By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The international community commemorates the Holocaust in January, on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The Jewish world commemorates the Holocaust in April, on the anniversary of the Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. The international commemoration implicitly celebrates the Allied forces’ defeat of the Nazis; […]
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Middle EastIn lobbies throughout the capital, young ultra-Orthodox men and women sit down every evening to participate in a carefully rehearsed dating ritual By Tracy Frydberg Just inside the ornate glass doors stands a cluster of modestly dressed young women, not too overtly scanning the crowd. The objects of their attentions are sitting restlessly in the
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastJERUSALEM (Press Release) — A petition signed by over 2,000 IDF reservists was sent last night (Saturday) to IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, calling on him to prevent the theft of military equipment from IDF bases and training grounds in the Negev. According to the petition, the theft of military equipment in the Negev by
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Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Nothing has changed in attitudes against the Jews in the last century. From the pogroms of a hundred years ago to the strain inflicted on Israel today there is an eerie similarity. Jews confined to their Russian shtetls suffered the murders and horrors of Jew haters. Polish Jews were
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Barry Shaw, Jewish History, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There’s always something to bother the Jews of Israel. Currently we’re smelling the preparations for a national election. Some may suspect that it wafts over the continent from Britain or France, but it comes from local pressures. The major responsibility may be those long-running police investigations into Sara and Bibi
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East50 Ways to Count on Israel By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — The 50th anniversary of the re-unification of Jerusalem on May 24th will be celebrated during the 50 days between the Jewish festivals of Pesach (Passover) and Shavuot (Pentecost). This feature article focuses on the significance of the number 50 in many of the
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International, Michael Ordman, Middle East, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release) — As Israel marks Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, calls on the public to submit the names of family members and friends who were murdered during the Holocaust, and to provide survivor testimony about their experiences from this period. To date, Yad Vashem’s Shoah Victims’
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFEI MENASHE, Israel — For thousands of years the Jewish people remembered Zion and God’s promise that that they would eventually return to their homeland there (Genesis 15:18). Whether one believes the Bible or not, it is an uncontested fact that Jews have prayed for the return to Jerusalem for millennia: By
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Jewish History, Middle East, Steve KramerHamas is funneling all available resources into its military infrastructure to fight Israel, complaining that Abbas won’t pay for its fuel, and milking everything it can from Gazans. It won’t end well By Avi Issacharoff “As usual, the situation is shit,” says A., a resident of the Gaza Strip. “It is so bad here that
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Middle EastA radical left-wing activist and advocate for Sharia law in the United States has been selected as his year”s commencement speaker at a New York City college. Linda Sarsour, 37, who helped organize the Women”s March in Washington in January and was arrested protesting outside of Trump Hotel in New York, was tapped by the
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAA flight from Kiev to Israel Thursday was delayed for over an hour while an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man complained about a movie that was being shown on the plane’s TV screens and refused to take his seat until the screens were shut off. “Our departure from Kiev tonight was delayed by an hour when an
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International, Middle East, Travel and FoodFederal officials on Friday filed charges against an 18-year-old Israeli-American for hundreds of hoax bomb threats this year that had put U.S. Jewish institutions on edge. A criminal complaint filed in federal court in Orlando, Fla., said Michael Ron David Kadar was behind at least 245 “threatening telephone calls involving bomb threats and active shooter
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Middle East, USASarin gas was released during an attack in Syria earlier this month, the chief UN investigator has said. But Paulo Sergio Pinheiro said most of the victims in the attack were killed with conventional and not chemical weapons during an airstrike on a hospital. The Syrian government denies US accusations of a chemical attack in
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International, Middle East, USAMore than 8,000 Jews arrived Thursday night to pray at the tomb of the Biblical Prophet Joshua the son of Nun in the Samaria town of Kifl Hares. Among the worshipers were 250 immigrants from France, the prayer was organized by the director of the Samaria Regional Council’s holy sites division. The worshipers were accompanied
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