Amar’e Stoudemire, the NBA basketball star who just signed with Hapoel Jerusalem, said that he has always wanted to be in Israel, and play basketball there – and he is now realizing his dream. In his first press conference since arriving in Israel at the end of last week, Stoudemire explained his transfer to Hapoel […]
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions, USATurkish authorities have arrested the brother-in-law of one of the jihadis who targeted the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January 2015, as he made his way to Syria. Mourad Hamyd is a relative of Cherif Kouachi, one of two brothers to kill 12 people at the offices of the magazine
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Middle EastPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan is making Russia the destination for his first trip abroad since last month’s failed coup by Turkey’s military. Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin will focus their talks on the Syria conflict, trade, energy and the resumption of Russian charter flights to Turkey. “This will be a historic visit, a new
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International, Middle EastDALLAS — The father of Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Muslim student dubbed “Clock Boy” after photos of his arrest at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, went viral, filed a lawsuit Monday accusing the Irving Independent School District, the city of Irving and Mohamed’s former principal of violating his son’s civil rights. The Hutchison &
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Middle East, USAFor first time, Israeli university offers degree in winemaking (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem plans to introduce a degree in winemaking in the coming academic year. The program, recently accredited by the Israel Council for Higher Education, will offer viticulture, enology and winery-oriented business management studies. The course will be
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Middle EastBerlin (dpa) – German politicians at the weekend slammed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the mass arrests and political crackdown in Turkey following last month’s failed coup attempt. Bernd Riexinger, chairman of Germany’s The Left (Die Linke) party, called for an immediate halt to EU accession negotiations with Turkey. “A government that hunts journalists, redefines
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International, Middle EastAn Iranian nuclear scientist who claimed to have been abducted by the U.S. was allegedly executed in Iran, reports said Saturday. Shahram Amiri went missing in 2009 when he was on a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. A year later, a series of videos surfaced in which a man who claimed to be Amiri said he
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Middle East, USASeveral million Turks have gathered in Istanbul on Sunday in protest against last month’s coup attempt, according to police and organizers. The mass rally was called by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and is seen as a show of strength for the leader, who has been criticized by the West for a sweeping crackdown on dissent
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Middle EastIstanbul (dpa) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed calls for the reintroduction of the death penalty at a massive rally of hundreds of thousands of people in Istanbul on Sunday to protest last month’s failed coup attempt by elements of the Turkish military. “If they [the people] reach such a decision, then I believe
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Middle EastThe Baghdad municipality announced Friday it would demolish and then give to a developer the 100-year-old home of Iraq’s first finance minister, Sir Sassoon Eskell, while an official in Iraq’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities slammed the decision as a “violation” of the law. Eskell, who was born into an aristocratic Baghdadi Jewish family in
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Jewish History, Middle EastThe following is an extract from Puk Damsgård’s story of Danish photographer Daniel Rye Ottosen’s 13 months in ISIS captivity in northern Syria. This scene details his escape from an Islamic State militant group (ISIS) safe house in the northern Syrian town of Azaz where he had been tortured for weeks. Daniel felt hands on
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International, Middle EastDaniel Rye Ottosen has just returned to the Malawian town of Chikwawa from a week in the bush with a small family, surviving on a bland dough known locally as nsima. The austere diet reminds the 27-year-old Danish freelance photographer of harder times. “Right now, I am looking forward so much to having a decent
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International, Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — World Vision is a Christian charity on an anti-Israel mission. This can clearly be seen in its fraudulently biased website description of Israel and what they call the West Bank, properly known as Judea & Samaria. The unemployment level of Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza is not 46% and
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Middle East, USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu learned about the Defense Ministry’s statement that criticized U.S. President Barack Obama from the media, his aide told U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro on Friday, according to Haaretz. The newspaper reported that a senior aide to Netanyahu called Shapiro on Friday night and told him that Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman
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