poem “Solitude.” Little did she know that this thought was the precursor of contemporary cognitive science, which has discovered the mechanism behind empathy: mirror neurons. When we
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Before the new government of Israel will be sworn in, the Knesset will pass a bill that’ll allow the prime minister to enlarge his cabinet to satisfy the disgruntled members of his own Likud party who’re dismayed at the way in which Mr. Netanyahu bestowed ministerial posts on his coalition partners
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