Israeli center sues Ahmadinejad’s NYC hotel on behalf of Hamas terror victim (JNS.org) An Israeli law center that combats terrorist organizations by seeking compensation for victims is suing the hotel that is hosting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations General Assembly next week, seeking the president’s room to satisfy a portion of a judgment […]
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — From here, it looks like my American friends are facing a choice between Jimmy Carter and Sarah Palin. Barack is Jimmy, nebech in chief with respect to dealing with the important region of the Middle East. Like Jimmy, Barack has a naive hope for democracy among the countries with no
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By Carol Naiman Waldman SAN DIEGO — It has always been a dream of mine to be an elected delegate to the Democratic National Convention and it turned out that 2012 was my year. I contacted friends and supporters to vote for me at the caucus on a Sunday afternoon in April and was elected
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USABy Yaakov Lappin The IDF is deep in preparations for the next potential round of fighting with the Shi’ite Lebanese terror militia Hezbollah. If one conclusion can be drawn from the intensive military training, it is that the IDF is determined that any future confrontation does not resemble the indecisive outcome of the 2006
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By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California —The streets of Europe and the Middle East are burning as we prepare ourselves for Rosh Hashanah. Life in Israel is making everyone nervous as the President is doing nothing meaningful to prevent Iran from developing the bomb. One gets the impression that Iran will finally “cave
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle EastIslamist rioters storm multinational peacekeeping force base in Sinai (JNS.org) Amid the recent wave of riots and angry protests across the Muslim world over a film portraying the Prophet Muhammad in a negative light, dozens of Salafist Islamist gunmen stormed a Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) base in Al-Jora in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday,
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InternationalIn a full interview with Israel Hayom, which provides exclusive news for JNS.org in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the claim that he is using the Iran issue to harm President Barack Obama’s re-election bid. By Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dedicates much of his time to thinking about how
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By Loren Kantor STUDIO CITY, California — Manhattan is a sweet little gem of a movie made by Woody Allen in 1979. Shot in gorgeous black & white, the film opens with a stunning montage of New York set to the strains of Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue. Unlike Scorsese’s gritty Mean Streets & Sidney
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –In light of the murderous meltdown in so many Arab quarters, many commentators note the contrasting modernity and true democracy in Israel. They celebrate Israel’s postmodern cyber culture and Western avant-gardism. This says a great deal about the miraculous Jewish state, but it ultimately oversimplifies. Israel is a lot
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Middle EastBy Robert G. Sugarman and Abraham H. Foxman NEW YORK–The start of a New Year always offers an opportunity to reflect on the events of the past year and to contemplate what lies ahead for the Jewish people and the state of Israel. It has been a year of momentous change both at home and
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an effort to protect the delicate sensibilities of Egyptian rioters who invaded the American Embassy and tore down the American flag, Secretary of State Clinton accepted at face value the claim that the rioters were just so outraged and horrified by an anti-Muslim movie that they couldn’t control
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Shoshana Bryen, USABy Israel Hayom and JNS.org Israel stepped up security after a controversial American film, Innocence of Muslims, sparked protests at U.S. embassies in Libya, Egypt and Yemen. In Libya, U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other diplomats were killed. Several dozen protesters from the Islamic Movement’s northern branch demonstrated outside the U.S. Embassy in
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Middle EastSome U.S. counties late in sending ballots to voters in Israel (JNS.org) Several U.S. counties are planning to send out absentee ballots to registered voters living abroad later than is required by federal law, essentially rendering these votes irrelevant, Israel Hayom reported. In a statement issued by iVoteIsrael— a group of American expats living in
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — An Israeli should be careful in criticizing the United States. One reason is pragmatic. The United States–like all the rulers of empires in the past–holds our fate in its hands. True, the United States does not aspire to rule in the fashion of Rome or latter day Britain, but the
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