October 9, 2015

Rosner’s Torah-Talk: Parashat B’reisheet with Rabbi Jon-Jay Tilsen

Shmuel Rosner October 9, 2015

U.S. pulls plug on Syria rebel training effort; will focus on weapons supply

Jewish Journal October 9, 2015

The United States will largely abandon its failed efforts to train moderate Syrian rebels fighting Islamic State, and instead provide arms and equipment directly to rebel leaders and their units on the battlefield, the Obama administration said on Friday.

Six killed in Gaza as Israeli-Palestinian violence widens

Jewish Journal October 9, 2015

Israeli troops shot dead six Palestinians in protests in Gaza and a knife-wielding Jewish man wounded four Arabs in southern Israel on Friday in a wave of violence that has fueled talk of a new uprising against Israel.

Carson calls ADL response to gun/Holocaust remarks ‘total foolishness’

Jewish Journal October 9, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Friday pushed back against Jewish criticism of comments he made on Thursday that Jews could’ve been saved from persecution by the Nazis in Europe were they allowed to carry armed-guns by law.

Jewish youth stabs 4 Arabs in southern Israel

Jewish Journal October 9, 2015

An Israeli Jew stabbed four Arabs in an apparent revenge attack for Palestinian terrorism.

Gunman kills one, wounds three at Northern Arizona University

Jewish Journal October 9, 2015

An 18-year-old student opened fire with a handgun on the campus of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff early on Friday, killing one person and wounding three others, before police took him into custody in the latest in a series of U.S. school shootings, authorities said.