February 14, 2015
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...
February 14, 2015
(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...
February 14, 2015
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....
February 14, 2015
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...
February 12, 2015
(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...
February 12, 2015
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...
February 11, 2015
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...
February 11, 2015
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...
February 11, 2015
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...
February 11, 2015
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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