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Daily Archives: August 13, 2018

Where has all the Flour Gone: The Fake Humanitarian UNRWA Crisis

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Over that past month, members of the US House Middle East Subcommittee raised concerns that humanitarian aid does not reach the Palestinian population, especially in Gaza. The Center for Near East Policy Research, CFNEPR, contacted...

Two children’s books for Jewish holidays

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Author Sandra Feder notes that Judaism acknowledges a duality in life: with the bitter often will come the sweet, and vice versa.  “Sweet wine or grape juice is used to welcome Shabbat on Friday...
Members of the Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades attend the funeral of six Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades fighters at a cemetery in Deir Al Balah refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, May 6, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90

Israel is not looking for war, but Gaza tensions ‎make it highly likely ‎

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The latest flare-up on the Israel-Gaza Strip border ‎appears to have calmed down dramatically since Thursday night, but everyone ‎knows it is far from over. Barring an extreme turn ‎of events, the next round...
Chemotherapy medication. Source: National Cancer Institute.

PA agrees to provide cancer-related drugs to Gaza

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Despite a year-long series of heavy sanctions on Gaza, the Palestinian Authority on Monday ordered vital chemotherapy medications to be sent to the Hamas-controlled region. The terror-run region’s health officials reported that 700 cancer patients,...
Columbus Bureau Chief Amanda Koehn and Kevin S. Adelstein, publisher and CEO, display the inaugural issue of the new biweekly “Columbus Jewish News,” which debuted on Aug. 9. Credit: “Columbus Jewish News.”

Inaugural issue of ‘Columbus Jewish News’ rolls off presses

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Columbus and Central Ohio have a new newspaper. The Columbus Jewish News, which debuted with a 44-page full-color issue on Aug. 9, brings back a Jewish newspaper to central Ohio. The new biweekly newspaper, which is being...
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Credit: Garry Knight via Wikimedia Commons.

UK’s Corbyn admits he was ‘present’ at memorial honoring Munich terrorists

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The United Kingdom’s Opposition and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn admitted that he was present at a memorial ceremony in 2014 in Tunisia for the Palestinian terrorists behind the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, but...
File photo: Jewish religious women do their national service at the maternity department at a hospital in Jerusalem on Oct. 28, 2010. Photo by Abir Sultan/Flash90.

Three Israeli hospitals break newborn birth records in July

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Massive numbers of births in Israeli hospitals are breaking records around the country, with departments reporting labor and delivery services being maxed above capacity. Though Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem has been delivering more...
Workers on the Israeli Tamar gas-processing rig some 25 kilometers off the Israeli southern coast of Ashkelon. Noble Energy and Delek are the main partners in the gas field, estimated to contain 10 trillion cubic feet of gas. June 23, 2014. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.

Progress on Israeli oil field halted as State Comptroller studies security needs, environmental concerns

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After a cacophony of protest has arisen from citizens’ groups, environmental NGOs, local authorities and environmental professors, Israel’s State Comptroller will investigate a project getting underway to locate the processing platform for Israel’s largest...
The huge terror kite that managed to reach power lines near Kibbutz Sufa, next to the Gaza border, on Aug. 11, 2018. Source: Israel Electric Company.

Massive ‘terror kite’ from Gaza successfully removed from Israeli power lines

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A massive incendiary kite launched from Gaza, measured to be about 13 feet wide, landed on electric power lines near Kibbutz Sufa on Saturday, sparking an emergency operation by the Israel Electric Company to...
Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog addresses communities in North America. Credit: Jewish Agency.

Herzog makes first visit to US as head of Jewish Agency

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Beginning his tenure last week as the chairman of the executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Isaac Herzog has been seeking to bridge the divide between Jews in Israel and Jews outside of the...