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Islamic Jihad Considers Run to Join Palestinian Unity Government February 7, 2013 11:26 am

Islamic Jihad Considers Run to Join Palestinian Unity Government

The Islamic Jihad terror group is entertaining the idea of running in upcoming Palestinian...
Bar Refaeli Has Some Fun With Leno During Appearance on the “Tonight Show” (VIDEO) February 7, 2013 11:22 am

Bar Refaeli Has Some Fun With Leno During Appearance on the “Tonight Show” (VIDEO)

Bar Refeali is riding the wave of attention that has come to her thanks to a controversial...
Report: Netanyahu’s Settlement Policy Unchanged Despite Fears of Isolation February 7, 2013 7:41 am

Report: Netanyahu’s Settlement Policy Unchanged Despite Fears of Isolation

JPost – Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has not changed his position on settlements,...
Israel Closes Haifa Airport Amid Growing Tensions in the North February 7, 2013 3:51 am

Israel Closes Haifa Airport Amid Growing Tensions in the North

The Israel Defense Forces has ordered the closure of Haifa Airport amid growing tensions with...
White House on Israel Trip: ‘We Expect Iran and Syria Will be Main Topics’ February 6, 2013 5:28 pm

White House on Israel Trip: ‘We Expect Iran and Syria Will be Main Topics’

Ynet – WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama‘s Israel visit will not be “focused...
IDF to Post First ‘Cyberdefense’ Officers to Its Regional Commands February 6, 2013 1:18 pm

IDF to Post First ‘Cyberdefense’ Officers to Its Regional Commands

The Israel Defense Forces is stepping up its efforts on the cyber front and will soon post...
Iron Dome Battery in Northern Israel Attacked by Arab Stone-Throwers February 6, 2013 12:03 pm

Iron Dome Battery in Northern Israel Attacked by Arab Stone-Throwers

One of the Iron Dome batteries recently deployed in the north of Israel has become a target...
82.9% of Israeli Teenagers Identify as Zionist, New Poll Finds February 6, 2013 10:19 am

82.9% of Israeli Teenagers Identify as Zionist, New Poll Finds

82.9% of Israeli teenagers define themselves as Zionist, while only 15.8% define themselves...
MKs Encourage Obama Speech at Knesset During His Visit to Israel February 6, 2013 9:54 am

MKs Encourage Obama Speech at Knesset During His Visit to Israel

The acting Knesset speaker and his predecessor have both suggested to Israeli Prime Minister...
Obama Hopes to Host Summit With Netanyahu, Abbas During Israel Visit February 6, 2013 8:28 am

Obama Hopes to Host Summit With Netanyahu, Abbas During Israel Visit

Times of Israel – US President Barack Obama wants to host a summit between Prime Minister...
Mavi Marmara Raid Commission Recommends Israel Adopt Int’l War Crimes Inquiry Norms February 6, 2013 7:29 am

Mavi Marmara Raid Commission Recommends Israel Adopt Int’l War Crimes Inquiry Norms

Ynet – The Turkel Committee recommended Wednesday that Israel pursue legislation that...
Technion, Microsoft Predict World Disease Outbreaks February 6, 2013 2:17 am

Technion, Microsoft Predict World Disease Outbreaks

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology doctoral student Kira Radinsky and Microsoft researcher...
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  • Personalities Sports NBA Finals a Time to Remember Legendary Jewish Coach Red Auerbach

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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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