Arab terrorists on Sunday night stoned at least ten vehicles, including a bus, driving on the Palestinian Authority town Husan’s bypass road near the entrance to the haredi Jewish town of Beitar Illit. Husan and Beitar Illit are located approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles) southwest of Jerusalem. The vehicles’ windshields and frames were damaged, and
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Middle East[youtube:2035697] Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) was the guest of honor at a salute to Beit El institutions held in New York Sunday night. Speaking in front of 1,300 guests, Shaked thanked the American Friends of the Bet El Yeshiva Center for their support of the Jewish people, the Torah, and the land of
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Middle East, USAThe three-day Jewish festival of learning and culture Limmud FSU St. Petersburg took place this past weekend in Crowne Plaza hotel in the city. The dynamic, volunteers-driver and pluralistic event gathered a record number of 750 participants, the largest St. Petersburg festival ever, and ran from Friday through Sunday noon. The first Jews appeared in
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InternationalBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Aboard the cruise ship Carnival Dream, a veritable floating city, we shared the fourteen decks with some 4,000 other passengers Our route took us from New Orleans, down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico and several Caribbean islands. From conversations with some of our fellow-passengers we learned that
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Travel and FoodPresident Trump and FOX News aren’t the only ones angry over the verdict in the Kate Steinle trial, wherein undocumented Mexican immigrant Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was acquitted of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, as well as most of the charges he faced. Neo-Nazis and white nationalists, many of whom were present in Charlottesville, Virginia this
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USAFeatured Images-16 She hasn’t even officially joined the royal family yet, but Meghan Markle is already setting fashion trends just like her soon-to-be sister-in-law, Duchess Kate. In fact, a nearly $700 burgundy leather tote from Strathberry sold out mere hours after Markle was spotted carrying it on her first royal appearance with Prince Harry. Watch
LOS ANGELES — Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who launched a protest movement last year when he refused to stand for the national anthem before NFL games, was honored Sunday at the ACLU of Southern California’s annual Bill of Rights Dinner in Beverly Hills. Kaepernick was awarded the Eason Monroe Courageous Advocate
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By Beth Sarafraz The Jewish Voice, November 20, 2017 BROOKLYN, New York — Racing thru the pages of R’ Yosef Mendelevich’s autobiography, “Unbroken Spirit: A Heroic Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival,” Rabbi Heshy Ceitlin kept having the same thought. “Chani,” he said to his wife, “We have got to bring this man to
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — About the Nazi Holocaust, one Christian historian has written: “The fact that it could take place in the heart of Europe, in the middle of the 20th Century, carried out in the name of what had seemed to be and in many ways was the most developed of nations,
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s hard to know whether to jeer or simply chuckle at the efforts of Likud MKs, being portrayed by the media as parliamentary clowns, who went beyond the normal to provide what they said was protection for their Prime Minister, but actually was nothing of the kind. The country is
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Judah Ari Gross The Israel Defense Forces this year again failed to reach the goal for ultra-Orthodox military enlistment set by the government, falling 20 percent short of the target. They made up for it with a record number of women joining combat units, an army official said Sunday. “We didn’t fulfill our mission,”
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Middle EastBy TOI staff Several coalition lawmakers, including prominent defenders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, cried foul Sunday over the timing of the revelation of a year-long graft and organized crime investigation surrounding coalition whip MK David Bitan. Bitan was questioned by police on Sunday morning, hours after 17 Rishon Lezion city officials were arrested as
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Middle EastAfter taking an overnight bus to Poznan in Poland for an exhibition on Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, two Portuguese sisters are now standing in front of a curious blue suggestion box. “Who can tell us what happened to the missing painting or where we can find it?” reads a sign next to
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts[youtube:2035690] President Trump”s senior advisor and son-in-law drew praise from the Yesha Council, the umbrella organization which represents Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, following his appearance at the Saban Forum in Washington on Sunday. The president”s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, took part in the annual Saban Forum on Sunday, answering questions from the forum”s sponsor,
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