Lazar Berman Team Israel’s “Cinderella” run through the World Baseball Classic was fun, wasn’t it? Despite bowing out of the second round of the tournament on Wednesday after falling to Japan 8-3, the players certainly enjoyed themselves as much as their fans. They sported T-shirts that read “Jew Crew.” Utility man Cody Decker, one of […]
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions, USACOP applauds Guterres on rejection of ESCWA’s anti-Israel resolution NEW YORK (Pess Release) –Stephen M. Greenberg, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO, of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, issued the following statement: “We applaud Secretary General Guterres for his principled, forceful and swift rejection of the scurrilous report commissioned by the United
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International, Middle East, USAA group of prominent Orthodox rabbis and thinkers have launched a new American rabbinic organization to counter the media”s tendency to cite left-wing partisans in the American Jewish community as representative of mainstream Jewish thought. The new organization is called the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV). “The media tends to solicit statements on Jewish concerns
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Middle East, USAGaza City (dpa) – Israeli war planes early Thursday launched two airstrikes on militant facilities in the Gaza Strip, ruled by the militant Islamic movement Hamas, in response to an overnight rocket attack, Palestinian security and medical sources said. No injuries were reported from the strikes on a militants’ facility in eastern Gaza and another
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Middle EastThe U.S. State Department clarified on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for the 2018 fiscal year would not reduce aid to Israel, but added that assistance levels to other nations, including Egypt and Jordan, were still being evaluated. “Our assistance to Israel is … guaranteed and that reflects obviously our strong commitment to
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Middle East, USAPalestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday slammed Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman”s decision to designate the Palestinian National Fund (PNF) as a terrorist organization. A statement issued by Abbas”s bureau said that the PNF is one of the institutions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which operates according to international agreements and standards. “At
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Middle EastOvernight Thursday, Syria and Israel engaged in the most serious incident between the two countries since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war six years ago, as Israeli Air Force Planes struck several targets in Syria. In response, the Assad regime deployed air defense systems and fired a number of missiles toward Israeli jets. None
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Netanyahu is in the air a lot nowadays. Soon after returning from Washington and the love-in with President Trump, he flew to Australia on an official visit. Shortly thereafter he went to Moscow to make sure that President Putin controls his clients in and around Syria not to
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Middle EastIsraeli diplomat Itamar Rabinovich, said the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin seemed “willing to go the distance” to make peace with Arabs. Photos by Robert Wiener Rabin’s eldest daughter, Dalia, said, “Israel has not become a more tolerant society” since her father’s death. Photos by Robert Wiener Princeton University professor and former American ambassador Daniel
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Middle East, USAWhile left-wing J Street says the ambassador-designate shows ‘breathtaking disdain for the vast majority of American Jews,’ the right-wing ZOA says he reflects ‘widely-held views of the American public’ By Eric Cortellessa David Friedman, nominated to be US Ambassador to Israel, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, at his confirmation hearing
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Middle East, USAIf passed, new legislation would pay internet service providers from public coffers for every customer they convince to sign up to voluntary online filters By Times of Israel staff Likud parliament member Miki Zohar attends a Finance committee meeting, during a vote on the 2017-2018 state budget, at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 19,
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Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — When I visited Holland in 2015 to speak to Jewish and Christian audiences and to have private meetings with pro-Israel leaders I was told how Dutch Jews were increasingly fearful about speaking out or showing their support for Israel. Their main fears derived from the threatening atmosphere being stoked up
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International, Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) — Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations today called on United Nations Secretary General Guterres to publicly reject a UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) report unjustly accusing Israel of being “an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian people as a whole.” The report was co-authored
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Middle East, USAThe lone Jewish member of Iran”s parliament criticized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu after he said that Iran today seeks the annihilation of the Jews, just as ancient Persia did in the Purim story. “Netanyahu is an insane vampire drowned in crimes from head to toe, and the recent remarks made by the racist Israeli prime
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