IDF destroys explosives-laden tunnel under Gaza borders (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces blew up an explosives-laden tunnel under Israel’s border with the central part of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, outgoing IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai said. The tunnel was a previously undiscovered segment of a tunnel that was uncovered before […]
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Somewhere in the American side of my brain is a memory of hearing that America is safe only when Congress is on vacation. The feeling may not be appropriate this week, when Members of Congress are trying to do something along with the White House to loosen their collective hands
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastHamas leader Mashaal to visit Iran (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) In another sign of reconciliation between Hamas and Iran, Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Mashaal will arrive in Tehran on Monday night for an official visit during which he will meet with Iranian leaders. Mashaal’s trip is taking place after a two-year rift between Hamas
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It should be no surprise that we are hearing another round of Israeli oy gevalt about Jews who leave the Promised Land, and thereby endanger the Zionist dream. The subject erupts every so often, currently provoked by yet another former Israeli who has won a Nobel Prize, at least partly
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Sheryl Rowling Dear Readers, We hear a lot of contradicting media hype on ObamaCare. Without getting into the details of ObamaCare (which I can do in a future column), I wanted to share this unsolicited letter that I received from a client. It was enlightening to me! Wishing all of you a healthy and
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Sheryl Rowling, Travel and Food• The sign of circumcision is so important, that . . . .it alone would preserve the nation [Israel] forever — SPINOZA, Theologico-Political Treatise 1670. Ch. 3 • Turnus Rufus asked R. Akiba: “If God wanted circumcision, why didn’t he make man born circumcised?” R. Akiba replied, “Why do you ask only regarding circumcision? Why
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — After seeing the latest polls on the percentage of Americans who disapprove of the Republican strategy of linking the approval of a budget to the defunding of Obama Care, Confucius say, “Those who heed the advice of the junior senator from Texas will find themselves in a Ted end.”
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Retirement is becoming a more distant dream for a rising number of older Americans, largely because they need the money but also because they are healthy enough to keep working. The percentage of 65-plus women who are working jumped more than 4 percentage points to 12.5%.
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiIDF reserve colonel beaten to death in Jordan Valley terror attack (JNS.org) Israel Defense Forces reserve colonel Sariya Ofer was killed Thursday night in the Jordan Valley village of Brosh Habika in a suspected Palestinian terrorist attack. Ofer was reportedly beaten by at least two Palestinian men wielding iron bars and axes. His wife, Monique,
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InternationalIsrael hopes U.S. cut in Egypt aid won’t affect peace deal (JNS.org) The U.S. on Wednesday decided to halt the transfer of $260 million in military aid to Egypt, citing democracy and human rights concerns. America will also withhold the delivery of tank parts, helicopters, anti-ship missiles, and the F-16 fighter aircraft. “As a result
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InternationalNobel Prize in chemistry shared by Israeli professor (JNS.org) Arieh Warshel, an Israeli-American professor at the University of Southern California, will share the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work that made it possible “to map the mysterious ways of chemistry by using computers,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced. Warshel shares the
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InternationalBy Aryeh Savir The Palestinians, according to a recent study by the Jerusalem Institute of Justice, have received 25 times more aid (per capita) than did the Europeans to rebuild war-torn Western Europe under the Marshall plan after the Second World War. Most of these funds, according to the study, reach the Palestinians through the
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Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel–I happen to be one of those annoying people who wake up early in the morning full of vim and vigour and ready to tackle anything. Getting up at around six a.m. is no big deal for me and sometimes I wake up even before that and have no
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — I have always found this week’s Torah portion, Parshat Lech Lecha (Genesis 12:1-17:27), especially inspiring and instructive. It is in this parsha that we are told the story of Abraham’s aliyah, of his journey to the Holy Land. What amazes me, and what readers of the Bible
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