By Hillary Clinton/JNS.org I didn’t grow up celebrating Pesach. But over the years, I’ve attended seders where I was inspired by the remarkable story told in the haggadah—a tale of a people who, sustained by fortitude and faith, escaped slavery and reached their freedom. As Jewish people around the world prepare for this festival, I wanted […]
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We can wonder if anger or pity should be our response to an item that has gone viral. It shows a young Jewish woman who reached a top place in Bernie Sanders’ campaign–his Jewish outreach director–expressing a hatred that goes over the boundaries of pathological. In a Facebook screed, Simone
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAThe information Jonathan Pollard obtained while spying for Israel in the 1980s continues to be deemed “top secret,” and could still cause real damage to American national security, Channel 10 reported Friday, citing a written statement by US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. According to the report, Clapper, in a document he submitted to
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Active in Israel for over half a century, Motorola Solutions, the non-cellphone “twin” of the legendary electronics firm, announced that it was opening an innovation center in Israel. The company already has several hundred employees at a research and development center in the Tel Aviv area, which aims at finding and developing deals with Israeli
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Middle East, USAThe conditions suffered by Palestinians at Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank are “shameful and a disgrace to the State of Israel and to the security establishment,” Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel said Friday. Ariel, best known for his fiery right-wing rhetoric and his insistence on Jewish rights to the Temple Mount, told Tel Aviv Radio
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Middle EastIn many ways, Bernie Sanders is similar to a typical Jewish-American millennial. Like most young American Jews, Sanders does not see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a top priority. Also like many young American Jews, when Sanders does talk about Israel, he acknowledges Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is far from perfect and says he wants to
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Middle East, USACairo (dpa) – Several protests were held Friday in Cairo and other parts of Egypt denouncing a government plan to cede strategic islands to Saudi Arabia, witnesses and local media said. Police used tear gas to break up anti-government rallies in at least three areas in the city of Giza near Cairo, according to reports
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Middle EastVermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton traded sharp barbs and even contempt for each other Thursday night in a heated Democratic presidential debate that showcased the candidates’ major differences on policy areas such as climate change, gun control and Israel. While the Democratic primary began much more civilly than the Republican contest, it has
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Middle East, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which was once at the front and center of the Arab world and a significant player on the global stage due to its oil riches, has been steadily losing its regional influence and prominent role. In recent years, Saudi Arabia has been confronted with
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle EastIDF officer: Hamas is deterred, but gearing up for next war with Israel (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Eyeing a fresh round of violence with Israel, the Hamas terrorist organization is sparing no effort to enhance its arsenal and train its operatives, especially from the Gaza-ruling group’s elite “Nukhbah” terror unit, a senior officer
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Middle EastBy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — Hasidism had its beginnings in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century, a philosophy that moved away from the primacy of Torah study, but without veering from a commitment to Torah. It created a way of Jewish life that emphasized the ability of Jews to move closer to G-d
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Politics may not be the most uncertain activity. Playing in traffic is more problematic, but politics is close. Its uncertainties begin with the number of participants and the variety of their aspirations, skills, and resources, and extends to “externals” like natural and human catastrophes. Think about trying to maintain a
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastFormer Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (Zionist Camp) offered a novel justification for the two-state solution Wednesday night, suggesting that the frighteningly high levels of anti-Semitism among Palestinian Authority Arabs validated her support for a Palestinian state. Livni”s comments came during a town hall meeting in Boston on Wednesday night. The event, which drew some 1,000
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The islands of Tiran and Sanafir are two tiny specks of land located at the entrance of the Gulf of Aqaba. “These are very small, entirely uninhabited pieces of land. There’s absolutely nothing there,” Yitzhak Levanon, a former Israeli ambassador to Egypt, said Wednesday in Jerusalem. And yet, the islands continue to make…
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