Martin Luther King III, the son of American civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. and President of the Drum Major Institute, held a special ceremony Sunday to honor Ethiopian-Israeli community activists. King held the event along with Chairman of the Executive of The Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky. Honorees included singer Idan Raichel, […]
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Despite receiving a nationwide drubbing in local elections, the UK Labour Party did claim a major scalp in the UK capital, with Sadiq Khan becoming London’s first-ever Muslim Mayor, ending eight years of Conservative Party control. But while you might expect London’s Jewish community to be worried – and indeed, some Jewish leaders have expressed
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InternationalBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — As I write this the AOL news feed has forty-two items – fourteen of which are about the activities of various “celebrities” – including the clothing they wear (and malfunctions thereof), their romantic/marital escapades, legal and criminal entanglements, as well as their political opinions. Why a “celebrity’s” political opinion is
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAIsrael’s military said Saturday that it has struck two Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire toward the Jewish state, as the worst flare-up of violence since the 2014 war entered a fourth day. The military said sirens wailed in southern Israel early Saturday warning of an incoming rocket. One landed
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Middle EastRepresentatives of the Samarian community of Amona responded on Saturday night to a report in the Haaretz newspaper of a deal to evacuate their homes in exchange for the green-lighting of a new town. According to the Haaretz report, the Defense Ministry and Amana organization – which promotes Jewish settlement of Judea and Samaria –
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Middle EastThe Middle East Quartet, made up of the US, EU, UN, and Russia, is scheduled to release a major policy report later in coming weeks, and senior diplomats involved in its drafting have indicated that the US is taking a far harder line on Israel than in the past. The report, which is likely to
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Middle East, USASadiq Khan was sworn in as London mayor Saturday after being elected the first Muslim leader of a major Western capital. The opposition Labour lawmaker, the son of a Pakistani bus driver who grew up in social housing in the city, broke from convention by taking his oath of office in a multi-faith ceremony at
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InternationalThe community of Amona, home to some 40 families, is scheduled to be demolished later this year. But according to a report by Haaretz, the state is planning to construct a new town nearby roughly three times the size. Amona, which was built on land purchased from Palestinian Authority Arabs, has been deemed illegal by
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After not visiting Israel for nine years, Hany Baransi, the owner of the Nazareth Restaurant and Deli in Columbus, Ohio, needed to be home in Haifa surrounded by family who would understand what he’s been going through lately — terrorism. On February 11, Baransi’s popular restaurant was attacked by a machete-wielding assailant. The attacker, 30-year-old
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Middle East, USAHistory was made in London on Friday as, for the first time, the city elected a Muslim mayor. British media is reporting that Sadiq Khan, a Labour party candidate, has won the election, beating out candidate Zac Goldsmith. “With almost 80% of first-preference votes counted, Sadiq has won without question,” said Peter Kellner, the former
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InternationalVenezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations on Friday compared Israel to the Nazi regime, asking whether the Jewish state planned to “wage a final solution” against the Palestinians. In a speech to an informal meeting of the Security Council at the UN headquarters in New York on “protection” for Palestinian civilians, Rafael Ramirez said: “What
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International, Middle EastA senior United Nations official Saturday brushed aside an invitation from Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to a lecture on Jewish history, in response to a leading UN agency branding Judaism’s holiest site as a Muslim one. Netanyahu said Friday he would host the lecture in response to a recent resolution of the UN’s cultural
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International, Middle EastJewish lawyer David Friedman defended his decision to advise Donald Trump on Israel in a savage op-ed Friday, after fellow Jew Peter Beinart accused him and Trump exploiting Jewish interests for political capital. Beinart leveled the harsh criticism in an op-ed for the left-leaning Israeli paper Haaretz, saying Friedman was lending Trump legitimacy among Jews
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It seems appropriate to call these two contenders for the world’s most powerful office by their first names, Donald and Hillary. Even this far away from their campaigns, where the news is usually about something else, we’ve been listening for more than a year to a great deal of commentary, along
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