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Naddaf: Fight against Israel is religious, not political

April 4, 2016

By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org HOUSTON, Texas–“It’s nice that he understands both English and Hebrew,” Father Gabriel Naddaf tells his interpreter, Amit Barak, at Houston’s Royal Sonesta hotel while I go back and forth between the two languages during my interview with the Israeli Greek Orthodox priest. Hebrew is Naddaf’s stronger tongue, and English is mine—despite […]

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Middle East Roundup: April 4, 2016

April 4, 2016

First F-35 jets will arrive in Israel in December, Lockheed Martin says (JNS.org) Development of the advanced F-35 fighter jet is moving along as expected and Israel “has our commitment” that the first F-35s it ordered will arrive this December, Lockheed Martin Vice President Gen. (ret.) Gary North said Sunday at a Tel Aviv

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Middle East

‘I pushed her away, she kept stabbing me’

April 3, 2016

Reut Weitzman, a 30-year-old mother of three from Kfar Saba, was named as the victim in the stabbing attack that took place on Sunday in the industrial region of Rosh Ha’ayin. In the stabbing, which police have yet to officially define as a terrorist attack, a 23-year-old female Arab assailant from the adjacent Arab Israeli

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Middle East

Way cleared for ex-president Katzav’s early release

April 3, 2016

Former Israeli President and Likud MK Moshe Katzav appears poised to win an early release from prison this week, after the state withdrew its objections on Sunday. Katzav, who served more than four and a half years of his seven-year sentence for a rape conviction, appealed to have his term reduced by one third, citing

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Middle East

Iran: The Challenges of a Split Personality

April 3, 2016

When he died in exile in Paris in 2010, Shojaeddin Shafa sounded like a lone voice in a desert. For at least two decades before the Islamic Revolution, the writer and translator of Western classics had often been on best-seller lists. As an exile cut from his home market, however, he had the choice of

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Middle East

How a former Nazi officer became a hitman for Israel

April 3, 2016

Otto Skorzeny was one of the most outstanding military men of the 20th century. His specialty was daring, guerrilla-style, commando raids. He was an unrepentant Nazi, a senior SS officer, who remained involved in right-wing causes his whole life. And now it’s emerged that he was also an agent and hitman for Mossad, the Israeli

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International, Jewish History, Middle East

How Streisand turned looking ‘too Jewish’ into stardom

April 3, 2016

When she decided to go into show business, iconic Jewish-American performer Barbra Streisand had to overcome tremendous odds, not the least of which was what some viewed as her distinctively Jewish appearance, according to an upcoming biography of the singer and actress. Long before she became a cultural icon, the Brooklyn-born Streisand was mocked, derided

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

One floor below MLK Jr. on that fateful night

April 3, 2016

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–At 6:01 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, 1968, Kentucky state senator Georgia Davis was brushing her hair in Room 201 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. She heard a gunshot outside. She stepped out and saw a dreadful commotion, just above, adjacent to Room 306. Powers told me: “I actually had

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USA

On tour in Buenos Aires

April 3, 2016

(Editor’s Note: Yoni Peres, a huge soccer fan, recently stood-in for his father, former Israeli President Shimon Peres, at an awards ceremony sponsored by the Taeda Foundation in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In this article he describes a private tour of Buenos Aires.) Story and Photos by Yoni Peres BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — I was picked

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International, Middle East, Travel and Food

Israel is a global cyber security power

April 3, 2016

The cyber revolution is at its height. The meeting point between the power of thought and connectivity is changing our world, and affecting all spheres of life, as individuals and as a nation. Israel’s power in science and technology is creating a great opportunity to position ourselves in the forefront of cybernetic innovation. Together with

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Tehran Jews begin making matzah

April 3, 2016

Video has emerged of Iranian Jews preparing for the upcoming Passover festival by baking matzah, the unleavened bread that is the key traditional food eaten during the festival. The video, published by the Kikar Hashabat website last week, shows several members of the Tehran community manning a small matzah-baking production line. Strict religious rules govern

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

BDS activists destroy signs for Israeli display in Paris

April 3, 2016

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement activists on Sunday vandalized and tore up signs on the Paris subway advertising the “Open Door a to Israel” exhibit, currently on display at the Louvre museum. “BDS activists have once again shown their true colors. They are not human rights activists, but a group of extremist law-breakers whose

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International, Middle East

UK halts funding to anti-Israel ‘charity’ promoting BDS

April 3, 2016

The British government will no longer fund the War on Want organization, following reports that the group had been fundamentally transformed from an anti-poverty charity into a front for anti-Israel activists. Founded in 1951, the War on Want organization was initially geared towards fighting poverty around the world. Because of its humanitarian work overseas, the

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International, Middle East

Israel has numerous running political stories

April 2, 2016

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There is a lot of news hereabouts. The items may be threatening to individuals, but not, apparently, to the society. Indeed, some of them may help us clean a bit of the dirt that accumulates here, not all that different from other places. We’re still dealing with the soldier who

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Naddaf: Fight against Israel is religious, not political

Middle East Roundup: April 4, 2016

‘I pushed her away, she kept stabbing me’

Way cleared for ex-president Katzav’s early release

Iran: The Challenges of a Split Personality

How a former Nazi officer became a hitman for Israel

How Streisand turned looking ‘too Jewish’ into stardom

One floor below MLK Jr. on that fateful night

On tour in Buenos Aires

Israel is a global cyber security power

Tehran Jews begin making matzah

BDS activists destroy signs for Israeli display in Paris

UK halts funding to anti-Israel ‘charity’ promoting BDS

Israel has numerous running political stories

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