EILAT, Israel (WJC) –Robert Singer, chief executive officer of the World Jewish Congress, praised the work of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists in international organizations, in particular the United Nations. Addressing an IAJLJ convention in Eilat, Singer said: “There is a strange tendency – even in the West – to apply different
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International, Middle East
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Israeli politicians on Thursday, Nov. 20, lambasted the mayor of the southern city of Ashkelon for ordering a halt of construction on bomb shelters in city kindergartens in order to keep Arab workers off the sites. Prime Minister Netanyahu and other senior Israeli politicians criticizing Mayor Itamar Shimoni’s announcement on Facebook that
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Middle East
By Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit)–The Israeli Antiquities Authority is releasing a free app for iPhones and iPads. The app, called “Dig Quest,” is meant to help kids get a feel for what archaeologists do, and experience what it is like to discover artifacts from the past. The app features two simulated dig sites –
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Once again, the Obama administration has become disturbed about Jews building homes, neglecting to pressure Palestinian leaders to stop incitement against Jews and terror attacks on Israelis. The offense: permits were approved to construct less than 100 homes in a Jewish area of Jerusalem which happens to be beyond the
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Middle East, Steve KramerArab Knesset member’s aide: we’ll slaughter 50 Jews at soccer game (JNS.org) Israeli Knesset Security Chief Yosef Griff on Wednesday revoked the entry permit to the Knesset for Khaled Bashir, an aide to Arab MK Masud Ganaim (Ra’am-Ta’al), who was overheard by a Knesset security guard as saying “we’ll slaughter 50 Jews” at next Sunday’s
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Travel and FoodBy Jeremy Ben-Ami WASHINGTON, D.C. — We are still reeling from Tuesday’s horrible terrorist attack on a Jerusalem synagogue in which five people were killed during morning prayers, leaving four widows and 24 fatherless children on a single street in the neighborhood of Har Nof. How are we in the pro-peace community to respond to
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — Yaakov beseeched Hashem (G-d) that his descendents should not be unworthy (vis. Rashi – shelo tehay psul b’zari). It was crucial to Yaakov that Torah carry on throughout the generations. When we study, practice and transmit Torah, we are bringing nachas (pride and joy) to our patriarch Yaakov.
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Jewish Religion
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — It was prayer as usual at the Jerusalem synagogue on Wednesday morning following the devastating Palestinian terror attack that left four rabbis and a Druze policeman dead the previous day. The morning Shacharit prayer services were full of worshipers and men studying Torah, as security guards and border police milled
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC on Wednesday, Nov. 19, urged the Obama Administration to expedite the Keystone XL Pipeline review process and approve the project, following the Senate’s failure to pass a bill that would have compelled its construction. AJC has long advocated for the pipeline and supported the bill that was defeated by one vote. “The
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International, USAHAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–In a new study conducted by the Sagol Department of Neurobiology at the University of Haifa and published recently in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers report that they’ve found a way to improve memory by manipulating a specific molecule that is known to function poorly in old age and is closely linked
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationNEW YORK (Press Release) – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the nation’s oldest pro-Israel organization in the United States is excited to announce a star- studded line up for its annual Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award Dinner on Sunday November 23. The dinner will take place at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City,
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Middle East, USABy Anav Silverman and Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Thousands of Israelis from across the country, including the Haredi community, came to pay their respects to the Druze police officer, Zidan Saif, 30, who fell in the line of duty during the brutal Palestinian attack on a Jerusalem synagogue yesterday. Traffic police officer Zidan Saif
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Middle EastIranian spy reaches plea deal, will serve 7-8 years in Israeli prison (JNS.org) Ali Mansouri, 58, an Iranian national arrested more than a year ago on suspicion of spying for Iran against Israel, will confess to the charges against him after initially denying them and will be sentenced to a prison term of seven to
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–In 1869 Mark Twain published his impressions of Jerusalem in The Innocents Abroad. Along with frequent assertions of respect for the city’s history and its meaning to him and many others, he described a general level of filth, disease and poverty that surpasses just about everything in the contemporary Third World. “It
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