By , JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA)—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he will remain in the Middle East for an extra day to try to salvage foundering Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Kerry said in a joint interview with Israeli and Palestinian television networks set to air Thursday eveningContinue Reading
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA)—It looks like a futuristic salon hair dryer. Connected to a computer by a bright orange strip, the half-cube with rounded corners sits comfortably atop the head, a coil of wires resting on the skull. As a doctor stands at the computer, theContinue Reading
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By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line JERUSALEM—Braving shoves, whistles, and curses, some 500 women from Israel and abroad came to Jerusalem’s Western Wall to pray aloud wearing the shawls and phylacteries traditionally worn by men during prayer. Prohibited from reading aloud from the Torah, the handwritten scroll of the Old Testament,Continue Reading
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By , JTA World News Service (JTA)—American wariness of foreign military involvement is making the United States seem “weak and retreating,” warned the Anti-Defamation League’s Abraham Foxman. “Make no mistake about it. If what we are seeing now is the beginning of a deep change in American foreign policy, itContinue Reading
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel’s peace talks with the Palestinians remain mostly shrouded in secrecy, but one thing is certain: The Palestinian prisoner release that paved the way for their resumption is increasing tensions in Israel’s governing coalition. Israel completed the second stage of the four-part releaseContinue Reading
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By Alina Dain Sharon, JNS.org What is behind Israel’s recent string of Nobel Prize winners? It could be that Israelis have a practical way of thinking and strong strategies for solving difficult problems, says Arieh Warshel, who earlier this month was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his role inContinue Reading
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By Avi Weiss, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA)—Belief in God is at the core of my very being. But that belief is sometimes challenged by the scores of innocents killed over the millennia in God’s name, from biblical times to the present day. Last month, dozens were killed atContinue Reading
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By Jacob Kamaras, JNS.org Yehuda Avner’s 2010 book “The Prime Ministers” reveals a tradition of voracious readers among Israel’s leaders, whose homes were lined with books in multiple languages. While those homes remind Tevi Troy of the residences of America’s founding fathers, Troy’s new book begins with President Barack Obama’s referenceContinue Reading
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By Talia Lavin, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA)—Avraham Pengas, a veteran bouzouki player, says few Ashkenazic musicians can make Sephardic music come alive. Ljuba Davis, he says, is “absolutely” one of them. Davis (her first name is pronounced LYOO-bah) is the lead singer of the Ljuba Davis Ladino Ensemble,Continue Reading
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service SDEROT, Israel (JTA)—A Kassam rocket had just landed across the street, but it couldn’t wipe the smile off David Lhundgim’s face as he entered his apartment in this embattled town near the Gaza border. Born in the rural provinces of northeast India, Lhundgim hasContinue Reading
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