By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A few days ago the IDF Commander in chief told a group of high school students that he didn’t like a soldier emptying his magazine against a 13 year old girl with a pair of scissors.” The storm was quick in coming. Rightists, accused him of disarming Israel’s capacity to […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Let’s imagine that you grew up in a liberal, self-identifying Jewish family. You’re pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-immigration, pro-diversity, and pro-Israel. On the first four counts, it would seem, you are closely aligned with Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. But on the fifth count, Israel, you find
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — You can have a flock of sheep and a herd of cows, a covey of witches and a murmuration of starlings, so why not a transport of translators? This is one of the thoughts that occurred to me in the course of the recent annual Conference organized by the
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History, Middle East150 Israeli companies to be featured in Barcelona telecom expo (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Some 150 Israeli companies will be featured in the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, one of the world’s top telecommunications exhibitions. The Israeli companies make up the conference’s fourth-largest delegation, after the U.S., the U.K., and France. Scheduled
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Hassan Nasrallah’s latest tirade is his threat to send missiles against an ammonia plant in Haifa. He calls it his nuclear weapon, that would produce 800,000 casualties.. This in a context of Hezbollah deeply involved in Syria, and losing thousands of its fighters. Nasrallah himself is in Iran for treatment
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAIran poised to receive S-300 missile system, aircraft from Russia (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Iran was expected to receive its first S-300 air defense system from Russia on Thursday, Russian media reported Wednesday. This will be the first the major weapons deal to be implemented in the wake of last summer’s nuclear deal between Iran
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Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — The plateau called the Golan Heights is Israel’s northern most region, bordering Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. Its area, 440 square miles, is slightly smaller than New York City. The West insists the Israeli-controlled part of the Golan Heights is “occupied territory” which must be returned to Syria. This
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Middle East, Steve KramerU.K. and Paris step up fight against BDS (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The United Kingdom plans to step up its fight against the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, British Cabinet Office Minister Matthew Hancock said Tuesday during a visit to Israel. The British government is currently pursuing a new bill that would
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israel’s Declaration of Independence proclaimed: “the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz Israel . . . will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on
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By Lisa Herndon NEW YORK — At 102, J. Zel Lurie “39 is likely the Columbia Journalism School”s longest-working journalist. Lurie, who lives in Delray Beach, Florida, suffers from macular degeneration and can no longer read, but it has never occurred to him to end a writing career that started decades ago. Only now, he
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Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) applauds the Council of Paris for adopting two resolutions on Tuesday, Feb. 16, opposing the BDS (boycott, sanctions and divestment) movement that has been targeting Israel. The council is the governing body for the French capital. The Paris Council action firmly opposes “all attempts
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International, Middle East, USALebanese paper claims Hezbollah found missing IDF soldier’s items (JNS.org) The Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar has reported that the former Defense and Operations Chief of Hezbollah Imad Mughniyeh, whose 2008 assassination has been attributed to Israel, led a unit that found the parachute and uniform of Ron Arad, the Israeli Air-Force navigator who disappeared after being imprisoned
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — On February 15, 2016 history was made in Israel that many of us would rather not have witnessed: Israel’s eighth prime minister has begun his 19-month prison sentence for corruption and related charges. Despite his many other achievements, Ehud Olmert will probably be remembered not for the good he
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Middle EastBy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON, Massachusetts –Jews have been accused of harming and murdering non-Jews since the twelfth century in England, when Jewish convert to Catholicism, Theobald of Cambridge, mendaciously announced that European Jews ritually slaughtered Christian children each year and drank their blood during Passover season. That medieval blood libel, largely abandoned in
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