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Obama re-elected; what now for U.S.-Israel relationship?

November 7, 2012

By Jacob Kamaras and Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org Capping a race that on a national level was largely defined by the economy but in the Jewish community turned into an extended debate over which candidate would steer the best course for the U.S.-Israel relationship, President Barack Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney to earn a […]

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Jacob Kamaras, Middle East, USA

U.S., Israel in joint missile defense exercise

October 23, 2012

By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org The largest-ever joint defense exercise between the United States and Israel kicked off on Sunday and is lasting for three weeks in the Jewish state. Austere Challenge 12 (AC12), an air and missle defense training exercise, will involve 3,500 U.S. military members and another 1,000 from the Israel Defense Forces, according to

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Jacob Kamaras, Middle East

U.S. Jews jailed, held hostage overseas

October 22, 2012

By Jacob Kamaras and Sean Savage/JNS.org “There are, I think, almost 3,000 Americans in foreign jails. Almost all of them are in there for doing something.” That is the assessment given to JNS.org by U.S. Rep. Bob Turner (R-NY), a leading advocate for the freedom of 53-year-old Brooklyn flooring contractor Jacob Ostreicher—who, according to

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International, Jacob Kamaras, USA

JNS News Briefs: October 18, 2012

October 18, 2012

Arab Lawyers Union honors terrorist who killed 21 Israelis in Haifa (JNS.org) The Palestine Committee of the Arab Lawyers Union recently bestowed its “highest honor” on female suicide bomber Hanadi Jaradat, who killed 21 Israelis in a 2003 attack on Maxim’s restaurant in Haifa, Palestinian Media Watch reported on its website here. Jaradat, who worked as

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International, Jacob Kamaras

UN Week: Iran at center of debate

September 28, 2012

By JNS.org NEW YORK—Faced with what he considers an existential threat to Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spelled things out for world leaders in simple terms at the United Nations General Assembly. Actually, he drew things out. Providing a cartoonish diagram of a bomb during his Sept. 27 address, Netanyahu drew a red line across

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Jacob Kamaras, Middle East

JNS news briefs: September 24, 2012

September 24, 2012

St. Louis passenger to State Dept: Don’t ‘deny Holocaust survivors our legal rights’ (JNS.org) At a U.S. State Department program on Monday marking the 73rd anniversary of the SS St. Louis voyage, honoree Herbert Karliner—one of the voyage’s surviving passengers—handed department officials a letter urging their so-far absent support of legislation that would aid the

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