NEW YORK (Press Release) — Israel Tennis Centers Foundation (ITC) has announced its August 2014 exhibition schedule will include a special fundraising event in La Jolla on Sunday, August 24,, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm. A diverse team of Israeli players and coaches will be flying to the U.S. to meet members of the San […]
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions
-Sixteenth in a Series– By Donald H. Harrison BROWNING, Montana – More than half-way between our previous night’s stop in Lethbridge, Alberta, and our evening’s destination of Kalispell, Montana, grandson Shor and I decided to stretch our legs in Browning, Montana, which is located on the sprawling Blackfeet Indian Reservation. We browsed the Blackfeet
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Is it possible to defeat terror? This question has come to the fore yet again, after being up and down on our agenda who knows how many times in recent years. 9-11 is an icon in American history. Israelis’ memories are clogged with many instances, none of which have been
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastSYDNEY, Australia (WJC) – Ten thousand Australians rallied in support of Israel in Sydney on Sunday, Aug. 3, at a peaceful demonstration in one of the city’s suburbs. Participants at the rally waved signs saying “We stand with Israel!” and “Stop the rockets!” and chanted “Am Yisroel Chai” as they heard communal figures defend the
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International, Middle EastTurkish PM Erdogan: Israelis ‘will drown in the blood they shed’ (JNS.org) Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued his verbal offensive against Israel on Sunday, Aug. 3, telling a rally in Istanbul that Israelis “will drown in the blood they shed.” “Just like Hitler, who sought to establish a race free of all faults,
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Middle East
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – One Israeli was murdered and five were wounded Monday afternoon, August 4, when Muhammad Naif Ja’abis, of the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood in Jerusalem, drove a tractor and rammed it into a bus, turning it over and hitting a pedestrian. He was stopped when a police officer shot him dead.
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Middle East
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA)– On the heels of announcing a national pro-Israel ad campaign, Christians United for Israel (CUFI), the largest pro-Israel organization in the US, announced Monday, August 4, that the group is taking 51 pastors – one from each state and the District of Columbia – to Israel for a four-day solidarity
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Sunday, August 3, issued the following denunciation of Israel: “The United States is appalled by today’s disgraceful shelling outside an UNRWA school in Rafah sheltering some 3,000 displaced persons, in which at least ten more Palestinian civilians were tragically killed. The coordinates of
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Middle East, USABy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — The IDF has begun to partially withdraw its troops from parts of the Gaza Strip. Having completed their specific missions, the forces are coming out of unnecessary areas. The IDF is still continuing to complete its mission to destroy the terror tunnels. The IDF estimates it will complete the
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is urging Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his government to end immediately their incendiary statements against Israel, which have led to attacks on the Jewish community. The climate of fear experienced by Venezuela’s Jewish community over the past decade has been heightened still further since
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International, Middle East, USA
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — The outpouring of love shown to the IDF’s soldiers during Operation ‘Protective Edge’ has become legendary. The fighting soldiers have received countless donations and gifts; visits by Israelis from across Israel; musicians and rock stars have come to entertain; anyone with a helpful profession has donated time and abilities;
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Only the cynics are happy. Friday morning, August 2, everyone was claiming credit for the cease fire. John Kerry and Ban-Ki Moon were claiming primary authorship, and generous to note the contributions of Egypt, Turkey, and Qatar. The Palestinians of Gaza and Israelis were touting their accomplishments, and being equally
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
-Fifteenth in a Series- By Donald H. Harrison LETHBRIDGE, Alberta, Canada – It’s a matter of happy circumstance that Lethbridge is the first Canadian city of moderate size that a traveler from U.S. Interstate 15 will connect with after crossing the U.S.-Canada border. My grandson Shor and I, making a trip from the bottom of
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Travel and FoodBy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — As an example of what the insightful commentator Melanie Phillips referred to as a “dialogue of the demented” in her book, The World Turned Upside Down, since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge some three weeks ago, the streets of American and European cities have been crammed with activists
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International, Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, USA