By 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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Jewish Religion, Middle East[video:2027081] A viral video showing an Orthodox Jewish man performing for an Arab wedding has lit up the internet, leaving thousands wondering who the man is and what the story is behind the unusual performance. The man featured in the video, Yoni Sharon, is a resident of Kfar Eldad, a Jewish town in Gush Etzion
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Middle EastBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO–Mesmerizing strums of the oud opened the first number, a Kurdish melody, in a program at SDSU’s Smith Recital Hall entitled: Desert Caravan: New Jazz from Israel and Beyond. This concert, arranged by SDSU Judaic Studies Scholar-In-Residence, Yale Strom, featured, in addition to his band, Hot Pstromi, the prize-winning Israeli musician, Amos
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Eileen Wingard, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal EN ROUTE TO SAN DIEGO — I am writing this onboard a Swissair flight to Los Angeles. After we arrive at LAX we will pick up a rental car and drive to San Diego. (I understand why it is more economical to fly out of LAX, but it is nevertheless frustrating.) Every
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — StandWithUs congratulates The San Diego State University Associated Students (A.S.) for passing “A Resolution to Condemn Anti-Semitism” on April 19, 2017. A copy of the resolution may be found via this link: (https://as.sdsu.edu/govt/resources/legislation_resolution.php?legis=139) This follows similar resolutions that passed at UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, Indiana University, and elsewhere. A.S.’s vote
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USATel Aviv (dpa) – A Supreme Court ruling in Israel allowing some shops to remain open on the Jewish Shabbat has prompted anger from within Prime Minister Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, local media reported Thursday. About 160 shops in Tel Aviv, a highly secular coastal city, can remain open on the Jewish Shabbat according to the
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastAfter his father died when he was only a teenager, Yassine Mazzout started working nights at the landfill next to his home near Morocco’s capital Rabat, salvaging items that could be recycled or sold from the mountain of filth. “At 15, I should have spent my evenings playing with other kids,” said Mazzout. “But I
The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations took aim at Iran and its proxy militia Hezbollah on Thursday, saying the United States would act against this “growing menace.” At the monthly meeting of the U.N. Security Council that focuses on the Middle East, specifically the Israeli-Palestinian issue, Nikki Haley said the council should expand its
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