Former Israel President Moshe Katsav is paying the price for refusing to express regret about his crimes. The Prison Release Committee attached to the Israel Prison Service today decided that instead of early release, Katsav would serve his full seven-year sentence for two counts of rape and other crimes. Four years and 120 days after […]
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Middle EastThe New York Observer said its editor would no longer consult with the campaign of Donald Trump, whose son-in-law, Jared Kushner, owns the weekly. The statement Tuesday, reported Monday by the Huffington Post, came a day after a New York magazine profile of the front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nod said that
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USAEven as she was losing the Wisconsin Democratic primary to Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton spent Tuesday evening with top Jewish donors at a fundraiser hosted by Jack Bendheim in Riverdale, NYC, Jewish Insider reported. The next major contest between Clinton and Sanders in the race for the 2016 Democratic party presidential nomination will be on
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USABat-Sheva Sadan, the daughter of Rabbi Eli and Dina Horowitz who were murdered by Arab terrorists in their home in Kiryat Arba on a Sabbath eve back in 2003, has weighed in on the controversy regarding shared maternity wards for Jewish and Arab women. After Arab MK Ahmed Tibi (Joint List) on Tuesday called the
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Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — With California’s June 7th primary drawing closer, as editor of San Diego Jewish World and as a registered independent voter, I have come to some non-partisan conclusions about which candidates in the Democratic and Republican primaries are the best choices for our community. On the Republican side, I favor the
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Two people have regained their eyesight after receiving the corneas of the late former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, who died March 17 after a long battle with cancer. Avraham Gian, 81, and an unnamed 70-year-old woman were the recipients of the corneas, the transparent layer that forms the front of the eye. The operations were
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education(Statistics through April 4) Top of the week: Nine Jewish ballplayers made their team’s opening day rosters, including All-Stars Ryan Braun (Milwaukee Brewers), Ian Kinsler (Detroit Tigers), and Joc Pederson (Los Angeles Dodgers). Defensive magician Kevin Pillar moves into the leadoff spot for the Toronto Blue Jays. Danny Valencia earned a full-time spot for the
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Sports & Competitions, USAMalcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, warned Monday that US Jews and pro-Israel advocates were being distracted by the 2016 election instead of focusing on the damage President Barack Obama could still do in his remaining months in office. “The obsession, I have to say, with the
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Editor’s Note: The New York Daily News’ interview with Bernie Sanders on April 1 has generated considerable controversy, particularly concerning Israel. Here is a transcript of that portion of his interview that dealt with Israel. We congratulate the editorial staff of that newspaper on its efforts to pin Senator Sanders down on the issues. Daily
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Middle East, USAIsraeli police demolish eastern Jerusalem park that glorified Palestinian terror (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli police officers from the Jerusalem District and city officials on Tuesday demolished a memorial garden in the Arab neighborhood of Ras al-Amud in eastern Jerusalem, which was created to commemorate terrorists—or “shahids” (martyrs), as the garden’s founders described them—who
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The family of jailed Jewish extremist Meir Ettinger held the circumcision for his son without him in a Jerusalem synagogue on Monday, after the Supreme Court earlier in the day upheld a ruling by a lower court against granting him furlough. Justices Noam Sohlberg, Uzi Fogelman and Esther Hayut agreed with the Beersheba District Court,
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Editor’s Note: Several pieces of legislation are currently being weighed by the California Legislature to counter the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. Two companion measures by Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) were introduced in January and another measure by Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) was introduced earlier this month. In the Op-Ed below, Rabbi
WASHINGTON — After a rocky week on the campaign trail, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will not attend the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Spring Retreat this coming weekend in Las Vegas. The Republican Jewish Coalition confirmed Monday that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz will be addressing the annual event, hosted by Republican billionaire donor Sheldon Adelson,
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Middle East, USADemocratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has accused Israel of killing over 10,000 innocent civilians during 2014’s war with Gazan terrorists – in a gross inflation of the casualty statistics enough to make even Hamas’s own propaganda chiefs blush. Sanders, who trails Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton by a significant margin, made the comments in a meeting
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