Photo and Video by Hillel Maier, Tazpit News Agency By Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit)– Early Tuesday morning, two Arabs armed with a gun, butchers knives, and an axe, attacked worshipers praying the morning prayers in a synagogue in Har Nof. Police said Uday and Ghassan Abu-Jamal entered the synagogue shooting a pistol and screaming “Allahu Akbar”, […]
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SAN DIEGO (Press release) — StandWithUs – San Diego will hold its annual “Festival of Lights” celebration on Sunday, December 7, at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines. Dr. Bob and Mao Shillman sponsor the gala and M. Zuhdi Jasser is the keynote speaker. Program begins at 5:30 pm with an appetizer & wine reception followed by program and dinner at 6:30pm.
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Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USAArabs riot after bus driver found dead despite police assessment of suicide (JNS.org) Riots broke out in eastern Jerusalem late Sunday night after rumors spread that an Arab bus driver had been murdered by “Jewish extremists.” According to the Israel Police, however, the bus driver in question committed suicide. The body of Yusuf Hassan Ramouni,
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle EastPARIS (Press Release) – Three distinct groups in France are noticeably more anti-Jewish than the overall population, according to two new public opinion surveys on French anti-Semitism. The groups are supporters of the National Front party (extreme right), to a lesser extent supporters of the Left Front coalition (extreme left), and members of the Muslim community.
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InternationalBy Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM–Over five thousand Israeli Arabs are estimated to make the Hajj each year. This past year, 2200 Gazans also made the pilgrimage, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of the Interior. The Hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam, took place from October 3rd – 7th. One of the biggest concerns
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International, Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Doctors tell us that the frenzied pace of the modern 24-hour lifestyle — in which we struggle to juggle work commitments with the demands of family and daily life — is damaging to our health. But while life in the slow lane may be better, will it be any longer? It
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — The prominent Brazilian newspaper, O Globo reported recently that the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group has links with Brazil’s largest criminal gang, First Capital Command (PCC). According to the O Globo report on November 9, the Brazilian government has tried to minimize the issue of Hezbollah activity in the region.
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International, Middle EastBy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON– “What if the Jews themselves were Nazis?,” mused French philosopher, Vladimir Jankélévitch in 1986. “That would be great. We would no longer have to feel sorry for them; they would have deserved what they got.” The recasting of Israelis, and, by extension, Jews as Nazis has, in fact, taken
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Jewish History, Middle East, Richard L. CravattsBy Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Tensions between Druze and Israeli Arabs in a small Galilee town boiled over during the weekend, resulting in brawls that left more than forty people wounded. Fighting between Druze and Arab residents broke out over the weekend in Abu Snan, a small town in the Galilee. Abu Snan has
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Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –On 9th November 2014, on the very same day that Berliners and others were celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the wall that had divided their city in two, Jews were marking the seventy-sixth anniversary of the night on which Nazis all over Germany destroyed and vandalized
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — I have known Dick Sharkansky since my first memory. Our families lived for a while in the same building on Belmont Street, and sometime during our second year, I’m pretty sure that he bit my finger . He may have a different set of memories. We were in the same
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Ira Sharkansky, Jewish Religion, USAWASHINGTON DC. (Press Release)– Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) has opposed an effort in the House to ignore environmental law over the Keystone XL Pipeline approval process. “This bill is essentially an earmark for a Canadian oil company,” said Davis. “Keystone will have virtually no impact on job creation and an unnoticeable effect on gas
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USAPoll: 77% of Israelis oppose bill to ban free newspapers (JNS.org) A new poll found that 77 percent of Israelis oppose the bill to ban free newspapers in Israel, which passed its preliminary Knesset reading on Nov. 12. The legislation targets the free daily Israel Hayom, the country’s top-read print newspaper for more than four
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International, Middle EastMADRID (WJC) — The Spanish legislature will hold a vote on the recognition of a Palestinian state. Lawmakers from the opposition Socialist Party have proposed a non-binding resolution text which is to be debated and voted on next Tuesday. According to media reports, the governing Popular Party of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will support the
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