By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA)–Prime Minister Netanyahu held a special Cabinet meeting Sunday morning June 15 at the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, during which he revealed that the Hamas terror group is behind the kidnapping of the three Israeli youth in Gush Etzion late Thursday night. “This morning I can say what […]
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Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California – Laura Simon, 108, died in her sleep late Saturday evening, June 14, at the Aviara Healthcare Center where she was under hospice care, her son Mayo said. Arrangements were pending for burial on Tuesday in Chicago’s Waldheim Cemetery. Mayo, 86, who no longer drives, said a rabbi from
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Donald H. HarrisonJERUSALEM (Press Release) — The President of the State of Israel, Shimon Peres, spoke to the newly elected President of Egypt, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Saturday and congratulated him on his election. President Peres stressed Israel’s commitment to maintain the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt and strengthening the cooperation between the countries. President Peres wished
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JERUSALEM — Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu issued the following statement on Saturday, June 14 : “Good evening. We are in the midst of a wide-ranging operation to locate and return the three missing youths. The three missing students are Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Sha’er and Naftali Frenkel. I spoke with their parents before the onset
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By Kenneth L. Marcus/JNS.org In a recent issue of Time magazine, Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, former president of the Union for Reform Judaism, writes that anti-Semitism is “not a threat to American Jews.” He could not be more wrong. Let us start with the obvious. Any threat to world Jewry is a threat to American
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USABy Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week WASHINGTON, D.C. — While Hillary Rodham Clinton jets around the country promoting her newly released memoir Hard Choices, a group of prominent Jewish Democrats has placed bets on the former secretary of state in advance of her possible run for the presidency. Others, however, are using parts of the memoir
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USASAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Philanthropist Jerome Katzin has died, the Jewish Federation of San Diego announced Saturday, June 14. Katzin’s private burial on June 16 will come just 10 days after his wife Miriam was laid to rest. The parents of David and Daniel Katzin and Diane Katzin Kurnit will be memorialized in a public
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By Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Democratic and Republican parties battle for who will control the growing Latino-American vote, one young Hispanic politician is being eyed by Democrats as their party’s future. San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro was thrust into the national spotlight last month when President Barack Obama nominated the
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USAEditor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. Matt Lauer, who considers himself “half-Jewish” because of his father, has signed a multiple year contract extension as host of NBC’s Today show, the U-T reports in its “People” section. * Three Jewish teenage Yeshiva students , kidnapped
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California — Right now, as I write this, Laura Simon, 108, is lying in a bed at the Aviara Healthcare Center somewhere between life and death as her son, screenwriter and playwright Mayo Simon, sits besides her, contemplating, at age 86, the awfulness of becoming an orphan. There seems to
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Rabbi Ben Kamin MEMPHIS, Tennessee —When I returned again this week to this city of purple mists, hovering ghosts, and sudden ferocious rainstorms, the hole in my heart for my departed, adopted mother was real and dampening. Maxine Smith quietly died since my last visit (the only thing she ever did quietly); a ribald,
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USABy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM – On Saturday night, June 14, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his first official statement on the kidnapping of the three Israeli teenagers near the Hebron area that took place on Thursday. “I can’t share everything we know, but I can say: Our boys were kidnapped by a terrorist organization;
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “I don’t live life. I tolerate it.” –Brad Zimmerman A job waiting tables is almost a given when you pursue a career as an actor. I’ve done it myself, so I knew I would appreciate this gig. This is one of those concepts where you say, “Dammit! Why
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego CountyWASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) and nine of her colleagues on Friday, June 13, sent a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to take immediate action to combat gender-based violence and improve the safety of women and girls in India. The Senators’ letter to the newly-elected Prime Minister
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