Israel
Bill Clinton Visits Western Wall, Expresses Admiration for Jerusalem’s History
JNS.org - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton visited the Western Wall on Tuesday, calling the visit “an amazing visit to a place that open ones eyes,” the Jerusalem Post reported. Clinton also toured the Western Wall tunnels and expressed admiration for Jerusalem’s long history. “I really love this place,” Clinton said, the Jerusalem Post reported. “Here we see life in Jerusalem at...
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Despite Advanced Age, Peres Believes Peace is Possible in His Lifetime
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June 18, 2013 11:16 am
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An El Al plane has been outfitted with the anti-missile C-MUSIC system for the first time,...
June 18, 2013 10:58 am
Actor Robert De Niro Meets With Shimon Peres in Jerusalem (PHOTO)
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June 18, 2013 10:53 am
Yeshiva Student Caught Channeling the King of Pop (VIDEO)
Michael Jackson may be gone, but his imitators are thriving the same as ever. Take for example...
June 17, 2013 11:42 am
The BBC Discovers Matkot, Israel’s ‘Faster, Harder and Noisier’ Version of Paddle Ball (VIDEO)
Matkot, an Israeli version of paddle ball, is so popular in the country that it is considered...
June 17, 2013 10:32 am
Pope Offers Greetings for Israeli President Peres’s 90th Birthday
Pope Francis sent a special birthday greeting to Israeli President Shimon Peres Monday, a...
June 17, 2013 9:02 am
Israeli Researchers Suggest New Predictor for Heart Disease
JNS.org – Israeli researchers at the Rabin Medical Center Petach Tikva say...
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 17, 2013 12:03 am
Ya’alon, in Washington, Says Arab Peace Initiative is ‘Spin’
JNS.org - The Arab Peace Initiative, promoted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry...
June 14, 2013 2:05 pm
Formula 1 Road Show Thrills Jerusalem
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June 14, 2013 2:03 pm
Stanley Fischer: Israel’s Greatest Economic Challenge is Poverty
The biggest challenge facing Israel’s economy is poverty, outgoing Governor of the Bank...
June 14, 2013 11:18 am
Report: IDF Discovers Two Tunnels Under West Bank Security Barrier, Fears Kidnap Attempts
Israel recently discovered two tunnels underneath its West Bank security barrier barrier near...
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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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Blogs Sports
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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