Israeli soldier stabbed in Tel Aviv (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) An Israeli soldier was stabbed at a Tel Aviv train station on Monday in the latest in a string of terrorist attacks across Israel. The victim, in his 20s, was taken to hospital in critical condition. The attacker, a Palestinian man from Nablus, was apprehended. […]
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — It was shocking and discomfiting to hear a United States Navy Seal (who shall remain unnamed in this dispatch) announcing that he was the shooter on the night of the killing of Osama bin Laden. This American observer remains outraged, ashamed, and despondent in the wake of this lost
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– Both Chief Rabbis are in the news, doing their part to soothe or disturb in different corners of the complex phenomenon that is Judaism. The Sephardi Chief Rabbi has weighed in on the issue of the Temple Mount, and has aroused the ire of Naftali Bennett, head of what considers itself
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Philanthropists and political power players Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban shared a stage for the first time Sunday, Nov. 9, to culminate the Israeli-American Council (IAC)’s First National Conference, debating a wide range of political issues but agreeing on the need for the U.S. to toughen its stance on a nuclear Iran. Adelson,
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By Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California – A Pulitzer Prize winning historian told attendees of the Jewish Book Fair at Temple Solel here that Israel’s Mossad was wrong in 1979 to assassinate P.L.O. intelligence chief Ali Hassan Salameh notwithstanding the fact that he was suspected of helping to mastermind the murder of Israeli athletes
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Small children are active by nature. They run and jump, skip and play as naturally as adults walk and sit. In fact, small children tend to find it difficult to sit for very long. I remember racing around our back garden with my little friend from next door, as
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Travel and FoodBy Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Israeli Police at the Temple Mount have begun limiting Jewish entry to the Temple Mount to groups of five. The police also do not allow Jews to pray while there. The new rules being enforced at the Temple Mount follow a phone conversation between Prime Minister Netanyahu and the
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Gracie’s Night: A Hanukkah Story by Lynn Taylor Gordon, Illustrated by Laura Brown, © 2013 Cookie & Nudge Books, , ISBN 978-0-9857353-2-6, 30 pages, $8.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—In this beautifully illustrated story, Gracie lives in New York City with her father, who is a hard-working bus driver, and their dog, cat and
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish ReligionHow My Grandmother Prevented a Civil War, by Haggai Segal, Gefen Publishing, 2014 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Haggai Segal’s grandparents immigrated to Palestine in the mid 1920’s. They fell in love with the land though the living conditions were difficult; often with no electricity, no running water, malaria, famine, hostile Arab neighbors as
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I am Sophie Tucker: A Fictional Memoir by Susan and Lloyd Ecker, © 2014 Prospecta Press, ISBN 978-1-63226-006-9, 400 pages, $27.50 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As the back story is told, Susan and Lloyd Ecker went to a Bette Midler concert and heard “The Divine Miss M” pay tribute to her inspiration,
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We’re in the headlines again. Every day there are violent demonstrations on the borders of several Arab neighborhoods. “Violence” means stones, fireworks, and fire bombs thrown at the ranks of Border Police, who respond with tear gas, stun grenades, rubber bullets and real bullets on occasion. There have been Palestinian
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –Before our very eyes, the U.S. is shifting alliances in the Middle East. For decades, American foreign policy in the region was anchored by relationships with Israel, Egypt, the UAE (United Arab Emirates), and Saudi Arabia. That has changed under the Obama administration. Since the president’s first foreign speech
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Speaking at the inaugural Israeli American Council (IAC) National Conference, former Presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney blasted President Obama for his Iran policy and recent secret letter to Iranian leaders, saying he was “stunned” the administration would attempt to connect with a “rogue” state. “That the president would write a letter
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) – EL AL Israel Airlines and JetBlue Airways have signed a code share agreement, providing travelers to Israel with expanded options and easier connections. Travelers living in 38 cities in the U.S.A. can now experience convenient connections to their EL AL nonstop flight to/from Israel. Luggage is automatically transferred between the JetBlue and
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