Ya’alon apologizes for criticism of Kerry after U.S. rebuke (JNS.org) Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon apologized for remarks published by Yedioth Ahronoth that called U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s approach to Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations “obsessive” and “messianic.” “The defense minister had no intention to cause any offense to the secretary, and he apologizes if […]
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By Loren Kantor STUDIO CITY, California — Simon Wiesenthal was an Austrian Jewish Holocaust survivor who came to prominence after World War II as a Nazi hunter. With the aid of the Israeli, Austrian and West German governments he helped capture nearly 1,100 Nazi war criminals. Wiesenthal was born in 1908 in Lvov (in
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Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israelis’ wrestling with the issue of illegal immigrants is no less complicated, and maybe a bit more so than in other developed countries. As the one developed country with a land border with Africa, Israel is bound to have a problem. No matter how difficult life may be here, there
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Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Rabbi Ben Kamin has written a remarkable summary of the Holocaust years, as seen through the compassionate eyes of survivor Lou Dunst. In My Bargain With God, Kamin follows Dunst’s journey through the horrors of Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee, the latter concentration camp being where Dunst came within
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NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is understanding of Israeli Defense Minister and former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff, General Moshe Ya’alon stating that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is ignoring the realities of continuing Palestinian opposition to Israel’s existence. General Ya’alon refuted Secretary Kerry’s insistence on the
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InternationalBy J.Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida —This is my first column in my second century. It will be devoted to my daughter Susan, who made aliyah over 40 years ago. She had earned a Ph.D. in Botany at New York University. She spent many decades as a research scientist at the Israeli Agricultural Center.
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By Daniel Sokatch NEW YORK –Israel was always meant to be both a Jewish homeland and a democracy. Its founders were driven by their experience as stateless Jews to guarantee equal rights for all of the state’s inhabitants in Israel’s Declaration of Independence. These same leaders pushed the international community to create new norms for
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Hadassah’s ‘Day at the Races’ Set for Aug. 23 Southwestern Jewish Press, August 9, 1957, Page 1 Mrs. Harry Snyder, General Chairman, invites the members and friends of Hadassah to attend the gala day planned at the Del Mar Races, on Friday, August 23rd. Highlight of the day will be the “Hadassah Feature Race” with
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Are you ready for an experiment? The U.S. government is about to try something never before undertaken, utilizing equipment never before used under these circumstances. Are you ready for the first stab at neutralizing chemical weapons at sea, on a ship not designed for that purpose, using downsized machinery
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International, Shoshana Bryen
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Responding to news that the Obama Administration and its international partners had reached an agreement with Iran to implement the Joint Plan of Action signed in November 2013, Americans for Peace Now (APN) is calling on Congress to support President Obama’s diplomatic effort and is urging fellow American Jewish organizations
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Middle EastAncient calendar offers glimpse of biblical times (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Ever wonder how the people in biblical times arranged their schedules? The answer may lie with a 4,000-year-old silt tablet recently discovered in the ruins of Larsa, an ancient Sumer city located in modern-day southern Iraq. Larsa’s neighboring city was Ur Kasdim, mentioned in
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InternationalBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–There seems to be an ominous agreement between the government of Israel and the government of the Palestinian Authority about US Secretary of State John Kerry’s valiant efforts to bring about peace: nothing will come of it. Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has again stated that the Palestinians won’t recognize Israel as a
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Middle EastBy Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — For Holocaust survivor Peter Kubicek, 83, the thought of Amazon selling Nazi-themed items makes him sick to this stomach. He’s taking his protest straight to Amazon, and he was recently interviewed on Canadian television about his protest. A resident of Queens, N.Y., Kubicek is an active Internet reader
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JERUSALEM (WJC) – The United States should not return the Iraqi Jewish archive that is currently on loan to the US government to Baghdad, the archive’s chief rescuer urged on Monday. Harold Rhode, a retired Middle East analyst at the Office of the US Department of Defense who was instrumental in securing the Iraqi Jewish
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