BUCHAREST, Romania (Press Release) — An American Jewish Committee (AJC) delegation just completed a two-day trip to Romania. The group, led by AJC Chief Executive Officer David Harris, had in-depth meetings with President Klaus Iohannis, Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos, Foreign Minister Lazar Comănescu, and the U.S. and Israeli Ambassadors. The delegation also visited the foreign and […]
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International, Middle East, USAExcavations at a late-Roman era synagogue in the Galilee have unearthed more staggering mosaics depicting biblical scenes, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced this week. The ongoing dig at the 5th-century CE Huqoq Synagogue has previously uncovered brilliant floors featuring people, beasts and heroes from antiquity never before seen in ancient Jewish
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastThe sole Ethiopia-born member of Israel’s parliament has said he was left “disappointed” by Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the Horn of Africa country, after the Israeli prime minister failed to solidify plans to reunite 9,000 Ethiopian Jews with their families in Israel. Avraham Neguise, a member of the Israeli Knesset from Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party,
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International, Middle EastSmoke, explosions, rubble, screams, blood. Down in the south of Israel, a residential building in Safed was hit by a missile with a half-ton warhead. There was no immediate body count, but videos surfaced on social media of people trapped in collapsed building and under cars. Not really, of course. This was a search and
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Middle EastBAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — The Islamic State group extremists attacked a Shiite shrine north of Baghdad, killing 30 people, just days after one of the deadliest ever bombings in the country, a security spokesman said Friday. The overnight attack on the Sayyid Mohammed shrine in Balad, which involved suicide bombers and gun and mortar fire,
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — the House of Representatives on Thursday night easily passed two amendments authored by U.S. Representative Peter J. Roskam to block the controversial sales of both Boeing and Airbus aircraft to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The amendments to the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act passed by voice vote,
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Middle East, USANetanyahu held talks with Muslim leader during Africa tour (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that he held a phone conversation with a leader of a Muslim nation in Africa during his four state tour of the continent this week. “There are a lot these contacts. He is not the only Muslim leader who
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Middle East“The fiercest arguments we have in parliament are over Israel.” These words, spoken by the chairman of the Dutch Foreign Affairs Committee, startled me. But they failed to faze the other committee members from the both the left and right. On the contrary, they all readily agreed. In the end, only I displayed surprise. “Let
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Africa was in Israeli headlines this week, with the emphasis on the 40th anniversary of Entebbe and the Prime Minister’s visits to Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and Ethiopia. It was more bombast than substance, and not all of the bombast positive. Uganda’s President repeatedly referred to the ties between his country
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Reformations are good for the soul. They keep the religious leaders and faiths in check. In the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, people began to read the Bible critically for the first time without having the local priest spoon-feed it to them while they sat on
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International, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s push for Israel to be granted “observer status” at the African Union gained the backing of continental heavyweight Ethiopia on Thursday. “Israel is working very hard in many African countries. There is no reason to deny this observer position to Israel,” said Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn as Netanyahu began the
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International, Middle EastChris Grayling, Leader of the House of Commons, told British MPs that Home Secretary Theresa May would be informed of concerns surrounding the display of Hezbollah flags at anti-Israel marches, reports the Jewish Chronicle. Grayling’s comments came after nearly 600 demonstrators on Sunday waved Hezbollah flags while participating in an annual anti-Israel Al Quds Day
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International, Middle EastADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday met with his Ethiopian counterpart in Addis Ababa and asked him for assistance in securing the release of Avraham Mengistu, an Ethiopian Israeli held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Mengistu, who entered the Gaza Strip in September 2014, is one of two Israelis
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International, Middle EastAircraft wreckage washed up on the beach near the central city of Netanya on Thursday and Israeli authorities believe they are parts of the EgyptAir passenger jet that crashed into the Mediterranean on May 19. Israel notified Egyptian and French authorities, which are investigating the disappearance of Paris-Cairo flight MS804. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
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