Homeland Security granted a new temporary amnesty Monday to more than 8,000 Syrians living in the U.S. right now, saying they can remain for up to 18 months longer no matter what their legal status. Secretary Jeh Johnson issued “temporary protected status” to Syrians, saying that if they are in the U.S. as of Monday […]
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Middle East, USATEHRAN (WJC) — Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a harsh rebuke of Saudi Arabia on Monday for allegedly seeking better relations with Israel. “Revelation of Saudi government’s relations with Zionist regime was stab in the back of Islamic Ummah,” Khamenei posted on his Twitter account. In another message, he wrote: “Today, #Saudi government is in
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Middle EastMPs in Tunisia’s parliament have overwhelmingly voted to dismiss Prime Minister Habib Essid from office. The no-confidence ballot stemmed from discontent over delays in implementing a financial reform package aimed at creating economic growth and jobs. A total of 118 parliamentarians voted against Essid, while just three were in favour, meaning his government is effectively
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Middle EastPalestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday said that any reboot of peace talks with Israel should happen within a clear timeframe and under international supervision. Abbas made the comments after his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris, reported the AFP news agency. Abbas also held talks with French Foreign
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International, Middle East, USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel would remain neutral in the U.S. presidential election campaign and avoid any intervention on behalf of any candidate. The remarks were made in a press conference with diplomatic correspondents and quoted by Haaretz. Netanyahu told the reporters that although he is attending the United Nations General
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Middle East, USA[video:2017682] Labor Party chief Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) was greeted by the jeers of angry hecklers as he addressed a party meeting on Sunday ahead of the Labor Central Committee”s decision regarding the date of the next primary election. Herzog, who has recently faced criticism from within the party over comments seemingly rejecting the feasibility
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Middle EastMinister of Education Naftali Bennet announced on Sunday this year’s winners of the Education Minister’s Prize for Jewish Culture in the field of literature: Haim Sabato and Sarah Friedland. The committee responsible for electing the winners wrote of Sabato: “His work […] reveals the world of the Sephardic traditions of Torah – in which sharpness
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Middle EastA delegation from the radical “Black Lives Matter” movement arrived in Israel last week to promote what the group called “the fight for dignity, justice and freedom”. Founded with the aim of raising awareness about fatalities among African Americans resulting from encounters with law enforcement officers, the Black Lives Matter movement has argued that American
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Middle East, USAA few months ago, I was lucky enough to meet a young Saudi woman—we’ll call her Zahra. Zahra was smart, eloquent, and funny. She wanted to pursue a degree outside Saudi Arabia in a field not yet available in her country. But, Zahra said, her father, her male guardian, told her “no.” When Zahra’s sister
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Middle EastThe sacred work of Islam and the signature museum of Washington, DC will combine for an unprecedented exhibit this fall. “The Art of the Quran,” the first major exhibition of Qurans in the US, will open at the Smithsonian Institution on October 15, less than a month before the presidential election that will close a
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle East, Travel and Food, USAPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this morning (Sunday, 31 July 2016), at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting, addressed the comments made by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls to the effect that he is open to banning foreign funding for mosques in France in the wake of the terror attack in the church in Normandy
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International, Middle East, USASome 7,000 police officers in heavy vehicles overnight Saturday surrounded the Incirlik air base in Turkey, which is used by NATO forces in Adana, in what a Turkish minister called a “security check”, Russia Today reports. While there was no official explanation for the move, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reported earlier that Adana police had
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The preacher, i.e.. Kohelet,said in the Book of Ecclesiastes, that is as much Greek as Judaic in its philosophy, מַה-שֶּׁהָיָה הוּא שֶׁיִּהְיֶה וּמַה-שֶּׁנַּעֲשָׂה הוּא שֶׁיֵּעָשֶׂה וְאֵין כָּל-חָדָשׁ תַּחַת הַשָּׁמֶשׁ. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAFor nearly a decade, residents of the villages of Nilin and Bilin, located near the haredi town of Modiin Illit, have held fiery, often violent demonstrations against the construction of the security fence every Friday. The demonstrations, which often include stone-throwings, draw anarchists and opponents of the Jewish state from around the world. While provocations
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