By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–One of the many things that President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu seem to have in common is their disdain for, nay hatred of, Barack Obama. The president’s obsession with Obama Care is an apt example as is the prime minister’s fixation on the Iran nuclear deal. Both may have objective
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — He seemed to be getting better. But now we’re seeing the same old Donald, dueling with a man who may even be crazier. The good signs were that he might be able to deal with Democrats in Congress. And his speech to the UN was professional in the sense that
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAA founder of an Israel volunteer program for Diaspora Jews has vowed the group would keep going after its benefactor, Masa Israel, cut funding over revelations that some of its participants had taken part in a pro-Palestinian protest in the West Bank. Speaking with The Times of Israel on Tuesday, Achvat Amim program director Daniel
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Middle EastSenior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat has traveled to Washington and is waiting for a lung transplant after his health deteriorated in recent months. In an interview broadcast Thursday on Palestinian national television, Erekat, who is secretary general of the PLO Executive Committee, gave what was seen as a farewell message to the Palestinian public. Get
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe CEO of an Israeli binary options company accused of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars was doubtless surprised to find herself surrounded by FBI agents shortly after arriving in the United States last week. Binary options is a vast, largely fraudulent Israel-based industry that Israeli law enforcement has failed to tackle for the
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Middle East, USADisabled protesters on Sunday continued their lightning strikes on major highways to campaign for higher disability stipends by blocking an intersection of the Ayalon freeway, the main artery running through Tel Aviv. Traffic came to a standstill as Israelis, returning to work after a long weekend for the Jewish new year, were blocked by a
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Middle EastMK Oren Hazan (Likud), a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, has demanded that the chairman of the committee convene an urgent discussion on the Iranian threat. “The world”s silence vis-a-vis the Iranians is reminiscent of the world”s silence in the face of North Korea’s nuclear bullying, which led to a situation in
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Middle EastDeputy Education Minister Meir Porush (UTJ) was involved in an unpleasant situation in Monsey when members of the Satmar hassidic sect burst into the Synagogue during prayers and hurled insults. Porush had spent the Rosh Hashanah holiday in New York’s Vitznitz-Monsey community. On Shabbat, he was in the middle of Shabbat prayers when a band
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Middle East, USARick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, which represents Reform congregations in North America, penned an open letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Sunday, demanding he recognize the Reform Movement”s “rights” to a non-traditional prayer space at the Western Wall and official recognition by the State of Israel. The Reform Movement, represented in
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAIsrael’s Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Saturday denounced Iran’s testing of a medium-range missile as a “provocation” and said it was proof of Tehran’s ambition to become a world power. Iran on Saturday said it had successfully tested a missile with a range of 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles) and that can carry multiple warheads, in
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Middle EastIsrael will reportedly normalize diplomatic ties with the Gulf kingdom of Bahrain as the two countries draw closer over their shared hostility to Iran, with an announcement even possible in the coming months. While there have been a number of recent signs that Bahrain is dropping its traditional hostility to the Jewish state, such as
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Middle EastJournalist Amir Tibon and his book, ‘The Last Palestinian.’ (Courtesy) The murder of two Israeli police by a Palestinian gunman on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount in July led to an escalation of violence that caused Israeli security to place metal detectors at entrances to the sacred Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. In retaliation, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
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Middle East, USAIRBIL, Iraq — For the jubilant, flag-waiving throngs who filled rallies across Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish enclave in recent weeks, a vote on independence Monday is a chance to realize a dream cherished for generations. But every major player in the region opposes the referendum, placing the Kurds on a collision course with neighbors and allies,
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Middle EastIran said on Saturday that it had successfully tested a new medium-range missile in defiance of warnings from Washington that it was ready to ditch a landmark nuclear deal over the issue. State television carried footage of the launch of the Khoramshahr missile, which was first displayed at a high-profile military parade in Tehran on
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