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Despite Advanced Age, Peres Believes Peace is Possible in His Lifetime
Israel’s President Shimon Peres believes peace between Israel and the Palestinians is possible—and in his lifetime. Peres, who is approaching his 90th birthday, gave a brief, yet optimistic response to the question when posed it by the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper. “Oh yes,” he said. When further pressed to explain why, despite some observers’ belief that peace may be...
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Injured Rebel Fighter Brings Letter from Syrian Doctor to Israeli Medical Staff
USA Today Publishes BDS Press Release Almost Word for Word, Accuses Israel of ‘Large-Scale Abuses of Palestinian Rights’
Syrian Rebels: Israel Responsible for Huge Explosion at Damascus Airport
Anti-Semitism Dismissed as Motive Despite Three Consecutive Firebombings of Jewish Targets in Montreal
Injured Rebel Fighter Brings Letter from Syrian Doctor to Israeli Medical StaffUSA Today Publishes BDS Press Release Almost Word for Word, Accuses Israel of ‘Large-Scale Abuses of Palestinian Rights’Syrian Rebels: Israel Responsible for Huge Explosion at Damascus AirportAnti-Semitism Dismissed as Motive Despite Three Consecutive Firebombings of Jewish Targets in Montreal
June 18, 2013 11:18 am
Mohamed ElBaradei: Morsi Threatened to ‘Burn the Country’ if I Became Prime Minister
Leading Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei said Tuesday that President Mohamed...
June 18, 2013 8:57 am
Russian FM: Iran Willing to Halt Enrichment of 20% Uranium if Sanctions Eased
Iran is willing to halt its enrichment of 20% uranium if the West will ease sanctions, Russia’s...
June 18, 2013 8:28 am
Erdogan Associate Blames American ‘Jewish Lobby’ for Turkey Protests
An associate of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan posted this past weekend a note...
June 18, 2013 8:02 am
98-Year-Old Former Nazi Charged in Hungary
BBC – Hungarian prosecutors have charged a 98-year-old man, Laszlo Csatary, with participation...
June 18, 2013 2:24 am
IAEA Chief: Iran Progressing With Nuclear Program Despite Sanctions
Jerusalem Post – VIENNA – Iran is making “steady progress” in expanding...
June 17, 2013 8:56 pm
Hamas Calls on Hezbollah to Leave Syria and Focus on Fighting ‘Zionist Enemy’
JNS.org - In a rare public rebuke, the Palestinian terror organization Hamas has called...
June 17, 2013 11:34 am
Report: Following Rohani Victory, West, Iran Eager to Resume Nuclear Talks
The Obama administration and its allies in Europe intend to push for the resumption of talks...
June 17, 2013 10:27 am
Report: Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah’s Brother Killed in Syria Fighting
The brother of Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed recently in a fierce battle...
June 17, 2013 9:24 am
Syrian Rebels: Israel Responsible for Huge Explosion at Damascus Airport
Rebel fighters in Syria have told Arabic-language media that Israel is responsible for explosions...
June 17, 2013 9:13 am
Report: Hezbollah Chief Nasrallah has Been Visiting Syria in Support of Militia Fighters
The Syrian city of Qusair welcomed a high profile guest recently, following its fall to the...
June 17, 2013 8:51 am
Israeli Minister Bennett: Idea of Palestinian State Has Reached Dead End
JNS.org – Israel should discard the two-state solution when it comes to the conflict...
June 16, 2013 9:22 pm
After Firebombing of Third Montreal Jewish Business, Community Group Demands Answers from Police
Following the latest in a string of firebombing attacks on Jewish targets in Montreal, Canada,...
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Personalities Sports
NBA Finals a Time to Remember Legendary Jewish Coach Red Auerbach
JNS.org - At the start of each nationally televised game of the 2013 NBA Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat, ABChas aired a film-clip montage of basketball’s great players and coaches—a montage that includes Jewish coach Arnold “Red” Auerbach, the mastermind behind nine championship teams for the Boston Celtics. Red was one of four children of Marie and Hyman Auerbach. Hyman was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who left Belarus when he was 13. The couple owned a deli and [...]
