Saudi airline under fire for discrimination against Israeli passengers (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) New York City mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio said on Monday that Saudi Arabian Airlines should be excluded from U.S. airports if it doesn’t stop discriminating against Israeli passengers. “Saudi Arabian Airlines uses U.S. airports and yet bans Israeli citizens from being […]
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InternationalKnesset committee designates a memorial day for Jewish refugees of Arab states (JNS.org) The Knesset Ministerial Committee for Legislation endorsed a new proposal on Sunday that will mark Nov. 30 as a national day to commemorate the more than 850,000 Jews who fled or were evicted from their homes in Arab countries after Israel’s establishment,
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International
WASHINGTON (Press Release)– Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life today announced that Eric Fingerhut will serve as its president and CEO. The appointment was approved unanimously on Sunday by the Hillel Board of Directors, who met in New York. “Eric is an ideal fit for Hillel at this important time in our history,” said
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USA
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM — The IDF Spokesperson Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai wished Muslim citizens in Israel and across the world a Ramadan kareem, or blessed Ramadan, in a video message posted on the IDF YouTube account. The Israeli general spoke in Arabic with English subtitles throughout the video. “I would like to wish Israel’s
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Middle East
By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California–The problem is not what we know; it’s what we feel. We do not really know what happened: for the vast majority of us, it happened somewhere else (in the previously unknown town of Sanford, Fla.), we have relied entirely on the cloying media with its pundits and professional oracles,
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Two issues from the extremes of Judaism are disturbing the peace of Israel, and raising yet again the hoary queries about what is Judaism, and who are the Jews. One of the current issues is the hot button issue of drafting the Haredim. Another is the much quieter issue
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastIranian missiles could reach U.S. by 2015, report says (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Iran could develop and test an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the United States by 2015, a U.S. intelligence report released on Friday revealed. The Foreign Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat Assessment, prepared by the National Air and Space Intelligence
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InternationalSaudi Arabia reportedly has missiles trained on Iran, Israel (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Based on new satellite images, Saudi Arabia has apparently deployed ballistic missile batteries that have both Israel and Iran in their crosshairs, the British newspaper The Telegraph reported Thursday. The images, which were analyzed by military experts at IHS Jane’s, a business
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International
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Egyptian Army Commander and Defense Minister Abdul Fattah al-Sisi was faced in Cairo with what experts say was the largest human gathering in history — somewhere between 17 and 30 million people — demanding a chance to redo the 2011 revolution. A “mulligan,” so to speak. The military responded
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — When the nine days of the Jewish month of Ab arrives, our joy diminishes accordingly.[1] Unlike other times of the year, this period in particular beckons us to give thought to the reasons why the Second Jewish Commonwealth of the 1st century ended in disaster for the
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle EastDefense cuts bite into IDF’s operational platforms (JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces began to implement government-mandated cuts to its budget, announcing Tuesday that several of its operational platforms will be reconfigured, while others will be retired, in an effort to slash its expenditures. The defense establishment has been asked to slash some 22 billion shekels
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InternationalNearly two-dozen Al-Jazeera staffers resign (JNS.org) Nearly two-dozen Al-Jazeera employees have resigned from the Qatar-based satellite news channel over what they are calling pro-Muslim Brotherhood bias in its coverage of the recent events in Egypt. As many as 22 resigned employees were all part of Al-Jazeera’s “Mubasher Misr” (or “Egypt Live”) channel, which focuses coverage
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — This column is about smoke and mirrors. In other words, it’s an effort to understand what may really be happening in the fog of Israeli politics. It’s not something that I usually do. I generally scoff at stories of conspiracy, hidden meanings, the secret Torah within the Torah, gematria or
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The list of famous people President Obama has invited to the White House is something most of us would find surprising, amusing, and even outrageous. He has on occasions invited Gangsta Rappers like the rap artist named Common, whose poetical lyrics extols the virtues of cannibalism,
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA