JERUSALEM (Press Release)– Already active in six countries worldwide, Limmud FSU will now expand into Australia and Canada, thanks to cooperation with the International Fellowship of Christian and Jews headed by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, said the organization’s Founders Chaim Chesler and Sandra Cahn. Limmud FSU will hold its first Canada conference in Toronto this October […]
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International, Middle East
By Anav Silverman GUSH ETZION JUNCTION, Israel (TNA) — Monday, June 16, is the third day since the kidnapping of the three Israeli teens by Palestinian terrorists at the Gush Etzion junction in Judea. Standing at the site where the boys were reportedly last seen, IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians, adults and schoolchildren, continue on
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Middle East
SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) — Leaders of Reform CA, an initiative of the California Reform Jewish Movement for justice, said they are “overjoyed by the bold decision of our state leadership to invest significant and long-term cap-and-trade funding into the building of affordable homes near transit in California”. Rabbi Stephanie Kolin, Co-Director of the Union
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USA
PARIS (WJC) — A potentially deadly terrorist attack on a Paris synagogue in broad daylight was reportedly thwarted at the very last minute on Saturday. According to ‘JSS News’, a pair of unidentified attackers approached the synagogue, located in the French capital’s 20th District, armed with an assault rifle and a handgun. They began aiming
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International
JERUSALEM (WJC) — The Israeli government is considering the establishment of new Jewish communities in the Negev desert, according to a report by the newspaper ‘Haaretz’, despite opposition from environmental organizations. A plan to build seven new Jewish communities near the town of Arad will be brought for approval before a subcommittee of the National
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Middle EastBy Aryeh Savir TEL AVIV (TNA) – Amina Abbas, wife of Palestinian Authority Head Mahmoud Abbas, was convalescing at home after undergoing knee transplant surgery at a top Israeli hospital, Israeli media have reported. Yediot Aharonot said that Abbas’s wife was in Assuta Hospital, considered one of the best in Israel. She had been hospitalized
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Middle East‘Brings Back Our Boys’ Facebook page raises awareness on abducted Israeli teens (JNS.org) A Facebook page created Friday, June 13, following the abduction of three Israeli teenagers by terrorists near Hebron had garnered close to 80,000 “likes” by Monday. The “Bring Back Our Boys” Facebook page, which aims to raise international awareness of the kidnapping,
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International, Middle East
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Monday, June 16, with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and told him, “I expect you to assist in returning the abducted youths and in apprehending the kidnappers. The Hamas kidnappers came from territory under Palestinian Authority control and returned to territory under Palestinian Authority
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We are seeing the essence of terror with the apparent kidnapping of three yeshiva students on Thursday night, and days of media dealing with almost nothing else. The continued crises and perhaps ultimate falling apart of Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine may weigh on us more heavily than the disappearance of
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — While browsing through the fiction section of your local library among the authors whose last names begin with “K,” you may see “Schindler’s List,” the book upon which the movie was based. Oy Gevalt – someone’s made a big mistake! Wasn’t this story true? Yes, the story is true;
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Travel and Food
By Anav Silverman NOF AYALON (TNA) – On a quiet street in the rural community of Nof Ayalon, located in central Israel’s Ayalon Valley, members of press stand outside the home of Racheli and Avi Frenkel. The parents of the missing Israeli teen, Naftali, who was abducted with two other classmates by Palestinian
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Middle EastEditor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. The defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a Virginia Republican primary election last Tuesday, June 10, continues to reverberate. In the U-T’s “Winners and Losers” column, an item about Cantor was at the top of the
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyA Boy Becomes A Man … Video poem by Richard Jaffe
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Travel and Food
TEL AVIV (Press Release) – On Friday night June 13,.White City Shabbat set the Guinness World Record for the Largest Shabbat Dinner ever at the Hangar 11 in the port of Tel Aviv. 2,226 attendees were officially inscribed in the Guinness World Record for the Largest Shabbat Dinner, with notable diners including Chief Rabbi of
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Jewish Religion, Middle East