Middle East

ADL denounces Turkish governor’s threats against shul

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Sunday, Nov. 23, expressed outrage at a Turkish governor’s threats to turn a century-old synagogue into a museum — as punishment, he says, for Israel’s alleged actions against Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque. Dursun Sahin, governor of the province of Edirne, said he was turning the 107-year old Buyuk […]

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Middle East, USA

Ruins of fortified town of 2100 BCE found near Gaza

By Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Archaeological excavations in Netiv Haasarah have uncovered a Persian era military installation. Netiv Haasarah is a town in the “Gaza envelope” with a population of about 700. The dig, being headed by Dr. Yael Abadi Rice, found a fortified town and a military tower, from approximately 2,100 years ago.

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Key Congress members to Abbas: End incitement

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee and State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee, Congressman Harold Rogers (R-KY), Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, and Kay Granger (R-TX), Chairwoman of the State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee, on Thursday, Nov. 20, wrote Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to urge decisive

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Middle East, USA

WJC: Important to engage with United Nations

EILAT, Israel (WJC) –Robert Singer, chief executive officer of the World Jewish Congress, praised the work of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists in international organizations, in particular the United Nations. Addressing an IAJLJ convention in Eilat, Singer said: “There is a strange tendency – even in the West – to apply different

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International, Middle East

Ashkelon’s Arab workers ban decried by Israeli officials

JERUSALEM (WJC) — Israeli politicians on Thursday, Nov. 20,  lambasted the mayor of the southern city of Ashkelon for ordering a halt of construction on bomb shelters in city kindergartens in order to keep Arab workers off  the sites. Prime Minister Netanyahu and other senior Israeli politicians criticizing Mayor Itamar Shimoni’s announcement on Facebook that

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Middle East

Issue not land, it’s Islamist hatred of Jews

By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Once again, the Obama administration has become disturbed about Jews building homes, neglecting to pressure Palestinian leaders to stop incitement against Jews and terror attacks on Israelis. The offense: permits were approved to construct less than 100 homes in a Jewish area of Jerusalem which happens to be beyond the

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Middle East, Steve Kramer

Symbolic brit milah held day after synagogue massacre

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — It was prayer as usual at the Jerusalem synagogue on Wednesday morning following the devastating Palestinian terror attack that left four rabbis and a Druze policeman dead the previous day.  The morning Shacharit prayer services were full of worshipers and men studying Torah, as security guards and border police milled

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

Haifa scientists seek to PERK up Alzheimer memory

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–In a new study conducted by the Sagol Department of Neurobiology at the University of Haifa and published recently in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers report that they’ve found a way to improve memory by manipulating a specific molecule that is known to function poorly in old age and is closely linked

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education