By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –There’s more tension in the air than usual in Israel these days. Three danger spots come particularly to mind: (1) Nakba anniversary; (2) the opening of the US embassy; (3) the beginning of Ramadan. Each of these increases the risk of terrorist attacks and should make us all very nervous. […]
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — This is an interesting place. Often it’s exciting. Sometimes too exciting. Remember those medieval maps that showed Jerusalem at the center of the world? Now it’s more likely Washington, but Jerusalem can be close. That’s the case with the Trump-Netanyahu coalition with respect to Iran, or maybe it’s the Netanyahu-Trump
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Sara Miller, 33, director of the San Diego chapter of StandWithUs, is a descendant of a long line of evangelical Christian ministers associated with the Assemblies of God denomination. A great-grandfather was one of the denomination’s original missionaries to India; her grandfather preached in Iran during the Shah’s
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — “Abu Mazen’s Jewish Problem” is the title of an article by Professor Shlomo Avineri in Ha’aretz (May 11, 2018). Avineri is one of the most significant political scientists in Israel with an enviable international reputation. He has also served as the director-general of Israel’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The anti-Jewish
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marched in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Immortal Regiment in memory of Russian fighters who died in World War II, Israel was getting ready to retaliate for an Iranian rocket attack on Israeli military units in the strategically sensitive Golan.
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — After recently released footage from the Israel/Gaza border confirms the use of children as human shields by Hamas during so-called ‘March of Return,’ The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish Human Rights NGO, is urging United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to denounce the cynical and dangerous child abuse by Hamas that
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International, Middle East, USA
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Sixty deaf and hearing impaired young adults from all over Israel participated in the annual Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebration ceremony organized by the International Young Israel Movement (IYIM) on May 7 in the Beit Yaakov Synagogue in Jerusalem. This event was held in cooperation with Acha (The Association of the Deaf in
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Little countries must look outward in order to prosper. That means being multi-lingual and multi-connected, and it may mean avoiding firm connections that get in the way of the flexibility that is essential. The need to import is obvious, insofar as a little country can’t produce everything it needs. The
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — AIPAC applauds the House Foreign Affairs Committee for adopting the U.S.-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2018 (H.R. 5141), which seeks to ensure that Israel has the means to defend itself, by itself, against growing threats—most significantly Iran’s presence on its northern border. This bipartisan legislation authorizes agreed-upon increases in Israel’s
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Middle East, USABy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — It’s done. U.S. President Donald Trump announced (5/8/18) that the US is withdrawing from the JCPOA (aka Iran deal) and that drastic sanctions on Iran will be reimposed. In the run up to the inauguration of the deal in 2015, then President Barack Obama promised that the
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International, Middle East, Steve Kramer, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The decertification of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) by Trump is most unfortunate. It seems that Trump was not swayed by either France’s President Macron or Germany’s Chancellor Merkel to preserve the deal. Instead, he appears to have taken Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s advice to decertify the
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW)– President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that the United States was withdrawing from the multinational agreement (JCPOA) with Iran that was intended to curb that nation’s march toward nuclear weapon production. Following are his speech plus a position paper issued by the White House in support of the President’s decision. At the
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International, Middle East, USA
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology, which rallies support for an academic institution that is at the forefront of empowering women in Israeli society, Sunday night featured “Big Bang Theory” star actress Mayim Bialik as the keynote speaker at its New York City gala dinner. Over 400 people gathered at Lincoln
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — The second greatest bike race was replete with significance in 2018. One man deservedly garnered praise for bringing the Giro d’Italia, a cycling race with a 110-year history, to Israel, the first time it has started outside of Europe. Sylvan Adams is an Israeli-Canadian real estate investor with a
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Barry Shaw, International, Middle East, Sports & Competitions