By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Hamas security forces stopped Palestinian writer, Atef Abu Saif, from attending a book fair in Morocco recently where the noted writer and the fiction award finalist had been nominated for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. According to a report in Al-Monitor, Hamas stopped Abu Saif at the Erez […]
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Aharon Levi KIBBUTZ LAVI, Israel — Today, there isn’t a single hair on his head, just like the day he was born, but what they went through until he was born… Fifteen years, an ongoing story of suffering, branded its mark. They almost collapsed from all the disappointment, worry and hope, so anxious
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationThe Genius: Eliyahu of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism by Eliyahu Stern, Yale University Press, New Haven; ISBN 978-0-300-20592-3 ©2013, $27, p. 171, plus notes, bibliography, and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — The eighteenth century rabbi Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman Kremer held the moniker “the Genius of Vilna,” or simply the “Vilna Gaon,” for
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish HistoryBy Yotam Rozenwald JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Although the vast majority of Ethiopian Jews immigrated to Israel during the 1980’s and 1990’s, economic and social problems related to the hardships of immigration are still evident in their lives today. Moshe Selomon, a social entrepreneur, spoke to Tazpit News Agency about the actions he thinks should be
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Middle East
NEW YORK (Press Release) – The Birthright Israel Foundation (BRIF), the organization that provides and builds the base of financial support for Taglit-Birthright Israel in North America, has tapped 14-year non-profit executive, Sarah Raful Whinston, as its first director of talent development. In her new role, Whinston will focus on recruitment and career development for
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA
LONDON (WJC) — The People’s Republic of China and the World Jewish Congress (WJC) will, for the first time, be hosting an event in Shanghai later this year to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Shanghai Ghetto and the end of World War II in China in September 1945. The event was
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International, Jewish HistoryIsrael Educates for Life By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — Having read so many recent stories of schoolchildren around the world being radicalized by Islamic extremists, here is a collection of contrasting education-related activities and news articles I’ve collected over the past few weeks concerning the Jewish State. I will begin in the Israeli school
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Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationIsrael’s Arrow 2 missile interceptor upgraded after failed test (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel’s Arrow 2 missile interceptor has recently undergone a series of upgrades and improvements following a failed test held last September, during which it was able to acquire its target but failed to neutralize it, a defense official said Tuesday. The Arrow
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — By all accounts, all political parties that can afford it use polls; they may publish only those that benefit their campaigns, but they study all of them very carefully. Commenting on results that appear elsewhere, often in newspapers, politicians who’re doing badly are anxious to tell us not to take
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– There are many–some of them well placed, and some of them Jews–who feel that on the short list of the most worthy causes is to create a Palestinian state and to downsize Israel, perhaps down to the size of nothing. Against them are several instances that question such grand aims, either
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastLOS ANGELES (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League will confer the “Helene & Joseph Sherwood Family Prize for Combating Hate” to three individuals and two law enforcement units at an awards ceremony on March 10, 11:30 a.m. at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Honorees include a deputy district attorney from San Diego County, Oscar Garcia.
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USA
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit)–On Monday evening, February 23, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin paid a condolence visit to the parents of Adele Biton, 4, the toddler who was critically injured by a Palestinian rock attack on her family’s car two years ago, and passed away last week from respiratory complications from a lung infection. “I
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Middle East
Bringing Bubbe Home: A Memoir of Letting Go Through Love and Death by Debra Gordon Zaslow; 192 pages. White Cloud Books. $9.45 By Janice Steinberg SAN DIEGO — When Debra Gordon Zaslow visited her grandmother in a nursing home in Los Angeles, she quickly realized that, despite being 103 and showing some signs of dementia, her bubbe’s
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