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Rabbi blames Israel for Gaza civilian casualties

August 10, 2015

Editor’s Note: Seth Moreida recently interviewed Rabbi Arik Ascherman, director of Rabbis for Human Rights, who explains in the first part of this series his criticism of Israel’s conduct of last year’s Gaza War. In the second part of this series, Moreida will provide a contrary perspective. Moreida is majoring in political science and international relations and […]

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N- deal augurs U.S. pullout from Middle East

August 10, 2015

By Stephen Bryen and Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The long U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt is likely drawing to a close. What once worked to assure stability in the region and keep the oil flowing will not work in the face of Iranian nuclear capability, and the administration

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, Stephen D. Bryen, USA

Jewish news briefs: August 10, 2015

August 10, 2015

Israeli man wounded in Palestinian stabbing attack on highway to Jerusalem (JNS.org) An Israeli man was moderately wounded on Sunday evening when he was stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist at a gas station on a main highway near Jerusalem. The assailant was shot and killed by IDF troops as he tried to flee the scene

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Textbooks in U.N. schools vilify Israel, Jews

August 9, 2015

By David Bedein JERUSALEM — UNRWA reports that its $1.2 billion budget, funded by 62 nations, cannot come up with the necessary $101 million to launch the new school year for 492,000 students who study in 699 UNRWA schools in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem and Gaza. Since the theme of UNRWA education is: “Peace Starts Here”…

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The Iran N- deal and the U.S. debate

August 8, 2015

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There is a great deal swirling around us concerned with Iran and the US. It is impossible to know anything for sure, but these appear to be points more or less clear. Barack Obama believes strongly in diplomacy. He’s willing to use a bit of military power against the ugliest

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Deals vs. ideals face leaders of Israel, U.S.

August 7, 2015

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There is hardly a city or town in Israel’s Jewish sector without a street named for Shaul Tchernichovsky, and his picture is on the 50 shekel bill. Currently we hear several times a day that this is the 140th anniversary of his birth, with frequent renderings of his poetry in

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Jewish news briefs: August 7, 2015

August 7, 2015

Leading Jewish Democrats Schumer, Engel to vote against Iran deal (JNS.org) U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel, two leading Jewish Democrats in Congress from the state of New York, will vote against the Iran nuclear deal. In particular, Schumer’s impending decision on the deal had been the source of intense public lobbying

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Middle East, USA

The Jonathan Pollard case in review

August 6, 2015

Editor’s Note: Below, you see investigative reporter Edwin Black’s original Jonathan Pollard article published 13 years ago in 2002. For this scoop, Black visited Pollard in prison, at that time the first journalist to do so, plus Black extensively interviewed his attorneys and reviewed their evidence, and also interviewed then ex-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Casper Weinberger, and many other

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Edwin Black, Middle East, USA

Rivlin believes Netanyahu hurts Israel

August 6, 2015

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Israel’s President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin is saying the same thing that you’ve read more than once here. In an interview to be printed in Friday’s Ha’aretz he’ll explain why he thinks that Prime Minister Binyamin (Bibi) Netanyahu’s rant against United States President Barack Obama is very bad news for Israel. In

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Middle East, USA

Jewish news briefs: August 6, 2015

August 6, 2015

Israeli cabinet approves 2015-16 state budget, defense budget still pending (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israeli cabinet approved the 2015-16 state budget bill in the early hours of Thursday morning, after a tumultuous marathon discussion that began on Wednesday afternoon. The budget was approved with a majority vote among Israel’s 20 government ministers. Defense Minister

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International, Middle East, USA

AIPAC disserves Jewish community by closing forum

August 5, 2015

SAN DIEGO (SDJW)– You won’t see any news report on San Diego Jewish World about the Iran nuclear pact discussion at Tifereth Israel Synagogue on Wednesday evening, August 5, because it was closed to the media so that attendees “could feel comfortable” discussing their views, according to a spokesman for AIPAC that sponsored the discussion. On the one

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

Reactions differ to the death of innocents

August 5, 2015

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — It is almost ghoulish to compare the deaths of children in war. They were not responsible for the situation in which they found themselves, and they did not deserve their fate. In a healthy society, such deaths are mourned without regard for the children’s nationality, or the politics and misdeeds

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Middle East is a Third World region

August 5, 2015

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Commentators have long noted that Israel is a western outpost in the Muslim Middle East, and suffers accordingly. This column accepts such a designation, but begins with a slightly different perspective, and seeks to learn what is relevant for the here and now. The Middle East is not only Muslim, or nearly

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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Netanyahu hurts Israel with anti N- pact campaign

August 5, 2015

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Raviv Drucker, commentator on Israel’s TV Channel 10 and a columnist in Ha’aretz, seems to me to be the best informed and most incisive commentator on Israeli politics. Speaking on the eve of Netanyahu’s appeal to American Jewry to help him defeat the Iran deal, Drucker suggested that we

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Middle East, USA

Rabbi blames Israel for Gaza civilian casualties

N- deal augurs U.S. pullout from Middle East

Jewish news briefs: August 10, 2015

Textbooks in U.N. schools vilify Israel, Jews

The Iran N- deal and the U.S. debate

Deals vs. ideals face leaders of Israel, U.S.

Jewish news briefs: August 7, 2015

The Jonathan Pollard case in review

Rivlin believes Netanyahu hurts Israel

Jewish news briefs: August 6, 2015

AIPAC disserves Jewish community by closing forum

Reactions differ to the death of innocents

Middle East is a Third World region

Netanyahu hurts Israel with anti N- pact campaign

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