Terror Attack in Elad on Yom Ha’atzmaut: 3 Murdered, 4 Seriously Wounded

(JNS) Security forces are searching for the attackers who killed three Israelis and injured at least four people, two critically, in the central Israeli city of Elad, not far from Petach Tikvah. The attack on Thursday night came as celebrations for Yom Ha’aztmaut, Israel Independence Day, were winding down. “Unfortunately, three people who we performed

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Middle East

8 Fun and Fascinating Facts Surrounding Israel’s Founding

(Israel21c via JNS) Israel is celebrating 74 years of independence on May 5 this year. The passage of time and the solemn black-and-white photos of the period give one the feeling that the nascent country’s first footsteps were orderly, well-thought-out affairs. In reality, things couldn’t be more different: the country’s very name was hotly debated,

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Middle East

Ron Dermer on Israeli Independence Day: ‘From Powerlessness to Power’

By Ron Dermer (JNS) Israel was not established because of the Holocaust. In contrast, it is because of the modern State of Israel that there has not been another mass Jewish genocide, according to former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer. Speaking on this week’s “Diplomatically Incorrect” podcast with JINSA’s David Makovsky, Dermer

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Middle East, Opinion, USA

Jewish Groups React Strongly Against SCOTUS Leak to Overturn ‘Roe vs. Wade’

By Dmitriy Shapiro (JNS) The unprecedented leak of an initial draft majority opinion by the Supreme Court in the challenge of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—Mississippi’s law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy—has caused a firestorm of opinions on both sides of the abortion debate, no less so among Jewish organizations that for

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USA

Blinken Congratulates Israel on 74th Independence Day

(JNS) As Israel celebrates 74 years since its independence, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent his congratulations in a statement on Wednesday. Blinken said the relationship between the United States and Israel is unshakeable, based on shared democratic ideals. “The United States remains steadfast in its commitment to Israel’s security and deeply values our

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Middle East, USA

An Independence Day Question: Why Do Arabs Riot on the Temple Mount?

By Moshe Dann (JNS) Arab riots on the Temple Mount in opposition to any Jewish presence on the Jewish people’s most holy site have exposed what the Arab-Israeli conflict is all about. It’s not about the lack of a Palestinian state or Israeli concessions to the PLO, Hamas or other terrorist organizations. It’s about what

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Middle East, Opinion

New Book Stops ‘Exit by Exit’ Along I-5 to Recount Jewish Experience in San Diego

By Jacob Kamaras Times of San Diego LA JOLLA, California — By finding at least one Jewish story at every exit from the Mexican border to Old Town San Diego, veteran journalist Donald H. Harrison’s book Schlepping and Schmoozing Along the Interstate 5 transforms the West Coast’s main north-south highway into a treasure trove of

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jacob Kamaras, Jewish History, San Diego County

Leading Research Collaboration in Israel Unveils New Name

(JNS) A historic partnership between the University of Arizona, Jewish National Fund-USA and farmers in the Arava Valley, has been renamed as the Kasser Joint Institute for Food, Water, and Energy Security, in honor of a $1 million commitment made to the Institute by philanthropists Beth and Mike Kasser. “If you have enough water, then

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Book Puts the ‘Land’ in the Land of Israel

Essentials of the Land of Israel, Brandon Marlon, Vallentine Mitchell, London, ©2022, ISBN 978-1-91267-686-6, p. 186, plus biography and index, $69.75. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Anyone perusing the table of contents of Essentials of the Land of Israel by Brandon Marlon, a prolific, award-winning Canadian-Israeli author, would correctly conclude the book’s value

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Middle East, Travel and Food

Who Actually Wrote the Harvard Crimson’s Pro-BDS Editorial?

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Last Friday’s Harvard Crimson editorial starkly proclaims: “We support the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement as a means of achieving that goal.” Since the editorial lacks a byline, we can only guess who wrote it. My prime suspects are Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Who else? The editorial follows

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Bruce Ticker, Middle East, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA