Wednesday
May232012
JNS BRIEFS 5-25-12
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Click photo to download. Caption: A "Machalnik," or foreign volunteer, during the 1948 Israeli War of Independence. Credit: Beit Hatfutsot.
The latest news throughout the global Jewish community
- Senate, admin differ on bill that may reduce recognized Palestinian refugees
- Conservative Judaism book bestseller on Amazon
- Palestinian terrorists intensify efforts to abduct Israelis
- Palestinians ‘love’ Israeli products despite global boycotts
- Humanitarian for veterans wins $100,000 Bronfman prize
- New olim to celebrate Shavuot in Israel
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BRIEFS: FORMER ARAFAT FINANCIAL ADVISOR THREATENS TO EXPOSE PA SCANDALS
COHEN: NADARKHANI AND THE IRANIAN MASTERS OF DECEPTION
TOBIN: THE GREAT DIVIDE
FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL MAKES CASE FOR IRAN REGIME CHANGE
BOB DYLAN: 'PROPHET' AND MEDAL OF FREEDOM RECIPIENT
Tuesday
May222012
JNS BRIEFS 5-22-12
The latest news throughout the global Jewish community.;)
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Tuesday
May222012
NY rabbi leads personal diplomacy for release of Alan Gross
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Click photo to download. Caption: Alan Gross and his wife Judy in Jerusalem. Credit: Gross family.
Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadi, a leading figure in the Sephardic Jewish community, recently met with Cuban diplomats in New York and Washington to discuss imprisoned Jewish contractor Alan Gross.
Tuesday
May222012
Writers defy criticism to attend Jerusalem festival
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Click photo to download. Caption: Authors David Grossman (left) and Boualem Sansal at the third International Writers Festival in Jerusalem. Sansal, who is from Algeria, encountered pressure not to attend the literary event. Credit: Michal Patel. After encountering pressure not to attend the third International Writers Festival in Jerusalem, London-based novelist Tracy Chevalier, British writer Tom Rob Smith and Algerian author Boualem Sansal make a statement through their appearances. Sansal said “it was important to come to Israel to prove my autonomy from the government.”
Monday
May212012
A legal trailblazer takes on terror
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Click photo to download. Caption: Attorney Nitzana Darshan-Leitner, pictured, is considered a legal trailblazer in Israel. Credit: Mike Cohen.Over the last nine years, Israeli attorney Nitzana Darshan-Leitner and her human rights organization have filed hundreds of lawsuits against terror groups and governments that support terror, and have been awarded more than $1 billion. Most recently, she won a lawsuit against Syria and Iran.
Monday
May212012
Nadarkhani and the Iranian masters of deception
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Click photo to download. Caption: The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, is among the world leaders under the spell of the Iranian masters of deception, according to JNS columnist Ben Cohen. Credit: Harald Dettenborn. There’s a story percolating in Iran that hasn’t received anywhere near the attention given to nuclear talks, but it offers another telling illustration of how the Islamic Republic’s leaders have deceived the world.
Sunday
May202012
Former attorney general makes case for Iran regime change
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Click photo to download. Caption: America Israel Friendship League (AIFL) Chairman Kenneth Bialkin (left) welcomed former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey to a May 14 New York reunion for members of AIFL judicial missions to Israel. Credit: Maxine Dovere.Michael Mukasey, who served as U.S. Attorney General under President George W. Bush, tells JointMedia News Service that “regime change is the ultimately desirable outcome” amid the Iranian nuclear threat.
Sunday
May202012
Bob Dylan: ‘Prophet’ and Medal of Freedom recipient
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Click photo to download. Caption: Joan Baez and Bob Dylan at the 1963 March on Washington. Credit: U.S. Information Agency.Biographers of Bob Dylan, one of this year’s 13 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, tell JointMedia News Service how Judaism permeates his work.
Sunday
May202012
A different take on bereavement
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Click photo to download. Caption: The book cover for "The World Without You." Credit: Courtesy Joshua Henkin.Joshua Henkin’s new novel—“The World Without You”—shies away from the sustained bleakness one might assume would inhere in a book on the untimely death of a young man, and gives readers a chance to see whether or not tragedy can bring a family closer together.