Editor’s Note: The Christian Broadcasting Network, in comment below the following story, says Pat Robertson was quoting Daniel Lapin’s book, and not voicing his own opinion. By Joe Gandelman SAN DIEGO — Televangelist Pat Robertson has struck again, recently saying Jews never fix their cars because they’re too busy polishing diamonds. Note that Robertson often […]
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Jewish Religion, Joe Gandelman, USAEditor’s Note: Our correspondent from Mevasseret Zion, Israel, has been visiting the United States and occasionally blogging about what she sees. Here is a report from Richmond, Virginia. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson RICHMOND, Virginia — For me personally, the principal attraction of Richmond, Virginia is the presence there or in the vicinity of two first cousins
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Travel and Food, USA
NEW YORK — The resignation of Takis Baltakos, chief of staff to Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, was entirely warranted, following the revelation of his meeting with a senior official of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn. “What Mr. Baltakos did is an affront to Prime Minister Samaras and to the vast majority of the Greek people,” said
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InternationalBy Lloyd Levy LONDON–The dire state of the Kerry Peace effort was just so predictable. How did he have the arrogance and vanity to think that he can solve a problem that has eluded the whole world for over 100 years? The “process” became the objective, and not the real needs of both sides. One
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Lloyd Levy, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — A few days ago, something of a deal was in the offing. It would allow for the continuation of peace talks (not peace itself, alas) between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and include the release of more prisoners convicted of terrorism in Israel, and perhaps even Jonathan Pollard after 29
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– John Kerry’s peace process is dying. Or it was born dead, despite having parents who praised its prospects. The fault is not Israel’s, nor Palestine’s, but John Kerry’s. Or maybe Barack Obama’s, due to his appointing a visionary for a job that is supposed to be serious. Kerry’s various ideas join
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
By Hen Mazzig/JNS.org On March 31, I attended a disturbing lecture at Washington University in St. Louis. It was co-sponsored by St. Louis Hillel at Washington University and J Street U. The speaker, a former Israeli soldier with the group “Breaking the Silence” (BtS), misrepresented and demonized the Israel Defense Forces, Israel, and Israeli policy. BtS is known
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort CARLSBAD, California — Despite months of relentless and very public diplomacy it looks as though John Kerry is withdrawing from the negotiations (I refuse to call it a “Peace Process”) failing to have achieved an agreement between Israel and the Arabs living in Judea and Samaria (I refuse to call them
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Middle East, Yeruchem Eilfort-RabbiNEW YORK (Press Release) – AJC remembers with profound sorrow the more than 800,000 victims of the Rwanda genocide 20 years ago. The UN General Assembly designated April 7th as the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda. “This unimaginable slaughter ended the illusion that after the Holocaust genocide would not happen again,” said
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NEW YORK (Press Release)–Robert G. Sugarman, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations denounced the appointment of Hamid Aboutalebi as Iran’s new Ambassador to the United Nations. He is widely known to have been involved in the siege of the American embassy in Tehran in 1979
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Middle East, USA
By Morton A. Klein NEW YORK, — Last week, potential presidential candidate, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, spoke to hundreds of Jews at the Republican Jewish Coalition meeting in Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Palazzo hotel. Christie didn’t mention Israel in his prepared remarks but during the Q &A, he inaccurately referred to Judea and Samaria as
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Middle East, USA
NEW YORK (WJC)– The World Jewish Congress-US has applauded a bipartisan effort in the US Congress to create a fund to aid the estimated 30,000 impoverished Holocaust survivors living in the United States. The initiative, a letter authorized by Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and signed by more than 50 House
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USARABAT, Morocco (SDJW) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, on a visit to Morocco, said on Friday, April 4, that he and President Barack Obama will evaluate whether the United States should continue its role as a mediator in the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, in light of recent actions taken by both
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Middle East, USA
CANBERRA, Australia (WJC) — Australia’s Jewish community has rejected plans by Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s government to loosen laws punishing hate speech and racial discrimination. Under the federal government’s proposed changes, the new Racial Discrimination Act will no longer make it illegal to “offend, insult or humiliate” an Australian because of their race or ethnicity.
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