JERUSALEM (Press Release) —Thousands of people around the world watched 12Tribes Films CEO Avi Abelow announce the winners of the “Inspired by Israel” video contest at a ceremony held at the Tower of David on Tuesday evening. The contest, in its second year, called for filmmakers of all ages and experience levels to create videos […]
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LOS ANGELES (Press Release) – Ruth Moll was the second of three girls from a middle-class family in Stuttgart, Germany, during the 1930s. Her older sister, Hannah, was the “bossy” one as Ruth, now 89, put it recently, breaking into a wry smile. Her younger sister, Ellen, was “very bright.” And Ruth, in the particular
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International, Jewish History, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The razor-thin victory (51.3% to 48.7%) of Turkey’s President Erdogan in the referendum held on April 16 in fact denies Erdogan the mandate to govern with the sweeping powers the new constitution grants the President, especially when the results of the referendum are seriously contested. Even if there was no
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By Tali Feinberg Reprinted from the Cape Jewish Chronicle CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Every year on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust survivors and Jewish communities sing the song Zog Nit Keynmol (‘We are Still Here’), known as the Partisan Song. However, the Yiddish lyrics and decline of survivors means that the song is being lost to
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International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsIn Search of Israeli Cuisine, a film by Roger Sherman, Menemsha Films, 2016; opening April 21 at Landmark’s Ken Cinema, 4061 Adams Ave, San Diego. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Good reporting can be sabotaged by haphazard editing, and that, sadly, is what happened to this film in which host Michael Solomonov, owner of
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodThe trial of a 17-year-old Danish girl suspected of planning bomb attacks against two schools, including a Jewish school, has begun near Copenhagen, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday. Police arrested the girl, who was 15 at the time, in January of last year. The girl, who was not allowed to be named, has been
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InternationalTMZ Sports reports that former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez had a Bible verse written on his forehead when he was found hanged in his prison cell on Wednesday morning. According to reports from WBZ Boston, officials at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Massachusetts discovered Hernandez with the verse John 3:16 scribbled above
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, cops probe how memes of Hitler, concentration camps appeared on Petah Tikva school’s network By Times of Israel staff Illustrative image of school computers (shironosov /iStock by Getty Images) Police are investigating how Nazi images appeared as screensavers on computers in a school in the central Israel city of Petah
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastSmugglers are forcing unaccompanied child refugees to sell their bodies in exchange for money to aid their traveling through Europe, a new report from Harvard University has claimed. There is a “growing epidemic of sexual exploitation and abuse of migrant children in Greece,” say the report’s co-authors, Dr Vasileia Digidiki and Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, at
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Middle EastIn Pakistan, the lynching of a journalism student by classmates over alleged blasphemy offenses has caused national soul-searching. At the start of this year, Mashal Khan was a 23-year-old with his whole future ahead of him. He was known for having a liberal outlook, including relatively secular views on religion and society. Those views had
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InternationalUniversity of California, Berkeley officials on Wednesday canceled conservative commentator Ann Coulter’s appearance at the university next week, citing safety concerns following several violent clashes between right-wing and left-wing protesters in the famously liberal city. The decision further heightens a free-speech debate roiling campuses in California and across the country after disturbances have interrupted, and
Paris (dpa) – France’s presidential candidates rallied their voters on Wednesday, four days before the first round of elections, with polls showing the outcome still too close to call. Far-right hopeful Marine Le Pen, holding her final campaign rally in Marseille, railed against immigration, vowing that her first move if elected would be to take
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InternationalMIAMI — Guantanamo’s commander has concluded he does not have the authority to allow teams of volunteer cat lovers to scoop up feral cats across the base to neuter and vaccinate them and spare them from extermination. A nonprofit organization called Operation Git-Meow presented the proposal last month to the U.S. Navy base commander, Capt.
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International, The World We Share, USAATLANTA — The nation’s premier 2017 political race entered a bruising new stage Wednesday, as Karen Handel sought to rally skeptical Republicans while Democrats supporting Jon Ossoff prepared for a grueling second round of votes to represent a north Atlanta district in Congress. The two will square off in a June 20 runoff that is
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