WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC) — The Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution “regarding the safety and security of Jewish communities in Europe.” This follows a hearing of World Jewish Congress leaders in March 2015. The resolution, pointing to data from the FBI and Jewish Community Security Service in
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International, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There may be some lessons in the current brawl for those of us trying to understand the larger story of Israel and Palestine. “Maybe” is appropriate, since there is a lot of static in what we see and hear. The lesson may appear in reports that Mahmoud Abbas is trying
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What did Ben Carson really say about guns and the Holocaust? By Abraham H. Miller/JNS.org The explosive controversy over Ben Carson’s remarks about Jews and guns illustrates a new low in media spin. Carson is a Republican presidential nomination frontrunner, and the legacy press needs to undermine his credibility. Therefore, the controversy is not remotely
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Jewish History, USA3 Israelis killed in terrorist attacks during Palestinian ‘day of rage’ (JNS.org) Palestinian terrorists killed three people and wounded many others in a series of attacks in Jerusalem and central Israel on Tuesday, which was declared a “day of rage” by Palestinian groups. In Jerusalem, two Palestinian terrorists boarded a bus, one armed with a
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The cynical abuse of the Temple Mount by Israelis and Palestinians seems to be the principal reason (or perhaps excuse) for the present unrest. Avi Sagi, professor at Bar Ilan University and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, published an article the other day in Ha’aretz under the provocative
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Middle EastBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California –Dear little smart phone, my little, 2- ´ 4-inch, constant companion. How can such a small thing sitting in my pocket replace an eighteen-volume encyclopedia Britannica as well as a shelf with phone directories, dictionaries, a thesaurus, and grammar, foreign-language, and medical reference books? You truly are a
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Natasha Josefowitz, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Sara Schoonmaker SAN DIEGO — StandWithUs condemns Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) for hosting Rasmeah Odeh as a keynote speaker during its national conference at San Diego State University (SDSU) on October 11, 2015. Odeh received a life sentence for involvement in the murder of two Israeli civilians, but was released by Israel along
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Middle East, San Diego CountyBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — How did a Jew named Abraham Zacuto play a role in the saving of Christopher Columbus’s life? A. During the Inquisition, Jews were rounded up throughout Spain and given the choice to convert or be killed. But many non-Jews were swept up in these efforts, as well. Columbus
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Trivia, Humor & SatireIndian president: ‘Palestine belongs to Arabs like England to English’ (JNS.org) Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, who will arrive in Israel on Tuesday for the first-ever visit to the Jewish state by an Indian head of state, said at the University of Jordan in Amman that “Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Listening to reputed experts talk on the weekend programs taxed one’s Hebrew and rationality. Sentences merged into one another; themes changed in the midst of what sounded like paragraphs; conclusions backed into one another. One could wonder at the invitation given to a former senior police officer. His analysis was far
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The foreign media rarely have something good to say about Israel, particularly in relation to the Palestinians. That’s why foreign journalists seem to be certain that the responses by the Israeli military to those who throw stones and try to stab them or people around them are harsh, cruel and
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Middle EastBy Laurie Baron MARGATE, New Jersey‒ Rupert Murdoch stirred up controversy when he tweeted that he wished Ben Carson’s candidacy well because he would be a “real black president.” He clarified his remarks by stating that he meant to say a “real American Christian black president.” * Ben Carson claimed that the Holocaust would never have
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By Lauren Lizerbram RANCHO SANTA FE, California — Many people ask me what it is about JNF that keeps me so energized. I am happy to say my husband Sol and I have been supporting this outstanding organization for over 30 years. With our trips to Israel we have seen firsthand the work that JNF
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