By 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
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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Middle East, USA
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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Middle East
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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San Diego County
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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USA