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Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Gets Increased Attention Within China’s Foreign Strategy
Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org – China is increasing its efforts to play a role in brokering a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, on Tuesday calling for resumed peace talks at the United Nations International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace in Beijing. “We need to redouble efforts to promote peace talks,”...
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June 9, 2013 11:04 am
Netanyahu: ‘Israel Cannot Depend on International Forces for its Security’
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting...
June 7, 2013 4:21 pm
Hit Palestinian Song Incorporates Israeli Cities Into ‘Palestine’
A new hit song in the West Bank is rewriting the record books—literally, Palestinian Media...
June 7, 2013 12:01 pm
Low Cost Airline Executive: We’ll Bring 4-5 Million Tourists to Israel Annually
Ryanair Deputy CEO and COO Michael Cawley didn’t downplay the impact his airline could...
June 7, 2013 5:42 am
Israelis Celebrate Gay Pride With Annual Tel Aviv Parade
Times of Israel – The city of Tel Aviv hosted its 15th annual Gay Pride Festival on...
June 6, 2013 10:27 pm
Israel Expresses Concern Over Austria Evacuation of Golan
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June 6, 2013 10:18 pm
Syrian Rebels Briefly Seize Control of Golan Border Crossing, Austria Pulls Peacekeepers
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June 6, 2013 12:47 pm
Report: Hamas Infighting Deepens Over Syria War
Hamas rally. Photo: wiki commons. The fissure between Hamas’ political and military...
June 6, 2013 12:40 pm
Orthodox Female Israeli Kickboxing Champ Shares Her Unlikely Story (VIDEO)
The Muay Thai kickboxing world has an unlikely world champion in Sara Avraham, an Indian immigrant...
June 6, 2013 12:26 pm
IDF Files Complaint With UN as Syrian Tanks Enter Golan Demilitarized Zone
Israel has filed a complaint with the UN after it was reported Thursday morning that Syrian...
June 6, 2013 12:22 pm
SodaStream, Target of BDS Boycotters, Skyrockets
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June 6, 2013 11:41 am
‘Computer for Every Child’ Project to Offer Tablets, Israeli PM Says
A computer for every child is now a tablet for every child, Israel’s Prime Minister...
June 6, 2013 8:36 am
Israeli Medical Center Evacuated After Syrian Rebel Patient Found With Grenade
Doctors at Safed’s Ziv medical center were greeted with an eerie surprise Thursday while...
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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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