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Netanyahu to EU’s Ashton: Iran’s ‘Feet Should be Held to the Fire’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in a meeting Thursday that Iran must cease its nuclear enrichment, remove its already enriched nuclear material, and shut down its nuclear facility in Qom. Netanyahu further told Ashton that Europe should join the United States, Israel and “all responsible elements of the international community,”...
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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
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
June 11, 2013 8:36 pm
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Sends Mixed Signals on Hezbollah Role in Burgas Terror Attack
JNS.org – Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin backtracked slightly from...
June 11, 2013 12:28 pm
Senior PA Official: ‘All of Palestine—From the River to the Sea—is Occupied’
A senior Palestinian Authority official didn’t mince words in an interview with an Arabic...
June 11, 2013 10:32 am
Committee Finds Israel Air Force Innocent of Criminal Negligence During Operation Pillar of Defense
More than half a year after Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense ended, a special investigations...
June 11, 2013 7:58 am
Bombs Rock Central Damascus, 14 Killed
Ynet – Two explosions hit a central Damascus square Tuesday, killing at least 14 people...
June 11, 2013 6:42 am
Violence in Syria Increasing as Assad Loyalists Gain in Homs
Wall Street Journal – HOMS, Syria—Forces loyal to the Syrian regime are slicing through...
June 10, 2013 4:31 pm
Anti-Morsi Petition Claims Nearly 15 Million Signatures
JNS.org - Organizers of a campaign seeking to “remove confidence” in Egypt’s Islamist...
June 10, 2013 12:58 pm
Hamas and Hezbollah Remain Allied Over Mutual Hatred for Israel, Says Former Hezbollah MP
Despite tensions between Hamas and Hezbollah over Syria, the lynchpin keeping the two allies...
June 10, 2013 9:14 am
Report: Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Plant Suffers Generator Malfunction
Iran’s Ambassador to Russia said Monday that the country’s Russian-built Bushehr...
June 10, 2013 9:02 am
Avigdor Lieberman Blasts EU for Failure to Blacklist Hezbollah
Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, MK Avigdor Lieberman, lashed...
June 10, 2013 8:04 am
Report: U.S. Leaning Toward Aiding Rebels
Washington Post/AP – Moved by the Assad regime’s rapid advance, the Obama administration...
June 10, 2013 7:54 am
Assad Warns Israel: Response to Strikes Will be ‘Strategic, Not Local’
JPost – Syria President Bashar Assad has issued a strong warning to Israel, threatening...
June 9, 2013 11:43 pm
Iran: Heavy Water Reactor Moving Closer to Completion
Jerusalem Post – A heavy water reactor in Arak, Iran, came one step closer to completion...
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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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Arts and Culture Jewish History
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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Israel Sports
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 Reviews Personalities
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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