By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Ahead of Israel’s Memorial Day on April 22, the day on which the Jewish state officially remembers its fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism, a unique cookbook compiled with recipes by bereaved mothers who have lost their children to war and terror has recently been published. The cookbook, a […]
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Jewish and Israeli history is replete with both tragic and joyful events, and in fact the life of a Jew living in Israel is something of a roller-coaster existence, taking us from the depths of sorrow one day to the sublime heights of joy the next, whether it’s
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish History, Middle EastYes, It’s Possible by Ehud Diskin, Gefen Publishing House, 2015 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — On the first page of the Preface – as well as several more times throughout his book – Ehud Diskin makes the following statement: “Long ago I defined the principles by which I would live my life……to try and
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Like some of the readers of these columns, I grew up in the US during the 1940s and 1950s. It was a time of assimilation for Jews and all the rest of the hoi polloi who had streamed from Europe. The US was ascendant as the result of World War II,
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–The unexpected victory of Netanyahu’s Likud in last month’s elections in Israel was largely at the expense of the two parties ideologically closest to it: Naftali Bennett’s Habayit Hayehud (the heir of the National Religious Party now wedded to the settler movement) and Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu with immigrants from the
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Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Passover is one of the three pilgrimage festivals of Judaism. In ancient times, during the seven days of the holiday, Jews came to the Holy Temple to make sacrifices. Today, there is no Holy Temple, but Israelis and Jews from the Diaspora fill the city with thousands of
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USAObama condemns anti-Semitism on Holocaust Remembrance Day (JNS.org) U.S. President Barack Obama condemned anti-Semitism in a message on Thursday to mark Israel’s Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) as well as the international commemorations of the end of the Holocaust and the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. “It is incumbent upon us to make real
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We’re in the midst of Israel’s secular holidays, that are arguably more profound in terms of popular sentiment than the principal religious holidays of Yom Kippur and Pesach. Thusday was day to remember the Holocaust. Together with next Wednesday–the day to remember fallen soldiers and victims of terror–these are the two
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By Anav Silverman and Matti Bernhardt JERUSALEM (Tazpit) –Thousands paid their respects to Shalom Yochai Sherki, 25, who succumbed on Thursday morning to grave injuries he received when a car that slammed into a bus stop that he was standing by on Wednesday night, April 15 on French Hill. Police in Jerusalem have indicated that
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Middle EastOn Yom HaShoah, Netanyahu compares Iran to Nazi Germany (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared the current Iranian regime to Nazi Germany in his Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) speech on Wednesday night in Jerusalem. “Just as the Nazis aspired to crush civilization and to establish a ‘master race’ to replace it in controlling
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The two countries I know best are both immersed in political frenzy. In the United States it is the onset of the 2016 presidential campaign. In Israel it is sorting out the goodies and the claimants after last month’s election. Both are marked by hyperbolic claims and promises, which are not
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By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit)– In the Jerusalem Hills, there stands the single largest memorial to the Holocaust in the world known as Martyrs’ Forest, which is comprised of six million trees planted in memory of those six million Jews who perished. A unique ceremony, the only one its kind held on Holocaust Remembrance Day
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastBy Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — After 2000 years of exile, the citizens of the modern State of Israel can be proud of their phenomenal technological achievements in just 67 years. It’s as if the gift of Time itself has been bestowed on the Jewish State for the benefit of humanity. Israel is at the forefront
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Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationU.S. Senate committee unanimously passes modified Iran oversight bill (JNS.org) The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday unanimously passed a modified version of a bill that would give Congress oversight of a final nuclear agreement between world powers and Iran. Earlier on Tuesday, a bipartisan deal to amend the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act
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