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Na’amat USA delegates return from Israel meetings

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– Leaders of NA’AMAT USA joined representatives of the organization from Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Belgium, Argentina, Uruguay and Israel last week for the first NA’AMAT International Solidarity Conference in Israel. The delegation, led by national president Elizabeth Raider, were special guests of the President of Israel Reuven Rivlin during the conference’s opening […]

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Poll: Americans view ISIS, Iran, as critical threats

NEW YORK (WJC) — A significant majority of Americans — some 77% of those polled — see the “development of nuclear weapons by Iran” as a “critical threat;” another 16% see it as “important but not critical”, according to new numbers from Gallup. ISIS and international terrorism loom largest in Americans’ minds as critical threats

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Jewish news briefs: February 20, 2015

Israeli-made ‘TaxiBot’ airplane tow vehicle makes debut in Germany (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) An Israeli-made robotic airplane tow vehicle made its debut at Frankfurt Airport on Thursday in a ceremony attended by journalists from around the world. Israel Aerospace Industries’ (IAI) “TaxiBot” was designed to ferry the most commonly used passenger airplane, the Boeing 737,

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Obama’s policies restrain allies, encourage terrorists

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The term “quisling” refers to anyone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force. The word originates from the Norwegian war-time leader Vidkun Quisling, who headed a domestic Nazi collaborationist regime during WWII. That era also produced appeasers, such as as former British Prime Minister Arthur Neville

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Livni: Netanyahu will not change minds in Congress

JERUSALEM (Press Release)–MK Tzipi Livni, Co-Chair of the Zionist Camp party addressed the Conference of Presidents Major Jewish Organizations annual Leadership Mission to Israel on Thursday, Feb. 19.  In light of the upcoming elections in Israel, MK Livni discussed the platform of her Zionist Camp party, which she co-chairs with Yitzhak Herzog. She said that

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Jewish news briefs: February 19, 2015

Israeli Supreme Court reverses election ban on Arab Knesset member Zoabi (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israeli Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed the Central Elections Committee’s decision to disqualify MK Hanin Zoabi (Joint Arab List) and far-right activist Baruch Marzel (Yahad Haam Itanu) from next month’s Knesset election. In an 8-1 decision, the court said

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Obama: Don’t confer religious legitimacy on terrorists

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–President Barack Obama spoke at the concluding session of his Summit on Combating Violent Extremism, and urged Americans not to confer on terrorist movements the mantle of Islam, which he said they seek.  Here is a text of his remarks delivered Wednesday, Feb. 18. THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  (Applause.)  Thank you so much.

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U.S. purposely keeps Israel out of Iran loop

Compiled by Donald H. Harrison WASHINGTON, D.C. — Under intensive questioning by press corps members assigned to the U.S. State Department, spokeswoman Jen Psaki admitted on Wednesday, Feb. 18, that the United States has been withholding information from Israel about what is occurring in the P5+1 negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. Psaki reiterated a

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Danish victims mourned in NYC ceremony

NEW YORK (Press Release)– Ambassador Jarl Frijs-Madsen, Consul General of Denmark in New York, addressed a special ceremony at the American Jewish Committee headquarters on Wednesday, Feb. 18, to commemorate the victims of the twin terror attacks in Copenhagen. Representatives of New York’s diplomatic, interfaith and political communities joined with AJC leaders for the somber event.

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Jewish news briefs: February 18, 2014

Israeli High Court proposes compromise for Charlie Hebdo distribution (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel’s High Court of Justice on Tuesday discussed a petition filed by the Yisrael Beiteinu political party that requests the lifting of an injunction against distributing the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. In late January, after receiving threats, Israel’s Steimatzky bookstore chain

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The rising global tide of anti – Semitism

By Miriam Raftery East County Magazine SAN DIEGO’S EAST COUNTY (SDONA)—Last week,  a young Jewish man was shot and killed outside a Copenhagen synagogue. In Paris, as many as 250 Jewish graves were desecrated.  At the University of California in Davis, California earlier this month, swastikas were sprayed on a Jewish fraternity houseafter a demonstration by

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