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(JNS) - Reports have circulated that Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) spoke at an art exhibit in Detroit held from May 26 to June 17, though the featured works didn't represent any classic school or style. Instead, a black-and-white drawing showed a teenage girl with a half-smile and the eliminationist protest chant "From the river to the sea" on top with "Palestine will be free" at the bottom. A photo showed a young woman in a black hijab holding a glue gun like a weapon as she stood in front of a...
(JTA) - Israeli-Canadian billionaire and philanthropist Sylvan Adams, a key figure in the development of Israeli competitive cycling, won a world championship of his own in the sport's 65-69 age group. At the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships in Scotland, Adams, who owns the Israel-Premier Tech Cycling Team, finished first in the Masters 65-69 age group on Friday. Then on Monday, Adams, who turns 65 in November, also finished first in his age bracket in the championship's individual time tria...
(JNS) — In back-to-back social-media posts on Aug. 5, the U.S. State Department stated that it “strongly” condemned two attacks—one of which it blamed on “Israeli extremist settlers” and a second incident that “killed one and wounded two others.” It did not note that the latter attacker was a Palestinian terrorist, nor that the person killed was Israeli. The first post from the department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs on X (formerly Twitter) condemned “strongly” an Aug. 4 “terror attack by Israeli extremist settlers that killed a 19-year o...
(JNS) — U.S. House of Representatives Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said on Monday in Jerusalem that judicial reform should have no bearing on American military support for Israel. Speaking to Israeli journalists about the divisive domestic debate regarding the ruling coalition’s legislative initiative, the New York lawmaker expressed the importance of maintaining Israel’s qualitative military edge “regardless of where Israel lands in terms of the judicial reform effort.” Jeffries, who is leading a delegation of 24 House Democrats...
Beverly Joy Opper Rosenberg, 76, of Paterson, N.J., passed away on Aug. 6, 2023, in Orlando, Florida. She was born on Sept. 27, 1946. Beverly was a creative and generous individual who had a deep desire to help everyone. She was known for her loving and fierce nature, as well as her passion for teaching and videography. Beverly adored her family and her beloved pups. Beverly's educational journey began at College High School where she met her husband, Stephen, and she later pursued her passion f...
(JTA) — Emily Talento grew up with Jewish friends and relatives on Long Island, attending Passover seders, bar and bat mitzvahs and Shabbat dinners. When she arrived at Cedarville University, a private Baptist university in Ohio, she found herself explaining Jewish traditions to her many classmates who had never met a Jew before. Now, Talento is continuing her Bible studies at a religious university. But it’s safe to say that she won’t encounter the same lack of knowledge about Jews this time. That’s because she’s one of eight Christian...
US tops list of tourists to Israel (JNS) — Some 2.25 million foreign tourists entered Israel in the first seven months of the year, with the largest group coming from the United States, figures the Central Bureau of Statistics released on Sunday show. The total was nearly double that from the same period last year as the world was recovering from the coronavirus pandemic but still lower than in 2019. The statistics also showed that 5.75 million Israelis went abroad in the first seven months of the year. Of course, this includes many citizens w...
(Chabad.org/News via JNS) — When Ido Sarfati moved to the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui a decade ago, he thought he had the perfect place to build a business. And he did; it grew to include seven retail shops that sold skincare products and other offerings to tourists. Last week, all of his stores burned to the ground in the historic wildfiresthat have claimed the lives of at least 93 people and destroyed more than 2,700 structures valued at more than $5 billion. But Sarfati’s greatest feeling is not of loss, he tells Cha...
(JNS) — U.S. defense guarantees under an Israeli-Saudi normalization agreement would make Gulf states’ nuclear ambitions “unnecessary,” according to Jerusalem’s top diplomat. The Americans would be able to provide protection against Iranian aggression in the region, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen argued in an opinion piece published in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. “[A] defense pledge could reassure Middle Eastern nations, primarily Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states,” he wrote. “This approach would make individual nuclear ambitio...
(JNS) - Finally, a movie about two Jews facing off in a war of ambitions, petty rivalries and contrasting moral absolutes-with actual wars in the background! ("Schindler's List," after all, is a film about two Nazis.) Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" is a movie experience worth watching in old-school fashion-in a darkened theater, on a wide screen that does not allow for pandemic-streaming or impulsive pausing. Nolan, the director of "Interstellar," "Memento," "Inception" and "The Prestige,"...
(JNS) - Sarah Booz, a recent transplant to the Midwest from New York, found a familiar taste of home more than 1,100 miles away. In a video that has now received more than 275,000 views (and counting), the TikTok creator praises the food and overall experience at Maccabee's Kosher Deli in the capital city of Iowa. Wearing brightly colored glasses, Booz starts the video by saying: "I found a New Yorker-owned Jewish deli in Des Moines, and I am so happy." She describes how the deli's owner, Rabbi...
(JNS) - The Philippine government is expanding its partnership with Israel to strengthen the archipelagic country's agricultural sector. The move follows a meeting between Philippine Senior Undersecretary for Agriculture Domingo Panganiban and Israeli Ambassador to Manila Ilan Fluss on July 31, during which they discussed collaborative projects to enhance bilateral training, internships and other professional exchanges. The meeting also focused on enhancing market access of Philippine fresh...
