New Israeli Air Force drone’s star set to rise (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israeli Air Force introduced a new unmanned aerial vehicle into its operational lineup Tuesday, in a move a senior officer said would “revolutionize the drone world.” The Hermes 900 Kochav (“Star”), which became operational this week, is a medium-size multi-payload unmanned […]
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Middle EastWorld Jewish Congress hails European Court of Human Rights NEW YORK (Press Release)–World Jewish Congress’ (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder hailed Tuesday’s ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, against the anti-Semitic French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala as a ‘milestone’ in the fight against hate speech, anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Lauder
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InternationalBy Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite their disagreement over the Iran nuclear deal, the U.S. and Israel “can and should work together now” to ensure that Iran complies with the agreement and to curb Iranian aggression throughout the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday at the General Assembly of The Jewish Federations
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International, Jacob Kamaras, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — It’s painful to compare the presidential candidates of 2016 to, say, those who sought the office in 1968—when my generation was living through both the gallant civil rights movement and the ghastly war in Vietnam. This lament applies to leadership figures in general—they are dwarfed against the largeness
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Great power? Sovereignty? Nice words, but more appropriate as the targets of a cynic than as a description of reality. Reality is another word that should cause us to wonder. In ancient Athens, Plato wrote about shadows on the wall. Those who see Judaic sources as competing with Greeks’
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International, Ira SharkanskyAt White House, Netanyahu and Obama seek to overcome Iran differences (JNS.org) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama met at the White House on Monday for the first time in more than a year in a bid to put aside past differences over Iran’s nuclear program and advance peace in the region. “This
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Israel National Police Superintendent Micky Rosenfeld, often identified in media reports as chief spokesman for the 29,000-officer national force, on Monday, Nov. 9, briefed 150 law enforcement officials from throughout San Diego County on tactics and strategies employed by Israel to fight terrorism. Following the off-the-record session in
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle EastBy Ronald Lauder NEW YORK (WJC) Seventy-seven years ago tonight, the entire world faced one of history’s great moral tests. It failed miserably. On 9 November 1938, Adolf Hitler set loose the darkest impulses of mankind in a brutal attack that raged across Germany and Austria. It was called Kristallnacht, or Night of the Broken Glass,
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International, Jewish HistoryArab Knesset member compares Israelis to Nazis at Kristallnacht memorial (JNS.org) Arab Member of Knesset Hanin Zoabi (Joint Arab List), who has a well-documented history of anti-Israel rhetoric, on Sunday compared Israeli government policies to those exercised by the Nazis in the 1930s. Zoabi was speaking in Amsterdam as part of an alternative ceremony organized
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Middle EastThanks to J.J. Surbeck, Charles Wax for spotting this. JJ Surbeck writes: Our good friend Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, whom we know for her exemplary work as activist and coordinator extraordinaire in her fight against anti-Semitism within the University of California system, is also, let’s not forget, first and foremost a scholar. And she reminded us of
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsMiddle East migrants and European right, left, have one thing in common: Anti-Semitism By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — As a million anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist migrants flood Europe they find a host continent in support of their anti-Israel passion. As Jews commemorate Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, when Nazi brown-shirts burnt Jewish books, burnt down synagogues
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Barry Shaw, International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–We’ve heard time and again that the Internet and its social sites are changing the nature of politics. People seeking change post their ideas, observations, and schemes without editorial monitoring, including the barbarians who use videos of beheadings to expand recruitment. Currently we are seeing that Facebook postings are tripping an aspiring
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — The Framers of the U.S. Constitution wanted to create a national government to strengthen the unity of the disparate States so that foreign entities looking at us would see a united face – the United States. Diversity may supply the building blocks, but it is not diversity that makes
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JERUSALEM–Israel’s fifth president, Yitzhak Navon, died on Friday, Nov. 6, at the age of 94. He served as Israel’s president from 1978 to 1983. In New York, The World Jewish Congress issued a statement: “We extend our condolences to Yitzhak Navon’s widow, and to his children and grandchildren. His life story reflects the history of the
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