French National Assembly seeks recognition of Palestine

PARIS (Press Release) – The National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, adopted today, by a vote of 339 to 151, a resolution urging the French government to recognize the state of Palestine as a step to achieve a resolution of the conflict. “The path to sustainable, permanent Israeli-Palestinian peace is direct bilateral negotiations, and not […]

French National Assembly seeks recognition of Palestine Read More »

Middle East, USA

45 shorts among offerings at S.D. Jewish Film Festival

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Celebrating the San Diego Jewish Film Festival’s 25th Silver Anniversary, presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, will run February 5-15, 2015.  Sponsored by the Leichtag Foundation. On February 9th, 45 short films beginning at 10:00am to 7:30pm

45 shorts among offerings at S.D. Jewish Film Festival Read More »

Travel and Food

JNS news briefs: December 2, 2014

Report: Hezbollah intends maritime siege in next war (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Hezbollah has a stock of advanced sea-to-sea missiles with which it intends to impose a maritime siege on Israel if the two sides enter another war, Lebanese media outlets reported on Monday. According to the reports, Hezbollah apparently has an arsenal of sophisticated Russian-made

JNS news briefs: December 2, 2014 Read More »

Middle East, USA

Surviving the Holidays?

Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO–In .28 seconds I found 18,900,000 results on Bing, and 61,500,000 results in 0.46 seconds—honestly—on Google on how to “survive the holidays.” Millions of tips on how to “survive” the holidays! What in the world has happened to us? Have we gone mad? C’mon now. We need more than these many

Surviving the Holidays? Read More »

Michael Mantell

JNS news briefs: December 1, 2014

NGO Monitor leader ‘not surprised’ of AP media ban (JNS.org) NGO Monitor leader Professor Gerald Steinberg says he is “not surprised” of the alleged revelation that the Associated Press banned its reporters from contacting the watchdog organization. In an article published in The Atlantic on Sunday exploring media bias covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, former AP

JNS news briefs: December 1, 2014 Read More »

Middle East

Venezuelan lawmaker: Zionists, Bushes funded Hitler

NEW YORK (WJC) — A lawmaker of Venezuela’s governing party recently told Lebanese television that Zionists had bankrolled Hitler prior to World War II and suggested that “no representatives of global Zionism” had been killed during the Nazi Holocaust for that reason. Speaking in Arabic, Adel El Zabayar, a member of Venezuela’s National Assembly born

Venezuelan lawmaker: Zionists, Bushes funded Hitler Read More »

International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Former prisoner Mendelevitch returns to Russia

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Press Release) – Former Prisoner of Zion Yosef Mendelevitch made an emotional return to the city where he was imprisoned in the 1970s to join hundreds of Jews from across Russia for the 4th Annual Limmud FSU (former Soviet Union) St. Petersburg during the Nov. 28-30 weekend. The three-day Jewish learning festival, at the

Former prisoner Mendelevitch returns to Russia Read More »

International, Jewish History, Middle East

Abbas, Netanyahu, Obama all slip in popular polls

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–It would be prime material for a stand up comedian if it was not the reality that could do us all a lot of harm. The current triumvirate dealing with three interdependent national entities, with more than the average capacity to affect wider catastrophes, have all been operating as political caricatures, making

Abbas, Netanyahu, Obama all slip in popular polls Read More »

Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA