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Ex-IDF general to boost security at Cannes film fest

May 10, 2016

France is gearing up security for the Cannes film festival set to kick off this week with bomb sweeps, hundreds of extra police and the help of a former Israeli general, as the country faces its highest-ever terror threat. The 69th Cannes Film Festival comes six months after Islamic State jihadists launched coordinated attacks in […]

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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Two elderly women hurt in Jerusalem stabbing attack

May 10, 2016

Two elderly women were stabbed and moderately injured in a suspected terror attack at the Armon Hanatziv promenade in southern Jerusalem, police said Tuesday morning. Both women were rushed to a local hospital in moderate condition, the Magen David Adom rescue service said. An MDA spokesperson said the two were in their 80s,…

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Middle East

Kerry ambiguous on Paris peace talks

May 10, 2016

US Secretary of State John Kerry waffled over whether the US would attend a conference May 30 in Paris to force talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) Monday, shortly before a meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. “Well, it depends on timing and when we do it,” he began. “We”re going to

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International, Middle East, USA

Israel may revoke BDS leader’s residency permit

May 10, 2016

One of the most prominent leaders of the so-called Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) against Israel – who ironically has been studying at Tel Aviv University for the past several years – has been denied travel documents by the Israeli interior ministry. Palestinian Arab Omar Barghouti was informed last month that the interior ministry

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Extended talks seem on fate of asylum seekers

May 10, 2016

Stories about Israel’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau The fate of nearly 900 men held in an Australian detention center in Papua New Guinea is unlikely to be determined for several months, Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said on Monday. That timetable could put the politically sensitive decision beyond a

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International

Vermont Jews rescue ‘Lost Shul Mural’

May 10, 2016

Over 20 feet wide, the mural hanging from the ceiling of Burlington, Vermont’s Ohavi Zedek Synagogue is a survivor in multiple senses. Painted by a Lithuanian immigrant in 1910, it is a rare example of the wall paintings that once adorned the wooden synagogues of Eastern Europe that were destroyed in the Holocaust. “There is

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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USA

Scottish man arrested for teaching dog a Nazi salute

May 10, 2016

A Scottish man was arrested after a video of him teaching his dog to make a Nazi salute and respond to the phrase “gas the Jews” sparked outrage among Jewish groups. Markus Meechan, 28, was detained on suspicion of committing a hate crime and spent a night in jail, the Daily Mail said Monday. The

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International, Jewish History

2 Israelis arrested for attack on Arab bus driver

May 10, 2016

Two Jewish residents of Jerusalem, one of them a minor, were arrested Sunday on suspicion of assaulting a bus driver for being Arab. The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court extended their detention in police custody until Wednesday, Haaretz reported Monday. Only the adult suspect, Reuven Yosef Horowitz, 20, was named in the report. The suspects boarded on

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Middle East

London Mayor targeted by anti-Semitism

May 10, 2016

The decision by London new Muslim Mayor Sadiq Khan, to attend a Holocaust commemoration event as his first public engagement was met with anger by some Twitter users, who responded with virulently anti-Israel comments and even Holocaust denial, Haaretz reported Monday. After the event, Khan tweeted, “So important to reflect, remember and educate about the

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International, Jewish History

Kurds urge Jews to return to Iraq

May 10, 2016

Looking to distinguish itself from the rest of Iraq and deepen ties with the Kurdish diaspora, the autonomous region of Kurdistan is courting religious minorities, including Jews. Some 300,000 Jews are descended from refugees who fled the region after the establishment of Israel in 1948. Today, most of them live in Israel, though a small

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Jewish History, Middle East

AJC welcomes Clinton’s BDS stand; visits Poland

May 10, 2016

By Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) welcomed a detailed reaffirmation by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton of her opposition to BDS, the boycott, sanctions and divestment movement that has targeted Israel. “I believe that BDS seeks to punish Israel and dictate how the Israelis and Palestinians should resolve the core issues

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International, Middle East, USA

Middle East Roundup: May 10, 2016

May 10, 2016

Netanyahu and deputy IDF chief reconcile after divisive Holocaust remarks (JNS.org) Less than a week after Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Yair Golan made controversial remarks in a Holocaust Remembrance Day speech that drew a rebuke from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the two shook hands on Monday during a

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Middle East

Hope and fear on Israel’s 68th birthday

May 10, 2016

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — On the eve of Israel’s Independence Day I remind myself again that had there been no Israel, the Jewish people would by now been on its way to becoming like the Amish and Judaism would have been reduced to a museum item. But I’m painfully aware that independence came

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Middle East

Where Anne Frank’s ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’ Will Go

May 9, 2016

A copy of Grimm’s Fairy Tales once owned by Anne and Margot Frank, their names inscribed atop the title page, sold at auction Thursday for $62,500 (including the buyer’s premium). The New York City–based Swann Auction Galleries said that “the sale represents the first major offering of Anne Frank material at auction in over two

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History

Ex-IDF general to boost security at Cannes film fest

Two elderly women hurt in Jerusalem stabbing attack

Kerry ambiguous on Paris peace talks

Israel may revoke BDS leader’s residency permit

Extended talks seem on fate of asylum seekers

Vermont Jews rescue ‘Lost Shul Mural’

Scottish man arrested for teaching dog a Nazi salute

2 Israelis arrested for attack on Arab bus driver

London Mayor targeted by anti-Semitism

Kurds urge Jews to return to Iraq

AJC welcomes Clinton’s BDS stand; visits Poland

Middle East Roundup: May 10, 2016

Hope and fear on Israel’s 68th birthday

Where Anne Frank’s ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’ Will Go

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