The IDF overnight Wednesday launched airstrikes against four terrorist targets belonging to Hamas in northern Gaza, the IDF Spokesperson said. According to the statement, the attacks came in response to the ongoing mortar attacks against IDF forces engaged in operations near the border fence. The statement stressed that the IDF views any acts of terrorism, […]
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Middle EastOne day after real estate mogul Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, a haredi magazine published an interview with the Manhattan billionaire in which the GOP standard-bearer discussed Iran, Israel, the rise of anti-Semitism around the world, and Jewish support for the Democratic Party. The interview, which appeared in Wednesday”s Mishpacha magazine, continued along
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Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Chinese Ambassador Liu Jieyi, who held the April UN Security Council presidency, announced last week that the status of the Golan Heights “remains unchanged.” That is, of course, true — like the old “Saturday Night Live” running gag, “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.” He meant it belongs to Syria,
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenIDF uncovers terror tunnel along Gaza border (JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces uncovered a cross-border Hamas attack tunnel on Thursday amid a flurry of attacks along the Gaza border over the past few days. “IDF units are securing southern Gaza border communities,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement. “This tunnel was dug by
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Middle EastLies against Israel and the Jewish people are running rampant, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned at the official Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony Wednesday night, at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. “Nazi German rule was eliminated 71 years ago, but anti-Semitism and lies did not die with Hitler in that Berlin bunker,” Netanyahu began. “Millions of people
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Jewish History, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There hasn’t been Jewish unity since our ancestors began writing some 3,000 years ago. We can guess that Jewish literacy has something to do with Jewish creativity, individual capacity to express oneself freely, tolerance or enthusiasm for dispute, as well as economic success. Roots of self doubt and being disputatious
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Students at San Diego State University and a representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) evidently feel that a strong offense is a good defense. On Wednesday, May 4, at a campus news conference reported on local television, they called for the resignation of SDSU’s President Elliot Hirshman because
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationA delegation of Jordanian students visiting Israel met on Wednesday with Deputy Minister of Regional Cooperation Ayoub Kara (Likud) and director of the ministry, Hashem Hussein. The group is touring Israel at the invitation of the Ministry of Regional Cooperation and the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University. The program is part of a
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — General Aviv Kochavi, currently in charge of the Northern Command of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), came to see my wife Fredzia the other day. He was one of some two dozen members of the General Staff, led by the Chief of Staff, who visited Beit Mozes, the old
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Joseph Werk embarks on his 20th stint as a Sar-El volunteer Joseph Werk displays the certificate recognizing his service as a veteran Sar-El volunteer. Werk receives his service pin as a Sar-El volunteer in May 2014. Joseph Werk is getting ready for his May 14 departure for Israel, where he will serve for three weeks
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Middle East, USAThe father of the Palestinian teenager burnt alive in Jerusalem, Mohammed Abu Khdeir, has said that no compensation could bring back his son after an Israeli court on Tuesday ordered his killer to a life sentence and to pay the family 150,000 shekels ($39,000). An Israeli court convicted Yosef Haim Ben-David, 31, of 16-year-old Khdeir’s
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Middle EastAt the height of the recent brouhaha about the U.K. Labour Party’s problem with anti-Semitism—it’s not entirely finished yet—I got an e-mail from an old friend in South Carolina. “You got me thinking I am some sort of anti-Semite. I am a somewhat reluctant Zionist. Help me out here, would you?” My friend is an
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International, Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Now that we are well and truly entrenched in the digital age it comes as no surprise to find that this has been adopted and adapted to its own ends by the community of Jews originally from German-speaking lands, otherwise known as Yekkes. Ever since I joined Facebook
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle EastIsrael to open office at NATO headquarters (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel on Tuesday night took another important step toward becoming a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance. The organization announced that it will allow Israel to open an office at NATO headquarters in Brussels to push forward a process that could ultimately lead
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