By Robert Slater with Wesley G. Pippert Moment Magazine By now, most Americans have heard of Sheldon Adelson’s 2012 ambitions to sway the American electorate and his current efforts to influence the selection of the 2016 Republican presidential candidate. Much less is known about the Las Vegas casino magnate’s growing influence in Israel. There, the […]
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JERUSALEM (WJC) — Israel has joined the international bid to find the 223 schoolgirls abducted by a group of Islamist terrorists in Nigeria four weeks ago. “Israel expresses deep shock at the crime against the girls,” Benjamin Netanyahu’s office quoted the Israeli prime minister as telling Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in a telephone conversation. “We
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International, Middle EastBy Ronn Torossian NEW YORK–The new book by Hillel Halkin, Jabotinsky: A Life (Yale University Press) was unlike any other book I had ever consumed about a man I consider to be a personal hero, Ze’ev Jabotinsky. Jabotinsky helped shape my life, my Judaism – even though I was born 34 years after his death. Growing up
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Editor’s Note: Lag B’Omer begins at sundown Saturday, May 17 and ends at sundown Sunday, May 18 By Deborah Fineblum/JNS.org One of Pnina Newirth’s earliest childhood memories is of a trip to Mount Meron, Israel, on Lag B’Omer. But this was no ordinary family vacation. “I was very small, yet I vividly recall the
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Travel and FoodBy Alan Elsner WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Secretary of State Kerry and his team take a pause in the current round of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, there is an opportunity to take stock and ask some tough questions. Among them: why have the talks not succeeded? What might happen next? And what should J Street be doing
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Middle East, USABy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM– In a vote of 7 for and 3 against, the Government on Sunday, May 11, recommended to the full Knesset a law that will limit Israel’s ability to release convicted terrorists, even as part of future negotiations. The proposed law, submitted by MK Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi), states that a court that sentences a
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Middle EastBy Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn PHILADELPHIA –To judge by the account in the Washington Post, the recent statement about the Holocaust by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas was a game-changing reversal of Abbas’s previous Holocaust-denial. In an “unusual step,” the Post asserted, Abbas released “a strongly-worded statement” in which he “denounced” the Holocaust as
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Jewish History, Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)–Two Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers were appointed to the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), which will raise international awareness about the prevention and treatment of drug and substance addiction. Prof. Richard Isralowitz, director of BGU’s Regional Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research (RADAR) Center, and Dr.
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We have returned from eight days in Northern Italy to the Middle East, where my residence is approaching 40 years. I’ve taken advantage of Israel’s location and airline connections over the years to all the countries of Western Europe except for Luxembourg and the even tinier ones, most of them
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NEW YORK (Press Release) – More than 100 prominent Orthodox rabbis, including the Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel, Ha Rav Dovid Lau, have signed a petition urging action against the ongoing Arab attacks on the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem. “The continuing Arab desecration of the Mount of Olives cemetery must no longer
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Dozens of Congressmen, Senators and Jewish community leaders gathered on Wednesday, May 7, to celebrate the Jewish American Heritage Month in the ornate LBJ Room of the US Capitol. The annual event, organized by The Friedlander group, highlighted the work of 5 individuals who were chosen as honorees for their
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Vandals have defaced a church in Jerusalem just a few weeks before Pope Francis visits the Holy Land. Israel Police Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said anti-Christian graffiti had been discovered on the outside wall of the church on Friday morning. The graffiti read “Price tag, King David is for the Jews, Jesus is garbage.” In addition,
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By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) – Hundreds of Jewish World War II veterans of the Allied armies, the majority from the Former Soviet Union, attended the official Yad Vashem ceremony Thursday, May 8, marking the 69th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. The ceremony took place at Yad Vashem’s Monument to the
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Editor’s Note: Ambassador Martin Indyk, special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiatons, addressed the Washington Institute’s Weinberg Connferece in Washington D.C. The U.S. State Department provided the following transcript of his remarks. By Martin Indyk Last July, President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry launched a vigorous effort to reach a final status agreement between Israelis
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