Ten Years By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — When I made Aliya from the UK 10 years ago, Israel was far different from where it is today. It suffered from lack of water, few energy resources, a weak economy, high unemployment, low currency reserves, low tech and international isolation. Now Israel has built desalination plants,
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Michael Ordman, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Israelis who don’t share the concerns about the rupture between their government and United States Jewry, indeed the Diaspora in general – and, therefore, aren’t upset about Netanyahu’s ignoring the order of Israel’s Supreme Court to provide equal access to the Kotel for all streams of Judaism – may tell you
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International, Middle East, USALOS ANGELES — He flew bombing missions for the U.S. during World War II and then came back to America to study law. But the escalating conflict between the newly declared State of Israel and its Arab neighbors had already gotten under Mitchell Flint’s skin. “I’m Jewish, Israel desperately needed fighter pilots, so I thought
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Jewish History, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, USAWASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused North Korea of brutally abusing an American student who had been held captive in North Korea, saying the young man had been “tortured beyond belief.” Otto Warmbier, 22, died in June a few days after he was sent home in a mysterious coma after more than
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International, USANimer Mahmoud Ahmed Aljamal, the terrorist who murdered three Israelis in an attack at the entrance to the Jewish town of Har Adar Tuesday morning, was praised as a ‘Martyr’ by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement on its official Facebook page. Fatah’s Facebook page featured a picture of Aljamal with a caption praising
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Middle EastTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday warned the Iraqi Kurdish leader against pushing for independence after holding a non-binding referendum, saying such a move risked sparking an “ethnic war” in the region. “If (Massud) Barzani and the Kurdish Regional Government do not go back on this mistake as soon as possible, they will go
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Middle EastRabbi Joshua Haberman, rabbi emeritus of the Washington Hebrew Congregation and founder of the Foundation for Jewish Studies, died this week at 98. Haberman, who represented the Jewish community during the memorial service for the victims of 9/11 held at the National Cathedral, died Sunday at his home in Washington, DC, following a rabbinic career
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Jewish Religion, Obituaries & memorials, USAA call to expel Jewish activists from Labour was greeted with cheers at a packed fringe meeting at the party’s conference in Brighton. Members of the Jewish Labour Movement and Labour Friends of Israel were targeted at the meeting today, held by the Free Speech on Israel group, and chaired by leading Jewish anti-Zionist Naomi
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International, Middle EastEducation Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (Shas) demanded at Tuesday’s coalition meeting that Prime Minister Netanyahu approve Jewish construction in the Hizkiyahu (Hezekiah) neighborhood of Hevron. The heads of the Jewish Home and Shas parties stressed that the land in the neighborhood meets all the necessary criteria, both legally and
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Middle EastThe three Israelis killed in a terror attack at the Har Adar settlement Tuesday were named as border policeman Solomon Gavriyah, 20, and civilian security guards Youssef Ottman, 25, from Abu Ghosh and Or Arish, 25, a resident of Har Adar. A third civilian — the head security officer of Har Adar — was seriously
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Middle EastMIAMI—Convicted South Florida Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, a disbarred attorney who ran a $1.2 billion investment scheme out of his Fort Lauderdale law firm, will not be receiving a reduction in his 50-year prison sentence because he lied to federal prosecutors, authorities said Tuesday. Prosecutors withdrew their pending motion to reduce Rothstein’s sentence based on
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USACracks are appearing in the leadership of Germany’s far right within hours of its electoral success on Monday. The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) shocked the establishment by winning 12.6 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election after a campaign that channeled public anger at Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 2015 decision to leave Germany’s border open
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InternationalWASHINGTON — Former state Chief Justice Roy Moore won the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Alabama on Tuesday as voters brushed aside pleas from President Donald Trump and millions in ads from establishment Republicans and chose a brash and controversial conservative. Moore defeated Sen. Luther Strange, who had been appointed to the seat
Israel handed a replica of Arch of Titus to the head of UNESCO, in a not-so-subtle critique of the organization’s resolutions that ignore Jewish links to Jerusalem. The idea originally came from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after the United Nations Educational and Scientific Organization passed a resolution last year that used only Muslim names for
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