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Scientists unearth grisly secrets of Treblinka

March 24, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release)-It’s one of the most notorious cold cases of World War II — 900,000 Jews transported by the Nazis to a camp in eastern Poland, never to be seen again. Rare documents and eyewitnesses claimed Treblinka was a death camp even more ruthlessly efficient than Auschwitz-Birkenau, but evidence was thin, because […]

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International, Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education

Israeli woman new Thai boxing champ

March 24, 2014

By Aryeh Savir KIRYAT ARBA, Israel — Sarah Avraham, 20, of Kiryat Arba in Judea, won the Woman’s World Thai-Boxing Championship in Thailand on Thursday, March 20. Officially named Muay Thai, the combat sport is dubbed “the art of eight weapons” because of the use of fists, elbows, knees, and feet. Sarah has previously won the Israeli

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International, Sports & Competitions

Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe visits Anne Frank house

March 23, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC praised Japanese Prime Minister Abe for visiting the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam on Sunday, March 23. “Prime Minister Abe’s visit to the place where Anne Frank and her family hid, where she wrote her diary, until their capture by the Nazis is a strong demonstration of remembrance and solidarity with

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International, Jewish History

Christians rally in Israel against Muslim discrimination

March 23, 2014

By Aryeh Savir TEL AVIV – One hundred fifty Christian citizens of Israel demonstrated Sunday, March 23, outside the European Union’s delegation in Tel Aviv against the EU’s silence in relation to what they termed “the ethnic cleansing of Christians throughout the Middle East.” The protesters demanded that the EU act on their own cry for

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Middle East

AJC deplores brutal beating of French Jew

March 23, 2014

PARIS (Press Release) — AJC is appalled by the violent assault on a Jewish teacher in Paris. The man, who was wearing a kippah, was brutally beaten after he left a kosher restaurant on Thursday evening. The assailants broke his nose, drew a swastika on his chest and reportedly shouted anti-Semitic epithets in French and Arabic.

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International, Jewish Religion

Abbas’s three points prove futility of ‘peace’ talks

March 22, 2014

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Let’s imagine, at least for a brief moment, that at this Sunday’s meeting of the Netanyahu cabinet, the prime minister will announce that he has decided not to insist that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state as a precondition for a peace settlement. According to the

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Middle East

Ya’alon flap: Serious breach with U.S. or simply theatre?

March 22, 2014

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Are the emperors wearing any clothes? We can ask the question about those leading the US, Israel, Palestine, and no doubt several other places. Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon reached the headlines again for what ranking Americans perceived as insulting remarks about the weakness of the United States shown in dealing

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Report documents how UN agency indoctrinates Palestinian children to hate and fight against Israel

March 22, 2014

Editor’s Note: The following report was commissioned by the Center for Near East Policy Research, a Jerusalem institution which publishes Israel Behind the News. By Arnon Groiss, JERUSALEM (CNEPR) — UNRWA – the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian refugees in the Middle East – was established in the wake of the Arab-Israeli war of

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

J Street: Let ‘Jewish state’ be a final-status issue

March 21, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Since Secretary of State John Kerry started the nine-month clock on efforts to reach a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we’ve known there would be crises along the way. With eight of those nine months already past, we are at precisely such a crunch point that is testing the two major players –

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Middle East, USA

APN raises alarm over planned Israeli housing starts

March 21, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– As the Obama administration prepares to kick its efforts to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations into higher gear, the government of Israel is advancing plans to build 2,372 new housing units in West Bank settlements. News of this new round of settlement construction plans was publicized Thursday, March 20, by Americans for Peace

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Middle East

French Interior minister attacks anti- Semitism

March 21, 2014

PARIS (AJC) – On the second anniversary of the deadly terrorist attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse, French Interior Minister Manuel Valls issued a powerful attack on anti-Semitism. “Anti-Semitism has been on the rise in France in recent years, and largely comes from the extreme right,” said Valls. “What is new is an anti-Semitism that feeds

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International

IDF Chief: Time for Israel to retake Gaza?

March 21, 2014

GAN YAVNE, Israel — In light of recent hostilities with Islamic Jihad, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz lays down the gauntlet. During a presentation on Wednesday, March 19, to a high school in Gan Yavne in southern Israel, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz was alarmingly candid. “If we want to make sure that

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Middle East

AMCHA tells legislators about campus anti- semitism

March 21, 2014

SAN JOSE, California (Press Release)–At the first public hearing, Friday, March 21, of the new California Assembly Select Committee on Campus Climate, AMCHA Initiative in a prepared statement urged members of the Committee to examine campus antisemitism and take the proper steps to ensure Jewish students feel safe and welcome at California’s colleges and universities. “Unfortunately, antisemitism

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Khameini: Not clear if Holocaust really happened

March 21, 2014

By World Jewish Congress Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday voice doubts about the scale of the Holocaust, questioning the West’s “red lines” on freedom of expression. In a speech in the city of Mashhad Ali Khamenei said that In Europe, “no one dares to speak of the Holocaust, the crux of which

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Jewish History, Middle East

Scientists unearth grisly secrets of Treblinka

Israeli woman new Thai boxing champ

Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe visits Anne Frank house

Christians rally in Israel against Muslim discrimination

AJC deplores brutal beating of French Jew

Abbas’s three points prove futility of ‘peace’ talks

Ya’alon flap: Serious breach with U.S. or simply theatre?

Report documents how UN agency indoctrinates Palestinian children to hate and fight against Israel

J Street: Let ‘Jewish state’ be a final-status issue

APN raises alarm over planned Israeli housing starts

French Interior minister attacks anti- Semitism

IDF Chief: Time for Israel to retake Gaza?

AMCHA tells legislators about campus anti- semitism

Khameini: Not clear if Holocaust really happened

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