By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Perhaps the Taliban decided it would be timely to out-do our Supreme Court. It decreed on Saturday that the women of Afghanistan must cover their entire bodies, at least with a garment known as a hijab. A burqa would be better, but it is not required. The Taliban government’s […]
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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USA
By Alex Gordon HAIFA, Israel — Russia is often in the news, since it is not only at home, but also in many places around the globe. However, antisemitism in the Russian Federation has long been unheard of. To understand where it has disappeared to and what the prospects of its appearance are, we need
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Alex Gordon, International, Opinion
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — Israel recently commemorated its 74th year of independence, preceded by the memorial day for military and terrorist casualties. To celebrate Israel’s birthday, which follows Passover by two weeks, we visited a number of places around our small country. All of these jaunts were a half-day or more, with
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Middle East, Opinion, Steve Kramer, Travel and Food
By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Israel’s passions come to the fore during the 48 hours of Memorial Day and then Independence Day. Sadness, sacrifice, and joy. Along with considerable dispute as to how the sentiments should be marked. Memorial Day, last Wednesday, commemorated 24,068 persons who lost their lives while in the military and
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Opinion
By Eric George Tauber CINCINNATI, Ohio — For decades, we have heard the Republican battle cry: STOP KILLING INNOCENT UNBORN BABIES! If you kill them before their born, we can’t bury their mothers in medical debt from their stay in the maternity ward. CHA-CHING! $$$$ STOP KILLING INNOCENT UNBORN BABIES! We know it’s expensive to
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Eric George Tauber, Opinion, USA
By Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) It was in 1896 that Theodor Herzl published his groundbreaking book, The Jewish State, which launched the modern Zionist movement. Though his project was, as he noted in his book, “very old” and indeed rooted in the prayers of Jews for nearly 2,000 years, it would only be 52 years
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International, Middle East, Opinion, USA
By Ron Dermer (JNS) Israel was not established because of the Holocaust. In contrast, it is because of the modern State of Israel that there has not been another mass Jewish genocide, according to former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer. Speaking on this week’s “Diplomatically Incorrect” podcast with JINSA’s David Makovsky, Dermer
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Middle East, Opinion, USA
By Moshe Dann (JNS) Arab riots on the Temple Mount in opposition to any Jewish presence on the Jewish people’s most holy site have exposed what the Arab-Israeli conflict is all about. It’s not about the lack of a Palestinian state or Israeli concessions to the PLO, Hamas or other terrorist organizations. It’s about what
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Middle East, OpinionBy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Last Friday’s Harvard Crimson editorial starkly proclaims: “We support the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement as a means of achieving that goal.” Since the editorial lacks a byline, we can only guess who wrote it. My prime suspects are Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Who else? The editorial follows
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Bruce Ticker, Middle East, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Alex Gordon, Ph.D HAIFA, Israel — The Jews came out of Egypt long ago, they came out of the Soviet Union, but they did not go out of fashion at all: at every stage of history someone was bound to seek to throw them into the sea. The Jews, however, had already been to
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Alex Gordon, International, Opinion
By Shira Klein ORANGE, California — “Come on, they’re just Arabs,” laughed my friend Yogev. We were 19 years old, both soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces, enjoying a weekend leave on the colorful streets of Tel Aviv. Yogev had been showing me a couple of IDs he had taken from Palestinians, “for fun,” he
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Middle East, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — The big news of last week concerned the Strauss Chocolate Company, and the discovery of salmonella in some of its products. We’ve gone forward and backward on this for several days, with a giant company having to accept a major recall, and then the closing of its production
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Opinion
By Ben Cohen (JNS) A recent letter delivered to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres by 200 former senior U.N. officials included a bleak warning regarding the consequences should diplomacy fail to end Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Such an outcome would mean that “the U.N. becoming increasingly irrelevant and, eventually, succumbing to the fate of its predecessor,
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International, Opinion
By Hillel Newman (Jewish Journal via JNS) Last Thursday, April 21, 2022, the eve of the second festival of Passover, the eve of “Good Friday” for Christians and during the Ramadan period for Muslims, a few demonstrators gathered in front of the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles. Watching, I asked myself how ignorant, misled or