By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Dictators – as well as some ostensibly democratic politicians like the current prime minister of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, and his new idol, US President Donald Trump – want to control the media by curbing free speech, in order to secure their grip over the population. That’s behind the to-ing […]
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Middle EastLehi leader Avraham Stern was gunned down 75 years ago in an unassuming apartment; it now houses a museum dedicated to the underground group By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am The entrance to the Lehi Museum, located on a street named for Avraham Stern in south Tel Aviv. (Shmuel Bar-Am) Stern’s room in Tel Aviv, where
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastGaza-based terrorist group is training and manufacturing weapons for naval warfare, officer warns By Judah Ari Gross While Hamas’s terror tunnels and its reportedly refilled and upgraded rocket arsenal garner attention, the Israeli Navy is keeping a watchful eye on the terror group’s growing maritime capabilities and is investing its resources in preventing attacks “at
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Middle EastDrawing on the Old Testament as inspiration, the late Chaim Stephenson crafted compassionate scenes of familial pain and drama By Anne Joseph LONDON –Acclaimed Anglo-Israeli artist and self-taught sculptor Chaim Stephenson had a lifelong sympathy for people driven from their homes. In a career that spanned over 60 years, he produced a huge body of
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsCairo (dpa) – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres Friday called on the world to show “more solidarity” in helping Iraqis displaced by an ongoing campaign against the Islamic State extremist militia in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul. “We need more solidarity from the international community,” Guterres said at a refugee camp east of Mosul. “We
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International, Middle EastFrench MP Meyer Habib appealed to French Interior Minister Matthias Fekl this week to demand the cancellation of an anti-Israeli demonstration planned for this weekend. A number of left-wing anti-Zionist organizations are expected to hold a demonstration on Saturday (April 1) calling for a boycott of Israel. The demonstration was approved by the French authorities,
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International, Middle EastUS President Donald Trump has accepted the construction of a new town for the former residents of Amona in Judea and Samaria, the Jerusalem Post reported. A senior Trump Administration official told the Post that the administration considers the new town to be an exception to its request that Israel “hold off” on construction in
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Middle East, USAThe UN has joined Arab NGOs in criticizing Hamas for closing the Erez crossing into Israel, The Associated Press reported Thursday. Hamas shut the Erez crossing on Sunday after blaming the Jewish state for killing senior Hamas terrorist Mazen Faqha in his home last Friday. On Monday, they reopened the crossing for people going into
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Middle EastFor the first time, the “torch of the Jewish people” at the upcoming Yom Haatzmaut (Israel Independence Day) ceremony will be lit by a Jew who is not an Israeli. The Diaspora Ministry, together with Minister Miri Regev, Chairman of the committee for symbols and ceremonies, has established an international campaign calling on Jews in
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Middle East, USA“I was so nervous. I don’t remember anything from this talk.” That’s how the first openly transgender officer in the Israel Defense Forces, Lt. Shahar Erez, recalls the time three years ago when he was training to be an officer and told his company he was trans. “Back home I already identified as a male
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Middle EastIsrael’s security cabinet on Thursday approved the building of the first new settlement in the occupied West Bank in two decades, even as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu negotiates with Washington on a possible curb on settlement activity. The unanimous vote in favour of construction of the new settlement in an area called Emek Shilo came
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Middle EastCanada knows something about generosity. The country has opened its doors to some 40,000 Syrian refugees since November 2015. In many cases, private citizens have stepped up to sponsor the newcomers, offering their time and money to the families for one year. But many of those newcomers have now entered the critical “month 13” of
Canadians reached out to Syrian refugees. Now they hesitate to let go. Read More »
International, Middle EastBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — As we approach the sixth year of Syria’s civil war, the whole international community remains completely inept and has failed to join together in the search for a solution that could end the horrifying slaughter of thousands of innocent civilians each month. Sadly (but for obvious reasons), each
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USABritish Jewry up in arms after Sayeeda Warsi says Israeli soldiers should be prosecuted just like those who join Islamic paramilitary groups By Jenni Frazer Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, center, at a ceremony commemorating 175 men from overseas who won Britain’s highest military honor, the Victoria Cross, for service in World War I, on 26 June
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