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This Ongoing War

In Gaza, Arab-on-Arab Injuries Are a Daily Reality, but Rarely Reported

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

In a small effort to correct that distortion, here is a status report from the Gaza NGO Safety Office.

Israel / Iran / News Briefs

IAEA: Dramatic Increase of Uranium Production in Iran

By Malkah Fleisher

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will soon issue a report showing that Iranian nuclear centrifuges are dramatically increasing their production, according to a report by the AFP.

Op-Eds

Don’t Be Fooled By BDS Campaign’s Failures

By Kenneth Stern

For more than a decade, anti-Israel activists have sought to shoehorn Israel into the nomenclature of apartheid-era South Africa through the use of a tactic named BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions). Apartheid was a universally decried racist system. BDS activists argue that Israel is the second coming of apartheid South Africa and must be treated the same.

Sultan Knish

Manufacturing Gaffes

By Daniel Greenfield

If you read the newspaper, watch the telly or turn the radio dial to something besides the greatest hits of the 70's and 80's, then you know that Romney's international trip was a disaster. How do you know that? Well, the same way that Soviet citizens knew that their economy was booming and it would only be a matter of time before the slaves of capitalism threw off their shackles and bowed their arrogant heads to the hammer and sickle. They read it in the paper.

Israel / Global

Europe's Financial Crisis Weighs on Israel's Economic Outlook

By Jewish Press Staff

Israel is watching the continuing debt European debt crisis warily, as the European Union is Israel's top trading partner. But despite Europe's economic woes and trepidation in Israel, the EU is set to intensify relations with Israel by approving up to 60 new cooperative initiatives, according to AFP.

Global / News Briefs

Chancellor Merkel Pledges to Keep Circumcision Legal

By Jewish Press Staff

After what German diplomats have described as a "disastrous" damage to Germany's image abroad, especially in light of its Nazi past, it appears that Berlin has finally gotten the message.

Op-Eds

Cosigning for the Devil

By Vic Rosenthal

Absurd, isn’t it - Israel should take a loan to support an organization that officially considers Jews the offspring of apes and pigs and venerates ‘heroes’ like Samir Kuntar and Dalal Mughrabi whose heroism consisted of murdering Jewish children?

Politics / News Briefs / Media

Jewish Filmmaker Running for Parliament in Senegal

By Tibbi Singer

Laurence Gavron was born in France to a Jewish family. She's lived in Dakar, Senegal, for the past ten years, where she is a film director and a writer. And she's running for parliament, a white, Jewish woman in a black, African country. “If all the people who have said they will vote for me really do vote for me, then I shall certainly be elected," she said. We urge our readers in Senegal to get out early to vote this Sunday.

United Nations (UN) / Iran

Jews, Gays, Rights Activists Protest Ahmadinejad in Rio

By Malkah Fleisher

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s welcome on the sunny Ipanema beach in Rio was less than warm from an eclectic group of Jews, human rights activists, and homosexuals, who arrived Sunday to protest the Iranian president’s attendance at a UN summit on sustainable development.

News Briefs

Two Arrested in Attack on Jewish Teens in France

By JTA

Two suspects have been arrested in connection with an attack on three Jewish teens in Lyon in southeastern France. The two suspects reportedly turned themselves in to police on Wednesday, AFP reported. The "main perpetrator" of the attack has not yet been apprehended, local police chief Albert Doutre said, according to AFP. The attack, which […]

News Briefs

French Resistance Leader Raymond Aubrac Dies at 97

By Jewish Press News Desk

Raymond Aubrac, whose parents were sent to Auschwitz, and his wife, were the most celebrated couple of the French resistance, fierce underground fighters against German occupation. Aubrac’s pregnant wife Lucie famously led a daring commando raid to rescue him from the Nazis. AFP reports that President Nicolas Sarkozy paid homage to "a heroic Resistance figure" […]

News Briefs

Police: Merah Is Dead

By Jewish Press News Desk

Mohammed Merah, suspected of killing seven in Toulouse, died after resisting Police who were advancing on his apartment Thursday. French Interior Minister Claude Guéant told reporters that Merah was hiding in the bathroom when Police entered his place. The moment the policemen came in, Merah stormed them, shooting wildly and injuring three, and then jumped out a window. He was found dead on ground.

Global / News Briefs

Toulouse Police Preparing to Raid Al-Qaeda Man Who Murdered Jewish Children

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

France's interior minister Claude Gueant told reporters at the scene that the suspect has links to Jihadist and Salafist groups. Two French police officers have been hurt during a shoot-out with the suspect. The elite officers were injured during a Wednesday pre-dawn raid in Toulouse.

Global / News Briefs

Gunman in French Jewish School Shooting Entered School Grounds, Used Multiple Firearms

By Solomon Burke

A local prosecutor told AFP that the gunman shot a man outside the school, initially using a 9-mm weapon. After it jammed, he switched to a .45-caliber weapon and entered the school grounds, where "he shot at everything he could see, children and adults, and some children were chased into the school."

News Briefs

Drive-By Shooting Attack on Jewish School in France Kills Three; Two of the Victims Children

By Jewish Press Staff

AFP has reported that a shooting attack occurred Monday outside Ozar HaTorah Jewish school in Toulouse in the southwest France. Eyewitnesses said three people have been killed. French media reported that a man riding on a black scooter opened fire on the school, killing at least two children and one adult, and wounding several others.

Global

Azerbaijan Arrests 22 in Iran Terror Plot

By Jewish Press Staff Writer

Azerbaijani National Security Ministry: "Twenty-two citizens of Azerbaijan were arrested by the National Security Ministry for cooperating with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards . . . Firearms, cartridges, explosives and espionage equipment were found during the arrest."

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs

Matisyahu Goes Blonde in Jerusalem

By Tibbi Singer

The 32-year-old ultra-Orthodox rapper Matisyahu has surfaced in Jerusalem with a new bottle-blonde hair, AFP reports. He is sporting a completely new image, with bleached blonde hair and a casual look that includes combat pants, a brown leather jacket and open-toed army boots. The singer arrived on Tuesday for a three-day visit to shoot a […]

News Briefs

PA to Ask Arab League to Convene Peace Conference

By Jewish Press Staff

PA President Mahmoud Abbas will ask the Arab League to hold a peace conference.

News Briefs

US General to Visit Egypt

By Jewish Press Staff

US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey will visit Egypt amid rising tensions between the US and Egypt over the prosecution of NGO workers in Egypt.

News Briefs

Pacifists Across North America March Against Iran Confrontation

By Jewish Press Staff

Demonstration at US mission to the UN and Israeli consulate led by a banner reading "No war, no sanctions, no intervention, no assassinations."

Serials

Getzlight - Chapter I

By Ruchama Feuerman

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