By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Founded in 1997 by Shuki Levinger, a social worker, and Yael Shilo, a textile artist who was trying to find a way to ensure the future of her special-needs stepson, Kishorit is today a thriving community situated in the pastoral hills of Galilee. It provides a safe haven as […]
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — France, which fancies itself an exemplar of European statesmanship and strategic thinking, has told Israel that France’s unilateral recognition of Palestine’s statehood is what’s best for Israel’s development and security. But the practical result of France and other European states coddling the Palestinian Arabs is that the Arabs
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International, Middle East, Steve KramerBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — A movement is afoot on Capitol Hill to “force” President Obama to submit any agreement between the United States and Iran to lawmakers, even if it isn’t a treaty that requires ratification. The administration, not surprisingly, says there is no reason to do so. It is also not terribly
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USANEW YORK (Press Release)– Shurat HaDin, a civil rights organization based in Israel, has filed a whistleblower action against the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In its 38 page complaint, the group provides substantial evidence that PCUSA violated its non-profit tax-exempt status for engaging in a range of prohibited activities
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Jewish History, Middle East, USAPreliminary bill to dissolve Knesset approved, new elections set (JNS.org) A preliminary reading of a bill to disperse the Israeli Knesset passed on Wednesday, setting the stage for elections early next year. The preliminary bill was passed 84 to 0, with a final reading of the bill scheduled for early next week. The move to
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The world has, and has always had, a heady collection of insoluble problems. We can start with the classic examples of poverty, sickness, and death. Or skip to a modern cluster of what has kept Israel and Palestine from making peace, a flood of poor migrants from misery in Africa
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Tammi Rossman-Benjamin BERKELEY, California — “Bringing down Israel will really benefit everyone in the world and everyone in society, particularly workers.” These words were spoken by Lara Kiswani, executive director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, at a Nov. 12 panel discussion at U.C. Berkeley organized by the BDS Caucus of UAW 2865,
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Ronn Torossian NEW YORK — A few weeks ago in a comment to the San Diego Jewish World, The Leichtag Foundation responded to my earlier criticism by saying that their donations “…involves the prerogative of a private foundation making determinations on best use of its resources. We are confident that our grant to the
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By Melanie Goldberg/JNS.org BROOKLYN, N.Y. (JNS) — It all started when I took out some anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) information sheets at a Brooklyn College-sponsored event last year that featured Omar Barghouti, the founder of the BDS movement. You’d expect that of any student opposed to the speaker’s anti-Israel views. I planned to challenge Barghouti
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPARIS (Press Release) – The National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, adopted today, by a vote of 339 to 151, a resolution urging the French government to recognize the state of Palestine as a step to achieve a resolution of the conflict. “The path to sustainable, permanent Israeli-Palestinian peace is direct bilateral negotiations, and not
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Middle East, USAReport: Hezbollah intends maritime siege in next war (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Hezbollah has a stock of advanced sea-to-sea missiles with which it intends to impose a maritime siege on Israel if the two sides enter another war, Lebanese media outlets reported on Monday. According to the reports, Hezbollah apparently has an arsenal of sophisticated Russian-made
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Middle East, USANGO Monitor leader ‘not surprised’ of AP media ban (JNS.org) NGO Monitor leader Professor Gerald Steinberg says he is “not surprised” of the alleged revelation that the Associated Press banned its reporters from contacting the watchdog organization. In an article published in The Atlantic on Sunday exploring media bias covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, former AP
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JERUSALEM (WJC) — On Sunday, Nov. 30, Israel officially remembered the suffering of an estimated 850,000 Jews who left, were expelled from, or fled from their homes in, Arab and other Muslim countries in the wake of the establishment of the State of Israel. The national day of commemoration for Jewish refugees from Arab lands
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Middle EastNEW YORK (WJC) — A lawmaker of Venezuela’s governing party recently told Lebanese television that Zionists had bankrolled Hitler prior to World War II and suggested that “no representatives of global Zionism” had been killed during the Nazi Holocaust for that reason. Speaking in Arabic, Adel El Zabayar, a member of Venezuela’s National Assembly born
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