By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — A baby girl was born on Thursday night, February 19 in Jerusalem during the snowstorm that swept the capital, Golan Heights and other part of northern Israel as well as Judea and Samaria, and even the southern city of Be’er Sheva. In Jerusalem, Magen David Adom (MDA) received a […]
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Jordanian, 21 Egyptians and 4 Americans sounds like the start of a bad joke, but it is not. They, along with thousands of others, have been murdered by the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh) in the Middle East, and by Boko Haram in Nigeria. The victims
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Is there a qualitative difference between the murder of over six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Shoah and the beheading of twenty-one Egyptian Coptic Christians by ISIS in Libya? I don’t think so. Genocide is the intentional destruction of a national, cultural, or
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By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Motti Kirshenbaum, the co-host of a popular daily television news hour, suggested on Thursday evening that Jerusalemites were preparing for the snow storm – it came late that day and continued through the night and on Friday – the way our ancestors prepared for the siege of Jerusalem by
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Middle EastNEW YORK (WJC) — A significant majority of Americans — some 77% of those polled — see the “development of nuclear weapons by Iran” as a “critical threat;” another 16% see it as “important but not critical”, according to new numbers from Gallup. ISIS and international terrorism loom largest in Americans’ minds as critical threats
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International, Middle East, USAIsraeli-made ‘TaxiBot’ airplane tow vehicle makes debut in Germany (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) An Israeli-made robotic airplane tow vehicle made its debut at Frankfurt Airport on Thursday in a ceremony attended by journalists from around the world. Israel Aerospace Industries’ (IAI) “TaxiBot” was designed to ferry the most commonly used passenger airplane, the Boeing 737,
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The term “quisling” refers to anyone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force. The word originates from the Norwegian war-time leader Vidkun Quisling, who headed a domestic Nazi collaborationist regime during WWII. That era also produced appeasers, such as as former British Prime Minister Arthur Neville
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USABy Morton A Klein and Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — We are at that periodic occurrence, a crisis in Israeli/U.S. relations. This one revolves around White House pique over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s acceptance of an invitation by House Speaker, John Boehner, to address the U.S. Congress on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, an issue
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Middle East, USAOSLO, Norway (WJC) — The city of Oslo decided to permanently close to traffic the street leading to its main synagogue. Ervin Kohn, president of the Jewish Community in Oslo, told JTA that the decision was made following the slaying on Feb. 15 of a guard at the main synagogue of Copenhagen in Denmark. The
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JERUSALEM (Press Release)–MK Tzipi Livni, Co-Chair of the Zionist Camp party addressed the Conference of Presidents Major Jewish Organizations annual Leadership Mission to Israel on Thursday, Feb. 19. In light of the upcoming elections in Israel, MK Livni discussed the platform of her Zionist Camp party, which she co-chairs with Yitzhak Herzog. She said that
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Middle East, USAIsraeli Supreme Court reverses election ban on Arab Knesset member Zoabi (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israeli Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed the Central Elections Committee’s decision to disqualify MK Hanin Zoabi (Joint Arab List) and far-right activist Baruch Marzel (Yahad Haam Itanu) from next month’s Knesset election. In an 8-1 decision, the court said
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The State Comptroller (government auditor) has finally issued his long delayed report. The results do not add to the reputation of the Prime Minister, his spouse, or Israeli media. We’re being inundated with an over abundance of small details about the larger picture we’ve know for years. The Netanyahus have
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–President Barack Obama spoke at the concluding session of his Summit on Combating Violent Extremism, and urged Americans not to confer on terrorist movements the mantle of Islam, which he said they seek. Here is a text of his remarks delivered Wednesday, Feb. 18. THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much.
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Compiled by Donald H. Harrison WASHINGTON, D.C. — Under intensive questioning by press corps members assigned to the U.S. State Department, spokeswoman Jen Psaki admitted on Wednesday, Feb. 18, that the United States has been withholding information from Israel about what is occurring in the P5+1 negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. Psaki reiterated a
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