Right-wing legal aid group representing the pair says the sting operation that led to their arrest was a ‘provocation’ By Jacob Magid View of the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin (photo credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90) Police on Wednesday arrested a pair of teens from a settlement south of Jerusalem who are suspected of assaulting Israeli-Arab […]
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Middle EastIt’s no small feat for a French Muslim woman from a disenfranchised suburb of Paris to make it on stage, let alone as a stand-up comedian. Enter Samia Orosemane. At the start of her Paris one-woman show “Femme de Couleurs” (“Woman of Colors”), the 37-year-old comedian of Tunisian descent walks on stage to a mashup
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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastLOS ANGELES—Dina Chernick had just arrived for breakfast Thursday at a Jewish deli in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood, but she already had a bad case of indigestion. She could thank President Donald Trump for that. “Here’s this guy and he’s talking about uniting the country and then he makes these terribly divisive statements,” said Chernick, an
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Middle East, USAJewish Home leader says he won’t discriminate based on sexual orientation after rabbi quits party over spokeswoman’s employment By Alexander Fulbright Education Minister Naftali Bennett seen at the Knesset on July 26, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90) Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett came to the defense of his spokeswoman Thursday after a leading rabbi left the
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Middle EastMaor Cohen is known at Ezer Mizion as the Lego Man. He runs a workshop for kids with cancer and their siblings using lego as a medium enabling them to cope with their fears and anxieties. For those children who are unable to attend the workshops he makes hospital visits. Always smiling on the outside, one cannot imagine where he finds
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationNEW YORK (Press Release) — Honeymoon Israel, a Jewish organization that provides group trips to Israel for couples ages 25-40 with at least one Jewish partner, has received a $1.5 million three-year investment from the Jim Joseph Foundation to grow in its existing 14 cities, to expand to new cities, and to further develop and
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Middle East, Travel and Food, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Neither of the societies that I have called my own are at peace. Neither are they at war. It’s something in between, with enough tension to cause us to think, or at least to wonder. Here there continues the almost daily efforts of Arabs or Palestinians–whatever term is appropriate–to kill
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAWomen’s rights groups hail ruling as judges nix job requirements that effectively precluded females By Times of Israel staff The entrance to the Rabbinical Court of Tel Aviv, November 27, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Women must be allowed to serve as directors of rabbinical courts, the High Court of Justice ruled Wednesday, in a
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK –Much has been written about Syria’s civil war which has engulfed the country for the past six years, but sadly the mounting death and destruction in Syria has long since become mere statistics. The international community grew comfortably numb to the horror, the likes of which we haven’t seen since
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) –– Gavy Friedson, a former Jerusalemite and a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT, saved a young boy in Jackson Hole, Wyoming while he was on tour explaining how the organization works to local EMS teams. During the lecture to the Jackson Hole ambulance department and EMS teams, the local teams received a call
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAIsraeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu condemned “neo-Nazism and racism” on Tuesday, following a white supremacist rally in the United States that ended in bloodshed. “Outraged by expressions of anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism and racism. Everyone should oppose this hatred,” Netanyahu posted in English on his official Twitter account. US President Donald Trump, who had been under pressure
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Middle East, USAA 13 year old Jewish boy was attacked by a gang of Arab youths while riding to his local soccer field. The incident began when the youths grabbed the boy off of his bicycle and began to ride it. The boy asked them for the bike back, and in response he was kicked an Arab
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Middle EastJewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky condemned the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia Saturday. A 32 year old woman was killed when a white supremacist ran over a group of counter-protesters. “I am deeply concerned by the expressions of anti-Semitism and other forms of racism and hatred exhibited at the neo-Nazi rally this past weekend
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Middle East, USA233 US olim make their way to their ancestral homeland on a Nefesh B’Nefesh charter flight, among them 68 future IDF soldiers By Elie Leshem Young US Jews who immigrated to Israel to join the IDF pose with executives from Nefesh B’Nefesh (center) after their flight lands in Israel on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 (Shahar
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