International

Brazil’s anti- terrorism legislation applauded

By Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK — The American Jewish Committee applauds Brazil’s adoption of the country’s first anti-terrorism law. The Federation of Jewish Communities of Brazil (CONIB), an AJC international partner, had strongly advocated for the measure, which was recently adopted by Brazil’s legislature and signed into law by President Dilma Rousseff. “Approval of the anti-terrorism law […]

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International, USA

Middle East Roundup: March 31, 2016

‘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

I-8 Jewish Travel ~ Resettling refugees

-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, USA

A 3-step approach for defeating Islamist terrorists

By 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

AP rejects report that it cooperated with Nazis

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 History

Positively Israel: All Will Be Revealed

By 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

Shooting of prone Palestinian terrorist stirs controversy

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Abu Ghraib was a prison in Iraq where sadistic US soldiers tormented and tortured Arab prisoners with no apparent purpose other than a gratification of what seemed like the Americans’ pathological desire to inflict humiliation, fright, and pain. Israel’s current brouhaha is not the same, except in the nature of

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East