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From Russia Today
Schengen zone to be ‘on agenda’ if EU doesn’t fairly distribute refugees – Merkel
“If we don’t succeed in fairly distributing refugees, then of course the Schengen question will be on the agenda for many,”Merkel said at a conference in Berlin.
Austria has tightened its eastern borders, just days after the bodies of 71 refugees were found in a truck on a highway.
“We will [carry out checks] for an undetermined period of time at all important border crossings in the eastern region, looking at all vehicles that have possible hiding places for trafficked people,” Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner told ORF radio Monday.
She said that the checks were not traditional border controls, adding that the country was within its legal rights.
“We are not in violation of Schengen,” Mikl-Leitner said.
The checks caused the M1 motorway – a Hungarian highway leading to Austria – to be gridlocked for 20 kilometers (12 miles) on Monday morning, national news agency MTI reported.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Obama to Forward: Hezbollah will be a focus of post-Iran deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A focus of security enhancement once the Iran nuclear deal goes through will be neutralizing Hezbollah’s threat to Israel, President Barack Obama said in a landmark interview with The Forward.
“As soon as this debate is over, we will, I think, be able to invigorate what has been an ongoing conversation with the Israelis about how we can do even more to enhance the unprecedented military and intelligence cooperation that we have with them, and to see, are there additional capabilities that Israel may be able to use to prevent Hezbollah, for example, from getting missiles,” Obama said in the interview published Monday — the first with the Jewish media since he became president.
“Where Iran has been effective in its destabilizing activities, it’s not because it’s had a lot of money,” Obama said, countering criticism that the sanctions relief for nuclear restrictions deal that will unfreeze $50 billion in funds will increase Iran’s capacity for disruption.
“It’s because they’ve effectively used proxies; it’s because they’ve invested in places like Lebanon for decades and become entrenched,” the president said. “And the reason we haven’t done a better job of stopping that is not because they’re outspending us. The reason is, is because we haven’t been as coordinated, had as good intelligence and been as systematic in pushing back as we need to be.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
U.S. national industrial union endorses BDS of Israel
(JTA) — A U.S. national industrial union accused Israel of ethnic cleansing and voted to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers union voted on the resolutions on Aug. 20 during its national convention, the union reported on its website Friday.
The resolutions involving Israel and the Palestinians were voted on as part of a series of resolution on foreign policy issues, including support for the Iran nuclear deal. The union said in a statement that it was the first U.S. national union to endorse BDS.
The union has nearly 37,000 members throughout the country.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Wasserman Schultz reportedly nixed Dems’ vote on backing Iran deal, praising Obama

(JTA) — Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz reportedly prevented consideration of a resolution at the party’s summer meeting that praised President Barack Obama and offered backing for the Iran nuclear deal.
The Washington Post report on Saturday, which cited unidentified “knowledgeable Democrats,” said the resolution was drafted last week with the intention of putting the national committee on record in support of the agreement.
A party spokeswoman told the Post that “procedural issues” prevented consideration of the resolution. But unnamed Democrats said that it was the opposition of Wasserman Schultz that blocked its consideration.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
2 million see video of Palestinian women swarming soldier to stop boy’s arrest
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A video showing an Israeli soldier swarmed by Palestinian women and girls trying to prevent the arrest of a boy during a West Bank demonstration reportedly has gone viral.
The video from Friday’s incident shows an Israeli soldier catchings the boy, 11, who has a broken arm and according to the military had been throwing rocks at soldiers during the protest near Nabi Saleh. But the screaming Palestinian women and girls, along with other activists, free the boy.
The soldier, who was injured in the scrum, and a second soldier who comes to his aid walk away without making the arrest. Two other Palestinians were arrested for throwing rocks during the demonstration.
The video has had 2 million views on social media, according to Haaretz.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Bernie Sanders closing gap on Hillary Clinton in Iowa, poll shows
(JTA) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is closing the gap in Iowa on front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic race for president, according to a poll.
Clinton leads Sanders, who is Jewish, by a margin of 37 percent to 30 percent among likely Democratic caucusgoers in Iowa, according to the Des Moines Register/Bloomb
Clinton has lost a third of her Iowa supporters since May, the Register reported.
The Iowa caucus, the first electoral test in the 2016 presidential campaign, will be held Feb. 1.
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From PressTV
Israelis demolish 15 Palestinian homes in West Bank’s Ramallah
Israeli forces have once again demolished more than 10 Palestinian homes near the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
According to local reports and witnesses, Israeli forces early Monday destroyed 15 Palestinian homes in the Jab’a village, using two bulldozers.
