Newseum cancels honor for Hamas (JNS.org) The Newseum, a non-profit museum of news and journalism in Washington, DC, has reversed its controversial decision to commemorate Hussam Salama and Mahmoud al-Kumi, two cameramen who worked for the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV in Gaza, after considerable outrage from leading Jewish organizations. “Serious questions have been raised as […]
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By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM — In a ceremony celebrating its 150th anniversary which was named “My Honor is My Freedom,” the International Red Cross together with the Palestinian Red Crescent planted 150 trees in Jenin bearing the names of “veteran prisoners.” According to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) the Palestinian Authority uses the term “veteran
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The latest numbers about the two year old Syrian civil war are 80,000 deaths, one million refugees over the borders in Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon, and a total of four million displaced Syrians either over the borders or away from their homes in Syria. As always, we must be suspicious
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California –When the news came recently from Memphis that Maxine Smith had died—just a few days after my own biological, if enigmatic mother had passed—I understood what the loss of maternal wisdom and joy really does to a son. This Mother’s Day is my bittersweet day of mourning for the
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By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel–Although I was not in Jerusalem for Jerusalem Day this year, having been called away to fulfill grandparental duties, it was very much in my thoughts. I still have a very clear memory of those six days in June, just 46 years ago, when I was only dimly able to
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By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Like all crimes, acts of Islamist terrorism have their MOM (Motivation, Opportunity, Means). They differ in that they are not motivated by greed, profit, vengeance, or mental dysfunction, but by religious fanaticism inculcated in the minds of the perpetrators through years of intense indoctrination that succeeds in making
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin called Prime Minister Netanyahu during Mr. Netanyahu’s visit to China, surely a diplomatic oddity. (Chinese Premier Li Kegiang answers the hotline in Beijing and says, “Oh, sure. Hey, Bibi, it’s for you.”) President Obama called him there as well, making Netanyahu appear to be the
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenDefeat of Nazi Germany marked 68 years later (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel and the global community marked the 68th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II on Thursday with parades, festivals and somber memorial services. Hundreds of people, including war veterans who fought against Germany alongside the Allied troops, marched
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israel’s current discussion is providing its lessons in the politics of economics and the economics of politics. Political economy is the name of the game. It is not really a discussion we are having. It’s more like simultanteous complaints, expressed as close to the top of one’s voice as appropriate
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By Sahar Raz PETAH TIKVA, Israel — It is not altogether common to see a 33-year-old man walking through the streets with large quantities of children’s toys, much less one wearing a military officer’s uniform. Yet when the IDF Website met with Maj. Maor Cohen, the officer was carrying boxes of Legos – those popular
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Middle EastAssad vows ‘strategic revenge’ on Israel (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Syria will “give Hezbollah everything” in recognition of its support and will follow the terror group’s model of “resistance” against Israel, a Lebanese newspaper on Thursday quoted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as saying, AFP reported. Assad’s comments, published by Al-Akhbar, reportedly came during meetings with
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InternationalStephen Hawking boycotts Israeli conference (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) World-renowned theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has joined the academic boycott of Israel and will not be attending the fifth annual Presidential Conference in Jerusalem in June, The Guardian reported Wednesday. Hawking, 71, had agreed to headline the conference, titled “Facing Tomorrow,” alongside other major international
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — On Sunday the vast bulk of Israel’s media was about Syria. By Tuesday, it had shifted to the budget that Finance Minister Yair Lapid would present to the government. The background was a sizable deficit in the budgets of recent years, and a greater deficit projected for the present year
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastMortar shell lands in Israel from Syria for second consecutive day (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) For the second consecutive day, a mortar shell fired from Syria exploded within Israeli territory in the Golan Heights on Tuesday. Army Radio reported that the shell struck a minefield in the Tel Fares area around 8 a.m. No
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