By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The Arabs/Palestinians of Israel and the West Bank have another martyr that justifies continuing their wave of demonstrations that began when? Maybe with the recent wave of Jews going demonstrably to the Temple Mount. Now it’s a young man, Kheir al-Din Hamdan, killed by the police in the village of Kfar […]
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By Jack Forman ENCINITAS, California — Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger captivated an audience of about 250 people at Temple Solel on Sunday, November 9 with an honest, moving, and provocative 45-minute talk at the Jewish Book Fair about his stranger-than-fiction life growing up in post-World War II Germany, converting to Judaism, raising a family in Israel, and
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Middle EastBy Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit)–A terrorist stabbed three people Monday, Nov. 10, at the hitchhiking station near the western entrance to Alon Shvut, murdering a 25 year old woman. She was reached by paramedics, but they were unable to save her. Two other men, aged 26 and 50, were injured in the attack. The terrorist
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Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release)— Autoimmune diseases like Crohn’s Disease and multiple sclerosis, in which the immune system attacks its own body rather than predatory invaders, affect 5-20% of the global community. A study published recently in Autoimmunity Reviews by Prof. Yehuda Shoenfeld, the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair for Research of Autoimmune Diseases at Tel Aviv University’s
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Professor Zvi Bentwich has received a Grand Challenges in Global Health Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for his project in Ethiopia to wipe out parasitic worm infections. The funding will help support mass drug eradication efforts against these infections by implementing in parallel
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationHAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–Taking omega-3 supplements reduces craving for nicotine and even reduces the number of cigarettes that people smoke a day, according to a new study conducted at the University of Haifa. “The substances and medications used currently to help people reduce and quit smoking are not very effective and cause adverse effects that
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO– Year end is approaching. If you act before December 31st, you just might be able to cut down on your 2014 tax bill. Here are five ways to do that: Harvest tax losses. If you have investments like stocks or mutual funds, you should take a look at positions that are
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Sheryl RowlingIsraeli soldier stabbed in Tel Aviv (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) An Israeli soldier was stabbed at a Tel Aviv train station on Monday in the latest in a string of terrorist attacks across Israel. The victim, in his 20s, was taken to hospital in critical condition. The attacker, a Palestinian man from Nablus, was apprehended.
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — It was shocking and discomfiting to hear a United States Navy Seal (who shall remain unnamed in this dispatch) announcing that he was the shooter on the night of the killing of Osama bin Laden. This American observer remains outraged, ashamed, and despondent in the wake of this lost
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– Both Chief Rabbis are in the news, doing their part to soothe or disturb in different corners of the complex phenomenon that is Judaism. The Sephardi Chief Rabbi has weighed in on the issue of the Temple Mount, and has aroused the ire of Naftali Bennett, head of what considers itself
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Philanthropists and political power players Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban shared a stage for the first time Sunday, Nov. 9, to culminate the Israeli-American Council (IAC)’s First National Conference, debating a wide range of political issues but agreeing on the need for the U.S. to toughen its stance on a nuclear Iran. Adelson,
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By Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California – A Pulitzer Prize winning historian told attendees of the Jewish Book Fair at Temple Solel here that Israel’s Mossad was wrong in 1979 to assassinate P.L.O. intelligence chief Ali Hassan Salameh notwithstanding the fact that he was suspected of helping to mastermind the murder of Israeli athletes
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Small children are active by nature. They run and jump, skip and play as naturally as adults walk and sit. In fact, small children tend to find it difficult to sit for very long. I remember racing around our back garden with my little friend from next door, as
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Travel and FoodBy Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Israeli Police at the Temple Mount have begun limiting Jewish entry to the Temple Mount to groups of five. The police also do not allow Jews to pray while there. The new rules being enforced at the Temple Mount follow a phone conversation between Prime Minister Netanyahu and the
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