By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM — On Sunday, thousands gathered to pay their last respects to Israel’s eleventh prime minister and brilliant military strategist, Ariel Sharon, who passed away on Saturday after spending the last eight years of his life in a coma following a stroke in 2006. Sharon’s casket was placed in the Knesset in
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Middle EastBy Aryeh Savir Until his implementation of the disengagement from Gush Katif, Ariel Sharon was a revered leader of the residents of Judea and Samaria, the two areas popularly referred to in the American media as the “West Bank.” In the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Sharon championed construction of Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria
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Middle EastBy Ezra Friedlander NEW YORK — Shiva has just ended for the Stark family and the media frenzy has moved on to new targets. We have not. The horrific abduction and murder of Menachem Stark continues to shock our entire community to its core, and rightfully so. As most know by now, the New York
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–There ain’t much that is new under the sun. Israelis, Diaspora Jews and others who are concerned with us should have ceased hoping years ago for the kind of peace that prevails between the US and Canada, or among the countries of Western Europe. Something like the US border with Mexico might
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Rafael Medoff/JNS.org WASHINGTON, D.C. — Although Ariel Sharon will be remembered primarily for his achievements on the battlefield and his decisions as an Israeli political leader, an often-overlooked aspect of his legacy was his impact on the American Jewish community. In March 1980, Sharon arrived in the United States in the midst of an
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USA
NEW YORK — Israel’s Consulate General has compiled the comments of top Israeli and American political leaders on the death Saturday, Jan. 11, of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: U.S. President Barack Obama: “On behalf of the American people, Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to the family of former Israeli Prime Minister
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Arik Sharon gave the media plenty of time to prepare his obituary – eight years and one week to be exact. For it was in early January 2006, while serving as Israel’s prime minister, that he had a stroke which rendered him unconscious until he died. And dying today,
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Middle East
By Aryeh Savir After eight years of a comatose state and after deterioration in his health this past month, Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon finally passed away on Shabbat, January 11th, 2014, at the age of 85. Hi adopted son, Roni Schayak made the announcement. Ariel Sharon, also known as Arik, was born as Ariel Scheinermann, (February 26th 1928).
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — American culture, having turned over from social justice to narcissism, has now become a fertile field for the self-glorification that attends many birthdays. Like the cavalcade of grades of iPhones, this one is “better” than that one; here is a “milestone” event and there is “just another one.” The
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Travel and Food
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Americans for Peace Now (APN) joins its Israeli sister organization, Israel’s Peace Now movement, in strongly criticizing the government of Israel’s issuing new tenders for 1,877 new housing units in settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. APN’s President and CEO Debra DeLee said: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
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Middle East
By Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org CHICAGO—After the Modern Language Association (MLA) held the much-anticipated “Academic Boycotts: A Conversation about Israel and Palestine” roundtable on Jan. 9 as part of its 2014 convention in Chicago, MLA members expressed their opposition to academic boycotts of Israel during an alternative session offsite. The official convention panel, which JNS.org could
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Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –The Republican Jewish Coalition on Friday, Jan. 10, applauded the strong support among GOP Senators for the Kirk-Menendez bill, bipartisan legislation that would bolster ongoing diplomatic efforts to stop Iran’s progress toward obtaining nuclear weapons capability by clarifying that sanctions will be strengthened if Iran fails to comply with international demands.
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USASAN DIEGO — Remember when our nation’s leaders could laugh together? Here are President Ronald Reagan, House Speaker Tip O’Neill, and Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker attending a performance by comedy juggler Michael Davis at Ford’s Theater. How we out in the hinterlands would love to see such friendships among our leaders again! Thanks to
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Travel and Food
NEW YORK (Press Release)–Tu B’Shevat, the 15th of Shevat on the Jewish calendar—celebrated this year on Thursday, January 16, 2014—is the day that marks the beginning of a “new year” for trees. This is the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new
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