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Israel’s farming, tourism sustain Gaza war losses

August 25, 2014

By Ze’ev Ben-Yechiel JERUSALEM (TNA)–The nearly two-month-long conflict with Hamas that has taken an economic toll on Israel. In addition to the military expenditures from Operation Protective Edge, physical damage to commercial facilities and the financial impact on industries such as retail and tourism have dragged the country into an economic slump, while the psychological

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Middle East

Envoy calls Qatar a ‘Club Med’ for terrorists

August 25, 2014

UNITED NATIONS, New York (WJC) — Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, has lambasted the Persian Gulf emirate Qatar for bankrolling terrorist groups such as Hamas and called it a “Club Med for terrorists”. In an opinion piece for the ‘New York Times’, Prosor urged the world to work forcefully to halt Qatar’s

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Travel and Food

Many tea leaves to read from Mideast brew

August 24, 2014

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — What’s happening? It’s not clear. Among the signs inviting assessment are: The IDF appears to be upping its efforts to exact higher costs from Hamas and those supporting or tolerating it. Among recent targets have been a 14 story apartment building that collapsed as the result of two rockets, perhaps

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Arabs transferring patients wounded at Erez Crossing

August 24, 2014

By Ze’ev Ben-Yechiel JERUSALEM (TNA)–Three Israeli Arabs were injured Sunday afternoon at the Erez Crossing checkpoint by a mortar shell fired from Gaza. As a result of the incident, which occurred during the transfer of Gazan patients for medical treatment in Israel, authorities have announced the closing the Erez Crossing checkpoint between Israel and the

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Middle East

Hamas slaughters suspected spies

August 24, 2014

By Ze’ev Ben-Yechiel JERUSALEM (TNA) — With Israel continuing to score major hits in Gaza, at least 25 Gazans suspected of collaboration with Israel are believed to have been killed by Hamas operatives in recent days Saturday evening, a 13-story building housing a massive Hamas command center was demolished by the IDF, with the army

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Middle East

Health workers may become less objective if threat near

August 24, 2014

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — When a health risk gets closer to home, health care professionals base their positions on vaccines more on emotions and personal experiences than on scientific and analytical knowledge, according to a new study by the School of Public Health at the University of Haifa. “When the risk is remote it

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Israel buries a 4-year-old mortar victim

August 24, 2014

By Anav Silverman NAHAL OZ, Israel (TNA)–The four-year-old victim of the Hamas rocket at attack on Kibbutz Nahal Oz on Friday, August 22, was laid to rest on Sunday morning. Daniel Tragerman was killed on Friday afternoon, Aug. 22, by rocket shrapnel in his family’s home, when a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip

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Middle East

Nearly 300 years later, ‘Ivanhoe’ still enchants

August 24, 2014

By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — How did it come about that a high born Christian knight, newly returned from a Crusade to the Holy Land, voluntarily engaged in mortal combat to defend the life and honor of a Jewish woman he barely knew and did not love? Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe is a classic

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Travel and Food

When Is It ‘Good Enough?’

August 23, 2014

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — We’ve all heard the popular adage: Anything worth doing is worth doing well. But, I live by a different motto: not everything worth doing is worth doing well. In other words, some things just need to be completed in a way that is good enough but not

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Travel and Food

Humoring the Headlines: August 23, 2014

August 23, 2014

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─Congressman Louis Gohmert of Texas charges that the Muslim Brotherhood exerts a strong influence on the Obama administration He claims to have seen footage of Obama prostrating himself several times on a green carpet. Other reporters say these are just YouTube clips of the President picking up golf balls from

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Racists who protested wedding shamed themselves

August 22, 2014

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — In the Talmud Rabbi Yosi comments on this verse from parashat R’eih: “When you cross the Jordan and settle in the land that the Lord our God is allotting to you…” (Deut. 10:12) Rabbi Yosi taught: “The Israelites were given three commandments when they entered the land of

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

The strategy of keeping the status quo

August 22, 2014

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We’re hearing another round of criticism that Benyamin Netanyahu has no strategy. Critics are calling him the status quo Prime Minister, aspiring to nothing more than quiet, and seeing the status quo the best option for Israel in both the West Bank and Gaza. Singing in the chorus are well

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Coalition protests assault by SJP at Temple U

August 22, 2014

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)-A coalition of groups concerned about civil rights and Jewish affairs has issued a statement protesting the assault and battery against a Jewish student at Temple University in Philadelphia by members of Students for Justice in Palestine. The statement from the coalition follows: “We are deeply troubled by the physical assault against

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

JNS news briefs: August 22, 2014

August 22, 2014

Rockets pound southern Israel, IDF calls up 10,000 reservists (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Hamas terrorists continued to barrage southern Israel on Friday, August 22, firing more than 30 rockets at Beersheba, Ashkelon, Sderot, Netivot, and the Gaza periphery communities. The Iron Dome defense system intercepted six rockets fired at heavily populated areas. One man sustained

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Travel and Food

Israel’s farming, tourism sustain Gaza war losses

Envoy calls Qatar a ‘Club Med’ for terrorists

Many tea leaves to read from Mideast brew

Arabs transferring patients wounded at Erez Crossing

Hamas slaughters suspected spies

Health workers may become less objective if threat near

Israel buries a 4-year-old mortar victim

Nearly 300 years later, ‘Ivanhoe’ still enchants

When Is It ‘Good Enough?’

Humoring the Headlines: August 23, 2014

Racists who protested wedding shamed themselves

The strategy of keeping the status quo

Coalition protests assault by SJP at Temple U

JNS news briefs: August 22, 2014

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