IDF renews search for soldier missing since 1997 (JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces is renewing the search for Guy Hever, a soldier who went missing in the Golan Heights in August 1997, Israel Hayom reported. The decision to resume search operations for Hever was made by Maj. Gen. Orna Barbivai, head of the IDF’s Manpower […]
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International
By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — They’re killing me—the folks at Google—with their new “Calico” venture, which is going to explore ways for a middle-aged person like me to live for a much longer time. Setting aside their mercenary interests, who asked them to get involved in my mortality? I’m fine with the current
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USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday, Dec. 10, addressed the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. After being introduced by Stuart Eizenstat, who had held office in both the Carter and Clinton administrations, Kerry complimented the JDC (affectionately called the “Joint”) for its work in many countries helping not only Jews
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Middle East
By Anav Silverman Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, on Monday afternoon, Dec. 9, at the Washington D.C. headquarters of the World Bank, signed an agreement on laying a water pipeline to link the Red Sea with the Dead Sea. The pipeline, which will take three years to complete, will help slow the drying up
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Middle East
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Writing out of my customary ignorance about what’s really going on in Israeli politics, I’ve nevertheless ventured to suggest that the election of the centrist – and by all accounts very sensible – Yitzhak Herzog as the new leader of Israel’s Labor Party opens up new possibilities for Labor
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Middle EastIsrael lobbied against death penalty for Nelson Mandela, new documents show (JNS.org) Newly declassified documents reveal that the Israeli Foreign Ministry, under the leadership of future prime minister Golda Meir, in 1964 convinced Jewish philosopher Martin Buber and Israeli author Haim Hazaz to send a letter asking the South African apartheid government not to seek
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International
Newsmax reports that Israel’s President Shimon Peres, in answer to a question, said he would be willing to meet with Iran’s new leader Hassan Rouhani. While no such meeting has been proposed, Peres said he feels no personal enmity toward the Iranian leadership, stating Israel’s differences with them are differences of policy not of personality.
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Donald H. Harrison, International
By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Much has been said and written, by both Democrats and Republicans, about President Obama’s disastrous “deal” with Iran that has been justly compared to “Munich” where, in 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain surrendered to Hitler’s demands and sacrificed Czechoslovakia. The Iranian mullahs were granted a “down payment”
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One cannot help but be impressed with the focus of the Obama administration with the Middle East, despite expectations that the region would be left to its own miserable self. Both U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and President Barack Obama have spent time with the Saban Forum, trying again
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
SAN DIEGO — Here is some news on the international front. President Shimon Peres of Israel paid this tribute to the late Nelson Mandela, who died Dec. 5 at age 95. “The world lost a great leader who changed the course of history. On behalf of the citizens of Israel we mourn alongside the nations
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Donald H. Harrison, InternationalBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –President Obama may not have said anything new but the fact that tonight (Saturday) he said it to the Israeli public direct is significant. I understand it as a way of bypassing the many politicians with their own often warped agendas and the many pundits who have their own twisted
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USA
SAN DIEGO — Jewish items of local, national and international interest SAN DIEGO — Laurie Black, former San Diego port commissioner and one time chief of staff to former U.S. Rep. Lynn Schenk, will host a kickoff fundraising event at 5 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 19, for the mayoral campaign of City Councilman David Alvarez, a
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International
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, in the context of the P5+1/Iran negotiations I wrote: We’re familiar with the rules for buying a rug in the souk. If you want the rug more than he wants the deal, you will overpay; if he wants the deal more than you want the rug, you
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenIsraeli-Palestinian conflict talks won’t lead to deal, 87.5% of Israelis say in poll (JNS.org) A vast majority of Israeli Jews—87.5 percent—believe the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations will not lead to a peace agreement, according to a new Israel Hayom poll that coincided with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s latest visit to the region. The
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International