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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
House resolution would urge European law enforcement to partner with Jewish communities
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A bipartisan slate of members of the U.S. House of Representatives urged the Obama administration to press European security authorities to partner with Jewish communities.
The non-binding resolution introduced Thursday calls on European governments and umbrella bodies like the European Union to “formally recognize, partner with, and train Jewish community groups focused on strengthening preparedness, mitigation, and response related to anti-Semitic attacks.”
It notes spikes in anti-Semitic attacks in recent years and praises the efficacy of partnerships between law enforcement and Jewish communities in the United States, Britain and France.
Law enforcement in Europe, the resolution says, should help Jewish communities develop standards that “focus on preparedness, mitigation, and response, including for training, controlling access to physical facilities, physical security measures, crisis communications, emergency exercises and simulations, mapping access to facilities, and sharing of information with law enforcement agencies.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israeli PM aide sorry for threatening Ethiopian captive’s kin
(JTA) — An Israeli official apologized for telling a family of immigrants from Ethiopia not to criticize Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of their son’s captivity in Gaza.
Lior Lotan, the prime minister’s aide for missing and captive persons, apologized Thursday in a written statement, following the publication of a recording of his meeting earlier this week with the parents of Avera Mengistu.
“I apologize for the manner and the content of some of the things I said in a long conversation,” Lotan said.
Mengistu is believed to have climbed last September over the security fence between Israel and Gaza. His presumed captivity — which Hamas denies – was under a gag order that was lifted this week. Also missing is an Israel Bedouin who crossed over to Gaza in April and has not returned.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Insults to Reform Jews prompt inter-denominational roundtable
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office will convene a roundtable of representatives from Jewish religious movements and government ministries to address the movements’ concerns.
The decision to form the roundtable follows statements denigrating Reform Jews made by Religious Services Minister David Azoulay of the Haredi Orthodox Shas party, Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky told JTA Friday.
Earlier this week, Azoulay said Reform Jews were “sinners” in a clarification to an earlier statement, in which he said he they were not Jewish. On Thursday, the Central Conference of American Rabbis called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire Azoulay from the cabinet.
“The coalition has parties which don’t want any dialogue with the Reform and Conservative movements,” Sharansky told JTA. “The Prime Minister’s Office on the one hand and the Jewish Agency on the other hand will help to solve these problems.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Iran talks likely to continue, extending congressional review period
(JTA) – Nuclear talks between Iran and the world powers are likely to be extended further, with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry saying, “Some of the tough issues remain unresolved.”
At a brief appearance before reporters on Thursday in Vienna, where the negotiations are taking place, Kerry did not specify any new deadline but said tough decisions must be taken very soon.
“We are not going to sit at the negotiating table forever. We also recognize that we shouldn’t get up and leave simply because the clock strikes midnight,” Kerry said in the Austrian capital. “Given that the work here is incredibly technical and that the stakes are very, very high, we will not rush and we will not be rushed.”
If the negotiations over curbing Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for relaxing sanctions drags on past Thursday, a congressional review of any agreement automatically will increase to up to 60 days rather than 30, according to a bill Congress passed this spring.
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From The Times of Israel
In Gaza war documentary, BBC blurs lines between Israelis, Jews
When a Palestinian boy says ‘the Yahud (Jew in Arabic) are massacring us,’ the English subtitles read ‘Israel is massacring us’
A new BBC documentary about the Israel-Hamas war last summer chose to translate the word “Jews” as “Israelis” in its interviews with Palestinian children.
“Children of the Gaza War,” which aired on the UK’s largest television channel Wednesday evening, followed the lives of Israeli and Gazan children during and after the conflict.
However, a report in the Jewish Chronicle Wednesday noted that BBC producers chose to translate the Arabic word for Jew, Yahud, as Israelis.
Lyse Doucet, the network’s chief international correspondent who made the film, stood by the translation, asserting that the children interviewed in the documentary were certainly referring to Israelis.
In one instance, when a Palestinian boy says “the Yahud are massacring us,” the English subtitles read “Israel is massacring us.”
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