Tel Aviv terror attack prompts Israeli government to suspend entry permits (JNS.org) The Israeli Defense Ministry suspended the issuing of single-day permits for Palestinians to enter Israel Sunday, following a terror attack initiated by an 18-year-old Palestinian who stabbed four people on Tel Aviv’s beachfront promenade. The injured pedestrians—a man in his 70s, and two […]
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Middle EastWASHINGTON — Following up on a limited U.S. military strike against Syria, the Trump administration on Monday announced new “sweeping” sanctions on the Syrian government agency it blames for producing chemicals used in a deadly attack on Syrian civilians earlier this month. The announcement names 271 members of the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center
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Middle East, USARiots breaks out as officers forced to retrieve two men who reportedly arrived in Sur Baher to sell black market eggs By Times of Israel staff Illustrative image of Palestinian youth holding rocks during clashes with Israeli police in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher on October 7, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90) Police rescued two
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LOS ANGELES (Press Release) –Rabbi Marvin Hier, Simon Wiesenthal Center Founder and Dean is being honored as the first non-Israeli citizen chosen to light Israel’s Independence Day ceremonial torch. The decision was made by Israel’s Culture Minister Miri Regev, who said that the inclusion of Jews from the diaspora symbolizes the stake that Jewish people all
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Middle East, USAHAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — A new study held at the University of Haifa among Holocaust survivors has revealed a specific population group with a high suicide rate. The study found that people who immigrated to Israel from countries where most of the Jewish population was murdered in the Holocaust, such as Germany, Austria, Poland, and
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Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationUN chief vows to combat anti-Israel bias and anti-Semitism (JNS.org) United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reassured Jewish community leaders Sunday that he would oppose any anti-Israel bias at the United Nations. “As secretary-general of the United Nations, I consider that the state of Israel needs to be treated as any other state,” Guterres said at
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CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND (Press Release)– Treasures from the world’s largest and most important collection of medieval Jewish manuscripts – chronicling 1,000 years of history in Old Cairo – will go on display in Cambridge this week for a six-month-long exhibition at Cambridge University Library. Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo opens to the public on
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy 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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