By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–I’m not in a position to comment on the merits of the criticism that Naftali Bennett, the leader of the Habayit Hayehudi party and in that capacity a senior member of the government of Israel, expressed at the security conference in Tel Aviv the other day. Though, as expected from every […]
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Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — I know I’ve written before about Verdi’s Requiem, the role it played in my childhood and musical education in general, about the impression made on me when I read of its performance by prisoners in Theresienstadt and finally being privileged to attend a performance of the reconstruction of
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsTurkey considers senior diplomat as next ambassador to Israel (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Turkey is considering appointing a senior diplomatic official to be the country’s next ambassador to Israel as part of its efforts to restore ties between the countries, the Turkish newspaper Sozcu reported on Wednesday. According to the report, Ankara has decided to
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-40th in a Series- Exit 13 A, Spring Street, La Mesa, California – ‘La Mesa Village’ By Donald H. Harrison LA MESA, California – In the quaint shopping village on both sides of La Mesa Boulevard stands a furniture and accessory store that identifies itself as “Mostly Mission.” A plaque further identifies the building
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By James Trout DES MOINES, Iowa – I’m one of The RespectAbility Report’s newest reporters. I’m covering the presidential candidates and what they say and do on disability issues. It’s literally five degrees in Iowa, and yet I’m having the time of my life! Each day I get to speak with different presidential candidates
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The World We Share, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin GAN YAVNEH, Israel, Jan. 20–I had to “come home” to feel at home again in my own life. Change and renewal are nothing without sorrow—just as no song can be written without lyrics. The Holy Land is a place where tired gestures are converted into genuine responses. It’s a heady, healing,
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A New York Times review of a book describing what may be the world’s largest refugee camp, near Kenya’s border with Somalia, notes that 60 million people have been displaced throughout the world as a result of conflict and other mass misfortunes.. We can paraphrase Stalin: one person forced from
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAU.S. backs Ambassador Daniel Shapiro in spat with Israel (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A U.S. State Department spokesman defended U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro on Tuesday, a day after Shapiro sparked outrage in Israel with criticism of Israeli policies in Judea and Samaria. When asked on Tuesday about Shapiro’s comments, which were made in
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The Polgar Variant, directed by Yossi Aviram, Israel, 2014, 68 minutes long in Hungarian, English and Hebrew with English subtitles. To be shown twice during the San Diego Jewish Film Festival: Sunday, Feb. 7, at 5 p.m. at the Edwards San Marcos Stadium 18, 1180 W. San Marcos Blvd., San Marcos; and on Thursday, Feb.
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Theatre, Film & BroadcastPARIS, France (WJC)–More than two-thirds of French citizens are opposed to the suggestion that the kippah should be removed in public places, a survey found. Seventy percent of respondents in an opinion poll commissioned by the Paris Match magazine said it would be giving in to terrorists if Jews were forced to remove their yarmulkes for security
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International, USABy Tammi Rossman-Benjamin SANTA CRUZ, California– As a resource to current and prospective students, parents, university administrators, elected officials, researchers, and donors, AMCHA Initiative has unveiled a database that chronicles anti-Semitic incidents that occurred over the past academic year by state and university. The incidents are organized into three categories: Targeting Jewish Students and Staff, Anti-Semitic Expression and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
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Jewish History, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–The Netanyahu government is getting under the skin of the United States Administration. US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro echoed it earlier this week when he spoke in Tel Aviv at a conference organized by Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies. We can safely assume that what he said had been
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Middle East, USATop Israeli official welcomes new Egyptian envoy (JNS.org) Israeli Foreign Ministry Director General Dore Gold on Monday met with the new Egyptian ambassador to Israel, Hazem Khairat, who arrived in Israel at the start of this month. “Israel considers Egypt an important country in the region and relations with it are vital to Israel,” Gold
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ROME (WJC) Pope Francis on Sunday paid his first visit to a synagogue as Catholic pontiff, greeting Rome’s Jewish community in a show of interfaith friendship. Rome’s Great Synagogue is home of the oldest Jewish community in the Diaspora. The pope joined a standing ovation of the congregation when Holocaust survivors wearing striped scarves reminiscent
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