Israel”s largest opposition party is negotiating the terms for a possible unity government, a senior Zionist Camp official said on Tuesday. Speaking with Army Radio, Tzipi Livni (Zionist Camp) confirmed that her party was in talks with the Netanyahu government over a possible unity coalition. “I was shown things [brought up] in the talks, [but] […]
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Middle EastIsraeli President Reuven Rivlin received a standing ovation Tuesday during a unique meeting of French politicians, Jewish leaders and Jewish, Muslim and Christian youth. President Rivlin hosted the delegation today at his residence in Jerusalem, which comprised of French regional, parliamentary, and Jewish community leaders organized by CRIF, the umbrella body of the Jewish community
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International, Middle EastAn anti-Semitism watchdog warned on Monday about a “worrisome trend” of anti-Semitic incidents at schools in the Netherlands despite an overall drop of incidents on the country’s streets. The Center for Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI) reported that there were 16 incidents of anti-Semitism in Dutch schools in 2015, the highest recorded number in
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK– The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has rarely been so far from finding a resolution. Since the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hamas during the summer of 2014, the desire to seek peace has been diminishing, and instead growing tensions have prevailed, punctuated by stabbings and car-ramming attacks by the Palestinians, and
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle EastIslamic State attack on synagogue foiled in Tunisia (JNS.org) A Tunisian newspaper has revealed that the Islamic State plotted to attack a synagogue in the country, but the plan was foiled. The local Al Chourouk newspaper reported on Monday that the terror group meant to target a synagogue in the coastal town of El Marsa,
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Among the flaps centered on this noisy little place is Prime Minister Netanyahu’s meeting with government ministers on the Golan Heights, and his declaration that the area would be Israeli for time eternal. A number of senior officials from ostensibly friendly governments expressed their reservations, and the UN Security Council
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BOSTON — When teacher Mary Beth Donovan prepared her students to read Anne Frank’s diary 10 years ago, she screened a selection of the famous newsreel clips shot during the liberation of Nazi camps in 1945. Astoundingly, after watching the films, some of Donovan’s students began referring to the genocide and Anne Frank as “fake”
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USAMinister Tzipi Livni says Israeli-Palestinian conflict ‘is managing us’ Tzipi Livni, in her talk in Princeton, said the price of not having an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians is greater than the price of having one. Tzipi Livni, coleader of Israel’s Zionist Union party, explained to a Princeton audience of 200 on April 18
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Middle EastA proposal by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) to apply Israeli law on citizens living in Judea and Samaria appears to be gaining momentum. If passed, the “Norms bill” would place Israeli citizens living beyond the Green Line under Israeli law, ending the army”s authority over citizens residing in the area. Currently, Israelis living
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Middle EastStudents injected Holocaust imagery into drinking contest A student pours beer into a cup before a game of “Holocaust Pong.” Photo courtesy Jamaica Ponder The Jewish Federation of Princeton Mercer Bucks and the Board of Rabbis of Princeton Mercer Bucks issued a joint statement condemning an underage drinking game of beer pong that took an
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Britain”s Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Sunday night rejected calls from Jewish leaders to denounce the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations, vowing to continue talking to them, reports The Telegraph. “Jeremy Corbyn has been a longstanding supporter of Palestinian rights and the pursuit of peace and justice in the Middle East through dialogue and negotiation,”
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International, Middle EastThe U.K.’s Labour Party is on course to lose 175 council seats in Thursday’s elections, a setback that would amount to the party’s worst local election performance for 35 years. A new projection, conducted for the Guardian newspaper, shows that while Labour is set to suffer catastrophic losses, the ruling Conservative Party could gain 30
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InternationalMIAMI — A Hollywood, Fla., man accused of trying to blow up an Aventura synagogue stood in Miami federal court on Monday and gave the judge two names — one real, the other an alias. “My name is James Medina, also known as ‘James Muhammad,’” Medina told Magistrate Judge William Turnoff. James G. Medina,
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USAIsrael’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, and Palau: WASHINGTON, May 2, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In an unprecedented global call to action, more than 50 countries have agreed to co-sponsor one or more of the proposals to nominate all species of thresher shark, the silky shark, and all species of mobula ray
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