The phrase “Kan ya ma kan” is usually translated as “Once upon a time” in Arabic literature, and is the phrase that begins many stories.
Iran will fulfill its commitments under the July nuclear agreement with major powers in time to have sanctions, that have crippled its economy, lifted by the end of the year, its atomic energy chief said on Thursday.
The opening night of the 29th Israel Film Festival (IFF) drew nearly 2,000 people to the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills for a star-studded gathering of Hollywood celebrities and Jewish community leaders.
According to an old publishing industry joke, one title that is bound to be a best-seller is “Lincoln’s Dog’s Diet,” which helps to explain why more than 16,000 books about Abraham Lincoln have been published so far, and more are offered each year.
It was not a sentence I expected to hear from the 6-foot-5, seemingly gentile giant who was towering over me. “Hey, I’m a nice Jewish boy from the Valley,” David Gregory revealed as we chatted at NBC Studios in Burbank.
The United States takes offense at comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\’s new communications director accusing President Barack Obama of anti-Semitism.
In numbers far-exceeding expectations, more than 100,000 Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv on Nov. 1 to mourn the assassination and celebrate the legacy of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was killed 20 years ago by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir, who opposed Rabin’s efforts to broker a peace deal with the Palestinians.
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