WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Reps. Ted Deutch (D-FL) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) joined with Reps. Steve Israel (D-NY), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Lee Zeldin (R-NY), and Susan Davis (D-CA) to introduce a resolution (H. Res. 750) urging the European Union (EU) to designate the entirety of Hizballah as […]
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Middle East, USAIsrael’s attorney general has been asked to look into allegations that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted donations from alleged French fraudster Arnaud Mimran, to the tune of 1 million euros (about $1.1 million). Netanyahu has denied the claim. “We received a request from a Knesset member and it will be addressed and treated in the
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International, Middle EastJohannesburg’s Randburg Magistrates Court ruled on Thursday that Rabbi Eliezer Berland is to be extradited to Israel, reports Walla news. Berland, who heads the Shuvu Banim sect, fled from Israel in 2012 after several women as well as a 15-year-old girl laid charges of sexual assault against him. He evaded capture in the United States,
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International, Middle EastWhile former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now all but assured the Democratic nomination this summer, her rival, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders says the political revolution is far from over. As some Democratic officials fear, Sanders” claim may be more than an idle threat to the party establishment. Because of his performance in the
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Middle East, USAJerusalem has been photographed from nearly every conceivable angle, dating back to the 1830s, when the world’s first photographic images were captured on film. That photographic heritage is the subject of a new exhibit, “The Camera Man: Women and Men Photograph Jerusalem 1900-1950,” opening Thursday, May 26, at Jerusalem’s Tower of David Museum. It was
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Jewish History, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsFrom the moment a furiously contested civics textbook was published earlier this month, its critics’ focus shifted subtly — from the contents of the 500-page high school text to the omissions that Israeli reviewers now maintain reveal its discrimination. The textbook, “Being a Citizen in Israel,” marginalizes Israel’s Arab community and its secular public, mentions
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationThe Empire State Building will turn blue and white in honor of the Jewish state on Sunday, June 5, putting on a dazzling light display in time for the 2016 Celebrate Israel Parade in New York City. Tens of thousands of marchers, marching bands, floats, and hundreds of thousands of onlookers are to take part
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Middle East, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release)–The Jewish National Fund issued the following news advisory on Thursday, May 26: In what has been described as the biggest fire since the devastating 2010 Carmel fire, a huge blaze broke out and continues to rage in Jerusalem and the surrounding areas. Fifty firefighting and rescue teams and eleven planes are attempting
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Middle EastIsraeli aircraft overnight Wednesday attacked two terrorist infrastructures belonging to Hamas in Gaza, the IDF Spokesperson said in a statement. According to the statement, the airstrike was in response to an earlier rocket attack on the Gaza Belt. “The IDF holds the Hamas terrorist organization solely responsible for Gaza and will continue to act with
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Middle EastThe U.S. has expressed its concern about the Israeli government’s swing to the far-right after the appointment of ultra-nationalist former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman as the ruling coalition’s new defense minister. “This raises legitimate questions about the direction it may be heading in and what kind of policies it may adopt,” U.S. State Department spokesman
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Middle East, USAThe UN envoy for the Middle East on Wednesday expressed alarm after Hamas authorities in Gaza moved to hold public executions, and urged them to change course, AFP reports. Hamas announced earlier this week that it plans to carry out a series of public executions of convicted criminals, an unusual move as the group has
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Middle EastHezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday attacked Israel”s incoming Defense Minister, Avigdor Liberman, referring to him as “crazy”. Nasrallah made the comments in a speech marking 16 years since the IDF evacuated south Lebanon. “In occupied Palestine, the crazy and coarse Liberman has been made war minister by Netanyahu the extremist. I don’t want to
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JERUSALEM (WJC) –In a speech in Jerusalem before the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR), which operates under the auspices of the World Jewish Congress, Nepalese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kamal Thapa reminded his audience that Nepal and Israel have a long, uninterrupted history of cordial relations dating back to 1960.
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International, Middle East, Travel and Food‘Difficult to overstate’ American Jewry’s importance to Israel, Netanyahu says (JNS.org) It is “difficult to overstate the importance of the American Jewish people to the State of Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday at an event in the Israeli Knesset that honored U.S. Jewry’s 100 years of contributions to Israel. “American Jewry’s contribution
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