By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Is media serious business? Maybe. Is it at the core of our civilization? Let’s not exaggerate. It’s also a source of fun, tending toward the slapstick, as shown by what follows from the peak of Israeli and American media. First the Israeli slapstick. At the focus, once again, is Sara
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NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America has urged the president of DePaul University to protest a planned fundraiser sponsored by the Students for Justice in Palestine organization in support of Rasmea Odeh, who was convicted for terrorism in Israel and for immigration fraud in the United States. A copy of the letter follows:
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Caren Besner BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — The American Heritage dictionary defines “victory” as the defeat of an enemy or triumph in a struggle against difficulties. “Peace,” on the other hand, is characterized by the absence of hostilities, or alternatively, a treaty to end a conflict that results in public security and order. These two
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HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister, Moshe (Boogie) Ya’alon traveled on Friday to Rambam Health Care Campus to visit the two soldiers injured in a blast two days ago near the Har Dov border. The soldiers are in stable condition. The Prime Minister and Defense Minister thanked the soldiers for their service
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Editor’s Note: This is the second in a two-part series of articles by San Diego State University students who traveled to Israel with the Anti-Defamation League. By Chad Karczewski SAN DIEGO — Over winter break, I spent eight days in Israel on the ADL Campus Leaders Mission. The group I traveled with consisted of 18
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Middle EastIsraeli Knesset members move to bar Arab MK Zoabi from elections (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Member of Knesset Danny Danon (Likud) and the Yisrael Beiteinu party have joined forces in filing a petition with the Israeli Central Election Committee to bar controversial Arab MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad) from participating in the March 17 elections. Zoabi,
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky SAN DIEGO — We can’t avoid it. There are a billion or so Muslims, and the rest of us are more or less dependent on what they do. Oil and gas is one dependence, which we should not minimize despite the current dip in price. Physical presence is another dependence, even in
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastCompiled by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A U.S. Senate committee approved the imposition of sanctions on Iran if current negotiations fail, and, in another action, 75 U.S. senators signed a letter urging Secretary of State John Kerry to oppose efforts by the Palestinian Authority to utilize international organizations to isolate Israel in lieu
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USABy Roberta P. Seid/JNS.org While the global anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign has officially hit America’s scholarly associations over the last two years, even considering academic boycotts is a dramatic rupture with the past. In 2005, the prestigious American Association of University Professors (AAUP) wrote that it “condemned any such boycotts as prima facie
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAIsrael mourns soldiers killed in Hezbollah attack (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel on Thursday mourned Staff Sgt. Dor Chaim Nini, 20, and Maj. Yochai Kalangel, 25, the two soldiers killed in Wednesday’s Hezbollah attack on northern Israel. Kalangel, a company commander in the Givati Brigade, traveled north from his home near Jerusalem on Tuesday evening,
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The pundits tell us that neither Israel nor Hezbollah, each for reasons of its own, want to embark on a third Lebanon war. The missiles that killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded seven – the action also took the life of a Spanish United Nations peacekeeper – were in
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Middle EastBy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — Prime Minister Binyamin “Bibi” Netanyahu knows that he can’t win the election on March 17th. The arithmetic is against him from the left and the right. The new Arab party, which unites Islamists, Nationalists, Communists and just plain Arab citizens who will vote for the first time, will deliver
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Middle EastBy Yotam Rozenwald JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Two IDF soldiers were killed and seven were injured Wednesday, Jan. 28, in a terror missile attack that occurred around noon, near Mt. Dov close the Israel’s’ northern border. The fatalities were Major Yohai Kalangel, 25 years old, from Gush-Etzion and Staff Sergeant Dor Nini, 20 years old from Shtulim.
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Middle East, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release)–Following is the text of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, Jan. 27, at Yad Vashem. “My responsibility as Prime Minister of Israel is to ensure that the State of Israel will never again be threatened with destruction. My responsibility is to see to it
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