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News Briefs

Report: Abbas, Mashaal Agree to Unity Government

By Jewish Press Staff

The two leaders are in Qatar discussing the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement

Monitor

The Nixon Fascination

By Jason Maoz

Americans never seem to tire of Richard Nixon, the man who strode the nation’s political stage for three decades, as congressman, senator, vice president and president, only to see his career come crashing down when his involvement in the Watergate scandal led to his resignation – the only U.S. president to so step down – in order to avoid certain impeachment.

Analysis / Monitor

The AP's Gonzo Journalism

By Vic Rosenthal

There is a place for what Hunter Thompson called “Gonzo journalism,” but it isn’t a wire service news report, where the ancient Five Ws are still appropriate.

News & Views

UN Sec-Gen Begins Two Day Visit to Israel

By Jewish Press Staff Writer

Ban Ki-Moon has requested that Israel make "goodwill gestures" to move negotiations with the Palestinians forward.

News & Views / Analysis

Syria on the Brink: Arab League Suspends Mission, Shifts Focus to UN

By Jewish Press Staff

The Arab League suspended its observer mission Sunday after government violence this weekend resulted in the deaths of approximately 200 civilians.

News Briefs

Russia Blasts Arab League Decision to Pull Observers

By Jewish Press Staff

Reports estimate that the death toll in the weekend government crackdown has exceeded 210.

News Briefs

Arab League Suspends Mission in Syria; Syria Condemns

By Jewish Press Staff

The Arab League decision comes in the wake of the uptick in government violence over the weekend.

Features On The Jewish World

Before The Deluge: Jews Of The Mediterranean Islands (Part IV)

By Ezra James Nollet

The excavation of archeological layers has shown that in Roman times there were Jewish communities in Syracuse, Catania, Noto, among other places. At the end of the 6th century there is mention of Jews in Messina, Palermo, and Girgenti.

Middle East / Levant

Arab League to Assad: Step Down

By Sam Ser

If Bashar Assad does not accept the national unity government proposal, the Arab League will ask the United Nations to step in and end the crisis.

News Briefs

PM Netanyahu Urges Migron Residents to Evacuate 'with Consent'

By Jewish Press Staff

Netanyahu supports MK Benny Begin's proposal for evacuating Migron.

NY

No Politician Cares About Funding Private Schools

By Maury Litwak

There are two types of politicians we encounter when advocating to relieve our community’s tuition burden through the use of government funding: those who claim to be 100 percent behind us, and those who claim to be 100 percent against us. What’s interesting is that politicians in both categories do not seem to understand what “100 percent” means.

Op-Eds

Building Bridges To Save A City And A Nation

By Rabbi Dov Lipman

Yes, it is true. I, a haredi with right-wing political leanings, stood on the same stage with representatives of Yisrael Chofshit, Hitorirut Yerushalayim, and Meretz – three secular and very left wing groups – at the massive rally in Beit Shemesh on the last night of Chanukah.

News Briefs

PM Netanyahu: 'Palestinian refusal to accept Jewish state' the Root Cause of Conflict

By Jewish Press Staff

Comments come in speech by Netanyahu at Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam.

Israel

Israel Struck By Wave Of Cyber Attacks

By Steve K. Walz

JERUSALEM – Even as Mossad agents and a team of IDF cyber-warfare specialists began an intensive global hunt for “Ox Omar,” the alleged Saudi hacker who exposed the financial records of thousands of Israeli credit-card holders, the defiant cyber-terrorist launched a second wave of “virtual jihad” attacks on a number of Israeli websites including some government sites and those of El Al and several Israeli banks.

News Briefs

State to Israeli High Court: Boycott Law Constitutional

By Jewish Press Staff

The law is being challenged as an unconstitutional limitation on free expression.

News Briefs

Hearing on FM Lieberman's Pending Corruption Indictment Begins

By Jewish Press Staff

Lieberman is accused of receiving "millions of dollars" between 2001 and 2008 while serving as MK and government minister.

News Briefs

Tent Protesters Return to Rothschild Boulevard

By Jewish Press Staff

Activists: Tent protests will "erupt again in the summer."

Middle East / Levant

Hizbullah Comes to Assad’s Defense; Opposition Increases Pressure

By Sam Ser

“The Syrian people are living their worst period,” parliament member Imad Ghalioun said in an interview from Egypt on Sunday night.

Israel

Strike Halts Public Services Across Israel

By Sam Ser

A general strike of municipal workers shut down numerous public services on Monday, plunging schools and public transportation systems into chaos that hit the public particularly hard.

Op-Eds

Building Bridges to Save a City and a Nation

By Rabbi Dov Lipman

Now, because of our efforts, the police have committed to arrest anyone who merely screams at a girl. Success for our present! The national government now wants to work with us to build future neighborhoods for all populations. Success for our future!

Analysis

Evacuation of Mitzpe Avichai - Beyond the Pale

By Arlene Kushner

"They arrived in the middle of the night. It was brutal. I woke up after they broke down the door and were already in the living room."

Middle East / Levant

Arab League Mission in Syria Continues to Crumble

By Sam Ser

Syrian authorities have ignored the mission's requests to take steps such as removing weapons and military personnel from mosques in cities where protests have taken place, and the casualty rate in the army’s response to the protests has actually increased since the monitors began their work three weeks ago.

News Briefs

Egypt to Seek IMF Loan After All

By Jewish Press Staff

Egypt's military-led government originally rejected the IMF's offer in June 2011.

News Briefs

Knesset Speaker: If the Government Does Not Legalize Migron, the Knesset Will

By Jewish Press Staff

Comments come a day after Habayit Hayehudi threatens to leave coalition over the issue.

Op-Eds

The Reason For The Silence

By Rabbi Berel Wein

It will take a major change of mindset in the religious world before we are able to face down the extremists and not merely be silent in the face of such desecration of the Torah and God’s holy name.

Op-Eds

Time For The Dutch To Finally ‘Fess Up

By Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

A new poll finds that two-thirds of the Dutch people are opposed to their prime minister apologizing to the Jewish community for the misconduct of the wartime government in exile in London.

Israel

Anglo Ultra-Orthodox Threaten to Bolt Beit Shemesh Coalition Over Lack of Dialogue

By Eric Schulenberg

Anglo political party threatens to bow out of municipal council if measures are not taken to prevent hostility between citizens - recommend a dialogue group of influential rabbis.

Interviews and Profiles

‘I Will Absolutely Fight For You’: An Interview With Would-Be State Senate Candidate David Storobin

By Elliot Resnick

If the stars are aligned in his favor, attorney David Storobin will become the first immigrant from the former Soviet Union to serve as a New York state senator.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Iran - The Failed Islamic Revolution

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

The Islamic Revolution in Iran has failed to achieve its goals, whether in the domestic, regional or global sphere. Their last chance for salvation is the nuclear project, which still wins support from China and Russia.

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