By J. Zel Lurie DEL RAY BEACH, Florida — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spent a couple of days in Washington, spewing half-truths about the settlements and claiming his devotion to a two-state solution despite what he tells Israelis. In Israel he says that there will not be a Palestinian state in his lifetime and
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A confluence of events is pointing to the intellectual and political flabbiness at the upper reaches of American government and academies, and suggesting that there isn’t much left to the American generation. If we thought of ourselves as dependent on American leadership, we’re pretty much left to ourselves in
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAROME (JNS.org) Pope Francis will make his first official visit to Rome’s Great Synagogue next January, the city’s Jewish community said in a statement on Tuesday. He will be the third pope to visit that venue. The pontiff will meet with Jewish leaders at the synagogue on Jan. 17—the same date that Rome’s Jewish community
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International, Jewish ReligionPoll: 18% of Muslims in Israel say Islamic State is not a terror group (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Eighteen percent of Muslim Arabs living in Israel do not consider the Islamic State terror group to be a terrorist organization and are not ashamed of its extremist Islamist ideology, according to the newly released 2015 Index
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Middle East“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, thinking it will eat him last.”–Sir Winston Churchill By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement policy is well known. The crocodile Churchill is referring to is Adolf Hitler. For decades, Europe had no problem sacrificing Israel to the
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International, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USARashi: The Magic and the Mystery by Avigdor Bonchek, Gefen Publishing House, New York; ISBN 978-965-229-779-2 ©2015, $18.00, p. 132, plus Appendix, References and Index of Interpreted Verses By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California — Torah Commentator Rashi, the acronym for Shlomo Yitzchaki, stands at the head of a long line of revered Jewish sages. For instance,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionHolocaust Remembrance must also look to the present and the future By Menachem Rosensaft WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC)– Following are remarks delivered to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Inaugural Second Generation Leadership Mission, Washington, DC, November 15, 2015. Text provided by the World Jewish Congress. I am honored to be with you this evening, honored
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Jewish HistoryBy Lloyd Levy LONDON, England — The current situation in Europe has many similarities with the appeasement of Hitler leading up to the Second World War. Then our “leaders” refused to believe that Hitler was a serious treat, and because they didn’t act in a timely manner, tens of millions died, including virtually all of European
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International, Lloyd Levy, Middle EastIsrael outlaws Islamic Movement branch over Temple Mount incitement (JNS.org) Israel on Tuesday announced that it has outlawed the northern branch of the country’s Islamic Movement over activities including the “mendacious campaign of incitement under the heading ‘Al-Aqsa is in danger’ that falsely accuses Israel of intending to harm the Al-Aqsa mosque and violate the
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The obvious and undeniable culprit of the Paris massacre is the Islamic State; the evidence abounds. But that’s not enough for “people who know better.” Thus the Swedish foreign minister says that it’s the plight of the Palestinians that caused the terror attacks. In other words, it’s the Jews’ fault. It
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More Than Enough: A Passover Story by April Halprin Wayland, illustrated by Katie Kath; Dial Books for Young Readers © 2016; ISBN 978-0-8037-4126-3; $16.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — We received at San Diego Jewish World a book to be read to children that either came to our mailbox quite late or extremely
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