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Arab, Jewish moms segregated in some wards

April 5, 2016

Numerous maternity wards around Israel separate Jewish and Arab women, even though such a practice is completely forbidden by the Ministry of Health. Reshet B reported Tuesday morning that the hospitals in violation of Ministry instructions include Jerusalem’s Sha’arei Tzedek, Hadassah Ein Kerem and Hadassah Mount Scopus Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital and Kfar Saba’s Meir […]

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Jews mark successes but anti- Semitism forever lurks

April 4, 2016

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –These columns reproduce themselves. Correspondents send me items I haven’t seen, and provide material for another session on the keyboard. Monday morning there were several items in my inbox that led to this item in my outbox. Nothing provided anything new about issues that have been developing for some time, but the

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Ottawa’s support of Israel needs more than just words

April 4, 2016

There are 192 member states in the United Nations. In the worst of them, girls and women are raped and trafficked as a matter of course. In many others, women have fewer legal, educational and employment rights than men. Nevertheless the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) concluded its annual meeting in New

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International, Middle East

Anti- BDS bill blooms in California Legislature

April 4, 2016

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– The American Jewish Committee (AJC) applauds the introduction of the California Combatting BDS Act of 2016 (AB 2844), which would prohibit California from entering into contracts with companies that boycott Israel. Assemblymember Richard Bloom authored the bill and is joined by several Assemblymembers and State Senators from across the state in introducing

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Middle East, USA

San Diego’s to celebrate Israel’s 68th birthday

April 4, 2016

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Jewish Federation of San Diego County and community partners will hold their annual community event to celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut on May 15 at the San Diego Jewish Academy, 11860 Carmel Creek Road, from 2 pm to 5 pm. This is a free event to celebrate and educate our local community

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Middle East, San Diego Calendar

Sacks: Anti- Zionism is new anti- Semitism

April 4, 2016

On March 27, speaking to the Sunday Times, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams expressed his concern at rising levels of anti-Semitism on British university campuses. There are, he said, “worrying echoes” of Germany in the 1930s. Two days later, in The Times, Chris Bryant, the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons and a

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Middle East, USA

Speaker Ryan lauds US- Israel relationship

April 4, 2016

Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, spoke at the Knesset on Monday. He began by noting that the relationship between the US and Israel is “more important than ever,” and that the two countries must work together against threats like Iran and ISIS. This is Ryan’s (R-WI) first trip abroad since

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Middle East, USA

Scholars enhanced Islamic- Jewish relations

April 4, 2016

Dr. Susannah Heschel said century of studies led to interfaith harmony Dr. Susannah Heschel said Jewish scholars’ admiration for Islam enhanced their own connection to Judaism. Photos by Debra Rubin Heschel speaks to attendees at her program, “Jewish Scholars and the Study of Islam.” At a time when both Jews and Muslims faced discrimination in

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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East

Naddaf: Fight against Israel is religious, not political

April 4, 2016

By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org HOUSTON, Texas–“It’s nice that he understands both English and Hebrew,” Father Gabriel Naddaf tells his interpreter, Amit Barak, at Houston’s Royal Sonesta hotel while I go back and forth between the two languages during my interview with the Israeli Greek Orthodox priest. Hebrew is Naddaf’s stronger tongue, and English is mine—despite

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Jacob Kamaras, Middle East

Middle East Roundup: April 4, 2016

April 4, 2016

First F-35 jets will arrive in Israel in December, Lockheed Martin says (JNS.org) Development of the advanced F-35 fighter jet is moving along as expected and Israel “has our commitment” that the first F-35s it ordered will arrive this December, Lockheed Martin Vice President Gen. (ret.) Gary North said Sunday at a Tel Aviv

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Middle East

‘I pushed her away, she kept stabbing me’

April 3, 2016

Reut Weitzman, a 30-year-old mother of three from Kfar Saba, was named as the victim in the stabbing attack that took place on Sunday in the industrial region of Rosh Ha’ayin. In the stabbing, which police have yet to officially define as a terrorist attack, a 23-year-old female Arab assailant from the adjacent Arab Israeli

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Middle East

Way cleared for ex-president Katzav’s early release

April 3, 2016

Former Israeli President and Likud MK Moshe Katzav appears poised to win an early release from prison this week, after the state withdrew its objections on Sunday. Katzav, who served more than four and a half years of his seven-year sentence for a rape conviction, appealed to have his term reduced by one third, citing

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Middle East

Iran: The Challenges of a Split Personality

April 3, 2016

When he died in exile in Paris in 2010, Shojaeddin Shafa sounded like a lone voice in a desert. For at least two decades before the Islamic Revolution, the writer and translator of Western classics had often been on best-seller lists. As an exile cut from his home market, however, he had the choice of

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Middle East

How a former Nazi officer became a hitman for Israel

April 3, 2016

Otto Skorzeny was one of the most outstanding military men of the 20th century. His specialty was daring, guerrilla-style, commando raids. He was an unrepentant Nazi, a senior SS officer, who remained involved in right-wing causes his whole life. And now it’s emerged that he was also an agent and hitman for Mossad, the Israeli

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International, Jewish History, Middle East

Arab, Jewish moms segregated in some wards

Jews mark successes but anti- Semitism forever lurks

Ottawa’s support of Israel needs more than just words

Anti- BDS bill blooms in California Legislature

San Diego’s to celebrate Israel’s 68th birthday

Sacks: Anti- Zionism is new anti- Semitism

Speaker Ryan lauds US- Israel relationship

Scholars enhanced Islamic- Jewish relations

Naddaf: Fight against Israel is religious, not political

Middle East Roundup: April 4, 2016

‘I pushed her away, she kept stabbing me’

Way cleared for ex-president Katzav’s early release

Iran: The Challenges of a Split Personality

How a former Nazi officer became a hitman for Israel

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