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Helping Portuguese, Brazilians, others find Jewish roots

December 2, 2015

By Ryan M. Greiss NEW YORK — The Jerusalem-based nonprofit Shavei Israel has launched a Portuguese-language e-book called “Do You Have Jewish Roots?” offering a practical guide to uncovering one’s Jewish ancestry. The unprecedented 109-page guide is aimed at assisting the millions of people in Brazil, Portugal and elsewhere who may have a long-lost Jewish lineage. […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion

Media hides Israeli casualties

December 2, 2015

By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Israeli Jews are the invisible terror victims. Facts: The invisible victims of terror are Israeli Jews. The perpetrators of a Jewish genocide are Palestinian Arabs. The cause of their terror is to destroy Israel and kill Jews in the name of Palestinian liberation and Jihad. How do we prove these facts? As follows: Mahmoud Abbas, on

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Barry Shaw, Middle East

Arab merchants most hurt by continuing violence

December 2, 2015

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — It always looks worse from the outside than the actual situation on the ground. Of course, wherever and whenever violent attacks occur there is mayhem, often with tragic consequences, but life in Israel goes on pretty much as normal everywhere else, though there is a noticeably greater police

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East

Middle East Roundup: December 2, 2015

December 2, 2015

Survey: 90% of IDF lone soldiers see their future in Israel (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Ninety percent of Israel Defense Forces lone soldiers (those without immediate family living in Israel) who have completed their military service see their futures in the Jewish state, while 62 percent report that family members have followed them and moved

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Middle East

King Felipe VI thanks Sephardim for their loyalty

December 1, 2015

MADRID, Spain (WJC) — King Felipe VI on Monday thanked Jews of Spanish origin who were expelled from the country in the wake of the March 1492 edict by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. “Dear Sephardim, thank you for your loyalty,” the king told representatives of Sephardic Jews from different countries, during a ceremony at the Royal

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International, Jewish History

Rosa Parks paved the way for Martin Luther King Jr.

December 1, 2015

By Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Sixty years ago today, on December 1, 1955, a diminutive but mighty seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to stand up and move from her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus. She was arrested for taking the position of a white rider. “I was just tired of standing,”

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USA

Middle East Roundup: December 1, 2015

December 1, 2015

Israel and Jordan issue joint tender for Red Sea-Dead Sea canal (JNS.org) Israel and Jordan announced the issuing of an international tender for the construction of a water canal between the Red Sea and the shrinking Dead Sea. The two countries made their joint announcement Monday after a meeting between Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Silvan

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Middle East

Like father like son: Ilan and Assaf Ramon

December 1, 2015

By Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — It was 1944 in the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen and a young Dutch boy, Yoachim Yosef was nearing his 13th birthday. Among the inmates was the former Chief Rabbi of Holland who prepared the boy for his bar mitzvah. Each morning they would secretly study Torah on

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Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Naming “radical Islam” as the enemy

November 30, 2015

By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — The United States has been in many “wars” since the end of WWII: 1961 War on Organized Crime 1964 War on Poverty 1969 War against Tobacco 1971 War on Drugs 1971 War on Cancer 1987 War against AIDS 1988 War against Global Warming 2001 War against Terror What do

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Middle East, Steve Kramer

Allies fight with and against Al Qaida in Syria, Iraq

November 30, 2015

By Lloyd Levy LONDON–There is much controversy in the UK, as to whether or not we should start bombing ISIS in Syria. It is appropriate that we are approaching Christmas, where Pantomime is a hugely popular attraction. If the situation wasn’t so terrible, it would be as mad as a Pantomime story. ISIS, ISIL, or

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Lloyd Levy, Middle East

American Jewish Report: Nov. 30, 2015

November 30, 2015

FBI investigating threats against North Carolina Jewish school (JNS.org) The FBI and local police are investigating threats made against a Jewish day school located in Greensboro, N.C. According to local reports, the B’nai Shalom Day School, a school affiliated with Beth David Synagogue in Greensboro, received a threatening letter on Monday that included racial epithets

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USA

Middle East Roundup: Nov. 30, 2015

November 30, 2015

IDF renews search for missing soldier 18 years after disappearance (JNS.org) Israeli Navy divers have started searching water reservoirs in the Golan Heights in a renewed effort to find Cpl. Guy Hever, an IDF soldier who went missing nearly two decades ago. One water reservoir has been searched thus far, with no results, the IDF

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Middle East

Bonobos make, use tools to find food, defend selves

November 30, 2015

By Ilan Yavelberg HAIFA, Israel — For the first time, a scientific study has observed bonobos (an analogous race to chimpanzees) making sophisticated use of ancient pre-agricultural tools in a manner similar to that which has hitherto been considered the prerogative of archaic pre-human hominins and other members of the Homo genus. Among other findings, a

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Middle East, The World We Share, USA

IDF more rational than Israel’s politicians

November 29, 2015

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — As a religious Jew I believe – nay, I claim to know – that there’s more to human existence than rationality. As a liberal Jew I also claim to know that authentic Judaism must never be less than rational. Rationality has made Israel to what it has become in

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Middle East

Helping Portuguese, Brazilians, others find Jewish roots

Media hides Israeli casualties

Arab merchants most hurt by continuing violence

Middle East Roundup: December 2, 2015

King Felipe VI thanks Sephardim for their loyalty

Rosa Parks paved the way for Martin Luther King Jr.

Middle East Roundup: December 1, 2015

Like father like son: Ilan and Assaf Ramon

Naming “radical Islam” as the enemy

Allies fight with and against Al Qaida in Syria, Iraq

American Jewish Report: Nov. 30, 2015

Middle East Roundup: Nov. 30, 2015

Bonobos make, use tools to find food, defend selves

IDF more rational than Israel’s politicians

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