Film of Kennedy assassination created dilemmas for Jewish immigrant who shot it Lillian and Abraham Zapruder, the author’s grandparents, with the Bell and Howell camera he would be using a year later when he captured the assassination of President John Kennedy on film. Photo courtesy the Zapruder family Alexandra Zapruder signs copies of her book
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USADisgraced prime minister questions Trump’s Jerusalem plan Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, on right, meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem on Nov. 17, 2008. Moshe Milner/GPO via Getty Images Ehud Olmert, on left, with Daniel Kurtzer at NJPAC. Photo by Johanna Ginsberg Ehud Olmert, Israel’s 12th prime minister, had a question for President
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Middle EastSome have suggested Alabama Republican Senatorial candidate Roy Moore is anti-semitic, so his wife Kayla offered this defense: “Fake news would tell you that we don’t care for Jews. But I’ll tell you all this because I see you all, I just want to set the record straight while they’re here: One of our attorneys
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USAAfter President Donald Trump popularized the term “fake news” by calling out media outlets that do not, in his opinion, report in an unbiased manner, Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore’s wife used the phrase as a defense against rumors that her husband and she were anti-Semites on Tuesday. Ahead of a key election in
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USAAn Israeli Arab Knesset member mocked the Israeli flag, Israeli national anthem, and other national symbols of the Jewish state Tuesday, saying that he identified as a “Palestinian” while deriding Israel as an “occupier” since its establishment in 1948. Jamal Zahalka, a five-term veteran MK from the Arab ultra-nationalist Balad party, which became a faction
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Middle EastShortly after Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman passed away Tuesday morning at the age of 104, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin marked the passing of the late rabbi in a statement, lauding Rabbi Shteinman”s wisdom and humility, saying that he “gave direction to thousands”. “Our teacher, the brilliant Rabbi Shteiman, was a leader who bore the
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Obituaries & memorialsAn Israeli man was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday for an arson attack at the church built where Christians believe Jesus performed the miracle of loaves and fishes. The Israeli district court in the Galilee city of Nazareth had earlier found Yinon Reuveni guilty of “aggravated arson” and two counts of criminal conspiracy
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Middle EastThe Reform Center for Religion and State, together with the Coalition Against Racism is demanding that the Nahal Sorek Regional Council not participate in a conference aimed at curbing intermarriage between Jews and Arabs. The conference will take place on Tuesday in Yad Binyamin, and is aimed at women educators. The event was organized by
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By Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Tonight begins the festival of Chanukah. It is a time when we celebrate truth about who we are and where we come from. The events which Chanukah commemorate took place more than 2,000 years ago, when the Greek Empire invaded the Land of Israel and conquered Jerusalem.
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By Juliet Moses AUCKLAND, New Zealand — I am a Zionist. If I announced that, on walking into a party in New Zealand, I would quite likely get a worse reaction than if I declared that I am a P-addicted ISIS sympathising prostitute. It’s not the kind of thing that one can state in polite
NEW YORK (Press Release) — Anti-Semitism has emerged in forms both subtle and overt at anti-Israel rallies taking place globally in response to President Trump’s announcement on Jerusalem last week, according to a new analysis by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). ADL experts are monitoring incidents globally and in the United States. While there have been
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CHURACHANDPUR, India (Press Release)– Thousands of members of the Bnei Menashe community from across northeastern India gathered today to light candles for the first night of Hanukkah. “The story of the Maccabees’ heroic determination to preserve their Jewish identity resonates strongly with the Bnei Menashe, who – against all odds and with tremendous effort –
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UMM AL-FAHM, Israel (Press Release) — On Wednesday morning, one of the more active emergency medical service (EMS) volunteers in Umm al-Fahm, an Arab town located in Wadi Ara, responded to a car accident that saw two people lightly injured. The volunteer EMT treated both of the injured parties after they were evacuated from their
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationTurkish President Tayyip Erdogan labeled the United States Monday a “partner in bloodshed” over President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Since his decision on Wednesday, protests and demonstrations broke out across the Arab world. Erdogan, whose nation only started to normalize relations with Israel last year, said Trump’s announcement would permanently
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