Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday revealed he is considering his former rival in the Republican presidential race Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) as his running mate, a day after Rubio gave him an unofficial endorsement. In a CNN town hall meeting on Wednesday, Cruz said that while frontrunner Donald Trump may be leading in the […]
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USAFormer Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (Zionist Camp) offered a novel justification for the two-state solution Wednesday night, suggesting that the frighteningly high levels of anti-Semitism among Palestinian Authority Arabs validated her support for a Palestinian state. Livni”s comments came during a town hall meeting in Boston on Wednesday night. The event, which drew some 1,000
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Middle EastUkraine”s parliament Thursday confirmed the appointment of Volodymr Groysman as premier in a 257 to 50 vote replacing Arseniy Yatsenyuk. The 38-year-old lawyer by training has gone from a small city mayor to Ukraine’s premier over a remarkable two-year span, during which he formed a close relationship with President Petro Poroshenko. Groysman is son of
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InternationalThe Brussels Jewish community’s Passover celebrations will go on as usual this year but with a few additional guests — namely security guards, police officers and heavily armed soldiers. Security measures at Jewish sites in the country will be heightened during the Passover holiday in light of lingering security concerns following last month’s terror attacks
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The islands of Tiran and Sanafir are two tiny specks of land located at the entrance of the Gulf of Aqaba. “These are very small, entirely uninhabited pieces of land. There’s absolutely nothing there,” Yitzhak Levanon, a former Israeli ambassador to Egypt, said Wednesday in Jerusalem. And yet, the islands continue to make…
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Israel has appointed the first ever Arab police officer to the rank of deputy commissioner, the force’s second-highest rank. Jamal Hakrush, a Muslim from the village of Kafr Kanna in Galilee, Israel, was formally appointed to the position in a ceremony on Wednesday attended by Israeli Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich, the Times of Israel reported.
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Middle EastA popular Norwegian rap duo was accused of mainstreaming anti-Semitism by using “Jew” and Ariel Sharon as insults in its latest single. Karpe Diem, which has sold hundreds of thousands of CDs in Norway since its creation in 2000, released “Attitude Problems” last week, the online edition of the Verdens Gang daily reported Wednesday. “I
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsSen. Bernie Sanders has gone further than any other Jewish candidate in a presidential campaign, but he’s not garnering much support from Jewish voters, polls indicate. The Vermont senator’s standing among Jews has been much speculated about since his campaign started to take off late last year. But until recently, the Democratic campaign has taken
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USA
By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org HOUSTON–Alan Gross used to be nothing more to me than a tragic headline. When I started my position at this news service in July 2011, Gross had been imprisoned in Cuba since December 2009 for what that country called “crimes against the state.” Gross, a subcontractor for the United States Agency
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International, Jacob KamarasBy Daniel Sokatch NEW YORK — We live in a time when the debate over Israel’s direction, both on the ground and here in the diaspora, leads to overheated rhetoric and outrageous behavior. Sadly, we often see the discussion turn to spurious and baseless attacks on NIF, our organizations, and indeed virtually anyone who dares to
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Middle East, USAIsraeli Jordan Valley farmers to EU leaders: we will not label products (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli Jordan Valley farmers told European parliamentarians on Wednesday that they would not label their products as coming from the occupied territories, despite European Union guidelines that may require them to do so. A conference held Wednesday in
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-52nd in a Series – Exit 19, Second Street, El Cajon ~ Jack in the Box By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – There are numerous Jack in the Box restaurants, and nothing other than convenience made me pick the one at 495 N. Second Street over any of the others to tell the story
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Israel’s former consul for media affairs in New York City, Shahar Azani, is now the director for the northeastern United States for StandWithUs, meaning his responsibility is to bring a proactive, pro-Israel message to the colleges and high schools of New York, New Jersey, and the New England
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAIsraeli achievements you cannot Pass Over By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — The Hebrew nation has come a long way since escaping Egyptian slavery. Today’s oppression comes from those, such as in the BDS movement, who are still in “de-Nile” about this amazing people. Here are some phenomenal examples from the last two weeks, that
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