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Does Jordan truly want an independent Palestine?

January 27, 2014

By Sean Savage/JNS.org The U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations have yet to yield any tangible results. Serious disagreements remain over key issues such as borders, refugees, security, and the status of Jerusalem. Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a surprise visit to Jordan’s King Abdullah to discuss these issues. While Jordan officially supports a two-state […]

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Middle East

Diabetes can now be predicted earlier

January 27, 2014

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — An estimated 25.8 million Americans have diabetes. Another 79 million are thought to have “prediabetes,” meaning they are at risk of developing type-2 diabetes. Now Dr. Nataly Lerner of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine and her colleagues have discovered that a simple blood test reveals an individual’s risk

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Science, Medicine, & Education

The Menschkins

January 27, 2014

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Trivia, Humor & Satire

JNS news briefs: January 27, 2014

January 27, 2014

New excavations shed light on Sobibor death camp (JNS.org) A recent excavation has provided a silent testimony to the mass killing of about 250,000 Jews at the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp in Poland, 70 years after the perpetrators tried to cover their tracks by razing the site to its core and planting what was to

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International

Avoiding investments in terror states

January 27, 2014

By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO– Dear Money Maven, I invest in several mutual funds. I was looking at my statements and realized that I have no idea what investments these funds hold. I’m not trying to second guess the managers, but how do I know if they’re investing in companies I wouldn’t want to own?

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Sheryl Rowling

Are Obama, Kerry blaming Jews for Iran failures?

January 27, 2014

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration is angry that Senate proponents of additional sanctions against Iran (to be instituted if the interim accord expires without a final agreement) appear to be more skeptical of Iranian promises than the president and Secretary Kerry are. The administration is angry as well that signers, particularly Democratic

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Humoring the headlines: January 27, 2014

January 27, 2014

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―President Obama will deliver his annual State of the Union Address on Tuesday. Cathy McMorris Rodgers will give the Republican response to the speech. Mike Lee will follow her with the Tea Party response to the Address. Finally, Rand Paul will follow him with a speech representing his idiosyncratic perspective. If

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Tel Aviv vendors sell their own handicrafts

January 26, 2014

By Deborah Fineblum/JNS.org TEL AVIV (JNS)–Sure, it helps if you love to ogle the latest in hand-made crafts. But even if you don’t know a piece of greenware from earthenware, Tel Aviv’s Nachalat Binyamin Art & Craft Fair is a fun and funky way to spend a lazy Tuesday or Friday afternoon (the two days

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Travel and Food

650 Friends of IDF have warm, sentimental evening

January 26, 2014

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–A salute Saturday evening, Jan. 25, to Israel’s Navy and a speech by its former commander Amihai Ayalon, who also is a past director of Israel’s Shin Bet security service, was not, as one might expect, dedicated to probing analysis of the external threats faced by the Jewish State,

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Donald H. Harrison

AJC Denounces new outrages, remembers old ones

January 26, 2014

ROME (Press Release)—AJC (American Jewish Committee) has called for increased vigilance following grotesque manifestations of anti-Semitism in Rome during the Jewish Sabbath on January 25. A box with a pig’s head was delivered to Rome’s Grand Synagogue on Friday and similar packages were delivered on Saturday to the Israeli Embassy and to the Museum of

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Jewish History

Anti-Semitism prompts both assimiliation and aliyah

January 26, 2014

JERUSALEM (Press Release)–“Despite what people might think, anti-Semitism does not strengthen our ties with Jews overseas” said Minister of Jerusalem & Diaspora affairs, Naftali Bennett, before presenting the annual report on the subject to the Israeli government in Jerusalem on Sunday, Jan. 26. “For every Jew who makes Aliya as a result of anti-Semitism,

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Jewish Religion

Holocaust acknowledgment stirs Arab controversy

January 26, 2014

By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM–Two unusual events relating to Holocaust remembrance took place in the Arab world in December 2013: a first official conference on the Holocaust was held in Tunisia, dealing with Holocaust of the Jews of Tunisia, and the first visit by an Arab diplomat to a Holocaust memorial site, when Bahraini ambassador to

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International

New Nevil Shute needed to warn about climate change

January 25, 2014

By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Remember a popular novel from the 1950s titled On The Beach by the British-Australian writer Nevil Shute? His real name was Nevil Shute Norway, but he used a pen name for his writings. The novel came out in 1957 and was a dire warning about the perils of

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The World We Share

Desert agriculture flourishes in the Arava

January 25, 2014

By Sybil Kaplan/JNS.org Arava, literally meaning “desolate” and “dry area” in Hebrew, on the map is a section of the Jordan Rift Valley, running in a north-south orientation between the southern end of the Sea of Galilee down to the Dead Sea and continuing farther south, where it ends at Eilat and the Gulf of

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Travel and Food

Does Jordan truly want an independent Palestine?

Diabetes can now be predicted earlier

The Menschkins

JNS news briefs: January 27, 2014

Avoiding investments in terror states

Are Obama, Kerry blaming Jews for Iran failures?

Humoring the headlines: January 27, 2014

Tel Aviv vendors sell their own handicrafts

650 Friends of IDF have warm, sentimental evening

AJC Denounces new outrages, remembers old ones

Anti-Semitism prompts both assimiliation and aliyah

Holocaust acknowledgment stirs Arab controversy

New Nevil Shute needed to warn about climate change

Desert agriculture flourishes in the Arava

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