International

Judea and Samaria colleges to be put under Israeli law?

The Ministerial Committee on Legislation approved a bill on Sunday that would officially place Israeli colleges and universities in Judea and Samaria under Israeli law. As Ariel University, Orot College in Elkana, and Herzog College in the Eztion Bloc are located in Judea and Samaria, they are not officially considered institutes of higher learning under […]

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Satmar group slams Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem

The head of one of the two rival groups of the staunchly anti-Zionist Satmar Hassidic movement ripped into President Trump for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last week. Satmar, known as one of the most dogmatically anti-Zionist Hassidic sects, refuses to recognize the State of Israel and calls on members living in Israel not to

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

Netanyahu to Macron: Read the Bible – Jerusalem is our capital!

[youtube:2036012] Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Sunday, days after President Donald Trump declared that the United States recognized Jerusalem as Israel”s capital city, and announced that the State Department would begin the process of relocated the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. President Donald Trump

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International, Middle East

Anti-Israel Times Square rally: ‘Muhammed’s army will return’

A large protest held in New York City”s Times Square on Friday against US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel”s capital featured chants calling for violence and the destruction of the Jewish state, Algemeiner Journal has reported. In video footage captured by the advocacy group Reservists on Duty (RoD), protesters clad in keffiyehs and waving Palestinian

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USA

‘Shabbat Law’ wins coalition backing

The Ministerial Legislative Committee approved a government proposal sponsored by Labor and Social Services Minister Haim Katz (Likud) which would allow the minister to define and limit the conditions under which government employees or employees of state-owned entities may be employed on the Sabbath. Under the proposal, the Labor and Social Services Minister would be

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

Trump UN Ambassador Nikki Haley Wishes Jewish Host Jake Tapper A ‘Merry Christmas’

One of the Trump administration’s top diplomats, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, wished CNN host Jake Tapper a “Merry Christmas” on Sunday — even though he is Jewish. At the end of an interview with Haley about President Donald Trump’s decision to accept Jerusalem as the Israel’s capital, Tapper concluded by acknowledging Haley’s Christian faith. “Madam

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USA

Nothing new in Arab reaction to Trump’s Jerusalem stand

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Donald’s speech about Jerusalem was his best performance to date. Perhaps because it was tightly controlled. He read a prepared presentation whose details had been known and commented upon for several hours. We didn’t have to experience the bi-lingual confusion of a simultaneous translation in Hebrew overlaying the President’s English.

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International, Middle East, USA

SWU applauds Rutgers discipline of Chikindas

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Press Release) – StandWithUs applauds the Rutgers University for taking action against Professor Michael Chikindas, after he was exposed for spreading anti-Semitism, homophobia, and other forms for bigotry on social media. The Rutgers administration announced that Chikindas would be removed from teaching required courses, fired from his position as director of

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Israeli team probes how people make decisions

  The Undoing Project; a Friendship that Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis; W.W. Norton and Co. (c) 2017. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson   MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — In this book Michael Lewis sets out to describe the way two Israeli psychologists worked together over the course of several years to develop a theory about the process

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East