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Russian FM: Iran Willing to Halt Enrichment of 20% Uranium if Sanctions Eased
Iran is willing to halt its enrichment of 20% uranium if the West will ease sanctions, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday. “For the first time in many years, there are encouraging signs in the process of settlement of the situation with the Iranian nuclear program,” he said. Lavrov made the comments in an interview posted to the Russian Foreign Ministry...
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March 19, 2013 3:06 pm
Simon Wiesenthal Center Report: BDS “a Thinly-Veiled, Anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic ‘Poison Pill’”
A new report issued by the Simon Wiesanthal Center has labelled the BDS (Boycott, Divestment...
March 19, 2013 8:11 am
Pakistani Officials Make Arrest in Connection to Murder of Daniel Pearl
Pakistani authorities say that they have captured one of the terrorists behind the murder...
March 14, 2013 10:56 am
New Pope’s Relationship with Jews: Lit Menorah During 2012 Hanukkah Celebration in Argentina (VIDEO)
It was only months ago that Jorge Mario Bergoglio was filmed lighting a menorah (see video...
March 13, 2013 4:48 pm
Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio Selected as New Pope (VIDEO)
Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was selected Wednesday as the new pope, Francis...
March 13, 2013 8:05 am
Catholic Descending from Holocaust Survivors to Run Again for Venezuelan Presidency
Henrique Capriles (Radonski), the Venezuelan opposition leader who lost to Hugo Chavez in...
March 7, 2013 6:04 pm
Company Whose Cranes Were Used for Public Hangings Withdraws From Iran
After the revelation that its cranes were being used for executions in Iran, Austrian company...
March 7, 2013 11:41 am
Jewish Groups Concerned About Venezuelan Jewry’s Future After Chavez Death
In the wake of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s death Tuesday, Jewish groups have expressed...
March 7, 2013 10:53 am
Recipient of State Department Award Applauded Burgas Attack, Tweeted in Support of Hitler
Samira Ibrahim, a 2013 recipient of the State Department’s International Women of Courage...
March 7, 2013 8:43 am
North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike
CBS – North Korea on Thursday vowed to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against...
March 7, 2013 1:37 am
US Officials Walk Out of IAEA Meeting After Iran Accuses Israel of Genocide
JTA – U.S., Canadian and Australian officials walked out of a meeting of the U.N. nuclear...
March 6, 2013 9:31 am
Ahmadinejad: Chavez Will Return With Jesus and 12th Imam
A day after his death, Hugo Chavez is already being touted as a martyr and a messiah by Iranian...
March 6, 2013 1:05 am
UN Seeks $10 Billion in Funding for 2013
Al Arabiya – The United Nations and humanitarian agencies are seeking $10.4 billion...
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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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