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JNS news briefs: May 12, 2014

May 12, 2014

Netanyahu talks Israeli technology in Japan (JNS.org) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Japan on Sunday, kicking off a four-day trip meant to strengthen the Israel-Japan relationship. Netanyahu’s meetings during the visit are focusing on Israeli technological developments, particularly in the fields of cyber technology, water conservation, alternative energy, and biotechnology, according to Israel Hayom. […]

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International

Israel joins hunt for abducted Nigerian schoolgirls

May 12, 2014

JERUSALEM (WJC) — Israel has joined the international bid to find the 223 schoolgirls abducted by a group of Islamist terrorists in Nigeria four weeks ago. “Israel expresses deep shock at the crime against the girls,” Benjamin Netanyahu’s office quoted the Israeli prime minister as telling Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in a telephone conversation. “We

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International, Middle East

Many new facts in Halkin’s biography of Jabotinsky

May 11, 2014

By Ronn Torossian NEW YORK–The new book by Hillel Halkin, Jabotinsky: A Life (Yale University Press) was unlike any other book I had ever consumed about a man I consider to be a personal hero, Ze’ev Jabotinsky. Jabotinsky helped shape my life, my Judaism – even though I was born 34 years after his death. Growing up

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Jewish History, Middle East

Memorial Day muster in NYC for military siddur

May 11, 2014

Photo and story by Debra Rubin/JNS.org NEW YORK — The Shabbat of Memorial Day weekend later this month will mark a first in American Jewish life: Three New York City congregations representing the three major U.S. Jewish movements will daven from the same prayer book. Produced by the Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) Jewish Chaplains Council

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Jewish Religion, USA

Lag B’Omer crowds will head for Mt. Meron

May 11, 2014

Editor’s Note: Lag B’Omer begins at sundown Saturday, May 17 and ends at sundown Sunday, May 18 By Deborah Fineblum/JNS.org One of Pnina Newirth’s earliest childhood memories is of a trip to Mount Meron, Israel, on Lag B’Omer. But this was no ordinary family vacation. “I was very small, yet I vividly recall the

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Travel and Food

J Street mulls its role in Mideast Peace Process

May 11, 2014

By Alan Elsner WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Secretary of State Kerry and his team take a pause in the current round of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, there is an opportunity to take stock and ask some tough questions. Among them: why have the talks not succeeded? What might happen next? And what should J Street be doing

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Middle East, USA

Television biography tells of ‘Jewish Cardinal’ Lustiger

May 11, 2014

By Jason Stack/JNS.org Believe it or not, the recently canonized Pope John Paul II had a Jewish Cardinal as an occasional adviser in the 1980s. The French TV film The Jewish Cardinal, which has been receiving a limited release in the United States, follows the crucial years of the life of Cardinal Jean-Marie Aaron Lustiger

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International, Jewish Religion

Bill would limit Israel’s ability to release terrorists

May 11, 2014

By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM– In a vote of 7 for and 3 against, the Government on Sunday, May 11, recommended to the full Knesset a law that will limit Israel’s ability to release convicted terrorists, even as part of future negotiations. The proposed law, submitted by MK Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi), states that a court that sentences a

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Middle East

Jewish history: Shanghai refuge

May 10, 2014

By Maayan Jaffe/JNS.org SHANGHAI, China — It was a long trek: 6,000 miles by boat from Central Europe to the Far East. But the towns of East Asia opened their gates for the waves of Jewish emigrants who had to find shelter from the tragic problems they faced first in Russia, and later in Central

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International, Jewish History

Jewish deeds helped fuel American history

May 10, 2014

By Robert Gluck/JNS.org Dr. Gary P. Zola sees an inextricable connection between American Jewish history, American history, and global Jewish history. “The study of the Jewish experience in the context of the American nation sheds light on the story of the nation itself,” Zola, executive director of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American

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Jewish History, USA

Abbas’ ‘reversal’ on Holocaust really wasn’t

May 10, 2014

By Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn PHILADELPHIA –To judge by the account in the Washington Post, the recent statement about the Holocaust by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas was a game-changing reversal of Abbas’s previous Holocaust-denial. In an “unusual step,” the Post asserted, Abbas released “a strongly-worded statement” in which he “denounced” the Holocaust as

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Jewish History, Middle East

UN names two BGU researchers to anti-drug unit

May 10, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release)–Two Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers were appointed to the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), which will raise international awareness about the prevention and treatment of drug and substance addiction. Prof. Richard Isralowitz, director of BGU’s Regional Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research (RADAR) Center, and Dr.

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International, Middle East

European unity and Mideast disunity

May 10, 2014

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We have returned from eight days in Northern Italy to the Middle East, where my residence is approaching 40 years. I’ve taken advantage of Israel’s location and airline connections over the years to all the countries of Western Europe except for Luxembourg and the even tinier ones, most of them

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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

10 Senators demand ‘Internet neutrality’

May 9, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – In a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, 10 U.S. senators called for the FCC to protect net neutrality and reject efforts by big cable companies to extort businesses for the right to provide content at the fastest Internet speeds. Net neutrality – the principle that all Internet

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USA

JNS news briefs: May 12, 2014

Israel joins hunt for abducted Nigerian schoolgirls

Many new facts in Halkin’s biography of Jabotinsky

Memorial Day muster in NYC for military siddur

Lag B’Omer crowds will head for Mt. Meron

J Street mulls its role in Mideast Peace Process

Television biography tells of ‘Jewish Cardinal’ Lustiger

Bill would limit Israel’s ability to release terrorists

Jewish history: Shanghai refuge

Jewish deeds helped fuel American history

Abbas’ ‘reversal’ on Holocaust really wasn’t

UN names two BGU researchers to anti-drug unit

European unity and Mideast disunity

10 Senators demand ‘Internet neutrality’

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