Middle East
Naftali Bennett Condemns ‘Price Tag’ Attacks on Muslim and Christian Sites as ‘Un-Jewish’
JNS.org - Israel’s economy minister and leader of the nationalist Jewish Home Party, Naftali Bennett, has condemned the recent “price tag” attacks on Arab Christian and Muslim sites as “un-Jewish.” “Every ‘price tag’ act is immoral and un-Jewish. A small group, which we have yet to catch, is trying to light the Middle East on fire and harm the efforts we’re making to create...
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Syrian Rebels: Israel Responsible for Huge Explosion at Damascus Airport
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Israel Expected to Launch War on Iran According to Revolutionary Guard
Reuters – As speculation mounts that Israel could launch air strikes on Iran before...
September 22, 2012 8:22 pm
Mohamed Morsi: United States Must Change
NY Times – CAIRO — On the eve of his first trip to the United States as Egypt’s...
September 22, 2012 6:00 am
Assad Digs In, Claims Rebels Will Be Defeated
Fox News – The Syrian president said in remarks published Friday that he is adamant...
September 21, 2012 10:00 pm
Iranian Commanders Threaten Destruction of Israel in Response to Attack
JPost – Iranian military commanders on Friday threatened the complete destruction of...
September 21, 2012 12:16 pm
Deadly Attack on Israeli Soldiers Highlights Terror Threat From Sinai
CS Monitor – Israel said it disrupted an attempted large-scale terrorist attack on its...
September 21, 2012 8:47 am
Ahmadinejad Calls ‘Innocence of Muslims’ Film an Israeli Plot
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September 20, 2012 4:42 pm
Explosion Kills 30 in Northern Syria
VOA – A Syrian rights group says a blast in northeast Syria has killed at least 30 people...
September 20, 2012 12:27 pm
Netanyahu Spokesman Blasts Palestinian Authority Over UN Decision
JPost – Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s spokesman Mark Regev responded to...
September 20, 2012 10:11 am
“Richest Jew in the World” Sent to Repair Turkey-Israel Relations
Times of Israel – “The richest Jew in the world” was asked to intervene on Israel’s...
September 20, 2012 8:27 am
Iran Admits Lying to IAEA About its Nuclear Program
Iran has been systematically providing false information to the International Atomic Energy...
September 20, 2012 3:00 am
Israel Relaxes Ban on Export of Gaza Goods
JPost – Israel this week eased its ban on Gaza goods to allow the United Nations World...
September 19, 2012 10:00 pm
Syrian Rebels Believed to Have Taken Border Town From Government Forces
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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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