International

North Korean nuclear test shows how little can be done about Iran

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — North Korea’s nuclear test has cast a shadow over Barack Obama’s visit to Israel.   Speculation was that a key item on the agenda would be Obama’s pressure that Israel forget about its own attack on Iran. We’re hearing that Israel might have been planning such a thing in the

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Jewish teen turns tragedy into advocacy, shares a roundtable with the president

By Beth Kissileff/JNS.org On Yom Kippur, Sept. 26, 2012, Sami Rahamim was with his father Reuven at Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park, Minn. On Feb. 4, 2013, 17-year-old Sami opened a roundtable discussion at the Minneapolis Police Department Special Operations Center meeting with President Barack Obama.  In between? Reuven Rahamim was shot the

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USA

Israel becoming more proactive in Middle East

By Gabriel Scheinmann  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Depending on what one believes, a week-and-a-half ago Israeli fighter jets struck either an arms convoy in Lebanon, the Assad regime’s nerve center for biological and chemical weapons research in Damascus, or an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) headquarters, in an attempt to contain the spillover from the Syrian

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Middle East

Iranian presidential candidate wants better U.S., Israel relations

By Sean Savage (JNS.org)As a presidential candidate in Iran, Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi believes the Islamic Republic should prioritize allaying its tension with Israel and the United States—not the kind of approach the world has been accustomed to seeing lately from a country whose leaders repeatedly vow to wipe the Jewish state off the map.  

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Middle East

Installation of new Knesset a sentimental occasion

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel —  Anyone who is at all familiar with the procedure customary in the various Houses of Representatives around the civilized world knows that these are governed by rules and regulations that are often very old, their roots lost in tradition. For instance, the Speaker of England’s parliament (the House of

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East

JNS news briefs: February 8, 2013

Israeli Chief Rabbinate tackles quandary of pastry fillings (JNS.org) Members of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s Kashrut Division called a meeting this week to discuss the problematic and potentially misleading shapes of an Israeli bakery staple, the puff pastry that is stuffed with various cheeses, meat or vegetable fillings, Israel Hayom reported. One such pastry, about

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