[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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International, Middle East, USAIstanbul (dpa) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday snuffed critics’ hopes that a referendum result to give his office more powers could be overturned, confirming that any attempts to annul the vote were futile. Opposition parties had filed petitions to annul the outcome of the referendum, which in preliminary counting saw 51.4 per
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International, Middle EastIn the years around World War I, Turkey’s Ottoman government committed genocide against 1.5 million Christian minority Armenians, setting an example for Hitler to follow similar lines to exterminate European Jews. It’s a tragedy rarely observed in feature films but too important to ignore. It receives a powerful, overdue accounting in “The Promise,” a historical
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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastDozens of volunteers joined police, IDF in looking for 22-year-old Jerusalem yeshiva student who got lost on Wadi Og trail By Times of Israel staff Police coordinate search and rescue efforts for a hiker who went missing in Wadi Og on April 19, 2017. (Nitai Reich) Volunteer search and rescue teams on Thursday morning found
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Middle East, Travel and FoodJERUSALEM (Press Release) —Thousands of people around the world watched 12Tribes Films CEO Avi Abelow announce the winners of the “Inspired by Israel” video contest at a ceremony held at the Tower of David on Tuesday evening. The contest, in its second year, called for filmmakers of all ages and experience levels to create videos
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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The razor-thin victory (51.3% to 48.7%) of Turkey’s President Erdogan in the referendum held on April 16 in fact denies Erdogan the mandate to govern with the sweeping powers the new constitution grants the President, especially when the results of the referendum are seriously contested. Even if there was no
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle EastIn Search of Israeli Cuisine, a film by Roger Sherman, Menemsha Films, 2016; opening April 21 at Landmark’s Ken Cinema, 4061 Adams Ave, San Diego. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Good reporting can be sabotaged by haphazard editing, and that, sadly, is what happened to this film in which host Michael Solomonov, owner of
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodAhead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, cops probe how memes of Hitler, concentration camps appeared on Petah Tikva school’s network By Times of Israel staff Illustrative image of school computers (shironosov /iStock by Getty Images) Police are investigating how Nazi images appeared as screensavers on computers in a school in the central Israel city of Petah
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