By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Iran does indeed constitute a major threat to the existence of Israel. Both the pronouncements of many of its leaders and the actions of its stooges Hezbollah and Hamas point to it. It’s, therefore, not surprising that Prime Minister Netanyahu should want to alert the world to that danger […]
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday, Feb. 6, expressed its outrage to Allseas USA, the U.S. affiliate of the Dutch company, Allseas Group SA, which named its newest ship after a convicted Nazi war criminal and SS member, the father of the company’s owner. ADL urged the maritime construction service company to rename
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International, Jewish Religion, USA
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated in a ceremony on Thursday, Feb. 5, in which the last letters were written in a Torah scroll in memory of those who were murdered in last month’s terrorist attack at the Hyper Casher market in Paris. This was the first of four Torah scrolls, two
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International, Middle East
NEW YORK (Press Release) — An American Jewish Committee (AJC) leadership delegation just concluded a two-day visit to Nicosia. The trip’s highlights included a private luncheon at the Presidential Palace hosted by Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and the First Lady, and attended by the Minister of Defense and other top officials. In addition, the group met
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Two separate issues are competing for media attention. Our most senior cops, except, hopefully, the Chief of Police and maybe a few others, are having trouble keeping their pants zipped. About half of the most senior officers (Deputy Chief and Heads of Major Departments and Regional Commands) have resigned, been
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
PHILADELPHIA (Press Release)–The National Museum of American Jewish History is pleased to announce that it has received a $16,000 grant from The Weinberg Family Internship Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation to support full-time internships for four students during Summer 2015. The grant will provide stipends for qualified undergraduate students enrolled full time at a four-year
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USANEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday, Feb. 6, recognized two conflict journalists who, despite the inherent risks of their chosen profession, remained tirelessly committed to “finding the humanity behind the headlines” in Syria and Iraq before their lives were horrifically ended by members of the Islamic State terrorist group. Journalists James Foley and
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Middle East, USACompiled by Donald H. Harrison Vice President Joseph Biden’s office confirmed speculation on Friday, Feb. 6, that he plans to be out of the country on March 3 when Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is scheduled to address a Joint Session of Congress which Biden, in his capacity as President of the U.S. Senate, normally
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Donald H. Harrison, USA
By Jenn Lindsay VATICAN CITY — We were on our way to meet Pope Francis. We—the participants in the 50th anniversary meeting of the Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies—departed together from the Urbaniana campus and rode an escalator cut inside the Janiculum Hill that dumped us out in front of the colonnades of Saint
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International, Jewish Religion, The World We Share
NEW YORK (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has praised Uruguay for expelling a senior Iranian diplomat suspected of involvement with a bomb placed near Israel’s embassy in Montevideo. No one was hurt and the bomb was defused. “Iran has a long record of complicity in terrorism in Latin America and around the
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International, Middle East
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Israel’s President Reuben Rivlin has lent his backing to plans to build a new town to accommodate Israel’s growing Arab minority. Rivlin met on Thursday at his residence with 50 Arab local council heads and mayors and discussed integration and development, according to his office. The president called for the creation of
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — I’ve tried to understand why Netanyahu does so well in the most recent polls despite (inter alia) his entanglement with the United States administration because of his scheduled address to Congress two weeks before the elections in Israel, and despite the brouhaha in the Israeli media over his wife’s
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Middle EastPoll: More Americans support than oppose Netanyahu’s Congress speech (JNS.org) More Americans support than oppose Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 speech before a joint session of Congress on the Iranian nuclear threat and radical Islam, a new poll released by Rasmussen Reports revealed. Forty-two percent of respondents agreed that Netanyahu “should
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International, Middle East, USACompiled by Donald H. Harrison Even as Israel’s Ambassador Ron Dermer is trying to shore up support among Congressional Democrats for a speech March 3 by Israel’s Prime Minister before a Joint Session of Congress, the White House has been non-committal about whether Vice President Joe Biden should attend that speech and whether other members
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Donald H. Harrison, USA