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Israel Apprehends PA Security Officers Who Allegedly Killed Cabinet Minister’s Nephew
JNS.org – The Israel Defense Forces apprehended three Palestinian Authority security officers who allegedly killed an Israeli near Nablus in 2011, Israeli officials said on Wednesday. The arrests, which were made in May but embargoed until Tuesday, were carried out with the help of the Shin Bet security agency. Ben-Yosef Livnat, an Israeli from the Samaria community of Elon Moreh and the nephew...
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‘Level-Headed’ Diplomat’s Wife Evacuated Herself
YNet – Heroism in face of terror: An Israeli diplomat’s wife wounded in Monday’s...
February 13, 2012 2:01 pm
Israel Foreign Ministry on India, Georgia: “Terrorists Will Attack Wherever They See an Opportunity”
In a conference call Monday organized by The Israel Project (TIP), Paul Hirschson, an Israeli...
February 13, 2012 11:00 am
Terrorist Attack in India Uses Same Explosive Device as in Iran Scientist Assassination
The car bomb which exploded in India on Monday, injuring the wife of an Israeli diplomat,...
February 13, 2012 9:16 am
Netanyahu: Iran Behind Monday Terrorist Attacks in India and Georgia (VIDEO)
In New Delhi, India on Monday, the wife of an Israeli diplomat was injured when a bomb attached...
February 13, 2012 9:15 am
Hamas Leader in Iran: “Gun is Our Only Response to Zionist Regime”
Haaretz/AP – The only path in the Palestinian struggle against Israel is the path of...
February 13, 2012 4:00 am
Iraqi Aid to Syrian Rebels Signals Wide Regional Conflict
NY Times – Not so long ago, Syrians worked to send weapons and fighters into Iraq...
February 13, 2012 12:05 am
US Navy: We Can Prevent Iran From Closing Straight of Hormuz
JPost/Reuters -Iran has built up its naval forces in the Gulf and prepared boats that could...
February 12, 2012 5:15 pm
Abbas: We Won’t Recognize Israel as a Jewish State
Israel National News – Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday...
February 12, 2012 2:48 pm
Netanyahu Slams Abbas Partnership With Hamas
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February 12, 2012 10:39 am
Khamenei Warns Hamas Against Compromise With Israel
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February 11, 2012 7:18 pm
IAF Responds to Gaza Rocket, Striking 4 Terror Sites
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February 11, 2012 6:46 pm
Romney Win in Maine Caucuses, Paul Close Second
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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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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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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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