A small town in Poland is building a wooden synagogue — more than 70 years after the Nazis burned all the country’s wooden Jewish temples to the ground. Thing is, there aren’t any Jews left in the town of Bilgoraj. Even the retired businessman who came up with the idea, 62-year-old Tadeusz Kuźmiński, isn’t Jewish. […]
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JERUSALEM (WJC) –In a speech in Jerusalem before the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR), which operates under the auspices of the World Jewish Congress, Nepalese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kamal Thapa reminded his audience that Nepal and Israel have a long, uninterrupted history of cordial relations dating back to 1960.
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International, Middle East, Travel and Food‘Difficult to overstate’ American Jewry’s importance to Israel, Netanyahu says (JNS.org) It is “difficult to overstate the importance of the American Jewish people to the State of Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday at an event in the Israeli Knesset that honored U.S. Jewry’s 100 years of contributions to Israel. “American Jewry’s contribution
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Middle EastIsrael’s friends in the Western Pacific: Nauru May 24, 2016 (PPI-OT) Following is the text of press note issued by Press Information Department (PID) Quote The visiting Minister for States and Frontier Regions, Lt. General (R) Abdul Qadir Baloch today addressed the High Level Leaders Roundtable convened by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the
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InternationalThe Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, headed by MK Tzachi Hanegbi (Likud), on Wednesday held a hearing on “American Jewry as a strategic asset to Israel’s security”. MK Nachman Shai (Zionist Union), chairman of the Israel-US relations Lobby, opened the hearing. “American Jewry is the bridge which forms the basis for the US-Israel relationship,”
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Middle East, USABernie Sanders has spent this entire election season making a progressive case against Hillary Clinton, and now, the Vermont senator has secured enough momentum to shove the entire Democratic National Convention to the left. The Clinton and Sanders campaigns worked in conjunction with the Democratic Party to strike a deal allowing each candidate to choose
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Middle East, USANetanyahu and Lieberman sign deal to expand Israeli governing coalition (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A deal to bring Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition was signed Wednesday. Lieberman and fellow Yisrael Beiteinu Member of Knesset Sofa Landver are set to be sworn in as government ministers May 30—Lieberman
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By Ken Stone A British newspaper is quoting Orange County activists as predicting violence at Donald Trump’s rally Wednesday in Anaheim — two days before at least six groups protest his visit to San Diego. A Donald Trump pinata greeted Democratic caucus-goers in May. Photo by Chris Stone The Guardian said Tuesday: “Gustavo Arellano, …
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Ken Stone, USAThe fourth member of a group of Islamic State (ISIS) jailors who murdered hostages and were dubbed the “Beatles” by former captives has been identified by The Washington Post and BuzzFeed news. According to stories in the two outlets on Monday, British and American intelligence officials have identified El Shafee Elsheikh, 27, as the final
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International, Middle EastPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu revealed that he has discovered his Lithuanian Jewish ancestry is not fully Ashkenazic, but actually at least partially hails from the Sephardic Jewry of Spain in tracing back through the years of exile from Israel. The surprising revelation was unveiled by the Prime Minister during an event launching a new wing
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Middle EastAn annual pilgrimage to Africa’s oldest synagogue got under way Wednesday in Tunisia where security forces were deployed heavily to ward off potential jihadist attacks. Small groups of visitors began arriving in the searing heat at the Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba in southern Tunisia for the Lag BaOmer festival. Organizers expect up
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Middle EastTel Aviv (dpa) – Hardline former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, who became Israel’s defence minister Wednesday, is known for his harsh tongue, which has secured him the nickname “the bulldozer.” The 57-year-old is known for making what critics call extremist, belligerent and populist statements, but which supporters hail as politically incorrect and iconoclastic, but straight-forward.
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Middle EastFormer British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday that if the Netanyahu government agrees to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority on the basis of the Arab peace initiative, Arab states would be willing to take steps to normalize their relations with Israel, Haaretz reported. Speaking at a conference in London, Blair said that there”s
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International, Middle EastSwitzerland’s parliament has called to stop channeling massive funds to radical NGOs with terror links that work to push forward the BDS boycott movement that economically attacks Israel. The call by the parliament was made in a resolution initiated by MP Christian Imark, and it received backing from 41 MPs of various political stripes, reports
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