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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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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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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America grants the Palestinian Authority about $500 million annually. The fast-spinning money meter has already broken the $5 billion mark over the years. The annual financial infusion has been on autopilot as Israelis and Palestinians negotiated over the meters and metrics of a two-state solution. American money has been lavishly spent on Palestinians for one purpose: to encourage the peace process.
Recently something changed.
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By Edwin Black
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6/18/14
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