By Yori Yalon (Israel Hayom via JNS) A 2,000-year-old silver coin experts believe may have been minted by a Temple priest was recently found in Jerusalem by an 11-year-old Israeli girl. Liel Krotokop came across the coin while helping sift archaeological debris from the excavation of the Pilgrimage Road in the City of David national […]
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Middle East
(JNS) Australia’s government on Wednesday designated Hezbollah in its entirety a terrorist organization. Until now, Australia has outlawed only Hezbollah’s overseas terrorism apparatus. Israel’s Foreign Ministry praised the move, saying in a statement that it would “give Australian law enforcement agencies many additional effective tools to combat the organization’s activities in Australia.” According to the
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International, Middle East
Published by Radar Online Jeffrey Epstein’s mysterious last phone call was to his girlfriend, not his mother, before his suicide. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons records obtained by The New York Times, Epstein wasn’t truthful about who he was calling on the evening of August 9, 2019. Ghislaine Maxwell Accuser To Describe ‘Repugnant’
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Jewish Celebrities
Published by DPA Israel and Morocco signed a security memorandum of understanding on Wednesday during a visit from Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz, a follow-up to the two countries’ decision to normalize relations last year. The agreement lays the foundation for cooperation in several fields including intelligence, industrial collaboration and military training, according to a
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Middle East
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Jewish Federation of San Diego County leader Jessica Effress is being honored with the nationally recognized 2022 Kipnis-Wilson/Friedland Award for her extraordinary involvement in our local community. Jessica Effress has been an instrumental part of the San Diego Jewish Community since settling here with her husband and three children in 2005. She has participated in many
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San Diego County
Published by The Bangkok Post PARIS – Albert Einstein’s handwritten notes for the theory of relativity are being auctioned in Paris on Tuesday, expected to fetch millions of euros. “This is without a doubt the most valuable Einstein manuscript ever to come to auction,” said Christie’s, which is hosting the sale on behalf of the
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Jewish Celebrities
Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – Apple sued spyware maker NSO on Tuesday for targeting the users of its devices, saying the Israeli firm at the center of the Pegasus surveillance scandal needs to be held to account. The suit from the Silicon Valley giant adds new trouble for NSO, which was engulfed in controversy
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Business & Finance
French journalist Anne Sinclair confesses she had long felt guilty about not asking her late paternal grandfather Léonce Schwartz to tell her about his internment at a little-known concentration camp on the outskirts of Paris. Known by the French as the Royallieu-Compiegne Concentration Camp, and by the Nazi Germans as Frontstalag 122, it was not as well-known as Drancy, the notorious French transit point to the Nazi killing camps in Poland. However, the prisoners there were treated just as callously. Starvation, lice, frostbite were common ailments purposely neglected by the Nazis in their effort to humiliate and winnow the French Jewish population [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History
Published by DPA Israel has begun vaccinating children aged 5 to 11 against the coronavirus. Although the vaccination campaign officially started on Tuesday, some children were administered the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine in some locations the day before. Coronavirus commissioner Salman Sarka spoke of a “celebration for children and parents who can now protect their children,” according
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Middle East
The Genesis Prize Foundation honored the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks with the Genesis Lifetime Achievement Award. The award recognizes Lord Sacks for his extraordinary role in inspiring the next generation of Jews, and his illustrious life-long work as a teacher of Jewish values and an advocate of inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue. [Genesis Prize Foundation News Release]
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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East
(JNS) Israel must “recalibrate” its strategy with regard to Iran, and will not be obligated by a U.S. return to the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday. In a speech delivered at Reichman University for the Institute for Policy and Strategy’s Security and Policy Conference, Bennett said that while
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International, Middle East
JERUSALEM — After attempting college in the U.S. and seeing it wasn’t the right fit for him, Avi Weinreb is finally where he belongs — Israel. Below, the freshman studying business administration discusses what drew him to studying in Israel and how he manages to live a life where he’s both immersed in Torah and
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Middle East, USA
You’ve heard it many times, “Man plans, G-d laughs.” Or perhaps, like me, you’ve heard this version, “Mentsch tracht, Gott lacht.” I like “Man thinks, G-d Winks.” Regardless, like all of us who prefer to live without being mutchet or tcheppeht, (pressured or bothered), Jacob found that life has its challenges and disappointments. Just when we think all is well in our family, in our career, in our lives, G-d shows us that He has another lesson for us to learn. It seems the only thing predictable about life is how unpredictable it can be. [Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D]
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
Iranian-born San Diegan Ari Honarvar has written a novel juxtaposing the gentle mysticism of the Sufi sect of Islam with life under the strict fundamentalist interpretation of Islam in modern-day Revolutionary Iran. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison