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El Al, Jet Blue ink code share deal

NEW YORK (Press Release) – EL AL Israel Airlines and JetBlue Airways have signed a code share agreement, providing travelers to Israel with expanded options and easier connections. Travelers living in 38 cities in the U.S.A. can now experience convenient connections to their EL AL nonstop flight to/from Israel. Luggage is automatically transferred between the JetBlue and […]

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Middle East, Travel and Food, USA

Nine Jews to serve in state Legislature

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — State Sen. Marty Block’s office reports that after last Tuesday’s elections, the Jewish Caucus in the State Legislature will have nime members, one short of a minyan. All nine members are Democrats. Two members of the current Legislature–former Senate President pro tempore Darrell Steinberg and Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal– were required not

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U.S., Jordan condemn J’lem terror, seek renewed talks

PARIS, France (Press Release)– U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that he and Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh “discussed the increasing tensions recently in areas across Jerusalem, and particularly surrounding the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount. We condemn the terrorist attack in Jerusalem this morning that killed at least one person when a car was

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JNS news briefs: November 3, 2014

French kitchenware company’s website lists Israel as ‘Palestine’ (JNS.org) The French kitchenware company Tefal, which is known for its nonstick pans, is directing customers to “Palestine” for a store that is located in Israel. Although Tefal’s Jerusalem store is located in the Atarot industrial zone, which is not under Palestinian sovereignty, the drop-down menu for

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JNS news briefs: October 31, 2014

Haaretz cartoon depicts Netanyahu flying plane into World Trade Center (JNS.org) The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is drawing condemnation for publishing a cartoon depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flying a plane marked “Israel” into a building that resembles a World Trade Center tower. Underneath artist Amos Biderman’s cartoon, Haaretz provides a link to a story on

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Novel tells of Vilna and Brooklyn in 1940s

The Sweetness by Sande Boritz Berger, shewritespress.com, 2014, 978-1-63152-907-8, 301 pgs.,$16.95 By Eva Trieger ENCINITAS, California — Recently nominated by The American Library Association for its yearly Sophie Brody Award for Jewish Literature, this moving novel revisits one of the bleakest periods, not just in Jewish memory, but in world history.  In this debut work, Sande

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JNS news briefs: October 30, 2014

Sweden officially recognizes a Palestinian state (JNS.org) Sweden on Thursday officially recognized a Palestinian state, with Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom saying that the “criteria of international law” have been met because there is “a [Palestinian] territory, a people, and government,” The Associated Press reported. New Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven had supported a Palestinian state

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JNS news briefs: October 24, 2014

Palestinians say they will not postpone U.N. Security Council petition (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Chief Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiator Dr. Saeb Erekat on Thursday denied reports that the Palestinians were willing to postpone by two months a petition to the U.N. Security Council calling for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank by November 2016.

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