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Late Bob Simon loved in Israel despite mixed journalistic record on Jewish state

By ALINA D. SHARON

The long-time CBS journalist Bob Simon, who was killed in a car accident in New York City on Wednesday, will be remembered not only for his versatile reporting career and his infamous 40-day captivity in Iraq in 1991, but also for his unique, and sometimes conflicting, history with Israel.

Simon, who was Jewish, had both a personal and professional connection to Israel. He...

1 killed, 2 injured at Copenhagen synagogue

(JTA) — One person was killed and two police officers were reported injured following a shooting attack at a synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The shooting occurred just hours after a fatal shooting at an event featuring a Danish cartoonist, Lars Vilks, who is under police protection because of his cartoons caricaturing Mohammed. It is not yet clear if the two shootings are related.

Multiple reports...

In Japan, the Holocaust provides a lesson in dangers of nationalism

By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ

FUKUYAMA, Japan (JTA) — In the auditorium of this country’s main Holocaust education center, a teenage actor explains the dilemma that faced a Japanese diplomat during World War II.

“My conscience tells me I must act a certain way, but doing so means defying my commanders,” says the actor portraying Chiune Sugihara, the Empire of Japan’s wartime vice consul in Lithuania....

Inside V15’s ground game to unseat Netanyahu

By BEN SALES

TEL AVIV (JTA) — When he goes door to door in this city handing out campaign materials, Shai Gal doesn’t tell people to vote for Labor, Meretz or the other liberal parties vying for support ahead of Israel’s March 17 election.

He just asks one question: Do you want to replace Bibi?

So far, he says, he’s heard a lot...

CBS News reporter Bob Simon killed in N.Y. car crash

 (JTA) — Bob Simon, the Emmy Award-winning CBS News and “60 Minutes” correspondent, was killed in a car accident in New York City.Simon, who covered nearly every major overseas conflict and news story since the late 1960s, reportedly was a passenger in a hired car on Wednesday evening that hit another car on Manhattan’s West Side. He was 73.He was pronounced dead upon arrival...

ADL questions ‘clouded’ response by Obama officials to Paris kosher market attack

WASHINGTON (JTA) – The Anti-Defamation League expressed concern after two top Obama administration spokesmen parsed whether last month’s deadly attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris was anti-Semitic.Josh Earnest, the White House spokesman, and Jen Psaki, his State Department counterpart, later clarified on social media that they believed the deadly Jan. 9 attack by an Islamist terrorist on the Hyper Cacher was anti-Semitic, although earlier they...

B’nai B’rith Mardi Gras Mitzva Makers parade held Feb. 1

Members of the remnants of the local chapter of B’nai B’rith staged their 36th annual Mardi Gras Mitzva Makers Parade this past Sun., Feb. 1 at three indoor hospital or nursing institutions Uptown.

Beginning at 9:30 a.m. at Touro Infirmary, participants gathered, bringing with them bags of beads, plush toys and musical instruments to accompany their visit.

The parade, which is designed to meet the needs of patients who are...

IDF completes demolition of terror tunnel from Gaza

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli military completed the demolition of a Gaza terror tunnel discovered during its operation last summer in Gaza.The tunnel stretched from Gaza City to the southern Israeli community of Nahal Oz. Israel has been in control of the tunnel since Operation Protective Edge.On Monday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the tunnel was destroyed recently on Israeli territory near the...

Netanyahu’s U.S. speech exposes partisan fault lines on Israel

By RON KAMPEAS

WASHINGTON (JTA) – The controversy over whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech to Congress next month is worrying pro-Israel Democrats about its possible impact on the 2016 elections. Even more worrisome, some Democrats say, are the voter trends underpinning the current tensions.

The invitation to Netanyahu made by John Boehner, the Republican House speaker, without consulting Democrats or the...

Israel’s luminaries aiming to brighten country’s image at newspaper gala

By ANTHONY WEISS

(JTA) — Last summer, Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system protected Israeli civilians from hundreds of Hamas rockets fired from Gaza. Meanwhile, the Waze navigation app helps millions of people steer their way through traffic every day.

Now Iron Dome godfather Danny Gold and Waze founder Uri Levine are hoping their products’ newfound celebrity can help bolster Israel’s international reputation.

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