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Istanbul Terror Attack

Three Israelis dead eleven wounded in Istanbul terror attack

Terror struck the central Taksim section of Istanbul on Saturday, on a street lined with foreign consulates. At least three Israelis were killed and 10 others were wounded in a terrorist attack shortly after 11 am on Saturday morning in Istanbul. The terrorist and one other person was also killed and 26 other people were […]

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Australian Liberals’ youngest-ever senator James Paterson’s maiden moment

  Australian Liberals’ youngest-ever senator James Paterson’s maiden moment The Liberal Party’s youngest-ever senator, James Paterson, wants to scrap the “unbalanced and skewed” national curriculum, move Australia’s Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and reintroduce the commonwealth debt ceiling to crack down on intergenerational debt. The 28-year-old, sworn into parliament on Tuesday after being selected […]

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Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, wearing a t-shirt with the Arabic slogan 'Gaza on my mind' encircled with a drawing of barbed wire, poses in front of one of the peace boats docked at the southern Cypriot port of Larnaca on their way to the Gaza Strip on August 21, 2008. Two converted fishing boats carrying 40-odd activists are due to set sail from Cyprus tomorrow for the 370 kilometre (230 mile) sea voyage to Gaza in a bid to break the Israeli blockade. AFP PHOTO/STEFANOS KOURATZIS (Photo credit should read STEFANOS KOURATZIS/AFP/Getty Images)

BDS Activist to Represent Holocaust Survivors at Austrian State Event

BDS activist to represent Holocaust survivors at Austrian state event Austria invited Hedy Epstein, a Jewish pro-Palestinian activist whom the Anti-Defamation League criticized for demonizing Israel, to represent Holocaust survivors at a panel discussion about women during World War II. In invitations sent out Friday by the office of the president of the Austrian parliament, […]

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GSMA Barcelona 2016

150 Israeli Companies to Be Featured in Barcelona Telecom Expo

150 Israeli Companies to Be Featured in Barcelona Telecom Expo Some 150 Israeli companies will be featured in the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, one of the world’s top telecommunications exhibitions. The Israeli companies make up the conference’s fourth-largest delegation, after the US, the UK, and France. Scheduled for Feb. 22-25, the […]

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Alan Dershowitz

Alan Dershowitz Slams International Community For Anti-Israel Bias

In this video, Alan Dershowitz, renowned speaker, author and Harvard law professor, discusses the bias of many in the international community towards Israel. Dershowitz says he has asked hundreds of often-hostile audiences to “name a country facing threats comparable to…Israel…(with) a better record of human rights…concern for civilians, a better record of legal issues and […]

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Debra Corso in Facebook Jail - The Big Lie

The Big Lie

The Big Lie By Debra Corso Greetings from cell block FB! Several days ago Facebook informed me that three of my posts violated Facebook’s community standards and, as a result, my posting privileges had been suspended. But my posts did not include hate speech. They were not violent, nor did they incite violence. They did […]

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Aleppo-Codex

UNESCO Recognizes Israel’s Aleppo Codex as World Treasure

UNESCO Recognizes Israel’s Aleppo Codex as World Treasure JNS.org – Israel’s Aleppo Codex, believed to be the world’s oldest copy of the Hebrew Bible, has been recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a unique world treasure. The Aleppo Codex, which was written in Tiberias around 930 CE and is currently […]

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Burning of the Warsaw Ghetto

Polish Holocaust survivor Tess Wise is a Woman of Courage and Defiance

Polish Holocaust survivor Tess Wise is a Woman of Courage and Defiance By Debra Corso Several days ago the Maitland Jewish Center, home to a preschool and elementary school, was evacuated after it received a bomb threat from a man who stated that “he wanted to harm as many children as possible.” Luckily, no explosives […]

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Ecuador Opens Its Only Kosher Restaurant

Ecuador opens only kosher restaurant A new kosher fast-food restaurant believed to be the only one of its kind in Ecuador has opened in its largest city, Guayquil Kosher Pita Grill serves Middle Eastern-style food in Guayquil, a coastal city with nearly 30 Jewish families. “We Jews did not have a place to eat. So I […]

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