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| April 10, 2012
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Santorum blasts Obama, Romney over Jerusalem’s statue

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum leveled scathing criticism at US President Barack Obama and his GOP rival Mitt Romney for failing to officially recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Rick Santorum Photo: AP

Rick Santorum - Photo: AP

In a feature article published in the New York Daily News, Santorum said that the fact that Obama and Romney “won’t state this basic fact” is a mistake.”It has been longstanding US policy not to officially recognize any part of Jerusalem as part of Israel — and it is dead wrong,” he wrote.

Mitt Romney Photo: AP

Mitt Romney- Photo: AP

The republican presidential hopeful further lamented the “huge divide between the Obama administration’s position and that of the government of Israel with regard to Jerusalem.” Continue Reading »

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| April 10, 2012
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Peres Makes Emergency Plea for Pollard

President Shimon Peres sent an urgent message to US President Barak Obama asking Jonathan Pollard be pardoned on humanitarian grounds

President Shimon Peres on Monday sent an urgent personal request to US President Barack Obama asking for Jonathan Pollard to be pardoned on humanitarian grounds.

Peres also met with Esther Pollard on Sunday. According to his office, Peres listened carefully as she outlined her husband’s deteriorating condition and implored the President to use all his influence as quickly as possible to ensure that Pollard – who was rushed to a hospital last Friday – is not sent back to prison.

She said returning Pollard to prison would “be a death sentence.” Continue Reading »

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| April 8, 2012
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Jonathan Pollard’s wife makes desperate plea to Peres

Wife of imprisoned Israeli agent pleads with president to pressure Obama for her husband’s release: I don’t want to be a widow; Peres promises to make it top priority; Netanyahu: The time has come to free Pollard.

Esther Pollard, the wife of the convicted American Naval Intelligence analyst who has spent 27 years in prison for spying for Israel, on Sunday entreated President Shimon Peres to act immediately to try to secure her husband’s freedom before it is too late.

Jonathan and Esther Pollard - By Courtesy J4JP
Jonathan and Esther Pollard – By Courtesy J4JP

Esther was accompanied by MKs Uri Ariel and Ronit Tirosh who head the Knesset lobby for the release of Jonathan Pollard, along with members of The Committee for the Release of Jonathan Pollard.

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| April 8, 2012
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Why I no longer hate Israel

Op-ed: Portuguese blogger explains why he changed his views, fell in love with Israel

I’m a 22-year-old Portuguese gay activist and PhD student. I’m not Jewish, Israeli or even religious, but I am a Zionist and strong supporter of Israel, and I want to explain why.

Romeu Monteiro - A Zionist

Romeu Monteiro - A Zionist

My story begins at the age of nine, when I went to the school library to get the Diary of Anne Frank. I had no prior idea about the Holocaust and I could not comprehend such persecution. I had never met a Jew, but I was raised to see other people as similar to myself. Continue Reading »

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| April 7, 2012
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Pollard Rushed to Hospital

Jonathan Pollard was rushed to a hospital emergency room near his Butner, North Carolina prison.

Jonathan Pollard, convicted of spying for Israel and serving a life sentence without parole for 26 years, was rushed to a hospital emergency room near his Butner, North Carolina penitentiary early Friday after suffering from extreme pain, sources close to him said Friday.

Ashkenazi chief rabbi Yonah Metzger called upon Jews around the world to pray during the Passover holiday for the health and freedom of Pollard, whose Hebrew name is Yehonatan Ben-Malka.

President Shimon Peres will meet Sunday with MKs Uri Ariel and Ronit Tirosh who will hand him a letter for US President Barack Obama asking for the release of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. Continue Reading »

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| April 6, 2012
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Operation IDF Passover Seder

As millions of Israelis prepare to celebrate the Passover seder on Friday night, the IDF will join them at bases around the country.

 

As millions of Israelis prepare to celebrate the Passover seder on Friday night, the IDF will join them at bases around the country.

The various IDF units have been busy all week preparing for the feast to come. Passover preparations involve dozens of soldiers and commanders at army bases and outposts on land, out at sea, and flying the skies.

As part of its preparations for the holiday, the IDF purchased 70,000 kg of various foods that included 8,000 kg of Nile perch fish, 3,500 kg of roast beef, 9,000 kg of chicken thighs, 7,200 kg of matzah, 16,000 bottles of grape juice, and more. Continue Reading »

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| April 6, 2012
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Is Tower of David timeline oldest on Facebook?

“A timeline makes perfect sense for us, because we already work based on a timeline,” director of special projects at the museum tells ‘Post’.

 

As Facebook switches to its new “Timeline” design, some users are already taking advantage of the revamped layout to exemplify what they do best.
Tower of David Museum’s Facebook page
Tower of David Museum’s Facebook page

Launched this week, Jerusalem’s Tower of David Museum’s Facebook page boasts possibly the oldest “Timeline” on the social networking site’s newest technology.

Its birth is dated at 1099, when the Crusaders conquered Jerusalem and established a fortress where the museum stands today.

“A timeline makes perfect sense for us, because we already work based on a timeline,” Rose Ginosar, director of special projects at the museum, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

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| April 6, 2012
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Jewish Woman Comes Home After Two Years

Lehava organization brings home a 25-year-old Jewish woman and her one-year-old baby, two years after she ran away with an Arab boyfriend.

