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North Korea Officials Threaten to Kill Source of Mein Kampf Story Leak, Call Culprit ‘Human Scum’
Kim Jong Un’s North Korean regime is none too pleased with the source that leaked the information that the dictator issued copies of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf to officials in the country, with those same officials calling the source “human scum” that would be killed. Officials in Pyongyang also described the defector’s report as a “thrice-cursed crime” which...
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May 21, 2012 7:39 am
UN Nuclear Chief Finishes Talks In Iran as Attention Shifts to Baghdad
JPost/Reuters -The UN nuclear watchdog chief held extensive and useful talks in Iran on Monday...
May 19, 2012 9:32 pm
Jewish Man Murdered in Moscow
Israel National News - A young man from Moscow’s Georgian Jewish community was murdered...
May 19, 2012 1:00 pm
Former Mossad Chief Dagan Calls for Tougher Iran Sanctions
Israel National News – Former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan, who has several times clarified that...
May 18, 2012 9:00 pm
President Obama Gets Ready to Host World Leaders at G8 Summit in Chicago
C-SPAN – President Obama hosts G8 leaders at Camp David Friday and Saturday before traveling...
May 18, 2012 3:31 pm
UN Nuclear Chief Will Fly to Iran on Sunday as Rumors Heighten About Possible Deal
JPost/Reuters – The UN nuclear chief will fly to Tehran on Sunday in an apparent bid...
May 18, 2012 2:39 pm
Exclusive: The Meeting That Led Harvey Weinstein to Purchase The Oath of Tobruk
French artist Ron Agam’s friendships with Bernard-Henri Levy and Harvey Weinstein led...
May 18, 2012 12:00 pm
Ahmadinejad Wants to Attend London Olympics Despite Being Barred
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he wants to attend the London Olympic Games to be “beside...
May 18, 2012 9:23 am
Netanyahu Warns of Iran’s “Deceive and Delay” Tactics for May 23 Nuclear Talks
JPost – Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday dismissed a new surge of optimism...
May 17, 2012 10:00 pm
Ex-Spanish PM: Iran’s Khamenei Told Me “Israel Must Be Burned to the Ground”
Israel National News – Former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar said Thursday...
May 17, 2012 9:35 am
IOC Rejects Bid for Moment of Silence Marking Israeli Deaths at Munich Games
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) rejected Israel’s request to hold a minute of...
May 17, 2012 8:51 am
Iran’s Chief Negotiator: Pressure on Islamic Republic Will Not Stop Nuclear Program
JPost – Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili warned Thursday that applying...
May 17, 2012 6:00 am
IDF Chief Gantz to Make Historic China Visit
JPost – In another sign of the growing ties between Israel and China, IDF Chief of...
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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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