By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The Protocols of the Elders of Zion still sells well in Muslim countries, and is cited as confirming the intention and capacity of Jews to control the world via their money and the influence it buys. The Protocols were the products of Russian anti-Semites early in the 20th century, and […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Kenneth Bandler ROME — Rabbi David Rosen, AJC (American Jewish Committee) International Director of Interreligious Affairs, welcomed a new Vatican document on Catholic-Jewish relations at a Vatican press conference today on the 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate. The document, “A Reflection on Theological Questions Pertaining to Catholic-Jewish Relations,” was issued by the Pontifical Commission for
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — When Prime Minister Netanyahu receives Donald Trump in Jerusalem later this month it may be more of a meeting of minds than just a courtesy gesture. Though the prime minister has tried to distance himself in public from Trump’s statements about Muslims he has refused to heed the appeal
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Middle EastIsrael’s Netanyahu among world’s 10 most-discussed politicians on Facebook (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the 10th-most-discussed international politician on Facebook during 2015, the social media giant said. U.S. President Barack Obama topped the list, while Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was second. Over the past year, the upcoming U.S. presidential
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Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — An ex-South African now living in Israel recently returned to Netanya from a visit to Toronto. He related to me an unpleasant incident in this lovely Canadian city. As he was walking with his family to synagogue, idiots from a passing car shouted insults at them. “Fuck you Jews. Palestine!
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By Chana Miller BNEI BRAK, Israel — Shmuel Strauss was hired as a driver. His job: to transport the elderly and disabled from here to there. But reading between the lines, he knew that an Ezer Mizion driver could do so much more. “I often see the same people week after week and develop relationships,”
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationTel Aviv to be home to one of two Australian high-tech hubs (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Australia has decided to create two high-tech incubators abroad, one in Tel Aviv and the other in California’s Silicon Valley. The country’s $1.1 billion “Ideas Boom” project was announced by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The project is aimed
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — John Kerry is seeking to top up his several efforts to deal with the Middle East by joining the Israeli and international left in warning that Israel will have to accommodate itself to a single country, with a Palestinian majority, if it doesn’t make peace with a Palestinian state. As
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USARep Davis: No guns for FBI suspects on Terrorist Watchlist WASHINGTON, D.C. –U.S. Rep. Susan Davis (D-San Diego) took action to force a vote on commonsense, life-saving legislation to keep guns out of the hands of terrorists. Rep. Davis signed a discharge petition to bring the bipartisan Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act
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International, USAPoll: 71% of Israeli Jews say peace deal would not end Palestinian terror (JNS.org) Seventy-one percent of Israeli Jews said that signing an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal would not bring an end to Palestinian terrorism against Jews, according to the latest Peace Index poll from the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University. Israeli Arab
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By Toby Klein Greenwald EFRAT, Israel — Raise Your Spirits Theatre, a multi-generational women’s theater company in Gush Etzion, an area that has suffered many terror attacks in recent weeks, is now in production on its 9th biblical musical, SISTERS! The Daughters of Tzelofchad, based on the story in Numbers, Chapter 27. The story of the
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Toby Klein GreenwaldBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Efforts to appease radical Islamists prompt the kind of massacres recently seen in Paris and in San Bernardino, Wall Street Journal columnist Brett Stephens told a first-night Chanukah dinner sponsored by StandWithUs at the Torrey Pines Hilton on Dec. 6. First discussing Paris, Stephens said: “Before there was last
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Among the accusations directed at Israeli policymakers is the assertion that they have no policy of national defense. It comes most prominently from Knesset Members affiliated with opposition parties, along with individuals retired from senior positions in the IDF or one of the other security services (Mossad, Shin Bet), with
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastMessianic Jew killed in San Bernardino had argument on Islam with shooter (JNS.org) One of the 14 victims of the terror attack in San Bernardino, California, was a Messianic Jew who purportedly had previously gotten into a heated debate with one of the shooters over the nature of Islam. Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, was a
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