Editor’s Note: The Vatican Information Service (VIS) has been providing step-by-step coverage of Pope Francis’s visit to Israel on Sunday, May 25, and Monday, May 26. Following is Part 2 of the VIS coverage: Meeting With Grand Mufti Meeting on Monday morning with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Muhammed Hussein, Pope Francis pointed to the […]
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Editor’s Note: The Vatican Information Service has been providing step-by-step coverage of Pope Francis’s visit to Israel. We are reprinting the dispatches in the interest of history. TEL AVIV (VIS) — Pope Francis on Sunday strongly condemned the shooting attack at a Jewish Museum in Brussels in his arrival address at Tel Aviv airport. Saturday’s
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Middle East, Travel and FoodEditor’s Note: The Vatican Information Service provides running coverage of the Pope’s visit to the Holy Land. In the interest of historians, we have strung together the dispatches from the Palestine Authority, and will do likewise, for the dispatches from Israel proper. BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Authority (VIS) — At 7.30 Sunday morning, May 25, the Pope
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Living Beyond Terrorism: Israeli Stories of Hope and Healing by Dr. Zieva Konvisser, Gefen Publishing House (April 2014), 356 pages. By Ruthan Brodsky/JNS.org For Dr. Zieva Konvisser of Orchard Lake, Mich., an interest in Israeli survivors of terrorism began years ago when she heard the stories of the few members of her family from Vilna,
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationJERUSALEM (Press Release)–President Shimon Peres, on Sunday morning, May 25, spoke with Maurice Sosnowski, President of the Coordinating Committee of Belgian Jewish Organizations, and expressed his condolences to the community: “We are with you in this difficult time. We share your sense of shock and profound sadness. If there is anything that we can do,
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By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) — Following the deadly shooting attack at the Jewish museum in Brussels that killed a Tel Aviv couple and a museum volunteer and employee on Saturday, Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday afternoon. The Belgian Prime Minister phoned to update Netanyahu
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By Ben Cohen/JNS.org WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) is one of the more august grant-making institutions in the United States. Founded in 1940 by the sons of legendary oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller—America’s first billionaire, and a man whose political reputation was distinguished by his support for the Union during the Civil War
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Middle East, USABy Einat Wilf WASHINGTON, D.C. –As Pope Francis sets off for his visit to Israel, Jordan and Palestine, his aims are clearly humanitarian, but he risks falling into the pitfalls of the political. According to the Pope’s itinerary, after Jordan, and before Israel, he will be visiting the “State of Palestine.” He will be meeting
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Jews are primed to worry. The reasons are good. Central to the faith is the notion of being a Chosen People. That self-ascribed status has not generated a great number of Likes on the historical Facebook, yet it has helped us survive, more intact culturally than many others. We’ve suffered along the
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Speakers from both parties and from both houses of Congress addressed a luncheon of the Zionist Organization of America on its recent day for lobbying on Capitol Hill. Here, provided by the ZOA, are some highlights of their comments: Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee:
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TEL AVIV (Press Release) — At a ceremony at Ben Gurion International Airport, the President and CEO of EL AL Israel Airlines, David Maimon, and the Ambassador of the Vatican in Israel, Nuncio H.E. Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto, proudly affixed Pope Francis’ logo onto the EL AL aircraft in which Pope Francis will fly home to
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International, Middle East, Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer called on U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman on Thursday, May 22, to file suit against China at the World Trade Organization in response to Chinese cyber-attacks on American businesses. Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted five members of the Chinese People’s Liberation
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)- Hundreds of activists from 23 states across the country, from California to Ohio, to New York, Pennsylvania and Florida, participated in the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)’s Annual Advocacy Mission to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, May 21. Meeting with almost 100 Members of Congress or their legislative staffers, ZOA activists urged
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TEL AVIV (Press Release) — At a sweeping building site on the university’s award-winning campus, the cornerstone for the new Lorry I. Lokey Graduate Center at The Tel Aviv University Business School was laid on May 18. Lokey, a noted San Francisco philanthropist and founder of Business Wire, wielded a spade to enthusiastic applause from
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