By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — Israel, at the moment, is suffering a crisis, a sharp division between the people, the majority of whom are Sephardic or Oriental, and the right wing government, which is mostly Ashkenazic. The country is in turmoil over the execution of a wounded would-be terrorist, lying helpless on the […]
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Middle East
Muslim rioters attacked a group of dozens of Jewish worshipers at the tomb of the Biblical Jewish patriarch Joseph in Shechem, during a pilgrimage to the site. Israeli Border Police forces and IDF Kfir Brigade soldiers accompanied 20 busloads of Jewish worshipers to the holy site last night. Under the Oslo Accords and other agreements
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Jewish Religion, Middle East
(Editor’s Note: Yoni Peres recently stood-in for his father, former Israeli President Shimon Peres, at an awards ceremony sponsored by the TAEDA Foundation in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In this series of articles he shares his impressions of Buenos Aires and the ceremony that brought him there.) Second in a Series By Yoni Peres BUENOS AIRES,
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International, Middle East, Travel and FoodBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Supporters of President Obama’s Iran deal (JCPOA) are starting to worry — but that is because they believed him when his lips moved. They heard “snapback sanctions” and pretended those were an actual “thing.” They are not, and never were. They heard Treasury Secretary Jack Lew say
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USAAnonymous claims to hack 55 Israeli websites in annual #OpIsrael (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The computer hacking collective that calls itself Anonymous claimed that it attacked at least 55 Israeli websites on Thursday, including some belonging to the government, the Knesset, and the Israel Defense Forces. The hackers publicized the addresses of the websites,
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Middle East
Dear President Abbas, Mr. Meshal, and Prime Minister Haniyeh, I am writing this open letter to you because I believe that it’s time for you to take a hard look at the dismal reality to which your people have been subjected for nearly seven decades, especially since 1967. It is time to reconsider your
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One of Jerusalem’s benefits is the opportunity for Jews from different backgrounds, and Arabs, to converse and come to understand what one another brings to the encounter. Some would say that Jerusalem’s ethnic and religious mixture is dangerous, and it can be. It was part of the downside when this
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastLondon’s mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan has demanded that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is “trained about what anti-Semitism is” in order to crack down on it within his party. Khan, the minister for Tooting, in south London, said the Labour Party’s failure to tackle anti-Jewish sentiment was “unacceptable,” in a speech last night at hustings organised
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International, Middle EastFormer Israel President Moshe Katsav is paying the price for refusing to express regret about his crimes. The Prison Release Committee attached to the Israel Prison Service today decided that instead of early release, Katsav would serve his full seven-year sentence for two counts of rape and other crimes. Four years and 120 days after
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Middle EastBat-Sheva Sadan, the daughter of Rabbi Eli and Dina Horowitz who were murdered by Arab terrorists in their home in Kiryat Arba on a Sabbath eve back in 2003, has weighed in on the controversy regarding shared maternity wards for Jewish and Arab women. After Arab MK Ahmed Tibi (Joint List) on Tuesday called the
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Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — With California’s June 7th primary drawing closer, as editor of San Diego Jewish World and as a registered independent voter, I have come to some non-partisan conclusions about which candidates in the Democratic and Republican primaries are the best choices for our community. On the Republican side, I favor the
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA
Two people have regained their eyesight after receiving the corneas of the late former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, who died March 17 after a long battle with cancer. Avraham Gian, 81, and an unnamed 70-year-old woman were the recipients of the corneas, the transparent layer that forms the front of the eye. The operations were
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationMalcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, warned Monday that US Jews and pro-Israel advocates were being distracted by the 2016 election instead of focusing on the damage President Barack Obama could still do in his remaining months in office. “The obsession, I have to say, with the
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Middle East, USA
Editor’s Note: The New York Daily News’ interview with Bernie Sanders on April 1 has generated considerable controversy, particularly concerning Israel. Here is a transcript of that portion of his interview that dealt with Israel. We congratulate the editorial staff of that newspaper on its efforts to pin Senator Sanders down on the issues. Daily
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Middle East, USA