The Lehava anti-assimilation organization has been able to locate a young Jewish woman and her one-year-old baby, two years after she ran away from her home with an Arab boyfriend.

Aryeh from the Lehava organization told Arutz Sheva on Thursday about the rescue operation. He said that the 25-year-old woman, originally from Jerusalem, left her parents’ home two years ago after meeting an Arab man at her workplace. The woman, who was identified only as A, ran away with the man to an Arab village in northern Israel, where she gave birth about a year ago. Continue Reading »

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| April 5, 2012
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It’s official: Israel will pursue justice for the modern-day Exodus

“We believe that settling the refugee problems on both sides —the  Arab and the Jewish side — is the only way to really bring about a durable, comprehensive and lasting peace. Peace that will be built on truth and justice for all.” – Danny Ayalon

Justice for Jewish refugees from Arab and Muslim countries has at long last become official Israeli government policy. It has taken more than sixty years, but here at Harif, the UK Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, we are celebrating this momentous event.

No amount of grassroots campaigning could work without the official support of the Israeli government.

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| April 5, 2012
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New Film Exposes Northeastern’s Radical Holocaust Program

The “see no evil” response from Northeastern’s provost is part of the problem.

Americans for Peace and Tolerance has released a documentary on Northeastern’s Holocaust Awareness Week, and Charles Jacobs has published a column in the Jewish Advocate summarizing his criticisms of it. In response, Northeastern Provost Stephen Director has complained that Jacobs “cherry-picked his examples”:

The present-day facts are clear: Northeastern is a vibrant academic community where people of all backgrounds and faiths come together in pursuit of knowledge.

In dismissing a dozen examples of intellectual and moral abuse of the Holocaust program at Northeastern as “cherry-picked,” Director expresses either a lack of awareness or a dishonesty about the nature of the intellectual and moral stakes.

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| April 4, 2012
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התאבדות היא חטא(SUICIDE IS A SIN)

There is no law on Earth that commits nations to commit suicide. Rather, there are compendiums of law that have been passed down over the centuries, in dozens of languages, that detail in a myriad of complex situations from war to international piracy, the rights that sovereign nations inherently possess when they are required to defend their territory, citizens, and whatever national interests they deem vital to the survival of their civilization. Treaties, agreements between individual sovereign states, or groups of states, exist in the form of alliances, pacts and international organizations that define in absolute terms the justification for the use of military force against a perceived threat or territorial invasion. Continue Reading »

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| April 4, 2012
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Israelis Divided Over Changing Anthem

Despite Controversy, Some See ‘Hatikva’ as Song of Hope

To Change or Not? Israelis are split over whether the country’s national anthem should be changed.
Richard Harrington 
To Change or Not? Israelis are split over whether the country’s national anthem should be changed.

Tel Aviv — When an Arab Supreme Court justice stood silent instead of singing the national anthem at a public ceremony in late February, it sparked a furor on Israel’s nationalist right. Some lawmakers said that the judge, Salim Joubran, should be dismissed, and Yisrael Beiteinu’s David Rotem went so far as to claim that he “spat in the face of the State of Israel.”

But perhaps more telling was the fact that many officials at the very highest levels of the state accepted, and even defended, Joubran’s silence. Continue Reading »

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| April 4, 2012
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NYPD Beefs Up Security Around Synagogues

NYPD announces it will be beefing up security at the city’s synagogues and other Jewish sites for the Passover holiday.

The New York Police Department said Tuesday it would be beefing up security at the city’s synagogues and other Jewish sites for the Passover holiday, in the wake of the recent attack on a religious school in Toulouse, France.

NY police car outside Center for Jewish History

NY police car outside Center for Jewish History - Reuters

According to The Associated Press, authorities have stressed that there have been no specific threats reported in the city for the holiday, which starts at sundown Friday.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly was quoted as having said there would be heightened security and the deployment of heavily armed roving counter-terrorism units. Continue Reading »

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| April 3, 2012
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Foreign Ministry Seeking Justice for Jewish Refugees

Israel says its time the Arab League accepted historic responsibility for the injustice done to 850,000 Jews its members robbed, expelled.

Israel’s foreign ministry on Tuesday announced it will launch an international awareness campaign highlighting the historic injustice done to Jews from Arab countries.

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon - IDC Herzliya

Following the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948 numerous Arab countries expelled their Jewish citizens and seized their assets – forcing them to become refugees in Israel.

Foreign ministry officials note that 850,000 Jewish refugees lost billions of dollars in assets and were forced to begin anew in Israel with only what they could carry on their backs. Continue Reading »

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| April 2, 2012
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Silence in face of hate

Op-ed: Swedish blogger says European society becoming blind to Jew hate, must wake up

It gets dark very early here in Stockholm in the winter. Some young men are crossing the square where some Jews are dancing, speaking in Arabic amongst themselves, perhaps with a Libyan accent. They already know what they plan to do.

I can hear them mentioning Israel. They are looking for trouble. Suddenly one of them approaches a stand with a couple of Israeli flags on it. One grabs a flag forcefully and the other Arab men are following him, running. People pretend like nothing really happened – but it did happen. Continue Reading »

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