By Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (TNA) –The phenomenon of Western Muslim citizens traveling from their home countries in the West to fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq has been widely reported on. Israel is now seeing this phenomenon with its citizens, as there are over 30 Israeli Arab citizens having joined ISIS according to […]
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Middle EastBy Lloyd Levy EILAT, Israel –While soaking up the sun in Eilat ( 100F. this week), my body was idle but my mind was still ticking over. I had a Damascene revelation, on this ancient road from Cairo to Damascus. The symbolism of Eilat’s location occurred to me. It is at the head of a
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Lloyd Levy, Middle EastBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — After forty rigorous years of dancing and teaching ballet, and needing to fill time and space in my life with other activities, I’ve gone back to several I loved even before the immersion in dance. I discovered these initially in kindergarten: painting, drawing, handwork, writing and singing. Recently a
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Israel’s three week holiday season from Rosh Hashana through Simcha Torah resembles the shorter period in western countries from Christmas through New Years. The western holiday is actually longer than a week, due to pre-Christmas work, school, and bar parties, and time in early January for sobering up. What is common to
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — While visiting cousins in Philadelphia last weekend, I mentioned I was a big fan of Homeland and wondered if they liked it too. They replied affirmatively, but questioned whether counterterrorism was conducted as brutally and unscrupulously as portrayed in the series. By coincidence I had a preview link for
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Lawrence Baron, Middle EastBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. This is part three of a five-part series, The Seven States of Loss and Healing. The poems are excerpted from my book, Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without: Hope and Healing after Loss. Disbelief Maybe Maybe it’s all a mistake maybe it wasn’t real maybe it was a bad
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SAN DIEGO — Reader Harry Jacobson-Beyer of Louisville, Kentucky, found evidence of a Jewish grandpa living somewhere in Alabama, when he spotted this plate. A welcome addition to our Jewish-interest license plate collection!
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Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Islam is a problem for the faithful, as well as for the rest of us. Its 1600 years of accumulated doctrines may not differ in essence from what Jews have accumulated in 2,500 years or Christians in 2100 years. What is problematic, however, are all those Muslims stuck in a
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The Clinton Presidential Library released 10,000 documents this week related to Bill Clinton’s two terms as president. One of them was an email asserting that “acording to classical Jewish law, President Clinton did not commit adultery; adultery is defined as a married man having intercourse with a married woman, and
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — On Monday, October 13, the British Parliament overwhelmingly passed a non-binding resolution to give diplomatic recognition to a Palestinian state. The New York Times reported that, “The vote was a symbolic but potent indication of how public opinion has shifted since the breakdown of American-sponsored peace negotiations and
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USADefense Minister Moshe Ya’alon looking to ‘manage’ Israeli-Palestinian conflict (JNS.org) Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said in an interview with Israel Hayom published Wednesday that he is “not looking for a solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but instead “looking for a way to manage the conflict.” Asked if Israel can consider Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
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Travel and FoodBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the moment and against the odds, Kobani stands. Kurdish men and women, abandoned by the United States and watched but not aided by Turkey, hold the line against the sweep of ISIS across Iraq and Syria; one little point of heroism that may be gone by the time
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — A recent New Yorker cartoon depicts a taciturn President Obama peering out the door of his private White House bedroom and speaking to two little trick-or-treaters: “I’ll give you all the candy you want if you just tell me how you got past the Secret Service agents outside. An
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– There was a conference to decry destruction and announce donations for Gaza. Sound and fury signifying nothing? Perhaps. Delegates representing some 50 nations and 20 regional and international organizations met in Cairo to talk about peace and reconstruction, and fill the hat being passed by the President of the Palestine
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