SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) — Leaders of Reform CA, an initiative of the California Reform Jewish Movement for justice, said they are “overjoyed by the bold decision of our state leadership to invest significant and long-term cap-and-trade funding into the building of affordable homes near transit in California”. Rabbi Stephanie Kolin, Co-Director of the Union […]
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USA
PARIS (WJC) — A potentially deadly terrorist attack on a Paris synagogue in broad daylight was reportedly thwarted at the very last minute on Saturday. According to ‘JSS News’, a pair of unidentified attackers approached the synagogue, located in the French capital’s 20th District, armed with an assault rifle and a handgun. They began aiming
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International
JERUSALEM (WJC) — The Israeli government is considering the establishment of new Jewish communities in the Negev desert, according to a report by the newspaper ‘Haaretz’, despite opposition from environmental organizations. A plan to build seven new Jewish communities near the town of Arad will be brought for approval before a subcommittee of the National
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Middle EastBy Aryeh Savir TEL AVIV (TNA) – Amina Abbas, wife of Palestinian Authority Head Mahmoud Abbas, was convalescing at home after undergoing knee transplant surgery at a top Israeli hospital, Israeli media have reported. Yediot Aharonot said that Abbas’s wife was in Assuta Hospital, considered one of the best in Israel. She had been hospitalized
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Middle East‘Brings Back Our Boys’ Facebook page raises awareness on abducted Israeli teens (JNS.org) A Facebook page created Friday, June 13, following the abduction of three Israeli teenagers by terrorists near Hebron had garnered close to 80,000 “likes” by Monday. The “Bring Back Our Boys” Facebook page, which aims to raise international awareness of the kidnapping,
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International, Middle East
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Monday, June 16, with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and told him, “I expect you to assist in returning the abducted youths and in apprehending the kidnappers. The Hamas kidnappers came from territory under Palestinian Authority control and returned to territory under Palestinian Authority
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We are seeing the essence of terror with the apparent kidnapping of three yeshiva students on Thursday night, and days of media dealing with almost nothing else. The continued crises and perhaps ultimate falling apart of Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine may weigh on us more heavily than the disappearance of
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Anav Silverman NOF AYALON (TNA) – On a quiet street in the rural community of Nof Ayalon, located in central Israel’s Ayalon Valley, members of press stand outside the home of Racheli and Avi Frenkel. The parents of the missing Israeli teen, Naftali, who was abducted with two other classmates by Palestinian
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Middle East
TEL AVIV (Press Release) – On Friday night June 13,.White City Shabbat set the Guinness World Record for the Largest Shabbat Dinner ever at the Hangar 11 in the port of Tel Aviv. 2,226 attendees were officially inscribed in the Guinness World Record for the Largest Shabbat Dinner, with notable diners including Chief Rabbi of
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Jewish Religion, Middle East
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA)–Prime Minister Netanyahu held a special Cabinet meeting Sunday morning June 15 at the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, during which he revealed that the Hamas terror group is behind the kidnapping of the three Israeli youth in Gush Etzion late Thursday night. “This morning I can say what
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Middle EastJERUSALEM (Press Release) — The President of the State of Israel, Shimon Peres, spoke to the newly elected President of Egypt, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Saturday and congratulated him on his election. President Peres stressed Israel’s commitment to maintain the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt and strengthening the cooperation between the countries. President Peres wished
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Middle East, USA
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu issued the following statement on Saturday, June 14 : “Good evening. We are in the midst of a wide-ranging operation to locate and return the three missing youths. The three missing students are Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Sha’er and Naftali Frenkel. I spoke with their parents before the onset
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Middle East
By Kenneth L. Marcus/JNS.org In a recent issue of Time magazine, Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, former president of the Union for Reform Judaism, writes that anti-Semitism is “not a threat to American Jews.” He could not be more wrong. Let us start with the obvious. Any threat to world Jewry is a threat to American
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USABy Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week WASHINGTON, D.C. — While Hillary Rodham Clinton jets around the country promoting her newly released memoir Hard Choices, a group of prominent Jewish Democrats has placed bets on the former secretary of state in advance of her possible run for the presidency. Others, however, are using parts of the memoir
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USA