WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –Two leading Washington-area rabbis have added their names to a growing list of clergy who are calling for D.C.’s NFL team to stop using the R-word in its team name. In recent months, religious leaders from a number of different faith communities have united in their opposition to the name, which […]
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By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson Naomi Tsur, who was born in England and moved to Israel in 1966 to study Classics and Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has had a varied career, ranging from coin curator in Israel’s Antiquities Authority to co-authoring a Hebrew-English/English-Hebrew dictionary and heading the Society for the Protection of Nature in
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Egypt was a blatant fence-mender. He said the Egyptian interim coalition’s democratic roadmap was “being carried out to the best of our conceptions,” and added that the aid suspension was not to be seen as “punishment” for what the U.S. administration previously
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Jewish Agency, Israeli government convene strategic summit on Israel-Diaspora ties (JNS.org) More than 120 Jewish leaders gathered in Jerusalem on Wednesday and Thursday for a first-of-its-kind strategic dialogue conference—led by the Israeli government and The Jewish Agency for Israel—focused on formulating ways to bolster both Israel-Diaspora ties and the Jewish identity of youths. “This is
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Twice a year at about this time, Israelis hear about the murder 18 years ago of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. It happens twice, like some other occasions, due to the the country’s juggling of two calendars, secular and Hebrew. Like JFK, Yitzhak Rabin has grown in stature with an improved personality since
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastAvigdor Lieberman cleared of corruption charges (JNS.org) In a unanimous verdict, a three-judge panel on Wednesday acquitted former Israeli foreign minister and Yisrael Beiteinu party chairman Avigdor Lieberman of corruption charges, Israel Hayom reported. “I congratulate you on your acquittal and I am pleased with your return to the Israeli cabinet so that we can
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InternationalTEL AVIV (Press Release)– On the 18th anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry paid tribute to him at the square where his life was taken. Here, provided by the U.S. State Department, is a transcript of the remarks made on that occasion: SECRETARY KERRY: It’s a great privilege for me
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Middle EastNetanyahu: No change in Palestinian position since 1993 (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday in a Likud-Beiteinu alliance meeting that he sees “no real changes in the Palestinian position since 1993,” the year the Oslo Accords were signed. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, meanwhile, said Israel’s linking of its release of Palestinian prisoners
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Here we are, with at least 2,000 years of animosity from outsiders, along with quarrelsome Jews. Some believe with great intensity that God gave us everything between an Egyptian river and far to the east. Some believe that the Jews of Palestine then Israel have been responsible for their problems
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — On November 4, 1963, a still-emerging quartet from Liverpool played a key engagement: The Beatles gave a concert for the Royal Family in London. In fact, the event was a Royal Command Performance at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London, in the presence of both the Queen
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USAJobbik party’s commemoration of Hungarian Nazi collaborator sparks protest (JNS.org) Nearly 1,000 protestors took to the streets in Budapest to decry the far-right Jobbik party’s unveiling of a statue of Hungarian wartime leader and Nazi collaborator Miklos Horthy, Reuters reported. The third-largest party in Hungary, Jobbik’s leaders have stoked extremism anti-Semitism in Hungary, often
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InternationalBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Palestinians have thrown a monkey wrench in the works again – as they have a pattern of doing every time the “peace process” is supposed to be close to “solving” the problem. Despite the secrecy surrounding the current U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry-sponsored talks, a Palestinian
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–America’s loss of dominance was inevitable. Its standing from the late ’40s through the ’50s could not last. The power derived from being the sole country on its feet after the most destructive war in history. The American economy thrived as a result of pent-up purchasing power from war-time full employment, the
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Ira Sharkansky, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Many baseball fans I know have grown up and relished the great baseball rivalries of the last fifty years or more. As a native San Franciscan, who could forget the rivalries involving the Giants and the Dodgers—Northern vs. Southern California? Indeed, today’s latest incarnations of the
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA