As Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas held diplomatic visits abroad this week, high-ranking officials in his Fatah party continued to jostle over his succession. Everyone is hoping for the job of president, as evidenced by the Ma’an news agency’s hit reality show, in which young people compete to see who can be the next Palestinian […]
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Middle EastBERLIN (AFP) — Is it possible to regret becoming a mother? The question first posed by an Israeli researcher has stirred a debate in Germany like in no other country, shattering a long-held taboo. “In Israel, it was settled in a week. In Germany, it has lasted for months,” said sociologist Orna Donath, whose study
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationUN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is set to arrive in Israel on Monday for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, amid a push for peace promoted by the European Union and a Turkey-Israel reconciliation deal. The UN chief will meet on Monday with President Reuven Rivlin for talks and will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin
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International, Middle EastWASHINGTON — Britain’s vote to leave the European Union is a headwind for the U.S. economy but should not trigger another financial crisis, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said Monday. “The U.S. economy is doing pretty well. It’s performing in a stable, steady way even though there have been substantial headwinds,” Lew told CNBC before
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, in a victory for abortion-rights advocates, has limited the power of Texas and other states to restrict or effectively shut down clinics that offer the procedure. The justices, by a 5-3 vote, said Monday that Texas lawmakers went too far by imposing unnecessary regulations that had forced most of the
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RABAT, Morocco Press Release) – In an unprecedented partnership to build bridges among the three major monotheistic religions, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship) teamed with Chabad in Morocco and the local organization Mimouna to provide gift bags of food for thousands of needy Moroccan Muslim families in three cities for Ramadan. The
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) expressed disappointment at a number of problematic Israel-focused motions endorsed last week by the Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly, including a report calling on the church to explore alternatives to the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and an overture advocating the church study the use
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Middle East, USAWhile you were obsessively reading Brexit coverage and watching “Game of Thrones” this weekend, Bernie Sanders’ campaign took another hit. Symone Sanders, formerly the Vermont senator’s national press secretary, told Fusion exclusively Sunday she’d left his presidential campaign of her own volition. “I just believe my time with the campaign has come to an end,”
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USAThe president of Ben-Gurion University recently cancelled a decision to award a prize to an Israeli NGO that tracks alleged abuses of Palestinians by IDF soldiers, arguing the group is too far our of the national consensus. The Breaking the Silence organization was chosen in May by the Middle East Studies faculty of the university
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationIn a startling form of recompense, University of York presented Zachary Confino with £1000, and an apology note from the student union, after turning a deaf ear to his complaints of anti-Semitic abuse for two years. Confino, 21, a law student and former treasurer of the student union, suffered bullying for being Jewish. Confino reports
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationA possible Hillary Clinton administration would likely see any tensions between Jerusalem and Israel kept out of the limelight, Dennis Ross, a former US diplomat and top Middle East adviser to several US presidents, said Sunday in Jerusalem. Clinton, the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee for the November elections, can be expected to act more
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Middle East, USAClashes erupted on the Temple Mount Monday morning, after Islamists attempted to violently prevent Jews from visiting. Dozens of Muslim extremists – many of them masked – had barricaded themselves in the Al Aqsa Mosque since last night, and had actively stockpiled rocks and other projectiles for use against security forces and Jewish visitors. They
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Middle EastThe Jewish community in Hevron is demanding that action be taken following recent Arab vandalism and theft at the Cave of the Patriarchs compound. On Friday night, Arabs stole the mezuzah from the front door of the Cave of the Patriarchs, and also broke into a nearby storage room and stole thousands of shekels worth
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastKANSAS CITY, Kansas (JNS.org) — A man from Kansas City has been charged with threatening a Jewish congregation in the city of Overland Park. Forty-year-old Brian Wachter, who was arrested June 22, appeared before judges in a county court via video on a charge of making a criminal threat against the Jewish congregation of Beth Shalom.
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