Jonathan Pollard released after 30 years in prison (JNS.org) After spending 30 years in a U.S. federal prison, American-Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was freed on parole Friday, one day ahead of schedule to allow him to observe Shabbat. “The people of Israel welcome the release of Jonathan Pollard,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said […]
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Middle East, USABy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Is there another city in the world that draws as much controversy as Jerusalem? I-max film director Daniel Ferguson spent five years making Jerusalem and “nothing came easily.” The first challenge was to get their mixed crew of Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians to work through their distrust of one another
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Eric George Tauber, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK– The American Jewish Committee (AJC) applauded a United Nations committee’s adoption of a resolution expressing serious concern about persistent human rights violations in Iran. The UN General Assembly’s Third Committee resolution was adopted by a vote of 76 to 35, with 68 abstentions. It is expected to be adopted by
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Islamic State supporters stab Jewish teacher in France (JNS.org) A Jewish teacher in the French southern city of Marseille was reportedly stabbed by Islamic State supporters on Wednesday, days after the jihadist terror group took credit for the killing of 129 people in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks. According to reports, the suspects allegedly made
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InternationalPalestinian terrorist kills 2 Israelis during afternoon prayers in Tel Aviv (JNS.org) A Palestinian terrorist killed two Israeli Jews in a stabbing attack during afternoon prayers (mincha) on Thursday in Tel Aviv, Israeli media reported. The Shin Bet identified the attacker as a 36-year-old Palestinian from the village of Dura, near Hebron. The prayer service
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Just as a plane had left the gate at the Baltimore Airport for a flight to Chicago, one passenger saw a “Middle Eastern looking” woman looking at a video that appeared to be associated with the Islamic State. The alert passenger told an attendant, the plane returned to the gate,
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — The war against terror is not about semantics We are all struggling to create some mental headroom for this new wave of terror that has come to us now from the hallowed streets of Paris. The unwelcome knowledge of it, hurling through media and cyber space, affects our basic
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Middle East, USABy Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK — Diplomats, elected officials, interfaith and intergroup partners, and American Jewish Committee (AJC) leaders gathered at AJC headquarters Wednesday evening, Nov. 18, to pay tribute to the victims of last Friday’s ISIS terror attacks in Paris, to express solidarity with France, to recommit to the shared values of democracy and freedom, and to
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International, Middle East, USAMy Grandfather Would have Shot Me, by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair. The Experiment, Pub. 2015, 221pp By David Strom SAN DIEGO — At the age of 38 Jennifer Teege was at the Hamburg central library. There she glanced at a book with a red cover and was drawn to it. From photographs in the book,
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Among the subscribers to San Diego Jewish World are a few readers in the Slovak Republic. I would like to address this article to them, as well as to anyone else who might be able to throw light upon the subject of Judge Jacob Weinberger’s early life. Weinberger’s name
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of State Kerry said of Friday’s terror attack in Paris, “These are heinous, evil, vile acts. Those of us who can must do everything in our power to fight back against what can only be considered an assault on our common humanity.” President Obama used the phrase “common
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy J. Zel Lurie DEL RAY BEACH, Florida — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spent a couple of days in Washington, spewing half-truths about the settlements and claiming his devotion to a two-state solution despite what he tells Israelis. In Israel he says that there will not be a Palestinian state in his lifetime and
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A confluence of events is pointing to the intellectual and political flabbiness at the upper reaches of American government and academies, and suggesting that there isn’t much left to the American generation. If we thought of ourselves as dependent on American leadership, we’re pretty much left to ourselves in
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAROME (JNS.org) Pope Francis will make his first official visit to Rome’s Great Synagogue next January, the city’s Jewish community said in a statement on Tuesday. He will be the third pope to visit that venue. The pontiff will meet with Jewish leaders at the synagogue on Jan. 17—the same date that Rome’s Jewish community
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