By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — John Kerry is seeking to top up his several efforts to deal with the Middle East by joining the Israeli and international left in warning that Israel will have to accommodate itself to a single country, with a Palestinian majority, if it doesn’t make peace with a Palestinian state. As
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USARep Davis: No guns for FBI suspects on Terrorist Watchlist WASHINGTON, D.C. –U.S. Rep. Susan Davis (D-San Diego) took action to force a vote on commonsense, life-saving legislation to keep guns out of the hands of terrorists. Rep. Davis signed a discharge petition to bring the bipartisan Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act
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International, USAPoll: 71% of Israeli Jews say peace deal would not end Palestinian terror (JNS.org) Seventy-one percent of Israeli Jews said that signing an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal would not bring an end to Palestinian terrorism against Jews, according to the latest Peace Index poll from the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University. Israeli Arab
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By Toby Klein Greenwald EFRAT, Israel — Raise Your Spirits Theatre, a multi-generational women’s theater company in Gush Etzion, an area that has suffered many terror attacks in recent weeks, is now in production on its 9th biblical musical, SISTERS! The Daughters of Tzelofchad, based on the story in Numbers, Chapter 27. The story of the
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Toby Klein GreenwaldBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Efforts to appease radical Islamists prompt the kind of massacres recently seen in Paris and in San Bernardino, Wall Street Journal columnist Brett Stephens told a first-night Chanukah dinner sponsored by StandWithUs at the Torrey Pines Hilton on Dec. 6. First discussing Paris, Stephens said: “Before there was last
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SAN DIEGO–As the world celebrates the going and coming of another year, from 2015 to 2016, the occasion will be a bittersweet one for Tifereth Israel Synagogue’s former rebbetzin, Jeanne Gold, and her brother Shelly Weissbuch. It was another secular new year, in 1938, when Esther and her husband-to-be, Jule, were planning their own wedding for
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Obituaries & memorialsBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Shmaltz Brewing Company offers a beer for Chanukkah. What is it called? A. Shmuel Adams.B. Chai-neken.C. Lone Six Pointed Star.D. Judah Maccabeer.E. Hanukkah, Chanukah: Pass the Beer. Link to answer: http://rrrjewishtrivia.com/answers/chanukkah-beer-answer.html * Mark D. Zimmerman is the author of Rashi, Rambam and Ramalamadingdong series of Jewish trivia e-books. Learn more at rrrjewishtrivia.com.
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Among the accusations directed at Israeli policymakers is the assertion that they have no policy of national defense. It comes most prominently from Knesset Members affiliated with opposition parties, along with individuals retired from senior positions in the IDF or one of the other security services (Mossad, Shin Bet), with
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastMessianic Jew killed in San Bernardino had argument on Islam with shooter (JNS.org) One of the 14 victims of the terror attack in San Bernardino, California, was a Messianic Jew who purportedly had previously gotten into a heated debate with one of the shooters over the nature of Islam. Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, was a
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Middle East, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — Set apart from the usual concerts in the framework of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra’s subscription series was one entitled ‘First Prize,’ and dedicated to young musicians ‘from east and west’ who had succeeded in various international competitions. So we bought tickets for a concert with Yeol Eum Son, a young pianist
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsGerman president: no one can negate Israel’s right to defend itself (JNS.org) Visiting Israel to mark the ongoing 50th anniversary of the establishment of German-Israeli diplomatic relations, German President Joachim Gauck met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday in Jerusalem. During the meeting, Netanyahu emphasized “the uniqueness of the
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. — Following is the text of comments made by President Barack Obama from the Oval Office on Sunday night, Dec. 6, on fighting terrorism: By President Barack Obama Tonight, I addressed the nation from the Oval Office on my top priority as President: Keeping the American people safe. It weighs heavily on the hearts
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International, Middle East, USABy Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — As a Jew who studies Tibetan Buddhism, it was with great interest that I went to see well-known playwright Sarah Ruhl’s play, The Oldest Boy, at the Lyceum Theater, directed by venerable Sam Woodhouse. I also probably saw the play with different eyes than most because I actually met
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