By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The government of South Africa has defined the State of Israel as not including Beersheva, Yad Mordechai, Acco, Afula, and Nahariya. It creates an “Arab Enclave” in Jaffa not governed by Israel. It reduces the borders of Israel in two places to points on a map — one in […]
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenIDF develops innovative bulletproof grenade JNS.org The bulletproof grenade was developed following a March 2010 incident on the Gaza Strip border in which two IDF soldiers were killed when a bullet hit a grenade lodged in the vest of one of the soldiers, causing it to detonate. “After that incident, we were ordered to develop
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –The status of nuclear weapons in Israel bears some tantalizing resemblance to the status of the Almighty in Judaism. Those concerned with the history and role of God can click here, and continue further for as many years as the interest or life continues. It is risky in the extreme to summarize
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –In this heady time of national decision, the Hebrew Scripture unhesitatingly calls for appropriate restraints on any king. It’s fair to say that the notion of “limited government” and “checks and balances” are not recent manifestations; they’re actually 3,000 years old and come straight out of Deuteronomy and, hopefully,
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USABy Evelyn Gordon WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last month, the Palestinian Authority (PA) took the rare step of publicly voicing concern over the fate of Palestinians living in Syria. About 300 (out of a population of over 500,000) have already been killed, PA officials said, and with some Palestinians supporting the Assad government while others
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Middle Eastwww.jns.org/news-briefs Report: Iran expands nuclear capacity underground (JNS.org) Iran has installed many more uranium enrichment machines in an underground bunker, potentially paving the way for a significant expansion of work the West fears is ultimately aimed at making nuclear bombs, Israel Hayom reported Thursday, citing diplomatic sources. The Islamic Republic denies allegations it is seeking a
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — In all the noise coming out of the White House and key spots in other governments, it is hard to know what is serious, and what is meant to soothe an audience of greater or lesser importance. The latest mystery concerns a warning from Barack Obama himself against Syria’s
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastEditor’s Note: The following briefs were compiled by the JNS.org and are reprinted with permission on San Diego Jewish World : Israel urges Merkel to fight German circumcision ban The recent decision to file criminal charges against a German rabbi for presiding over a Jewish circumcision (brit) continues to reverberate across the world and Israel. A
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — If I’ve learned anything in a half-century of studying politics, it is that those who demand everything risk getting nothing. Currently there are two examples of major players who haven’t gotten that message. One is the Republican Party of the United States, which, according to reports, is likely to include
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Ira Sharkansky, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — One problem is that too many extraneous people, agencies, synagogue officials, evangelicals, ambitious US office-seekers, Israeli legislators, and—in some cases—our own parents and grandparents, are telling us what to think. The other problem is that a generally small element of “the Jews” (a famously fractious and contentious people
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Middle EastBy Gerald M. Steinberg/JNS.org RAMAT GAN, Israel (JNS) –Given Iran’s illicit drive for nuclear weapons and penchant for anti-Semitism and hatred, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon—who is going to Tehran for the Aug. 26 conference of the “non-aligned movement”—should have avoided the fate of former UN Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson and stayed away from the
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The head of the U.S, Joint Chiefs of Staff caused a mini-row in Israel by remarks about Israel’s capacity to deal with Iran’s nuclear program. According to one view on a prominent Israeli web site. “Once every few years Israel needs a slap in the face to remember where it
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastEditor’s Note: The following briefs were compiled by Jewish News – JNS.org and are reprinted with permission on San Diego Jewish World : Abbas, citing ‘alleged’ Temple, denies Jewish connection to Jerusalem (JNS.org) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said a “series” of attacks on the Temple Mount “under the nose of the Israeli occupation authorities” seek “to
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InternationalBy Shoshona Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –While noting in The Washington Post that Israel “cannot afford to outsource its security to another country,” Maj. Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin, former chief of Israeli Military Intelligence, contends that President Obama can/should frame “a nuclear-armed Iran as an impermissible threat to the national interests of the United States and its
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