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Daily Archives: March 12, 2018

Oskar Groening, 96-Year-old ‘Bookkeeper Of Auschwitz,’ dies before starting jail sentence

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The man known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz", who in 2015 became one of the last people to be convicted for crimes in the Nazi genocide of Europe's Jews during World War II, has...

Paraguay and Honduras ready ‘in principle’ to move embassies to Jerusalem

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Following on the heels of the United States and Guatemala, Paraguay and Honduras have announced that they are ready “in principle” to relocate their embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, according to Israel’s Army...

Hamas TV posts anti-Facebook video on Twitter, Telegram for ‘violations against Palestinian content’

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In the framework of its campaign against Facebook, Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV published a promo on Twitter and Telegram to protest what it said were the social-media networking company’s “violations against Palestinian content,” including the...

Azerbaijan has ‘pioneered’ Israeli ties with Muslim world, says ambassador

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Ambassador Elin Suleymanov has been Azerbaijan’s top envoy to the United States since 2011, having previously served as consul general of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles from 2005. Stationed in the United States for years now,...

Tel Aviv photographer in the running for Sony awards

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Israeli photographer Ariel Tagar is listed on an 87-person short list in the Sony World Photography Awards competition for a series he shot in Uganda. Of more than 320,000 photos submitted from some 200 countries,...

Why is Trump betraying terror victims?

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It turns out that in some cases, the Trump administration can behave just like its predecessors. President Donald Trump has been rightly accused of smashing precedents as the commander-in-chief, and many of his subordinates have...

Rabbi dismissed from IDF course for opposing growing military roles for women

The military dismissed a prominent rabbi from his position in the reserves on Sunday after he said the Israel Defense Forces was “destroying families” by encouraging women to enlist. Under Israeli law, all men and...

Emptiness and consciousness: Still unseen limits of American politics

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“Conscious of his emptiness, a man tries to make a faith for himself in the political realm. In vain.” Karl Jaspers, “Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time” (1952) Nowadays, in the midst of near-perpetual scandal, both...

Jewish groups call out Putin for hinting Jews, not Russia, meddled in U.S. elections

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In an interview with NBC on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the Kremlin did not influence the 2016 U.S presidential elections, but that perhaps “Jews, but with Russian citizenship,” did. Asked about allegations...

80 years on, Austria’s Jews renew demand for Holocaust reparations

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On the eve of the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria, or Anschluss, Holocaust survivors in Israel are calling on Vienna to provide reparations for Austrians whose property was confiscated when the...