WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, in a victory for abortion-rights advocates, has limited the power of Texas and other states to restrict or effectively shut down clinics that offer the procedure. The justices, by a 5-3 vote, said Monday that Texas lawmakers went too far by imposing unnecessary regulations that had forced most of the […]
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RABAT, Morocco Press Release) – In an unprecedented partnership to build bridges among the three major monotheistic religions, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship) teamed with Chabad in Morocco and the local organization Mimouna to provide gift bags of food for thousands of needy Moroccan Muslim families in three cities for Ramadan. The
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) expressed disappointment at a number of problematic Israel-focused motions endorsed last week by the Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly, including a report calling on the church to explore alternatives to the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and an overture advocating the church study the use
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Middle East, USAWhile you were obsessively reading Brexit coverage and watching “Game of Thrones” this weekend, Bernie Sanders’ campaign took another hit. Symone Sanders, formerly the Vermont senator’s national press secretary, told Fusion exclusively Sunday she’d left his presidential campaign of her own volition. “I just believe my time with the campaign has come to an end,”
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USAThe president of Ben-Gurion University recently cancelled a decision to award a prize to an Israeli NGO that tracks alleged abuses of Palestinians by IDF soldiers, arguing the group is too far our of the national consensus. The Breaking the Silence organization was chosen in May by the Middle East Studies faculty of the university
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationIn a startling form of recompense, University of York presented Zachary Confino with £1000, and an apology note from the student union, after turning a deaf ear to his complaints of anti-Semitic abuse for two years. Confino, 21, a law student and former treasurer of the student union, suffered bullying for being Jewish. Confino reports
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationA possible Hillary Clinton administration would likely see any tensions between Jerusalem and Israel kept out of the limelight, Dennis Ross, a former US diplomat and top Middle East adviser to several US presidents, said Sunday in Jerusalem. Clinton, the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee for the November elections, can be expected to act more
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Middle East, USAClashes erupted on the Temple Mount Monday morning, after Islamists attempted to violently prevent Jews from visiting. Dozens of Muslim extremists – many of them masked – had barricaded themselves in the Al Aqsa Mosque since last night, and had actively stockpiled rocks and other projectiles for use against security forces and Jewish visitors. They
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Middle EastThe Jewish community in Hevron is demanding that action be taken following recent Arab vandalism and theft at the Cave of the Patriarchs compound. On Friday night, Arabs stole the mezuzah from the front door of the Cave of the Patriarchs, and also broke into a nearby storage room and stole thousands of shekels worth
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastKANSAS CITY, Kansas (JNS.org) — A man from Kansas City has been charged with threatening a Jewish congregation in the city of Overland Park. Forty-year-old Brian Wachter, who was arrested June 22, appeared before judges in a county court via video on a charge of making a criminal threat against the Jewish congregation of Beth Shalom.
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USALONDON (JNS.org) — Jewish groups and leaders in the United Kingdom swiftly reacted to voters’ decision to leave the European Union in the Brexit referendum. The Board of Deputies of British Jews expressed the hope that Britain “will now come together” after a “divisive and bruising” campaign, adding that the group “will nonetheless continue
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Route #443 is a major road from the northern area of Jerusalem down to the coast. It also traverses the Palestinian area of the West Bank, and Israel’s Supreme Court ordered it to be open to Palestinians. The IDF complied, to an extent, but not so much that we ever see a
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastPalestinian dentists arrested for carrying out pipe bomb terror attack (JNS.org) Five members of a Palestinian terrorist cell led by a dentist were apprehended by security forces last month, the Israeli Shin Bet security agency revealed Monday. The terrorists—including three dentists—had carried out a pipe bomb attack in which an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officer
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Middle EastROME, Italy (Press Release)–The U.S. State Department released the text of a joint media availability held on June 27 by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry: SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning, everybody. I’m delighted to welcome the prime minister of Israel, my friend Bibi Netanyahu, to the American residence here
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