By 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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Middle EastRepublican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has said Israel should continue building in Judea and Samaria, insisting the Jewish state should “keep moving forward” in response to Arab terrorism. Speaking to the UK’s Daily Mail, Trump emphasized his support for the State of Israel, and appeared to veer away from previous comments in which he declared
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Middle East, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – After meeting with some of the students who blocked the campus police car in which he was a passenger for approximately two hours last week, SDSU President Elliot Hirshman, who is Jewish, and others issued a statement on Monday abhorring Islamophobia but not mentioning anti-Semitism. As reported in Tuesday’s
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — The Men’s Club and Sisterhood of Tifereth Israel Synagogue plan to celebrate Israel’s 68th birthday with an ol’ fashioned American style barbecue at 6 p.m., Thursday, May 12. Yup, kosher hamburger and hot dogs, plus vegetarian selections. Decorations and recreation, meanwhile, will be Israeli through and through. Israeli dancing will be
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Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USAThe Labour party in Britain continues to make headlines, and the Telegraph newspaper revealed on Monday evening that party leader Jeremy Corbyn described a convicted terrorist accused of plotting a series of suicide attacks in Israel as an “icon” and compared him to Nelson Mandela. The comments were made in a post now deleted from
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International, Middle EastFormer Education Minister Rabbi Shai Piron spoke with former President Shimon Peres about Holocaust Remembrance Day on Channel 2’s Reshet. During their talk, Peres said that it is necessary to visit the extermination camps in Europe in order to digest the enormity of the crimes. “I was there, I saw the tallits, the shoes and
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Jewish History, Middle EastRepublican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Sunday said he would love to broker a peace settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, The Jewish Insider reported. Trump”s comments came during a campaign rally in Terre Haute, Indiana, where primaries will be held on Tuesday. Trump said that seeing Israel and the Palestinians sign on a
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Middle East, USAIsrael”s largest opposition party is negotiating the terms for a possible unity government, a senior Zionist Camp official said on Tuesday. Speaking with Army Radio, Tzipi Livni (Zionist Camp) confirmed that her party was in talks with the Netanyahu government over a possible unity coalition. “I was shown things [brought up] in the talks, [but]
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Middle EastIsraeli President Reuven Rivlin received a standing ovation Tuesday during a unique meeting of French politicians, Jewish leaders and Jewish, Muslim and Christian youth. President Rivlin hosted the delegation today at his residence in Jerusalem, which comprised of French regional, parliamentary, and Jewish community leaders organized by CRIF, the umbrella body of the Jewish community
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