Report: Hezbollah intends maritime siege in next war (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Hezbollah has a stock of advanced sea-to-sea missiles with which it intends to impose a maritime siege on Israel if the two sides enter another war, Lebanese media outlets reported on Monday. According to the reports, Hezbollah apparently has an arsenal of sophisticated Russian-made […]
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Middle East, USANGO Monitor leader ‘not surprised’ of AP media ban (JNS.org) NGO Monitor leader Professor Gerald Steinberg says he is “not surprised” of the alleged revelation that the Associated Press banned its reporters from contacting the watchdog organization. In an article published in The Atlantic on Sunday exploring media bias covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, former AP
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JERUSALEM (WJC) — On Sunday, Nov. 30, Israel officially remembered the suffering of an estimated 850,000 Jews who left, were expelled from, or fled from their homes in, Arab and other Muslim countries in the wake of the establishment of the State of Israel. The national day of commemoration for Jewish refugees from Arab lands
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Middle EastNEW YORK (WJC) — A lawmaker of Venezuela’s governing party recently told Lebanese television that Zionists had bankrolled Hitler prior to World War II and suggested that “no representatives of global Zionism” had been killed during the Nazi Holocaust for that reason. Speaking in Arabic, Adel El Zabayar, a member of Venezuela’s National Assembly born
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Press Release) – Former Prisoner of Zion Yosef Mendelevitch made an emotional return to the city where he was imprisoned in the 1970s to join hundreds of Jews from across Russia for the 4th Annual Limmud FSU (former Soviet Union) St. Petersburg during the Nov. 28-30 weekend. The three-day Jewish learning festival, at the
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International, Jewish History, Middle East
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Although the Israel Border Police have been very busy in Jerusalem amid the terrorist attacks that have engulfed the city in the recent month, a group of border policemen took the time between shifts to celebrate a very important birthday to Leah Genzel, 79, a Holocaust survivor living in
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Jewish History, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–It would be prime material for a stand up comedian if it was not the reality that could do us all a lot of harm. The current triumvirate dealing with three interdependent national entities, with more than the average capacity to affect wider catastrophes, have all been operating as political caricatures, making
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has condemned the overnight arson attack on a Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem. A classroom at the bilingual Hand in Hand school was badly damaged and hateful anti-Arab graffiti was scrawled on the walls of the building. “Hand in Hand is an inspiring example of the effort to
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There is an old American saying that the country is safest when Congress in on vacation. It may have been spoken in America, but it applies to all western democracies. Politics is the essence of civilization when viewed as the most acceptable way of settling disputes, first by arguing and then
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastIn Turkey, Pope Francis calls for interfaith dialogue to protect Mideast Christians (JNS.org) In his first visit to the Middle East since Israel last spring, Pope Francis called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to engage in interfaith dialogue in order to protect Middle East Christians and other persecuted minority groups. “It is essential that
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Middle EastHAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — They say there is no joy like the joy at another’s misfortune, but at what age do we already know how to feel and express it? Until now, researchers believed that children didn’t develop such a sophisticated emotion until the age of seven, but a new study conducted at the University
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Over 200 hair salons across Israel took part in the annual nationwide drive to collect hair for the Zichron Menachem Cancer Support in Israel in partnership with Pantene Products Israel. From Kfar Tapuach to Herzliyah and from Arad to Haifa, women and girls donated their hair locks at
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Israel’s cabinet is embroiled over the proposed nationality bill that would raise the Jewish, democratic ethos, mentioned in Israel’s Declaration of Independence, into a Basic Law, which is Israel’s version of a constitution. Not only are many Israelis, and especially Arabs, fearful that their status will be downgraded, others
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Middle East, Steve KramerTEL AVIV (Press Release) — “Memetics,” or the study of memes, is a very popular discipline among cultural researchers now, particularly as it concerns new media like viral videos. But no one seems to know what a meme really is. Originally coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, the “meme” transfers cultural information much the way that
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