NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday, Jan. 27, commended Italian authorities for their strong condemnation of two anti-Semitic incidents in which pig heads were sent to a Rome synagogue, the Jewish Museum of Rome and the Israeli embassy on January 25, two days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano […]
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InternationalNEW YORK (Press Release)– In response to reports of anti-Semitism in the Pine Bush, N.Y. school district and elsewhere in the town, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has brought its Confronting Anti-Semitism program to Orange County in an effort to empower and equip the local Jewish community with constructive and effective responses to anti-Semitic incidents and
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By Sean Savage/JNS.org The U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations have yet to yield any tangible results. Serious disagreements remain over key issues such as borders, refugees, security, and the status of Jerusalem. Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a surprise visit to Jordan’s King Abdullah to discuss these issues. While Jordan officially supports a two-state
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Middle EastNew excavations shed light on Sobibor death camp (JNS.org) A recent excavation has provided a silent testimony to the mass killing of about 250,000 Jews at the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp in Poland, 70 years after the perpetrators tried to cover their tracks by razing the site to its core and planting what was to
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InternationalBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration is angry that Senate proponents of additional sanctions against Iran (to be instituted if the interim accord expires without a final agreement) appear to be more skeptical of Iranian promises than the president and Secretary Kerry are. The administration is angry as well that signers, particularly Democratic
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM–Two unusual events relating to Holocaust remembrance took place in the Arab world in December 2013: a first official conference on the Holocaust was held in Tunisia, dealing with Holocaust of the Jews of Tunisia, and the first visit by an Arab diplomat to a Holocaust memorial site, when Bahraini ambassador to
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InternationalBy Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — One of the characteristics of “one-man rule,” whether autocratic, theocratic, authoritarian, or totalitarian, is the absence of “mistakes, blunders and scandals” because the dictator answers to no one and to no law. In the Roman empire, “the Prince is exempt from the Laws,” (Princeps legibus solutus est.)
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Slogans of the left are that Israeli occupation of Palestinian land cannot last, or alternatively, that the international community will not tolerate the lack of agreement between Israel and an independent State of Palestine.. It has lasted for coming onto 66 or 47 years, depending on whether you begin at
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International, Ira SharkanskyBy Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — I have always felt so sad for Danny Pearl and his family for the tragic way in which he was kidnapped and beheaded in Pakistan. Everyone knows the story by now, and a recent essay by Asra Q. Nomani in the Washingtonian magazine headlined “Danny Pearl’s Final Story”
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InternationalNEW YORK (Press Relase) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday, Jan. 24, welcomed an important warning by the United States that, despite modest sanctions relaxation, now is not the time to do business with Iran. ADL called on Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Undersecretary David Cohen to amplify that message to U.S.
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InternationalJohn Kerry doubtful Israeli-Palestinian framework deal is imminent (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Has U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry lost his trademark optimism regarding the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations? In an interview with the Saudi-based Al Arabiya network on Thursday, Kerry was asked whether he felt a framework agreement between the two sides was imminent.
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International
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The Department of State has designated Ziyad al-Nakhalah as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, which targets terrorists and those providing support to terrorists or acts of terrorism. Ziyad al-Nakhalah is the Deputy Secretary General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a group that was designated
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– As Ari Shavit’s book, My Promised Land, was published in English abroad (a Hebrew translation is said to be on its way), it took some time before I could get hold of a copy here. It was in great demand and stores quickly ran out. I’ve now finally read it:
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By Anav Silverman DAVOS, Switzerland– Israeli President Shimon Peres sharply addressed the speech made by the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland on Thursday morning, January 23. “The most significant remarks were the ones he [Rouhani] didn’t make – he didn’t express support for peace in the Middle
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