The Islamic State group has crushed a rebellion plot in its stronghold city of Mosul in Iraq, Reuters reported Friday. The conspiracy was reportedly lead by one of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s own aides, who along with 57 others, were executed for treason. The accused were drowned and their bodies dumped in a
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Middle EastBy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — At 10 o’clock in the morning on April 16, 2007 sirens sounded all over Israel and the country came to a standstill, people stopped what they were doing, pulled over in their cars and stood in remembrance. It was Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the day to remember
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By Toby Klein Greenwald EFRAT, Israel — In Becoming a Soulful Educator, by Rabbi Aryeh Ben David, every chapter has “aha” moments and statements that you will want to frame and hang on your wall, and he is liberal in attributing ideas to those who have inspired him – Rav Avraham Yitzhak Kook, Peter Palmer,
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Toby Klein GreenwaldBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization voted on 13th October against the very principles that it was created. UNESCO was founded in 1945 after World War Two to establish humanity’s moral and intellectual solidarity. It says it strives to build networks among nations to enable this
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USAAnother woman murdered in Lod leaves campaigners arguing over how to classify such deaths, to prevent dismissing them as an ‘Arab problem’ By Melanie Lidman Dua’a Abu Sharkh had been looking forward to September 23, 2016, for months. After an ugly separation from her husband, Abu Sharkh had lost custody of her four children, aged
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Middle EastLooking to boost tourism, 200-passenger luxury liner to offer short jaunts between Israeli cities By Jessica Steinberg Inaugurating the new pleasure cruise ship line between Acre and Haifa, launched by the Ministry of Tourism, and which will run twice a day, seven days a week (Courtesy Itamar Grinberg) Looking for the perfect cruise? There’s no
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Middle East, Travel and FoodIsrael suspended cooperation with UNESCO on Friday after the UN cultural organisation adopted two resolutions on annexed east Jerusalem ahead of a final vote next week. In a letter sent to UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova, Education Minister Naftali Bennett accused the body of ignoring “thousands of years of Jewish ties to Jerusalem” and aiding
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International, Middle EastPM Netanyahu responded sharply to the scandalous UNESCO decision denying any Jewish connection to Temple Mount by inviting UNESCO members to visit the Arch of Titus and see for themselves which treasures were plundered 2000 years ago from the Temple. Netanyahu was speaking at a Bible forum which took place at his house. He said
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International, Middle EastTel Aviv (dpa) – The Jewish people’s ties to controversial Jerusalem holy sites came under fire Thursday when UNESCO’s executive board adopted a resolution disputing the link and criticizing Israel’s custodianship. Of the 58-member group, 24 countries were for the resolution, while only six – the US, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Lithuania and Estonia –
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International, Middle EastHalf a year after the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) accepted an initial resolution denying the Temple Mount”s place in Jewish history and the Jewish faith, the UN body is expected to pass another measure on Thursday portraying the Western Wall as a Muslim holy site. In a recent UNESCO meeting, Arab
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International, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –Earlier this year, Edward Alexander, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, published a book with the title of this headline in which castigates the many Jewish organizations in the United States and elsewhere that are critical of Israel and thus, according to the author, are damaging to Judaism and
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International, Middle East, USAIsraeli authorities charged a Jerusalem man on Tuesday with plotting to commit a suicide attack on a bus in the city in the name of Palestinian militant group Hamas. Mohammed Jolani, a 22-year-old Palestinian from Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem, planned with others to make an explosive device and launch a deadly attack against Israelis
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Middle EastFemale MKs from across the political spectrum criticized the appointment of a new chief rabbi for the Israel Police because of his views on women and men serving in the force together and his opinion of gays. MKs Sharren Haskel (Likud), Meirav Ben-Ari (Kulanu), Yael German (Yesh Atid), Merav Michaeli (Zionist Union) and Michal Rozin
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Middle EastAccording to newly-leaked emails by Wikileaks, billionaire Israeli-American businessman Haim Saban, considered one of Hillary Clinton”s close advisors, advised Clinton as far back as 2015 to distance herself from Obama”s Israel policies in order to get Jewish votes. Saban reasoned that, due to the fall in Obama”s popularity among Jewish voters, Clinton needed new rhetoric
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