Locals said that other residential buildings nearby were also damaged.
According to reports, the Israeli military unlawfully demolished some 40 structures in the Bedouin Palestinian communities in the West Bank between August 17 and 18, leaving nearly 130 people, including 80 children, homeless.
The continued rise in Israel’s destruction of Palestinian homes and buildings comes as the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits an occupying entity from destroying private property or forcibly transferring the population there.
From PressTV
Israel should have let Palestinian hunger striker die in prison: Ex-FM
Israel’s ex-Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has slammed the regime’s handling of the case of a former Palestinian hunger-striking detainee, saying Tel Aviv should have allowed him to die in prison.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acted weakly in handling the case of former Palestinian hunger striker Mohammed Allan, Lieberman told a Sunday gathering of his Yisrael Beytenu party.
“Over the years … I’ve told Netanyahu that if you start something then do it all the way. … If you detain someone, then go all the way. Don’t give in to any pressure, and if he wants to hunger strike to death, let him die,” said the extremist Israeli politician.
Netanyahu “broadcasts a message of defeat, fear and indecision,” Lieberman said, adding that Allan had managed to win in the case.
Allan ended his 65-day hunger strike on August 20 after an Israeli court suspended his detention due to his severe health condition.
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From PressTV
Palestinians evacuated from homes over Israeli military drills
Israeli soldiers have evacuated 14 Palestinian families from their homes in the occupied West Bank over military drills expected to be carried out in the area.
Israeli forces evacuated the families in the al-Ras al-Ahmar of Khirbet Atuf Village east of Tubas in the northern Jordan Valley area on Sunday.
Local sources said the military drills are expected to last for five days, with the Palestinian families being forced to leave their homes for six hours per day.
The Palestinians living in the Jordan Valley regularly face evacuations due to Israeli military exercises in the region.
A military drill held earlier this year by Israeli forces in the district of Tubas caused a fire that swept across some 750 to 1,000 acres of farmland in the Jordan Valley.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish community quashes bill to reinstate ‘Portuguese Alfred Dreyfus’
LISBON (JTA) — The Jewish Community of Porto in northern Portugal quashed a bill designed to reinstate an army captain who had been fired and libeled because of his outreach to descendants of Jews.
The lawmakers who submitted the bill to rehabilitate Arthur Carlos Barros Basto withdrew it earlier this month ahead of a vote at the National Assembly after the Jewish community complained that it was discriminatory.
The bill failed to bring closure to Barro Basto’s case, the community and some of his descendants argued, because it offered none of the financial compensation given to non-Jewish officers who had been reinstated following persecution by the pro-fascist dictatorship of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar.
“Contrary to the general law of the land, applicable to all cases of reinstatement,” the community wrote recently to parliament members, ”this special law deplorably and scandalously excludes a Jew and his family.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Facing declining numbers and a bad economy, Italian Jews stay upbeat
ROME (JTA) – Whenever Georges De Canino worries about the future of Italian Jewry, he looks at the bricks in the building across the street from his apartment in the center of this city’s old Jewish ghetto.
A painter who sometimes stares at the stones for inspiration, De Canino claims that they originally came from the Colosseum, and they remind him of history’s long arc.
The stones have been in Rome for nearly 2,000 years. The city’s Jews have been here for longer. And neither of them, De Canino says, is going anywhere.
“Above all, it’s a community that survives invasions, barbarians, the economy,” De Canino said. “We’re a small community that is reborn, that grows. We play a very important role in Italy.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Iran has not softened position on Israel, says supreme leader’s advisor
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Iran has not softened its position on Israel, a top aide to Iran’s supreme leader said.
“Iran will not recognize Israel. We still emphasize that Israel is a usurper and occupying regime and we will not come along with it,” Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser on international affairs to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told a group of religious leaders from Pakistan visiting Iran on Saturday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
The comments came several days after British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond said in an interview with the British media that the Iranian government had displayed a more nuanced approach on Israel than its predecessor.
Velayati added that Islamic countries still refuse to recognize Israel and that “the Palestinian people’s fight should continue until they regain their territories.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
New $3 million initiative for intermarried outreach honors Michael Douglas
(JTA) — The Genesis Prize Foundation and the Jewish Funders Network launched a $3.3 million matching grant program to fund an intermarried outreach initiative.
The program launched Monday in honor of 2015 Genesis Prize laureate Michael Douglas aims to foster a culture of acceptance for intermarried families in the Jewish community.
