LONDON (Press Release) — England’s Football Association (FA) suspended French player Nicolas Anelka for five games and fined him the equivalent of US$ 133,400 for making the ‘quenelle’, which is widely considered as a Nazi salute in reverse, at a match of his West Brom team in December 2013. The ‘quenelle’ was made popular by […]
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InternationalROME (WJC) – A delegation of 45 Argentinean Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders and politicians was received on Thursday, Feb. 27, by Pope Francis at the Vatican, following the group’s goodwill tour to the Middle East to promote peace and mutual understanding. The trip was organized by the Latin American Jewish Congress, the regional chapter
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InternationalFormer PM Yitzhak Shamir’s son: ‘Not enough space’ for Palestinian state (JNS.org) Israeli Agriculture Minister Yair Shamir, the son of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, said in an interview published Friday by Israel Hayom that there is “not enough space” for the establishment of a Palestinian state. “There is not enough space here for two
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NEW YORK (Press Release) –AJC (American Jewish Committee) sharply criticized Amnesty International for its new report on Israeli military activities in the West Bank. “Sadly but tellingly, starting with the title, this Amnesty International report has all the hallmarks of those groups that excel in lambasting, with what can only be described as calculated bias,
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Middle EastEditor’s Note: Here are the sections about human rights in Israel and the Territories that were part of a larger report issued on Thursday, Feb. 27, by the U.S State Department evaluating human rights issues around the world. * Israel Israel is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. Although it has no constitution, the parliament, the unicameral
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed concern at reports in the Israeli press that the Obama Administration is increasingly rejecting requests from Israeli citizens for visas to visit the United States. According to U.S. State Department records consulted by these reports, during 2013, 9.7% of Israelis who requested visas —
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NEW YORK (Press Release)– World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced on Thursday, Feb. 27, the receipt of an award of $220,000 from the David Berg Foundation of New York for five projects at Jewish heritage sites in Europe and Africa: the Schola Canton in Venice, Italy; the Great Synagogue of Iasi, Romania; Split Synagogue in Croatia;
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you are surprised by this week’s announcement of major manpower cuts to the U.S. Army, you haven’t been paying attention. For a long time. There are two components to understanding America’s defense spending choices — the political and the budgetary; they are not the same. The Administration has
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Shoshana Bryen, USAEditor’s Note: San Diego Jewish World printed a brief obituary notice about the death of Barry Rubin, whose columns we had the privilege of carrying from time to time. In this article, his colleague, Jonathan Spyer, looks back over Rubin’s career and assesses the contributions he made to Middle Eastern studies. By Jonathan Spyer HERZLIYA
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Settlers and the ultra-Orthodox are important minorities in Israeli politics. Both are somewhere on the fringe of key decision-makers, but must be taken into consideration even if not part of the A-team. There is no precise measure of either group. “Settlers” are both more and less than the people living in post-1967
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastPalestinian students launch anti-Israel photo exhibit at Hebrew University (JNS.org) Watan, a Palestinian student group at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, launched a new exhibit featuring photos whose captions are hostile to Israel, referring to Jerusalem as a “sewer of the Israeli settlements” and to Israeli soldiers as “the occupation army” and “the hunters
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InternationalBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister has worked hard to forge an alliance with the king of Jordan. One of the results is said to be Israel supplying water for the million Syrian refugees currently in the kingdom without which they couldn’t survive. Another is the sale of half-a-billion dollars’ worth of
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Middle EastBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — Amnesty International released a report on Thursday, Feb. 27, accusing the IDF and Israeli police of being “Trigger-happy”, using “reckless force in the West Bank.” “Israeli forces have displayed a callous disregard for human life by killing dozens of Palestinian civilians, including children, in the occupied West Bank over
By Anav Silverman ABEL BETH MAACAH, Israel – A hoard of silver dating back to the time of the Biblical Exodus, was discovered by American and Israeli archaeologists last summer at Abel Beth Maacah, a 35-acre tel and the northernmost site in Israel. Among the artifacts discovered were five complete silver hoop earrings, three silver
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