By Yaakov Lappin (JNS) The deadly explosion that tore through a Hamas arms depot on December 10 in a mosque in the Burj Al Shimali refugee camp, in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, is a vivid reminder of Hamas’s growing organized armed presence on Lebanese territory – and Iran’s role in helping it grow.
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Middle East
By Josh Hasten (JNS) In a true “Cinderella story,” 19-year-old Hailey Kops, a religiously observant athlete from West Orange, N.J., is preparing to take on the world’s finest ice skaters while proudly representing Israel at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Kops and her partner 33-year-old Evgeni Krasnopolski recently qualified for the pairs ice skating
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International, Middle East, Sports & Competitions, USA
Published by Reuters By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli leaders and the U.S. national security adviser on Wednesday sought common ground on how to deal with Iran’s nuclear programme amid slow-moving talks between Tehran and world powers. The U.S. official, Jake Sullivan, told Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Jerusalem that the United States
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USA
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — Iran has requested a new pause in the talks in Vienna, negotiations which purportedly aim to bring the U.S. back into the 2015 agreement and roll back Iran’s nuclear activities. Too bad that that agreement is already obsolete. But, the negotiators don’t care about that. It’s all about
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International, Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Aliyah (immigration to Israel) surged in 2021, with the 27,050 new arrivals from across the globe representing a 30% increase over the previous year’s 21,820 olim (immigrants), according to statistics released today by the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, The Jewish Agency for Israel and Nefesh B’Nefesh. This past year also
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International, Middle East, USA
(JNS) Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are calling on Facebook to take “immediate measures” to better combat the proliferation of antisemitic content on its platform. In a letter sent on Dec. 16 to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and co-founder of Facebook — which was recently rebranded as Meta — and Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg, eight
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International, USA
By Israel Kasnett (JNS) Russia has built up roughly 100,000 troops near its border with Ukraine, sparking international concerns of an imminent invasion. U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a video call last week during which Biden warned of severe consequences including “strong economic measures.” The National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry
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International, Middle East
By Mike Wagenheim (JNS) As U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan prepares for his trip this week to Israel and the Palestinian Authority, a senior Biden administration official said on Monday that talks in Jerusalem will center around developing a plan on Iran for the near-term. “We will talk about where we see the state
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Middle East, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release) — In a nationwide display of bigotry and hate during the weekend of December 18-19, individuals associated with the antisemitic Goyim Defense League (GDL) distributed propaganda in multiple states, while people supporting the “White Lives Matter” movement distributed propaganda and held roadside flash demonstrations in several states. Some people participated in both efforts. The
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USA
TEL AVIV (Press Release) — A groundbreaking study by researchers from Tel Aviv University tracks the development of early humans’ hunting practices over the last 1.5 million years – as reflected in the animals they hunted and consumed. The researchers claim that at any given time early humans preferred to hunt the largest animals available
JERUSALEM — For Prof. Chaim Sukenik, president of the Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT), a recent visit to Southern California marked a homecoming of sorts. Sukenik’s personal history in the region dates back to his time as a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena from 1972-1976 and a postdoctoral fellow at
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Middle East, USA
Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (D-CA-53) led a letter to the White House on Monday calling on the Biden administration to urgently update U.S. policies to address the humanitarian and economic collapse in Afghanistan. The letter was led by Jacobs and Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-07) and CPC Vice Chair Congressman Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL-04) and was signed by four dozen members. [Rep. Sara Jacobs]
Rep. Jacobs, 47 Others, Call for Lifting Sanctions on Afghanistan Read More »
International, San Diego County, USA
When he’s not Robert J. Entel, MD, MPH, FACR, practicing radiology at Mease hospitals in Dunedin and Countryside and Morton Plant hospitals in Clearwater and New Port Richey, he can often be found in Penny Lane at 730 Broadway in Dunedin, surrounded by an astonishing collection of Beatles memorabilia. [Bruce Lowitt]
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Bruce F. Lowitt, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA
Frieda Salvendy moved to Malvern sometime after the end of the Second World War, and died here, in obscurity, in 1965. A short notice of her death was placed in the local paper and probate details gave her address in Alexandra Road. Beyond that, it would appear that very few, if any, knew of her existence, or that she had been an eminent European artist. [JASHP}
Artist Frieda Salvendy Commemorated in British Town of Her Retirement Read More »
International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts