By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK– The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has rarely been so far from finding a resolution. Since the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hamas during the summer of 2014, the desire to seek peace has been diminishing, and instead growing tensions have prevailed, punctuated by stabbings and car-ramming attacks by the Palestinians, and […]
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle EastIslamic State attack on synagogue foiled in Tunisia (JNS.org) A Tunisian newspaper has revealed that the Islamic State plotted to attack a synagogue in the country, but the plan was foiled. The local Al Chourouk newspaper reported on Monday that the terror group meant to target a synagogue in the coastal town of El Marsa,
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Among the flaps centered on this noisy little place is Prime Minister Netanyahu’s meeting with government ministers on the Golan Heights, and his declaration that the area would be Israeli for time eternal. A number of senior officials from ostensibly friendly governments expressed their reservations, and the UN Security Council
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastMinister Tzipi Livni says Israeli-Palestinian conflict ‘is managing us’ Tzipi Livni, in her talk in Princeton, said the price of not having an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians is greater than the price of having one. Tzipi Livni, coleader of Israel’s Zionist Union party, explained to a Princeton audience of 200 on April 18
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Middle EastA proposal by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) to apply Israeli law on citizens living in Judea and Samaria appears to be gaining momentum. If passed, the “Norms bill” would place Israeli citizens living beyond the Green Line under Israeli law, ending the army”s authority over citizens residing in the area. Currently, Israelis living
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Britain”s Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Sunday night rejected calls from Jewish leaders to denounce the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations, vowing to continue talking to them, reports The Telegraph. “Jeremy Corbyn has been a longstanding supporter of Palestinian rights and the pursuit of peace and justice in the Middle East through dialogue and negotiation,”
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International, Middle EastWar and peace. The line between the two is often razor-thin. For people caught up in conflicts, war does not begin with a single shot, or end with the signing of a treaty. It is a continuum that may start with sporadic hostilities and end only after generations. In this year’s Hot Docs film festival,
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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastTel Aviv (dpa) – Fifty Holocaust survivors who never got to celebrate their Jewish coming-of-age ritual because of the horrors of World War II got a chance to do so Monday in Jerusalem. The bat mitzvah and bar mitzvah – the first for girls, the second for boys – is typically performed when the child
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastDeputy Speaker of the Knesset MK Yehiel “Hillik” Bar (Zionist Union) visited Poland last week, after a town square was named after his maternal family. The main square of the small picturesque village of Skulsk in Poland was renamed the ‘Kotowski Sqaure’ this week, in a special ceremony Bar attended with other dignitaries. Bar’s grandfather,
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International, Middle EastA senior Likud official has revealed the details of alleged secret talks between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the opposition Zionist Union faction, in anticipation of the left-wing party joining the coalition government. A report in the Haaretz paper Sunday cited the unnamed, “knowledgeable” source, detailing the clear conditions outlined for an expanded unity government.
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The Triguboff Institute, established by an Australian philanthropist, specializes in the needs of Jews from the former Soviet Union, notably Russia and Ukraine. The fact that perhaps as many as 400 000 Israeli citizens of Russian and Ukrainian background aren’t regarded as Jews by the state’s rabbinic establishment has prompted
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastHamas man allegedly received $2,000 monthly salary for operating terror tunnel (JNS.org) Suspected Hamas terrorist operative Medhat Abu Sneima was indicted in Beersheba on Sunday for crimes including plans to attack Israeli soldiers along the Gaza border. Abu Sneima, 24, from Gaza, was arrested last month. According to the indictment, which lists 18 charges,
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor Masori SAN DIEGO – Israel’s consul general for New York, Ido Aharoni, told a San Diego gathering of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) on Sunday, May 1, that arguing with the supporters of BDS is a sterile exercise, not likely to influence the 95 percent of the
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By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE — The ESRA organization for English speakers (esra.org.il) had a beautiful hike in Ramat (hills of) Menashe during the intermediate days of Passover. This is one of the two regions of the Land of Israel in which the ancient tribe of Menashe resided. (The other area is located in the
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