NEW YORK – In 1920, President William Howard Taft said, “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.” Nearly a century later this noxious weed not only remains, it’s on the upswing worldwide, from the Middle East to Europe to US college campuses. This compelled Abraham Foxman, […]
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Police in Orlando, Florida are conducting a massive search with helicopters and search dogs to try and locate two Jewish high school girls from Miami, who disappeared on Saturday afternoon. Rivka Moshe and Bracha Katz, both 16-year-old students at the Lubavitch Educational Center’s Beis Chana High School in Miami, were taking part in a school
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USATed Cruz is making a play for Jewish Republicans, hoping to pick up support from donors and bundlers disaffected by Donald Trump”s statements on Israel and support from white supremacists like David Duke. On Saturday the Texas Senator spoke at the annual meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas. Cruz warned listeners that
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USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — There’re racists in Israel, but Israel isn’t a racist country; we pray that it’ll never become one. Instances of racist manifestations are many, but mercifully the authorities are doing much to deal with them seemingly forcefully and hopefully fairly. The future of Zionism rests on their success. Two of
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Middle EastBy Edwin Black JERUSALEM — For a hard-core segment of travelers to Jerusalem, when the sun sets at the Sabbath, the magic in the air is not just the serene image of a peaceful dusk in an enchanted land. It is the empowering knowledge that the sun still shines on a Jewish State surrounded by
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The Spy Who Fell To Earth: My Relationship with the Secret Agent Who Rocked the Middle East by Ahron Bregman; CreateSpace; © 2016; ISBN 13: 9781523339970; 120 pages including appendices. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Having read the San Diego Jewish World article by Joe Spier about the master spy Ashraf Marwan, historian Ahron
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — It was very gratifying to hear two of our grandsons (aged 22 and 18) express a desire to be taken on a tour of the exhibition entitled ‘By the Rivers of Babylon’ concerning the exile of the Jews of Judea by Nebuchadnezzer II in 586 B.C.E. and currently being held
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish History, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Four issues in current headlines may be causing some Israelis to avoid the news, and embarrassment for our overseas friends, while they are sending other Israelis to various sides of virtual barricades. One is that young soldier who killed a Palestinian in Hebron. Another is the faltering deal to expand
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A letter in which world-celebrated Jewish physicist Albert Einstein criticized insufficient action by the US to halt the actions of Nazi Germany will go under the hammer on April 18. In the September 3, 1942, letter, Einstein shared his concerns over US policy with his colleague Princeton University President Dr. Frank Kingdon, and used particularly
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International, Jewish History, USATurkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday said “progress” had been made in the reconciliation talks with Israel and maintained that a deal to restore diplomatic relations between the two countries would be finalized “very soon.” Turkey and Israel held a fresh round of talks Thursday in London in an effort to normalize ties after
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After Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu relented on Thursday to their protest by agreeing to have 1,300 Ethiopian Jews brought home to Israel this year, Likud MKs Avraham Neguise and David Amsalem celebrated the approaching aliyah. The two MKs refused to vote with the coalition in protest since early March, when Netanyahu’s office canceled the
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International, Middle EastZionist Union MK under fire for saying Palestinian stabber ‘not a terrorist’ (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Member of Knesset (MK) Zouheir Bahloul (Zionist Union) drew sharp criticism, including from his own party, for saying Thursday that a Palestinian who recently launched a stabbing attack against Israel Defense Forces soldiers in Hebron was “not a
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