Israel may nix funding for theater over Arab actor’s Jordan Valley boycott (JNS.org) Israeli Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev issued a strong rebuke of Arab-Israeli actor Norman Issa on Tuesday after Israel Hayom reported that he was unwilling to join his fellow cast members in the play Boomerang when they perform in the Jordan Valley. […]
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — In the background of this column is the recent one about the misadventures of great powers, and producing unintended outcomes. It could have employed Barbara Tuchman’s title, The March of Folly. Here the focus is on the diplomatic maneuvers, proclamations, politely announced policy preferences, along with the yelling, screaming and chanting
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAHosting Czech FM, Netanyahu says Palestinians set ‘perfect trap’ on peace talks (JNS.org) The Palestinian Authority rejects peace talks with Israel and then tries to get boycotts imposed on the Jewish state over the absence of peace talks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told visiting Czech Republic Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek in Jerusalem on Monday, calling
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — President Reuven Rivlin has important things to say about many issues, e.g., the rights of Israel’s Arab citizens and the problem with haredi schools that don’t teach the basic curriculum and thus render their graduates unproductive and unemployable. But he has a blind spot about Reform and Conservative Judaism. Thus
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Middle East, USAU.S. Supreme Court strikes down law allowing ‘Jerusalem, Israel’ on passports (JNS.org) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down a law that enabled Americans born in Jerusalem—which the U.S. government does not recognize as a part of any country—to list “born in Israel” on their passports, on the grounds that Congress overstepped the president’s
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Following is a speech delivered on Sunday, June 7, by World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder at a forum in New York City sponsored by The Jerusalem Post. Underlined, bold-faced and capitalized portions reflect what Lauder emphasized By Ronald Lauder NEW YORK — I want to thank the Jerusalem Post for allowing me to begin
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Thursday morning news, June 4, headlined a comment by the General Director of the French telecom giant Orange that he preferred to cancel the agreement with the Israeli affiliate, due to its violation of international law. He went on to say that he could not do as he wished, due
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By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org HOUSTON, Texas – As Jewish media far and wide started picking up on the story of the recent devastating flood in Houston, which hit Jewish-heavy neighborhoods particularly hard, JNS.org was (in my own estimation) conspicuously late to join the reporting. That is by design. I am both our editor and a resident of
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Jacob Kamaras, The World We Share, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Jews worry. One can argue if those of Israel worry more than those overseas, and who has the best reasons for worry. Recent headlines have featured political pressures more than physical threats to Israel’s existence. A realist should applaud the turn. Most of the realists here are Jews, and any
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USACEO of French telecom company Orange expresses desire to boycott Israel (JNS.org) Stephane Richard, CEO of the French telecommunications giant Orange, said at a news conference in Egypt on Wednesday that he would have his company boycott Israel as soon as “tomorrow,” but isn’t yet prepared to make that move. French advocacy groups have been
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-Seventh in a series- Exit 2: Morena Boulevard ~USD campus By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Rabbi Wayne Dosick received a telephone call in 1988 from Richard Stern, an activist in the Jewish Chattaqua Society, which was formed in the previous century to spread among diverse audiences knowledge about the Jewish religion. Stern wanted to know
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USAIsraelis ‘believe we have no better friend than Canada,’ Netanyahu says (JNS.org) Upon hosting Canadian Foreign Minister Robert Nicholson in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israelis believe the Jewish state has “no better friend than Canada.” Netanyahu cited recent instances of “international hypocrisy,” including the passage of a motion to boycott
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International, Middle East, USAIsraeli ministers increase efforts to fight boycotts (JNS.org) Israeli government ministers are increasing their efforts to fight academic, consumer, cultural, and sports boycotts against Israel in what has become a significant diplomatic priority for the Jewish state. Last Friday, Israel was able to thwart a Palestinian motion asking FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, to suspend
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International, Middle East, USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Edward L. Rubin is a professor at Vanderbilt University Law School and a former dean there. He is also the author of several important academic books, among them Soul, Self, and Society: The New Morality and the Modern State, published last year by Oxford University Press. Born in Brooklyn
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