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Deaths of two Bedouin men involving Israel Police spark riots

 JERUSALEM (JTA) — The deaths of two Bedouin citizens involving Israel Police sparked riots in Arab-Israeli towns in southern Israel.Sami al-Jaar, 20, was killed during a police drug raid in Rahat in the Negev Desert on...

At least 12 injured, four critically, in stabbing spree on Tel Aviv bus

TEL AVIV (JTA) — At least 12 people were wounded, some seriously, when a Palestinian man stabbed passengers and the driver on a Tel Aviv bus.Four victims, including the driver, remained in serious condition following the...

OP-ED: Don’t compare Ferguson and Palestine

By KENNETH JACOBSON

NEW YORK (JTA) — The latest strategy being used by those who make a career of assaulting the good name of the State of Israel is to link the issue of full equality for African-Americans, as symbolized...

Argentina’s very Jewish Oscar nominee

By DIEGO MELAMED

BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — If Damian Szifron’s “Wild Tales” (“Relatos Salvajes” in Spanish) wins an Academy Award on Feb. 22 – it was nominated last week for Best Foreign Film — it will be Argentina’s third Oscar...

Meet Stefan Zweig, the Jewish novelist who inspired ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’

By GABE FRIEDMAN

(JTA) — Wes Anderson’s whimsical film “The Grand Budapest Hotel” was nominated for nine Academy Awards last week, just days after winning the Golden Globe for Best Comedy or Musical. Named one of the best films of...

Woody Allen to make TV series for Amazon

By GABE FRIEDMAN

(JTA)— Woody Allen has never written for television. But at the ripe age of 79, the venerable Brooklyn-born filmmaker is apparently set to write and direct his first TV series, an Internet-only show for Amazon.

Amazon, the...

From MSG stands to NHL throne, hockey always king for Gary Bettman

By HILLEL KUTTLER

(JTA) – In the late 1960s, Gary Bettman would finish classes at his Queens high school, take the subway to Madison Square Garden and whip out his student ID card to land a ticket for 50 cents...

In State of the Union, Obama vows to veto Iran sanctions bill

(JNS.org) — In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama vowed to veto “any new sanctions bill that threatens to undo” the “progress” of ongoing nuclear talks between Iran and Western powers.

“Between now and...

Palestinian terrorist wounds more than a dozen in Tel Aviv attack

(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) — More than a dozen Israelis were wounded, with at least four suffering serious injuries, when a Palestinian terrorist went on a stabbing spree at a main road intersection in central Tel Aviv on Wednesday morning.

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Nisman mystery: Hezbollah, Argentine gov’t fingered in death of AMIA prosecutor

By URIEL HEILMAN

(JTA) – The mysterious death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman seems ripped straight out of a crime thriller.

Nisman — the indefatigable prosecutor collecting evidence of culpability in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in...