Israeli-Palestinian negotiations move forward despite terror attack (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to move forward with peace negotiations with the Palestinians despite Monday’s terror attack in which a police officer was killed on his way to a Passover seder with his family. A meeting between the negotiating teams was […]
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–There’s another New York Times Op-Ed on Israel. This one praises Iran’s move away from theocracy and toward secularism, while describing Israel is moving in the opposite direction. It seems a bit premature to applaud any sign of reasonable activity from the mullah’s of Iran, I am even less certain that the authors (one Iranian
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Navras Jaat Aafreedi GREATER NOIDA, India — I grew up in Lucknow, a major centre of Muslim scholarship and culture, home to prestigious institutions of Islamic studies, Nadwātul Ulamā and Firangi Mahal. Except for a Jewish writer from Ahmedabad, Sheela Rohekar, who publishes in Hindi and has settled in Lucknow, and a few American and
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InternationalUNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (Press Release) — Ambassador Samantha Power, the U.S. permanent representatitve to the United Nations, said on Wednesday, April 16, that the world must do more to stop mass killings and atrocities in Syria. At a Security Council briefing on the prevention and fight against genocide, she described as “devastating” crimes against
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Middle East, USA
BOSTON (Press Release) –President Obama’s assistant for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Lisa Monaco, told a forum at Harvard’s Kennedy School that to prevent terrorism families and communities must be aware and ready to intervene when someone’s behavior lurches towards violence. Following is a partial text of her speech, delivered Tuesday, April 15: * “We’ve faced
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USANEW YORK (Press Release)—AJC called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to remove Rima Khalaf from her position as UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). “Under-Secretary General Khalaf’s profound and all-too-obvious animus against one UN member state, Israel, has betrayed her fundamental responsibility as
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Middle East
By Dr. Elinor Gary ETN Editor-in-Chief I was at the bar with a frriend discussing the merits of the kosher wine we were drinking as we waited for the arrival of Uzi Landau, the current Israeli Tourism Minister. Guests came and went with their wine glasses and I hardly noticed – until I heard a
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Middle East, Travel and FoodBy Aryeh Savir HEBRON (TNA) — A senior police officer was murdered, his pregnant wife (28) seriously wounded and one of their sons (9) was lightly wounded right before the Passover holiday by Arab terrorists who shot them as they were on their way to the holiday festivities, according to police. The deadly attack occurred
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry were among the public officials who have sent Passover greetings to the Jewish community. President Obama said in a statement: “Michelle and I send our warmest greetings to all those celebrating Passover in the United States, in Israel, and around the world.
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Jewish Religion, USA
San Diego Jewish World news roundup There were new developments and more responses Monday to the killing of three people at Jewish institutions in the Kansas City suburbs on Sunday and to the suspect calling out “Heil Hitler” to reporters after being taken into custody. Fox News reported that the woman shot in the parking
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — It is tempting to simply list all the ways the Obama administration — particularly Secretaries Kerry and Hagel — has been wrong on foreign and defense policy. After all, Russia/Ukraine, Syria, Iran, China, and Israel/Palestinians are nothing to sneeze at. But finding a common thread among the mistakes might
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenNEW YORK (Press Release)–The shooter arrested in the killing of three individuals outside the Jewish institutions in Overland Park, Kansas is a white supremacist with a long history of promoting anti-Semitism and racism, according to a backgrounder released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The suspect, identified by police as Frazier Cross, but who is also
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USA
TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Have you just fallen in love? Found the perfect job? Bought a shiny new car? You might attribute these judgments and decisions to a host of considered reasons and instincts, but you might also take a closer look at the beverage you drank, the chair you sat on, and shirt you
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday (April 13) in a Kansas City suburb, in a horrible hate crime, a man yelled “Heil Hitler” after murdering three innocent people because he saw them as “the other.” My prayers are with the victims and their families. Hitler didn’t “just” kill Jews — he was a mass murderer
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USA