Belgian lawmakers visit Judea and Samaria (JNS.org) A delegation of Belgian parliamentarians visited Judea and Samaria on Thursday as guests of the Shomron Regional Council. The visit was coordinated by the council’s foreign relations committee. During the visit, delegation head Senator Anke Vandermeersch noted that she was “surprised to see how different the reality […]
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InternationalBy Ben Cohen/JNS.org Here’s the setting: a Middle Eastern state filled with skyscrapers and luxury hotels, and blessed with a booming business environment and the close friendship of the United States. Here’s the problem: a substantial segment of its population lives with the constant threat of deportation hanging over it. Its members cannot obtain birth
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Middle East
By Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week WASHINGTON, D.C. –An analysis of recent letters sent by members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to President Barack Obama pledging support for the administration’s ongoing negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program reveal subtle, but crucial differences in tone. Though the idea of a letter on Iran occupied
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Middle East, USABy Morton A. Klein NEW YORK –Mahmoud Abbas has provided further proof, if any were needed, that he and the PA he heads have no interest in a genuine peace with Israel, but is only working towards Israel’s destruction. It is perfectly clear that Abbas is simply another Arab terrorist whose goal is Israel’s destruction.
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Middle EastBy Alex Traiman/JNS.org A recent border incident in which Israeli troops shot a Jordanian judge has highlighted the dualities of the Jewish state’s stable-yet-tenuous relations with its eastern neighbor. Judge Raed Za’eiter was shot dead on March 10 at the Allenby Bridge crossing, also known as the King Hussein Bridge, while allegedly trying to
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Middle East
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on Thursday, March 27, issued a statement marking the death of former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, 85, who was raised in a Jewish family, but later became a Lutheran. The statement read as follows: “Today the entire Department of Defense mourns the passing of the 12th Secretary
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USANEW YORK (Press Release) – The heads of Jewish and Christian organizations and denominations met in an unprecedented summit in New York City on Thursday, March 26, to discuss strategies to strengthen and maintain relationships even in the face of significant disagreements. The gathering to discuss relationships and how we treat each other was the first to
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release)–Israel Tennis Centers coach and global ambassador Ronen Moralli just returned from an unprecedented trip to South Africa in which he helped train local coaches and underprivileged youth at the Arthur Ashe Tennis complex in Soweto. As reported in a recent edition of South African Jewish Report, the program is the
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International, Sports & Competitions
HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–For the first time in academia, the University of Haifa has launched an academic course to combat the delegitimization of Israel on the Internet. The ‘Ambassadors Online’ Program, offered by the University’s Department of Multi-Disciplinary Studies as a four credit course, prepares students to be unofficial “ambassadors” for Israel on the
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationMUNICH, Germany (WJC)–Cornelius Gurlitt, the reclusive octogenarian hoarder of art whose father was a prominent art trader during the Third Reich, said through his lawyers that he would return paintings in his trove to their Jewish owners or their descendants if the art works had been looted by the Nazis. Gurlitt’s lawyers are currently in
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International
By Michal Luz JERUSALEM – Amid conflicting reports on the Israeli government’s intentions to release the fourth wave of Palestinian terrorists as part of peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, families of terror victims have not lost hope in their fight against what they believe is a destructive move for Israel, physically and morally. Protesting
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Middle EastIsraeli soldier lightly wounded in Jerusalem stabbing attack (JNS.org) An Israeli soldier was lightly wounded Thursday morning when he was stabbed in the leg by unknown assailants in Jerusalem’s Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood, Israel Hayom reported. Magen David Adom paramedics transported the soldier Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus. Passersby who saw the incident said there were two or
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Change was the theme of Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign for the presidency. Much has happened since then, just as much as happened in any 6-year period as far back as we can remember. Among the questions: Have the changes been more positive than negative? And to what extent are one
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Ira Sharkansky, USA
By Asaf Romirowsky PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — After hours of discussion and debate, the Central Student Government (CSG) at the University of Michigan reversed the indefinite postponement of the BDS resolution and subsequently voted to not pass it during a 6-hour meeting in a 25-9 vote on Tuesday, March 25. During the entire process, hundreds of students lined
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education