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Gaza Rocket Strikes Southern Israel
Times of Israel – Palestinians on Wednesday morning fired a rocket from the Gaza strip toward southern Israel, setting off alarms in the coastal city of Ashkelon and its environs. The rocket failed to reach its target, instead falling inside Palestinian territory. Read full story.
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Injured Rebel Fighter Brings Letter from Syrian Doctor to Israeli Medical Staff
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Report: Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah’s Brother Killed in Syria Fighting
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 AirportReport: Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah’s Brother Killed in Syria Fighting
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Report: 42% of Israelis Don’t Have Gas Masks
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May 31, 2013 12:22 pm
U.S. State Department Report Praises Israel’s Efforts to Combat Terrorism
A new report from the U.S. State Department praised Israel’s efforts to combat terrorism...
May 31, 2013 11:57 am
PA TV Airs Segment Celebrating Birthday of Hamas Terrorist Responsible for 30 Deaths (VIDEO)
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May 31, 2013 10:56 am
Report: Syria Won’t Receive S-300 Shipment Until 2014 – If at All
Russia has not yet delivered the S-300 air defense missile system to the Syrian regime and...
May 31, 2013 8:45 am
Netanyahu Warns Putin: Israel Would Destroy S-300 Missiles – Report
During a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin...
May 31, 2013 8:03 am
Russia to Ship 10 MiG-29 Fighter Jets to Syria
JPost- The head of aircraft maker MiG said on Friday that Russia was counting on providing...
May 30, 2013 5:18 pm
Netanyahu Hails Israel Security Agency’s Ability to Adapt to ‘Changing Threats’ Facing Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the headquarters of the Israel Security...
May 30, 2013 3:27 pm
Pension Fund TIAA-CREF Declines to Vote for Israel Boycott
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement suffered a major defeat on Thursday when Teachers...
May 30, 2013 1:16 pm
Report: Gulf States to Consider Branding Hezbollah a Terror Organization
Gulf Arab states will consider placing the Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah on their...
May 30, 2013 1:01 pm
IRS May Have Targeted at Least Five Pro-Israel Nonprofits, Investigation Reveals
An investigation has revealed that some pro-Israel non-profit groups may have been overly...
May 30, 2013 12:41 pm
Israel Begins to Build Military Oasis in the Negev Desert
Israel is looking to populate the Negev and it’s doing it by means of the military, The...
May 30, 2013 11:46 am
Report: Hezbollah Tells Hamas to Leave Lebanon Immediately
The Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah has told Palestinian terror group Hamas to leave...
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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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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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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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