This has been a difficult week. Three of our sons, Yaakov, Gilad and Eyal have been missing since Thursday night and despite the best efforts of the Israeli army, the police, the intelligence community, and rescue units, we seem no nearer to learning their whereabouts.
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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6/18/14
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Fifty-one prisoners released in the 2011 deal that secured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit’s freedom were re-arrested Wednesday among a group of more than 65 Palestinians detained by Israel Defense Forces in their search for three Jewish teens believed to have been abducted by Hamas, the IDF said.
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JNS.org
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6/18/14
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New York’s Metropolitan Opera has canceled an HD transmission of the anti-Israel opera “The Death of Klinghoffer” following widespread outreach efforts that began with a letter from a media watchdog organization, but eight live performances of the opera will proceed as scheduled this fall.
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JNS.org
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6/18/14
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My father was reticent about telling me anything regarding his family that perished in the Holocaust. I knew that my grandparents were born and married in Poland and that they moved to Berlin — where my father and his younger brother were born — because of Poland’s anti-Semitism and pogroms.
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By Leba Sonneberg
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6/18/14
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He came to America, unknown and without a job, fleeing the Nazi tyranny in Europe. He was highly educated, deeply religious and heir to a spiritual legacy that was within his lifetime to redefine religious outreach to great heights.
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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6/18/14
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During the war in Iraq, when I was still living in London and coordinating news coverage of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein for various international media organizations, I was in regular contact with a brave Iraqi Kurdish journalist named Ayub Nuri.
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By Ben Cohen, JNS
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6/18/14
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should be happy the news of the Bergdahl release and the ISIS terrorist march on Baghdad overshadowed her gaffe-filled “Hard Choices” book tour.
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By Jeff Dunetz
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6/18/14
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As a well-respected parliamentarian who has served as the government’s Minister of Communications and the speaker of the Knesset, Israeli president-elect MK Reuven “Ruby” Rivlin has the expected profile for his position. But when he takes the reins in July, Rivlin’s strong nationalistic ideology and low-key international presence will provide an immediate contrast to outgoing President Shimon Peres.
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By Alex Traiman, JNS.org
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6/18/14
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He had a secure life — a wonderful wife, two beautiful daughters, a great career, nice house — until the great disrupter hit: a cancer diagnosis.
West Hempstead lawyer and now survivor of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) Howard Bressler is determined to use his experiences fighting cancer to help others.
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By Malka Eisenberg
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6/18/14
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Shuls from the Five Towns and Far Rockaway called on members to pray and adopt additional good deeds in a spiritual effort to help find and free three Israeli boys kidnapped by terrorists last week.
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By Malka Eisenberg
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6/18/14
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