By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–The Israeli media have reported recently on another secretly recorded conversation between Mrs. Sarah Netanyahu, the wife of the prime minister, and the spouse of the former mayor of Sderot, the town that was hit by many of the Hamas rockets last year. The ex-mayor had apparently criticized the prime minister, […]
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — For a political scientist committed to the view that democratic politics is the essence of civilization, an election campaign can be a difficult test. The one we are experiencing, like some others I’ve seen, brings out the worst in those aspiring to national leadership. It’s not like an academic seminar
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NEW YORK (Press Release)… The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) strongly criticized an ad in Saturday’s (Feb 28) New York Times calling National Security Advisor Susan Rice “blind” to genocide. The full page ad, placed by This World: The Values Network run by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, runs through a litany of personal attacks on Ambassador Rice’s character
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Middle East, USABy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM–Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem on the eve of his departure for the United States where he will deliver a historical speech to Congress on Tuesday, March 3 at the invitation of House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) about the Iranian nuclear threat. “On the eve my
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Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Be the first of your friends to like this. Pop quiz: How can the threat of radical jihadists be countered? • President Obama: “Efforts to counter violent extremism will only succeed if citizens can address legitimate grievances through the democratic process and express themselves through strong civil societies. Those efforts
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Wandering through the stalls of the Jerusalem International Book Fair held a few weeks ago my eye fell upon a display entitled ‘Lavi Publications,’ where copies of just one or two volumes in Hebrew were on display. The modestly dressed elderly lady in attendance at the stall was eager
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastJeb Bush to Israeli newspaper: U.S. approach to Iran nuclear talks ‘inexplicable’ (JNS.org) Former Florida governor and expected Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said in an interview with Israel Hayom published Friday that the Obama administration’s approach in the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran is “inexplicable.” “It is inexplicable to me,” Bush said. “The administration
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By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — As the popularity of cycling continues to increase across the world, Israel is working to develop cycling trails that make the country’s spectacular desert accessible to cyclists. This week, the southern segment of the Israel Bike Trail was inaugurated on February 24 and offers for the first time a unique uninterrupted
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Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Once a month I teach a class at La Vida Real, a senior living community in Rancho San Diego. Several Tifereth Israel members live there. This week I began to speak about Purim beginning with the special maftir we read from the Torah this week. This maftir is
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– The concept of failed states has been around for a while, and has recently been morphed into the notion of fragile states. Perhaps the change is an expression of what is deemed politically correct in the halls of organizations that worry about such things, and claim to provide ranked lists of
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JERUSALEM (SDJW) — An arsonist set fire on Thursday, Feb. 26, to a Greek Orthodox seminary in Jerusalem, prompting condemnation from the President of Israel Reuven Rivlin and others. Rivlin spoke by phone with Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, and expressed his sadness and shock at the arson and graffiti attack on a building within the Greek
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By Boaz Bismuth/Israel Hayom/JNS.org Ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s much-debated March 3 address to a joint session of Congress about the Iranian nuclear threat, former U.S. secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld said that the focus on protocol and the speech’s venue, rather than on the content of Netanyahu’s message, “plays into the hands”
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Middle East, USATEL AVIV (Press Release)– It’s a fact: Women are vastly underrepresented in the fields of computer science, engineering, and mathematics. But less clear are the trajectories — academic and otherwise — that lead young women toward other professions. Higher education has already opened the door to equal opportunities for women and minorities in the U.S. —
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationHAIFA (Press Release)–As part of the first cooperative venture of its kind between the University of Haifa and the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) Institute, a festive cornerstone laying ceremony was held launching the construction of the deep sea research labs for the Harry and Leona Helmsley Mediterranean Sea Research Center at the University
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