By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — Under the title “Why does the Chinese Government abuse many of his citizens?” Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, one of Israel’s leading rabbis, attacked on his website the Chinese Government for its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Rabbi Aviner writes that he believes that even though this persecution is carried […]
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International, Middle East
By Josh Hasten/JNS.org PARIS — Against the backdrop of studies revealing rising anti-Semitism both in France and across all of Europe, as well as one particularly brutal attack in Paris last month, French Jews are flocking to Israel. On March 30, the Jewish Agency for Israel released figures showing that aliyah from France increased dramatically
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International, Middle East
By Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week WASHINGTON, D.C. — With only weeks left before the planned April 29 deadline to reach an agreement in the U.S. brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, the Obama administration has been working overtime to salvage talks that unraveled early last week. Despite the effort, experts are bearish on whether any progress can be
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Middle East
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — Tawfik Hamid, Ph.D., is a unique and solitary voice in the Islamic world. A self-described former terrorist, he was a member of the militant al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya with Dr. Ayman Al-Zawaherri who later on became the second in command of Al-Qaeda and now heads it. He stresses he has never actually committed an
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Whenever there is a hiccup in the peace process, or signs of real crises between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli and international left trot out the one-state solution. Their message is that Israel will be stuck with one state between the Jordan and the Sea that will include both Israelis
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
JERUSALEM (TNA) – The Jewish Agency for Israel is hosting this week a special Passover camp experience for some 100 children from southern Israel whose lives have been affected by rocket fire from Gaza and by other terror attacks. The program is run by The Jewish Agency’s Fund for Victims of Terror and funded by contributions
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Middle East
ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey — There are action heroes, superheroes, and everyday heroes. Then there are those, like Eli Beer, founder and head of United Hatzalah of Israel, who seem to embody a little of all three. Beer, 40, traveled from Israel at the end of March to visit Bergen County as part of an ongoing
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Lloyd Levy LONDON–The dire state of the Kerry Peace effort was just so predictable. How did he have the arrogance and vanity to think that he can solve a problem that has eluded the whole world for over 100 years? The “process” became the objective, and not the real needs of both sides. One
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Lloyd Levy, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — A few days ago, something of a deal was in the offing. It would allow for the continuation of peace talks (not peace itself, alas) between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and include the release of more prisoners convicted of terrorism in Israel, and perhaps even Jonathan Pollard after 29
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– John Kerry’s peace process is dying. Or it was born dead, despite having parents who praised its prospects. The fault is not Israel’s, nor Palestine’s, but John Kerry’s. Or maybe Barack Obama’s, due to his appointing a visionary for a job that is supposed to be serious. Kerry’s various ideas join
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
By Hen Mazzig/JNS.org On March 31, I attended a disturbing lecture at Washington University in St. Louis. It was co-sponsored by St. Louis Hillel at Washington University and J Street U. The speaker, a former Israeli soldier with the group “Breaking the Silence” (BtS), misrepresented and demonized the Israel Defense Forces, Israel, and Israeli policy. BtS is known
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort CARLSBAD, California — Despite months of relentless and very public diplomacy it looks as though John Kerry is withdrawing from the negotiations (I refuse to call it a “Peace Process”) failing to have achieved an agreement between Israel and the Arabs living in Judea and Samaria (I refuse to call them
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Middle East, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi
NEW YORK (Press Release)–Robert G. Sugarman, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations denounced the appointment of Hamid Aboutalebi as Iran’s new Ambassador to the United Nations. He is widely known to have been involved in the siege of the American embassy in Tehran in 1979
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Middle East, USA
By Morton A. Klein NEW YORK, — Last week, potential presidential candidate, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, spoke to hundreds of Jews at the Republican Jewish Coalition meeting in Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Palazzo hotel. Christie didn’t mention Israel in his prepared remarks but during the Q &A, he inaccurately referred to Judea and Samaria as
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Middle East, USA