Middle East

Netanyahu rebukes French for vote on Temple Mount

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sent a strongly worded letter to French President Francois Hollande after France supported a UNESCO proposal denying the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, it was revealed on Saturday night. The Paris-based UN cultural body had adopted the resolution on “Occupied Palestine” presented by several Arab countries in mid-April, referring several […]

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International, Middle East

The Psychology of Tzimtzum

By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — When Don Harrison recently gifted me a copy of Professor Mordechai Rotenberg’s The Psychology of Tzimtzum, it, like most gifts, came with a string. “Michael, I thought you’d enjoy this book and I’m wondering if you’d be kind enough to write a review of it for our

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Michael Mantell, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Hillary v. Trump an indicator of America’s decline

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — “Sometimes there’s a stink you just can’t wash off, kinda like a venereal disease. … That’s the problem Trump’s got.” It can’t get much worse than that, a quotation in The Economist attributed to a Republican Congressman. Polls are showing that stinking mess tied with Hillary. If there is such

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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Bill Clinton derides Hamas, defends Hillary on Gaza

WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton defended his record on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and excoriated Hamas tactics in the Gaza Strip Friday afternoon, responding to a heckler at a campaign event for his wife who suggested US foreign policy has contributed to the devastation in the coastal enclave. “I killed myself to give the Palestinians

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Middle East, USA

U.S. calls for release of Baha’i leaders in Iran

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — United States State Department spokesman John Kirby released the following statement to the media on Saturday, May 14: Seven leaders of Iran’s Bahai community were arrested by the Iranian government eight years ago. Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaie, Behrouz Tavakkoli, Vahid Tizfahm, and Mahvash Sabet were convicted

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Middle East, USA

El Salvador’s Castellanos honored by Germany

BERLIN (WJC) –Germany’s Foreign Office and the Centrum Judaicum Berlin held an event in the German capital in honor of José Arturo Castellanos Contreras, El Salvador’s consul-general in Geneva who during World War II helped to save tens of thousands of Jews from Central Europe from Nazi persecution. Felix Klein, special representative of the Foreign

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International, Jewish History, Middle East