Messianic Jew killed in San Bernardino had argument on Islam with shooter (JNS.org) One of the 14 victims of the terror attack in San Bernardino, California, was a Messianic Jew who purportedly had previously gotten into a heated debate with one of the shooters over the nature of Islam. Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, was a […]
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Middle East, USAGerman president: no one can negate Israel’s right to defend itself (JNS.org) Visiting Israel to mark the ongoing 50th anniversary of the establishment of German-Israeli diplomatic relations, German President Joachim Gauck met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday in Jerusalem. During the meeting, Netanyahu emphasized “the uniqueness of the
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. — Following is the text of comments made by President Barack Obama from the Oval Office on Sunday night, Dec. 6, on fighting terrorism: By President Barack Obama Tonight, I addressed the nation from the Oval Office on my top priority as President: Keeping the American people safe. It weighs heavily on the hearts
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Israel has come to France, Belgium, the United States and Britain. Terrorism inspired by the ISIS and its offshoots is spreading around the world. As a result, some critics of Israel have come to appreciate its defensive and punitive measures; they even seek to emulate the Israelis. Perhaps because
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International, Middle East, USAAustrian minister nixes Israel visit over eastern Jerusalem meeting (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Austrian Science, Research and Economy Minister Reinhold Mitterlehner canceled a planned visit to Israel after his host—Science, Technology and Space Minister Ofir Akuni—insisted on meeting him in his eastern Jerusalem office. The visit was supposed to culminate with the two countries signing
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — It isn’t every day I come across a theologically provocative news story headline like the New York Daily News did this morning in the terrible aftermath of the mass shooting that took place in San Bernardino, California—which claimed the lives of fourteen people, while injuring over
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The dust up between Vladimir Putin and President Erdogan of Turkey is warming at least a few Israeli hearts. It comes against the background of Erdogan’s strong tilt toward the Palestinians, especially the more radical Hamas faction. Prominent in our recent history with him is the effort of the Turkish
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — Seeming to give proof to Orwell’s observation that some ideas are so stupid they could only have been thought of by intellectuals, yet another academic association—this time the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)—has followed the lead of the American Studies Association, the American Anthropological Association, the Asian Studies
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi BETHESDA, Maryland — In a developing situation, at least 14 people were dead and 17 others wounded in a California shooting on the grounds of the Inland Regional Center, which serves people with developmental disabilities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. “We hope for the best for the victims of violence in San Bernardino. Our hearts
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USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Sixty years ago today, on December 1, 1955, a diminutive but mighty seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to stand up and move from her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus. She was arrested for taking the position of a white rider. “I was just tired of standing,”
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USABy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — It was 1944 in the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen and a young Dutch boy, Yoachim Yosef was nearing his 13th birthday. Among the inmates was the former Chief Rabbi of Holland who prepared the boy for his bar mitzvah. Each morning they would secretly study Torah on
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Jewish History, Middle East, USAFBI investigating threats against North Carolina Jewish school (JNS.org) The FBI and local police are investigating threats made against a Jewish day school located in Greensboro, N.C. According to local reports, the B’nai Shalom Day School, a school affiliated with Beth David Synagogue in Greensboro, received a threatening letter on Monday that included racial epithets
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USA
By Ilan Yavelberg HAIFA, Israel — For the first time, a scientific study has observed bonobos (an analogous race to chimpanzees) making sophisticated use of ancient pre-agricultural tools in a manner similar to that which has hitherto been considered the prerogative of archaic pre-human hominins and other members of the Homo genus. Among other findings, a
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Middle East, The World We Share, USAOne Nation Under Gods: A New American History, by Peter Manseau. Little, Brown and Company. 2015, 469pp By David Strom SAN DIEGO — At the founding of our nation over 20 percent of African slaves were Moslem. Their number dwarfed the number of Catholics or Jews living in the colonies. The third president of the
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USA