Published by Reuters JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian who tried to stab them in the West Bank on Thursday, the army said, and Palestinian officials confirmed the man’s death. Among areas where Palestinians seek statehood, the West Bank has seen a spike in violence since Israel intensified raids last year in response
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Israel
Published by Chicago Tribune Washington has signaled that when it comes to Iran, diplomacy is out, and hostility is in. The U.S. began conducting joint air exercises with Israel on Jan. 23, employing more than 100 aircraft including strategic bombers and advanced F-35 fighter jets. This comes after President Joe Biden stated, “We’re going to
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Opinion, USA
By Leah Golembesky In today’s society, words hold immense power, and it is important to understand the consequences of what we say. This is particularly true for elected officials, who hold a platform that can reach millions and shape public discourse. The actions and words of these individuals can have far-reaching impacts and therefore, they
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Israel, Opinion, USA
By Alex Gordon HAIFA, Israel — After most intellectuals stopped reading and studying the Bible, it became fashionable to declare secular writers, philosophers, and scientists to be prophets, predictors of the future. The biblical meaning of prophets has been lost, so the ranks of prophets include authors who were alien to being counted as part
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Alex Gordon, Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Opinion
By Faygie Holt (JNS) On a windy day last Sunday, more than 200 people gathered in Santa Barbara, Calif., for a “Walk to Remember” commemorating Holocaust victims and to address the importance of condemning antisemitism. That community has seen a fair share of the latter recently. A Jan. 30 University of California, Santa Barbara class
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California, Israel, Science, Medicine, & Education
Published by Ultimate Classic Rock David Gilmour and Roger Waters are once again feuding. Polly Samson, Gilmour’s novelist wife who has written lyrics for Pink Floyd, recently posted a Tweet in which she called Waters “antisemitic” and a “Putin apologist,” as well as a “lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy megalomaniac.” Gilmour shared his
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International
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — As the competing votes tracked upward on the Congressional scoreboard last Thursday, my memory summoned up a moment more than two decades ago when I spotted an anti-Israel sketch posted on a bulletin board. It featured a message that compared Israel to the civil rights struggles in the South.
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, USA
By Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Clement Greenberg once observed that Edward Hopper was a “bad painter. But if he were a better painter, he would, most likely, not be so superior an artist.” “Edward Hopper’s New York,” a major retrospective currently on view at the Whitney Museum, confirms this judgment. There is occasionally a
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sam Ben-Meir, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the National Library of Israel (NLI) are delighted to announce the completion of the digitization of the Papers of Chaim Grade and Inna Hecker Grade. Making this collection available online will enrich the lives of lovers of Jewish and Yiddish literature throughout the
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Israel, USA
Ronald Gruner, who spent his working career as a CEO of three different tech companies (Alliant Computer; Shareholder.com; and Sky.Analytics), is a lay historian deeply interested in economic policy and outcomes. His book, analyzing the presidencies of the 17 U.S. Presidents from Warren G. Harding to Donald J. Trump, focuses largely on issues like unemployment, interest rates, and inflation. But along the way he also makes mention of significant geopolitical events that occurred during those presidencies. I will leave it to economists to determine the value of Gruner’s economic analyses. They are beyond my depth. What I did take notice of was how often our fellow Jews, and issues of direct relevance to the Jewish community, cropped up in the book. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Israel, Jewish History, Middle East, USA
Published by DPA Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered humanitarian assistance to Turkey and Syria, announcing the dispatch of search and rescue teams as well as medical teams “in accordance with a request from the Turkish government.” The precise nature of the assistance to Israel’s northern neighbour, with which it remains at war, was
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Middle East
By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Israel’s government has an edge in the Knesset, but it’s only four seats. And there is substantial opposition to what its extreme members are proposing to do with the judiciary. One option is for a Knesset majority able to override the Supreme Court’s opposition to a Knesset law or
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Ira Sharkansky, Israel, Opinion, USA
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — There’s way too much hysteria from the left wing over proposed legislation in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. Where do world leaders like Secretary of State Antony Blinken and French President Emmanuel Macron get the chutzpah to lecture Israel’s elected representatives? It’s bad enough that the leaders of Israel’s
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Israel, Opinion, Steve Kramer, USA
Daniel Kohanski, A God of Our Invention, How Religion Shaped the Western World (Hannacroix, NY: Apocryphile Press, 2023) 285 pages, $26.00 By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — Daniel Kohanski graduated from Colgate with a degree in philosophy and received an MS in computer science from Rutgers. He spent many years as a computer programmer
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel, Jewish Religion, Oliver Pollak, USA