By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — They deny our existence. They deny our heritage. They deny out history, our belonging. They even deny the walls and shrines that scream our name. It’s not some state created in peace that they want. It is a delusional dream in which Israel doesn’t exist. It’s not Filastin. It’s […]
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Barry Shaw, Middle EastMADRID (JNS.org) Spain’s government has officially granted citizenship to 4,302 Sephardic Jews as part of a new law granting citizenship to the descendants of Jews who were exiled during the Spanish Inquisition. According to Spanish Justice Minister Rafael Catala, the naturalizations were approved a day after the new citizenship law took effect, the Associated
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International, Jewish HistoryAJC salutes 25th anniversary of German reunification NEW YORK (Press Release)– The American Jewish Committee (AJC) welcomes the 25th anniversary of German unification on October 3. To mark the occasion, AJC Executive Director David Harris issued the following statement: “We remember as if it were yesterday the remarkable events of 1989 when the Berlin Wall
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — You wouldn’t think that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah would be the go-to guy to lecture about the feckless policy of the U.S. in the Middle East – but he told it like it is: “The failure of America and the international coalition to bring defeat to Daesh [Islamic
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By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) – Following the horrifying terror attack that took the lives of two parents from the Neria community on Thursday night, thousands of people came to pay their respects to the murdered couple, Naama, 30, and Eitam Henkin, 31, who were buried on Friday morning, October 2 in Jerusalem. Their nine-year-old
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Middle EastArmed wing of Abbas-led Fatah claims responsibility for murdering Israeli couple (JNS.org) A terror unit within Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party has claimed responsibility for Thursday’s murder of an Israeli Jewish couple. The Abdel Qader al-Husseini Brigades, a terror group that is affiliated with Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyr’s Bridgade, said Friday that it was
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Barack Obama has given another speech on the models of 2009 Cairo that produced a Nobel Peace Prize, and the speech on Syria’s use of chemical weapons that began aggressively and retreated to an advocacy of diplomacy. The latest came at the annual Autumn speech fest of the United Nations,
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By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit)- Nearly 200 Israeli and international professional artists are showcasing their artwork in the second annual Jerusalem Biennale For Contemporary Jewish Art (September 24 – November 5). The works are featured in 10 different exhibitions held in different venues across the city that include secular and ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jewish curators and
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SANTA BARBARA, California (Press Release) — The Israeli firm IDE Americas announced it has been selected to refurbish, operate and maintain the recommissioned Charles E. Meyer Desalination Plant in Santa Barbara, California. Under the city’s Design-Build-Operate (DBO) process, IDE was chosen to reactivate the plant for its proven experience, modular approach, and ability to meet the
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Middle East, The World We Share, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Except for theology, Israel is doing great work for its people and for humanitarian advancement. People routinely order pizza online but they often have to travel to Cyprus to get married–due to rabbinic restrictions. Women are expected to deliver babies but they frequently have to stand in the
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastFour Jews among 24 MacArthur ‘genius’ grant winners (JNS.org) Four Jews have been selected among this year’s 24 MacArthur fellows. The grants of $625,000 per fellow are colloquially referred to as the “genius” grants. Author Ben Lerner, a writer and professor at the Department of English at the City University of New York, won the grant
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USAIsrael’s Shin Bet exposes Islamic State-inspired terrorist cell (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Seven Israeli Arabs were indicted before the Nazareth Magistrates’ Court on Thursday on suspicion of setting up an Islamic State terrorist cell and planning to attack police and military bases. The suspects face multiple counts of security violations, including conspiracy to commit an
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Middle EastBy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — In 1934, the United States sent a team of baseball all-stars to Japan to play a series of exhibition games. On the team were the likes of baseball hall of famers, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Also on the team was Morris “Moe” Berg, a mediocre utility ball-player
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International, Sports & Competitions, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — “Who was worse, Hitler or Stalin?” It isn’t a parlor game, but rather the historical equivalent of “ISIS or Iran (or proxy Syria)?” You can play it either way, but “a plague on both their houses” didn’t cut it in 1941, and doesn’t in 2015. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939
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