By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — As we’re packing our bags for our summer sojourn in Toronto it brings to my mind Amos Oz’s confession that he loves Israel even when he can’t stand it; I discern similar mixed feelings in Ari Shavit’s, A Promised Land. Critics – “intellectuals” as described in a remarkable essay, […]
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Middle East
DONETESK, Ukraine (WJC) — Armed men have handed out a leaflet calling on Jews to register their religion and property with the interim pro-Russian government or face deportation and loss of citizenship. The leaflet distributed in Donetsk, Ukraine calling for all Jews over 16 years old to register as Jews is the latest worry of
Israeli-Palestinian negotiations move forward despite terror attack (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to move forward with peace negotiations with the Palestinians despite Monday’s terror attack in which a police officer was killed on his way to a Passover seder with his family. A meeting between the negotiating teams was
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–There’s another New York Times Op-Ed on Israel. This one praises Iran’s move away from theocracy and toward secularism, while describing Israel is moving in the opposite direction. It seems a bit premature to applaud any sign of reasonable activity from the mullah’s of Iran, I am even less certain that the authors (one Iranian
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Navras Jaat Aafreedi GREATER NOIDA, India — I grew up in Lucknow, a major centre of Muslim scholarship and culture, home to prestigious institutions of Islamic studies, Nadwātul Ulamā and Firangi Mahal. Except for a Jewish writer from Ahmedabad, Sheela Rohekar, who publishes in Hindi and has settled in Lucknow, and a few American and
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International
ZURICH, Switzerland (Press Release) – A global poll by WIN/Gallup International has revealed that over half of respondents believe that religion plays a positive role in their country, with people in Western Europe recording significantly lower positive results than other regions. Highlights Over half (59%) of global respondents said that religion plays a positive role. 22% of
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Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-If only Canadian filmmaker Alan Zweig’s comments and questions were as funny as his voice, this would be a hilarious movie. Zweig, who sounds like a cross between Gilbert Gottfried and Arnold Stang, queries famous Jewish comedians about why Jews once dominated the field of American comedy and no longer do
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Adventures in SD HistoryUNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (Press Release) — Ambassador Samantha Power, the U.S. permanent representatitve to the United Nations, said on Wednesday, April 16, that the world must do more to stop mass killings and atrocities in Syria. At a Security Council briefing on the prevention and fight against genocide, she described as “devastating” crimes against
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Middle East, USA
BOSTON (Press Release) –President Obama’s assistant for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Lisa Monaco, told a forum at Harvard’s Kennedy School that to prevent terrorism families and communities must be aware and ready to intervene when someone’s behavior lurches towards violence. Following is a partial text of her speech, delivered Tuesday, April 15: * “We’ve faced
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USANEW YORK (Press Release)—AJC called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to remove Rima Khalaf from her position as UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). “Under-Secretary General Khalaf’s profound and all-too-obvious animus against one UN member state, Israel, has betrayed her fundamental responsibility as
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Middle East
SINAI DESERT, Egypt (ETN) — It’s a major travel and tourism attraction in Egypt, and a UNESCO heritage site – yet a former Egyptian general wants St Catherine’s Monastery–by tradition built at the site of Moses’ well– demolished. The monastery’s lawyer, Ihab Ramzy, said that in May 2012 Ahmed Ragai Attiya obtained 71 administrative orders
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Travel and Food
By Dr. Elinor Gary ETN Editor-in-Chief I was at the bar with a frriend discussing the merits of the kosher wine we were drinking as we waited for the arrival of Uzi Landau, the current Israeli Tourism Minister. Guests came and went with their wine glasses and I hardly noticed – until I heard a
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Middle East, Travel and Food
Ben Kamin, Dangerous Friendship: Stanley Levison, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Kennedy Brothers, Michigan State University Press, © 2014, ISBN 978-1-61186-131-0, 256 pages including bibliography, notes and index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Martin Luther King Jr. had as a trusted aide a millionaire friend, who was an attorney and a successful real estate
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Donald H. Harrison