By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Israel is celebrating its 66th birthday—a young country sprung from a land as old as the Bible and as new as this morning’s Internet edition of The Jerusalem Post. I was born there just a few years after its inception in 1948. My father and mother were there, however, […]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Rep. Mark Meadows (R-North Carolina) has introduced a bill to choke off funds going to the terrorist group Hezbollah. He writes: “The Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act (H.R. 4411) broadens financial sanctions against the group, targets its propaganda television station al-Manar, and urges the president to define Hezbollah as a ‘global
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (D-Virtginia) on Thursday, May 8 released the following statement after meeting with President of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, Ahmad Jarba, and Syrian opposition leaders: “I was pleased to welcome Syrian Coalition President Ahmad Jarba to the U.S. Capitol today, along with a senior
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)—Representative Eliot L. Engel, the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following remarks in support of H.Res. 418, Urging the Government of Burma to end the persecution of the Rohingya people and respect internationally recognized human rights for all ethnic and religious minority groups within Burma: “Thank you, Mr.
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Middle East, USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The White House issued the following statement on Thursday, May 8: “Following productive bilateral meetings with Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Peres and National Security Advisor Yossi Cohen on May 7, National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice and the U.S. delegation participated in the U.S.-Israel Consultative Group meetings in Jerusalem on
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NEW YORK (Press Release) – The Israeli-American Council (IAC), the largest Israeli-American organization in the United States, announced the opening of its newest Regional Office in New York City this week to serve the New York Metropolitan area Israeli-American community. Some 200,000 Israeli-Americans are estimated to live in the area, mostly in or around New
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Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes it is braggadocio. Sometimes it is the last rhetorical shot before making a political change previously thought impossible. But sometimes, just sometimes, it is truth as the teller sees it. Hamas released a video for Israel’s 66th anniversary, entitled “No Hope,” (a play on Israel’s national anthem, Hatikva,
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, addressed the Security Council in New York on Wednesday, May 7, during a special debate on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The debate took place one decade after the UN Security Council passed resolution 1540 to enforce measures against
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International, Middle EastJERUSALEM (Press Release)– Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu will on 19 May 2014 at Tel Aviv University award the Prime Minister’s Prize for Initiatives and Innovation for the fourth time. The Prize was founded by the Prime Minister to award to initiatives and innovation that make a special contribution to society and are of far-reaching socio-economic
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — President Shimon Peres held a diplomatic working meeting on Wednesday, May, with US National Security Advisor Susan Rice at the President’s Residence. They discussed the major issues on the agenda today including the diplomatic situation between Israel and the Palestinians, the Iranian negotiations and the strategic relations between Israel and the
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Middle East, USA
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Nine women have completed the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s exams to become kashrut inspectors, the newspaper ‘Haaretz‘ reports. The country’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau approved the move over the objections of some council members. Emunah, the Orthodox women’s movement, battled to end the ban on women, and called the move “an achievement of historic significance.” The rabbinate said
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastVATICAN CITY (WJC) — A rabbi and a sheikh from his native Argentina will be accompanying Pope Francis on his pilgrimage to Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories later this month. Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Omar Abboud, who are friends of Francis from his time as archbishop of Buenos Aires, will both join the papal delegation on 24-26
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International, Middle EastISTANBUL, Turkey (eturbonews) — According to a May report released by the Mediterranean Touristic Hoteliers and Proprietors Association, the number of the visitors coming to Antalya in the first quarter of the year was 1.32 million, an increase of 5.1 percent compared with the same period of the previous year. Antalya hosted 1.25 million tourists
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Middle East, Travel and Food
JERUSALEM (Press Release)– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Wednesday, May 7, in Jerusalem with prominent Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) supporters from the United States and Panama. During the meeting with the FIDF Delegation, Netanyahu addressed the threat of a nuclear Iran and the Palestinian issue. “Iran seeks to destroy the State
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