By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Barack Obama burst upon the American political scene in 2004, when he gave the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, just four months after unexpectedly being elected the junior senator from Illinois. Less than five years later, in his first inaugural speech, President Obama intoned, “We will […]
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO– There is nothing physically imposing about Lou Dunst—a cherubic, dignified man with a sweet smile yet deep sorrowful eyes. At times, when he walks slowly by, it seems that a stiff wind could knock him down. But then you realize that not even the wind could do such a
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, USAReport: NGOs involved in Israeli-Palestinian conflict get $27 million in foreign aid (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Foreign governments donated some $27 million to 24 nongovernmental organizations involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict between 2012 and 2014, according to a new report by the Jerusalem-based research institute NGO Monitor. According to the report, released Monday, the donations
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The world quickly forgets– almost with blazing light speed… Some of us have short memories and some of us have long memories. This writer in particular will not ignore two noteworthy events that occurred in the last six months. Both of these events involved ISIS executing
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USACompiled by Donald H. Harrison The rhetoric is heating up over the scheduled March 3 speech that Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahyu is scheduled to give to a Joint Session of Congress. Jeremy Ben Ami, execuitve director of J Street, has taken umbrage at Netanyahu saying that he will give his speech “not just as the
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin met with members of the Cohen, Braham and Saada families, whose loved ones were murdered in the terrorist attack on the kosher shop in Paris last month. The President spoke with the families and heard from them about their experiences over this difficult time. The President told
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–During a joint press conference Monday, Feb. 9, with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President Barack Obama defined his differences with Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu concerning the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran. Here is a text of his comments on that subject, as provided by the White House. Q
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Middle East, USABE’ER SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) – In what is called the MIT-Israel-BGU Seed Fund, the two universities recently approved five joint research proposals for funding, supporting new collaborations between faculty and research scientists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). BGU and MIT signed the agreement last May
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thomas Friedman of The New York Times does not want Israel mucking in American policy-making toward Iran, and so counsels Prime Minister Netanyahu to cancel his planned speech to the U.S. Congress. He seems to believe Iran’s determined march toward nuclear weapons and genocidal rhetoric about Israel, in fact,
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — I get mail almost every day, but not a lot of mail, just enough mail. While some people tell me they get over 100 emails a day and are swamped with correspondence, I just get two or three emails per day, and it’s easy to keep up with
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Sports & Competitions, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One must be wary of generalizing about Jews. Not only are we individualistic, perhaps more than most other ethnic/religious groups, but different communities of Jews have been developing in their own ways over the course of 2,500 years. Since World War II there have been changes more pronounced that in
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAIDF destroys remnants of Hamas terror tunnel near southern border (JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces has destroyed the remnants of a large terror tunnel stretching between the Gaza Strip and Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the Israel-Gaza border, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said Monday. The tunnel was first discovered during Operation Protective Edge last summer, and
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International, Middle East, USACompiled by Donald H. Harrison U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) and U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Florida) were among a group of congressional Democrats who joined representatives of the Newtown Action Alliance at a Capitol Hill news conference Feb. 5 to propose a Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) and Rep.
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Donald H. Harrison, USA
Editor’s Note: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Thursday, Feb. 5, issued a memorandum calling for the suspension of aid to the Palestinian Authority. Following is a text of that memorandum: WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Over the last year, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has pursued a series of counterproductive moves aimed
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