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The Marx Brothers and Jewish Identity
JNS.org - The sons of Jewish immigrants from Germany and France, the Marx Brothers became zany masters of stage and screen who continue to captivate audiences. But in addition to providing comic relief, their films captured the drama of the entry of their marginalized religion into the U.S. Wayne Koestenbaum, author of the 2012 book The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, explains that the Marx Brothers’ Jewishness as a family “was evident, marked, thoroughly legible.” “Within a family already marked as Jewish within [...]
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Arts and Culture Jewish Identity
SuperJew
For my shekels, the question of whether the comic book character Superman, is Jewish or not shouldn’t even be questioned. Born and named Kal-El by his father Jor-El, “El” is one of the ancient names for God used throughout the bible and found in great prophets such as Samue-el, Dani-el and angels Micha-el and Gavri-el and of course, Isra-el. As Simcha Weinstein in his entertaining book, “Up, Up And Oy Vey” points out, “Kal” is the root of several Hebrew [...]
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Formula 1 Road Show Thrills Jerusalem
JNS.org – Some 100,000 people attended Israel’s first-ever Formula 1 Road Show in Jerusalem on Thursday and Friday. For several hours, the controversies that normally characterize Jerusalem were put aside, and a diverse mosaic of Israelis watched up close as the motor-sport stars temporarily conquered the city. “It was an amazing experience, the most fast and furious thing I have seen,” spectator Masada Porat told Israel Hayom. “It was a rare, extreme event that explodes in your face.” Spectator Irena [...]
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Book Reviews Jewish Identity
Klara’s Journey Casts Jews in Fast-Paced Adventure Through Russian History
JNS.org – “If you’re sick, move away. Have some consideration for others,” a red army soldier scolds a slow-moving old man selling train tickets. “No, fires back the old man, proud, haughty, not realizing it’s a new country, a Bolshevik country where force heads the list instead of civility,” reads the following line in Ben G. Frank’s new novel, Klara’s Journey, released June 1. Reminiscent of Boris Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago—whose backdrop is also a train ride across the Russian frontier during the [...]
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Personalities Theater
Nora Ephron, Famed Jewish Screenwriter, Remembered Through Tribeca Film Festival Prize
JNS.org – For filmmaker Meera Menon, no honor could have been more fitting than winning the inaugural award named after famed Jewish screenwriter and novelist Nora Ephron, the woman whose work inspired her. At the recent 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, Menon was named the first recipient of the $25,000 Nora Ephron Prize, given to a writer or director whose work embodies that of the late Ephron, who wrote the scripts for a number of hit films, including “When Harry Met [...]
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Book Review: ‘Jewish Jordan’ Memoir an Important Guide for Players and Coaches
JNS.org – Despite his friends’ and family’s doubts that a young Orthodox Jewish athlete could ever play college or professional basketball without compromising his religious values, between 1999 and 2009 the “Jewish Jordan” defied conventional wisdom and found his place on the court. In his new memoir, Jewish Jordan’s Triple Threat, Tamir Goodman describes his triumphs and disappointments in life, crediting his practice of Judaism for shaping his identity as an athlete and his understanding of basketball as a team sport. [...]
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Omri Casspi, ‘Jewish Jordan’ Partner on Basketball Camps to Inspire Youths On and Off the Court
Tamir Goodman (left) and NBA forward Omri Casspi—pictured on the court of the United Center, home of the Chicago Bulls—together run basketball camps that seek to inspire youths on and off the court. Photo: Courtesy Tamir Goodman. JNS.org – Before last year, basketball camps for Jewish youths never had an instructor quite like Omri Casspi, a forward for the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Cleveland Cavaliers and the first Israeli-born player in NBA history. Casspi is a de facto ambassador for [...]
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