Middle East

BGU delegation met with Pope, other Vatican leaders

NEW YORK (Press Release) — Prof. Rivka Carmi, president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), led an 11-member delegation to Rome to meet with Pope Francis and Vatican leadership last month. The delegation included senior officers of BGU’s international board, leadership of the New York-based American Association for Ben Gurion University, and BGU faculty. […]

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International, Middle East

Iran deal a year later

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — A good way of enjoying living in Israel is to avoid the media. Because reports about Israel’s standing in the world tend to be depressing, the English daily TV now brings five items of good news every Sunday, presumably to cheer up viewers and to encourage them to watch the

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Middle East

Top religious court rules against US Rabbi Lookstein conversion

Israel’s Supreme Rabbinical Court ruled on Wednesday that the conversions performed on his own by Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, a prominent modern Orthodox rabbi from Manhattan, will not be recognized. The ruling by the country’s highest officially recognized religious court upheld a decision made last week by the Petah Tikva District Rabbinical Court, which held that

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Middle East, USA

Trump: GOP platform ‘the most pro-Israel of all time’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday took to Twitter to hail the new pro-Israel Republican party platform. “The Republican platform is most pro-Israel of all time!” he tweeted, in a post that received more than 6,000 likes. The new platform, the language of which was approved by the Republican Party’s Platform Committee on Tuesday,

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Middle East, USA

Boris Johnson appointed Britain’s new Foreign Secretary

Former London Mayor Boris Johnson was on Wednesday appointed as Britain”s new Foreign Secretary in newly appointed Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet, The Independent reports. Johnson will represent Britain abroad on the world stage, and will also take a key role in Brexit negotiations once so-called Article 50 has been triggered to begin the process

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ISIS Releases Hit List Featuring Jewish Worshippers

The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) disseminated a new hit list of American targets earlier this month, including churchgoers and Jewish worshippers, forcing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to brief religious leaders. The list, discovered by jihadi monitoring service SITE Intelligence, was published on July 3 among ISIS sympathizers in online forums. The targets,

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Middle East

Republicans to introduce measures against Iran deal

U.S. lawmakers this week will consider three Republican-backed measures targeting the Obama administration’s nuclear agreement with Iran, Reuters reported. One bill would impose new sanctions on Iran over any sponsorship of terrorism or human rights violations. Another would bar the purchase from Iran of “heavy water,” a non-radioactive byproduct from making nuclear weapons and nuclear

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Middle East, USA

Amnesty: Egypt Forcibly Disappearing Hundreds

Egyptian security forces are abducting, torturing and forcibly disappearing people in an effort to intimidate opponents and wipe out peaceful dissent, Amnesty International said in a new report released on Wednesday. The report, entitled “Egypt: ‘Officially, you do not exist’: Disappeared and tortured in the name of counter-terrorism”, shines a light on alleged human rights

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Middle East

ISIS Releases Hit List Featuring Jewish Worshippers

The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) disseminated a new hit list of American targets earlier this month, including churchgoers and Jewish worshippers, forcing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to brief religious leaders. The list, discovered by jihadi monitoring service SITE Intelligence, was published on July 3 among ISIS sympathizers in online forums. The targets,

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Middle East, USA