By Anav Silverman TEL AVIV (TNA) –Two special flights arrived at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport, filled with 430 French Jewish immigrants leaving Paris and its suburbs on Wednesday, July 16. The flights, organized by the Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, had mostly families, including 195 children and 18 […]
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(JNS.org) Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency services organization on July 15 offered to collect blood that would be sent to Gaza via the Palestinian Authority (PA). In response, the PA told the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which often acts as a conduit during times of crisis, “that it has all the blood
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Middle EastPalestinians continue to receive medical care in Israel (JNS.org) Even as Gaza-based terrorists continue to fire rockets at Israel, Palestinian children are receiving medical care at the Edith Wolfson Medical Center in the central Israeli city of Holon. On Tuesday, as on every Tuesday for the past 18 years, children from Gaza and the West
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International, Middle East, USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — A misleading article in the The New York Times on July 13 spurred me to report about Israel’s latest mini-war in Gaza. I’ve hesitated writing because Michal and I have fortunately been spared being under threat of a missile, or even hearing a siren from a nearby town,
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By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – Dror Hanin, 37, a father of three, the first Israeli casualty of Operation ‘Protective Edge’, was killed Tuesday, July 15, by Hamas mortar fire as he was on another volunteer mission to bring food to soldiers on the Gazan border. He had organized food packages and small gifts for
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Have you ever wonder what the Palestinian notion of a “cease fire” is? The answer is simple: Israel “ceases,” while the Palestinians fires. Only the mind of a Kafka could dream up of a scenario where illusion and delusion are the only realities that Israel faces.
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle EastBy Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org HERZLIYA, Israel (Press Release) — Australia’s Sydney Harbor is up in flames. Large letters superimposed on the scene ask, “How would they react?” That image and many others like it have been distributed by an Israeli student initiative called “Israel Under Fire,”which now boasts more than 57,000 followers on its Facebook
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International, Middle EastIraqi Christian Bishops: We are in the process of disappearing (JNS.org) Despite finding temporary refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan in the wake of the invasion by jihadists from the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), Iraq’s top Christian leaders believe that the community is in the process of disappearing. “We are in the process
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International, Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) responded to the release Wednesday July 15, of a Pew Research Center poll on the partisan gap in Israel-Palestinian sympathies. The Pew poll found that among conservative and moderate Republicans, sympathy for Israel was at 77% and 64%. Among moderate and liberal Democrats, that sympathy was at
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– In response to recent anti-Semitic episodes in Los Angeles and Paris, as well as incidents across the United States and Europe, Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, has issued the following statement: “We are deeply disturbed by the recent violent anti-Semitic and anti-Israel uprisings. Over
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–We went to bed with the rain of missiles from Gaza and the operation of the IDF in full tilt. We woke to a media blitz focused on a cease fire-then-negotiations proposed by Egypt. Hamas initially rejected the idea, but observers should view any of its statements with considerable salt. Israel’s right
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NEW YORK (WJC)–The World Jewish Congress (WJC) on Monday expressed its grave concern about the wave of anti-Semitic attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions worldwide in the wake of the conflict in Gaza. “Such attacks are intolerable, and the authorities must do everything they can to guard Jews and Jewish institution from this wanton violence,”
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JERUSALEM (TNA)–An Egyptian-brokered cease fire was accepted by Israel and rejected by Hamas, which continued firing rockets at Israeli civilian targets on Tuesday, July 15. After waiting several hours fruitlessly for the cease fire to take hold, with warning sirens going off 58 times, the Israel Air Force resumed attacking terror targets in Gaza. All
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Nothing awakens Jews like a little bit of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semites have a unique way of reminding us why we are special as a people. Whenever I speak to my Bar/Bat Mitzvah students, I like to tell them that, “If we stood for nothing, the rest of
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East