By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–The “Meet the Press” program on Israel’s TV Channel Two on Saturday evening reported on a poll it had commissioned to rate members of the government. I’m sure that those who didn’t do well will tell us that we must not rely on polls. Perhaps they’re right. Nevertheless, we may still […]
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Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Let’s get over the fact that there’s a double standard applied to Jews and especially to Israelis. It’s a given, so Israel’s government must come to terms with it and do what Israel needs to do for its security, regardless of the low esteem and condemnations that will follow whenever
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Middle East, Steve KramerBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Jews like to think that we’re smarter than other people. And those of Israel see themselves as shrewder than cousins who have lived for generations in western countries. However, we don’t always get it right, all at once, or at our first try. We’re currently wondering about our new chief
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — So now ‘radical Islamist’ terror has spread to Paris, the center of culture, civilization and enlightenment. Last January Paris was subjected to a similar heinous attack, but that was confined to targets that could be – and were – dismissed or defined as ‘appropriate,’ i.e., the offices of a satirical magazine
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Starting in 1970, West Germany was terrorized by a group named after two of its founders, the Bader Meinhof Gang. It and its offshoots did untold harm with many killings of citizens. It was dissolved only in 1998. Israel is getting its own Bader Meinhof Gang: young ostensibly pious
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Middle EastThousands attend funeral of Mexican-born IDF soldier killed in accident (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Some 2,000 people on Thursday attended the funeral of Mexican-born Israel Defense Forces Capt. Yishai Rosales—killed days earlier in a training exercise at the Tze’elim Base in southern Israel—at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. During the exercise, a
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Middle EastPrime Minister’s Office: Martin Indyk fabricated conversation with Netanyahu (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Former U.S. Middle East envoy Martin Indyk lied twice about a supposed conversation he had with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the funeral of assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, a Prime Minister’s Office official said Wednesday. The spat involving
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Middle EastLet There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World by Seth M. Siegel, St. Martin’s Press, New York; ISBN 978-1-250-07395-2 ©2015, $27.99, p. 252, plus eight color photos, appendices and; an index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. “Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” WINCHESTER,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – U.S. Representatives Nita Lowey (NY-17), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23), Eliot Engel (NY-16), Albio Sires (NJ-8), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Susan Davis (CA-53), and Jerrold Nadler (NY-10) on Wednesday, Jan. 6, sent a letter to President Barack Obama calling for immediate punitive sanctions in response to Iran’s recent violation of international law
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Middle East, USAIDF officer killed in training accident (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) An Israel Defense Forces officer was killed and another soldier was wounded Tuesday in an accident at an IDF training base in southern Israel. Capt. Yishai Rosales, of the IDF’s haredi Netzah Yehuda Battalion, was killed when a mortar shell was accidentally fired in his
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — “The past belongs to us; we don’t belong to the past.” I heard Amos Oz, the great Israeli writer, say this last Tuesday at a launch of a just published book on the relationship between Hebrew and European literature by Menachem Brinker, one of the stars on Israel’s intellectual
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Some years ago, a distinguished American academic, Charles Lindblom, published an article, “The Science of Muddling Through.” A little of this, a little of that, in a context where no one is sure what must be done. Not too much in one direction or another will, at least, limit the
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastIsrael razes 2 terrorists’ homes in eastern Jerusalem (JNS.org) Israeli security forces on Monday razed the homes of two terrorists in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber. The demolition was carried out according to government orders. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said the first home belonged to Bahaa Mohammed Khalil Alian, one of the terrorists
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Middle East, Travel and FoodBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Most people seem to be confused about Islam. Is it “a religion of peace,” or the opposite? Are Muslims who live and die for “jihad” extremists or fundamentalists, or just observant Muslims? To find out, I recently attended a lecture by Mordecai Kedar, under the auspices of “The
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