By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — Sgt. Shahar Shalev, aged 20, a fighter in the elite Paratrooper Recon Unit, died Sunday morning, August 31, of wounds he incurred during Operation ‘Protective Edge’. Shahar is the 72nd Israeli casualty of the operation and the 66th soldier to fall. Shalev was operating with his unit in Khan Yunis when it […]
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Middle EastBy Ze’ev Ben-Yechiel JERUSALEM (TNA)–An Israel Air Force Patriot missile shot down an unmanned drone Sunday afternoon August 31, that entered Israeli airspace near the Syrian border town of Kuneitra. As the Syrian civil war continues to spill over in the north, the IDF warns that it will not tolerate violations of the sovereignty of the
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Middle EastBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO– Through the centuries Jews in Europe were treated as if they were foreigners, interlopers, intruders and aliens; unwanted, unneeded and uninvited. But, overwhelmingly they originally came at the invitation of the local prince because of their skills and connections in commerce and crafts. However, as they succeeded and as the
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InternationalBy Rabbi Ben Kamin MONROVIA, California — It was a quiet, routine morning at the buffet breakfast at an agreeable family hotel in this Los Angeles suburb. People politely waited in turn for their jolt of coffee drawn from large standing thermoses; some were still half-asleep but all generally content with this modern American ritual
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USA
SACRAMENTO (Press Release)– Assemblyman Brian Jones (Republican-Santee) led the effort on Friday, Aug. 30, to secure passage of a resolution urging President Obama to expedite visa processing for Iraq’s minority groups and to lift the refugee quota cap for Iraqi-Christians during a time of religious persecution. Authored by Senator Joel Anderson, SJR 17 passed with
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Middle East, USA
SAN JUAN LA LAGUNA, Guatemala (WJC)– A community of 230 haredi Jews from several countries has begun leaving this Guatemalan village where they have lived for six years after claims and counterclaims of discrimination and threats, the news agency AFP reports. Their exit from San Juan La Laguna, on the banks of Lake Atitlan
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InternationalBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — It’s not often that one sees a verse from the weekly parasha brought to life. In Parashat Shoftim God demands: tzedek tzedek tirdof – Justice, justice, shall you pursue. (Deut. 16:20) Our Etz Hayim commentary observes: “The well-being of society depends neither on the goodwill of the ruler
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International, Jewish ReligionPalestinians demand ‘clear’ timetable for Israeli withdrawal from West Bank (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) commissioner for international relations, Nabil Shaath, told Palestinian media on Thursday that the PA would turn to the U.N. Security Council and General Assembly on Sept. 15 to request that Israel be forced to provide “a clear
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International
TEL AVIV (Press Release) — In 1934, American archaeologist Nelson Glueck named one of the largest known copper production sites of the Levant “Slaves’ Hill.” This hilltop station, located deep in Israel’s Arava Valley, seemed to bear all the marks of an Iron Age slave camp — fiery furnaces, harsh desert conditions, and a massive
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ze’ev Ben-Yechiel JERUSALEM (TNA) — The United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) has come under increasing fire in recent weeks for aiding Hamas in the terror group’s war against Israel, with one advocacy group lodging a formal complaint against the organization. As evidence seems to continue to emerge of the use of the agency’s
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Middle East
LONDON (WJC) — Muslim and Jewish leaders in the UK on Thursday issued a joint statement calling for interfaith cooperation and condemnation of civilian deaths in Gaza, saying they should not “import conflict,” but rather “export peace.” The Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) condemned civilian deaths and
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International, Middle East
MADRID, Spain (WJC)–The Spanish clothing retailer Zara has stopped the sale of its ‘sheriff’ children’s T-shirt which bore resemblance to the clothes Jewish concentration camp inmates were forced to wear in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The Zara version sported horizontal rather than vertical stripes. However, the shirt bore a large six-pointed yellow
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International
TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Some 30 percent of all positive hospital blood culture samples are discarded every day because they’re “contaminated” — they reflect the presence of skin germs instead of specific disease-causing bacteria. Rather than toss these compromised samples into the trash, clinicians may be able to use the resistance profiles of skin bacteria
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)– Americans for Peace Now (APN) issued the following statement on Wednesday, August 27: “APN welcomes the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that was implemented yesterday (Tuesday, April 26). We hope fervently that this ceasefire holds, sparing both Israelis and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip further terror and bloodshed. We know, however,
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Middle East