The Jewish singers: Gil Ofarim
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Travel and FoodVotes, not knives, answer to Jerusalem Arabs’ problems
By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — The quarter million Palestinians in the current boundaries of East Jerusalem cannot vote in the national elections, because they are not the citizens of the state of Israel. They are permanent residents of Jerusalem who have the right to vote in the Jerusalem municipal elections. The majority
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Middle EastRabbi prays at stricken South Carolina church
By Rabbi Reuven H. Taff SACRAMENTO, California — On Sunday morning October 18th I went to Church. I know, a bit unusual for a rabbi to attend church services on a Sunday. But since my wife Judy and I were visiting my youngest son Ari who relocated to Charleston, South Carolina, I was drawn to
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Jewish Religion, USAKellermans’ novel not worth time it takes to read
The Golem of Paris by Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman, G.P. Putnam Sons © 2015, ISBN 978-0-399-17173-4; 497 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The Kellermans have teamed up on a multi-generational novel that combines old fashioned gumshoe detective work with the supernatural and the bad old days of the Soviet empire. The result,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. HarrisonIsraelis remember Rabin, but forget what he stood for
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin was murdered twenty years ago not by a fanatical Palestinian foe but by an ostensibly pious and patriotic Jew. Though it’s not possible to speculate about what Israel would be today had Rabin stayed alive, it is possible to suggest that the murderer, Yigal Amir, changed the
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Middle EastNever Again: Holocaust news for October 27, 2015
The Mufti and the Holocaust, revisited By Ben Cohen/JNS.org WASHINGTON, D.C. — “If a man was a Jew, it was good enough for him to be killed or stamped out,” wrote a senior British official serving abroad to his superiors in London in 1929. From where was this gentleman—Major Alan Saunders—writing his dispatch? From
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American-Israeli victim of Jerusalem bus attack succumbs to his wounds (JNS.org) An American-Israeli man who was critically wounded in a Jerusalem terrorist attack two weeks ago died Tuesday morning. Richard Lakin, 76, is the third victim of the attack, in which two Arab terrorists boarded a bus traveling between the capital’s Jewish neighborhood of Armon
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Middle EastStatehood for Palestine? There are pros and cons
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We are seeing in recent events the advantages of a state, as well as reasons to doubt the wisdom of creating a Palestinian state. It’s not a simple issue. A state can discipline its people, via decisions of a government, police, and courts. However, Palestinians speak and act in numerous ways,
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastNever Again: Holocaust news for October 26, 2015
Argument over Hitler and the Mufti is a distraction By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, set off a firestorm on October 21 by saying that the Mufti of Jerusalem had actually planted the idea of exterminating the Jews in Hitler’s mind; that Hitler would have simply ousted them from Europe.
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Morgan Freeman visits Western Wall for National Geographic’s ‘Story of God’ (JNS.org) Beloved Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman arrived in Israel for a surprise visit this week as part of a television series he is filming for National Geographic. The Oscar winner visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday, escorted by Western
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Middle EastJordan’s delicate, pivotal role on the Temple Mount
By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — When all strands of Palestinian political society came together in a deadly incitement based on religion radiating out from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem it left many dead on both sides of the religious divide – Jewish Israelis who were the prime target of Islam-motivated Palestinians. Although the Islamic Movement
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Barry Shaw, Middle EastJewish trivia quiz: Abraham Lincoln
By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — President Abraham Lincoln sent a Jewish man, Issachar Zacharie, as an emissary to New Orleans to promote loyalty to the Union and to spy on Confederate troop movements. How did Lincoln know Zacharie? A. Zacharie was an attorney who gave Lincoln his first job in Springfield in 1836 after Lincoln
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireSimplicity and kindness mark his starting over
By Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — It’s been a couple of weeks now since my new life, alone, began here. This transitional town, situated between the glistening ocean waves and Marine fatigues of Camp Pendleton, is hardly associated with metro San Diego’s more effete communities such as La Jolla, Del Mar, or Rancho Santa
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