Palestinian terrorist kills 2 Israelis during afternoon prayers in Tel Aviv (JNS.org) A Palestinian terrorist killed two Israeli Jews in a stabbing attack during afternoon prayers (mincha) on Thursday in Tel Aviv, Israeli media reported. The Shin Bet identified the attacker as a 36-year-old Palestinian from the village of Dura, near Hebron. The prayer service […]
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Just as a plane had left the gate at the Baltimore Airport for a flight to Chicago, one passenger saw a “Middle Eastern looking” woman looking at a video that appeared to be associated with the Islamic State. The alert passenger told an attendant, the plane returned to the gate,
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — The war against terror is not about semantics We are all struggling to create some mental headroom for this new wave of terror that has come to us now from the hallowed streets of Paris. The unwelcome knowledge of it, hurling through media and cyber space, affects our basic
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Middle East, USABy Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK — Diplomats, elected officials, interfaith and intergroup partners, and American Jewish Committee (AJC) leaders gathered at AJC headquarters Wednesday evening, Nov. 18, to pay tribute to the victims of last Friday’s ISIS terror attacks in Paris, to express solidarity with France, to recommit to the shared values of democracy and freedom, and to
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International, Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of State Kerry said of Friday’s terror attack in Paris, “These are heinous, evil, vile acts. Those of us who can must do everything in our power to fight back against what can only be considered an assault on our common humanity.” President Obama used the phrase “common
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy J. Zel Lurie DEL RAY BEACH, Florida — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spent a couple of days in Washington, spewing half-truths about the settlements and claiming his devotion to a two-state solution despite what he tells Israelis. In Israel he says that there will not be a Palestinian state in his lifetime and
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A confluence of events is pointing to the intellectual and political flabbiness at the upper reaches of American government and academies, and suggesting that there isn’t much left to the American generation. If we thought of ourselves as dependent on American leadership, we’re pretty much left to ourselves in
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAPoll: 18% of Muslims in Israel say Islamic State is not a terror group (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Eighteen percent of Muslim Arabs living in Israel do not consider the Islamic State terror group to be a terrorist organization and are not ashamed of its extremist Islamist ideology, according to the newly released 2015 Index
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Middle East“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, thinking it will eat him last.”–Sir Winston Churchill By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement policy is well known. The crocodile Churchill is referring to is Adolf Hitler. For decades, Europe had no problem sacrificing Israel to the
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International, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USABy Lloyd Levy LONDON, England — The current situation in Europe has many similarities with the appeasement of Hitler leading up to the Second World War. Then our “leaders” refused to believe that Hitler was a serious treat, and because they didn’t act in a timely manner, tens of millions died, including virtually all of European
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International, Lloyd Levy, Middle EastIsrael outlaws Islamic Movement branch over Temple Mount incitement (JNS.org) Israel on Tuesday announced that it has outlawed the northern branch of the country’s Islamic Movement over activities including the “mendacious campaign of incitement under the heading ‘Al-Aqsa is in danger’ that falsely accuses Israel of intending to harm the Al-Aqsa mosque and violate the
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The obvious and undeniable culprit of the Paris massacre is the Islamic State; the evidence abounds. But that’s not enough for “people who know better.” Thus the Swedish foreign minister says that it’s the plight of the Palestinians that caused the terror attacks. In other words, it’s the Jews’ fault. It
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International, Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Russia’s options in Syria are poor. While Vladimir Putin intervened to save his client Assad and Russian access to warm-water ports, it is beginning to look as if air power won’t do the job for Russia any more than it will for the U.S. and
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By Dov Smith JERUSALEM — What do bagels and falafel have in common? According to a Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher, comparing the histories of these two foods shows us that bagels and falafel have much more in common than meets the eye. On a simple level, says Prof. Shaul Stampfer, both foods are based
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