Avenues to Jewish Engagement for Intermarried Couples and their Families is expected to generate $3.3 million in funds once the matched gifts are approved, the groups said in a statement.
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From Ynet News
The week’s best Middle East photos
This week, migrants traveling to Europe continued to face danger, mass protests erupted in Lebanon and Iraq, and Egypt sentenced three journalists to prison.
In the Middle East this past week, workers in Libya collected the bodies of migrants who drowned while trying to make their way across the Mediterranean to Europe. The death toll continued to rise after two boats capsized off the western coastal city of Zuwara with an estimated 500 migrants onboard.
Rescuers remove the bodies of drowned migrants who were trapped in the bottom of a boat in Zuwara, Libya (Photo: AP)
Asunken boat carrying migrants is pulled in to the port in Zuwara, Libya (Photo: AP)
Rescue workers gather around the bodies of drowned migrants in Zuwara, Libya (Photo: AP)
In Lebanon, discontent over garbage piling up in the streets of Beirut has turned into mass protests against
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From The Times of Israel
Israeli gas stocks tumble, losing nearly $1.5 billion
Egyptian natural gas find shakes energy market; Egypt prime minister calls massive gas field a ‘message from Allah’
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they unfold.
Obama to Forward: Hezbollah to be focus of post-Iran deal
A focus of security enhancement once the Iran nuclear deal goes through will be neutralizing Hezbollah’s threat to Israel, US President Barack Obama says in a landmark interview with the Jewish Daily Forward.
“As soon as this debate is over, we will, I think, be able to invigorate what has been an ongoing conversation with the Israelis about how we can do even more to enhance the unprecedented military and intelligence cooperation that we have with them, and to see, are there additional capabilities that Israel may be able to use to prevent Hezbollah, for example, from getting missiles,” Obama says in the interview — the first with the Jewish media since he became president.
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From The Times of Israel
Europe to impose more ID, bag checks on trains after foiled attack
At emergency meeting, security chiefs struggle to find solutions that protect travelers but don’t threaten border-free travel zone
PARIS (AP) — European countries will increase identity checks and baggage controls on trains after American passengers thwarted an attack on a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris, France’s interior minister said Saturday.
Bernard Cazeneuve said the reinforced ID and bag checks would be carried out on cross-border trains “everywhere it is necessary.” He spoke after meeting in Paris with top security and transport officials from nine countries and the European Union in the wake of last week’s attack attempt.
At the meeting, officials struggled to find security solutions that protect travelers but don’t threaten the continent’s border-free travel zone or the extensive rail network that is the lifeblood of European transport.
The suspect in last week’s attack had been on the radar of European surveillance, but bought his ticket in cash and showed no ID, before bringing an automatic rifle and a handgun onboard unnoticed. He has been handed preliminary terrorism charges and is in French custody.
From The Times of Israel
Will increasing LGBT acceptance shift the tide for gay Jews too?
Austrian launch of international Jewish gay organization, Eighteen:22, comes on the heels of the Jerusalem gay pride parade stabbings
SALZBURG, Austria (JTA) — At one of this Alpine city’s finest hotels, an Argentinean Jew in a priest’s vestments is waltzing with a Jewish transgender woman from New York.
Nearby, an African-American Jew is swaying to the sounds of Johann Strauss while embracing a bearded man from Hungary. Spectators from 22 countries gather around in colorful costumes to watch those brave enough to dance.
The scene last week at the Hotel Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg was a highlight of a three-day conference for some 70 young Jewish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists from around the world. They gathered to launch an international Jewish gay organization called Eighteen:22 — a reference to the passage in Leviticus prohibiting gay sex — just two weeks after the deadly stabbing of a 16-year-old girl at the Jerusalem gay pride parade.
The tragedy hung over the gathering. There was a commemoration ceremony for the victim, Shira Banki, and passionate fulminations against Israel’s government for failing to stop the perpetrator, Yishai Schlissel. A Haredi Orthodox fanatic, he had recently been released from jail for stabbing three people at the same parade in 2005.

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From The Times of Israel
In wake of hacking, Ashley Madison CEO steps down
Noel Biderman, a Jew from Toronto, resigns after millions of cheating site’s members outed in breach of company’s computers
The CEO of the company that runs adultery website Ashley Madison is stepping down in the wake of the massive breach of the company’s computer systems and outing of millions of its members.
The abrupt departure of Noel Biderman, which came without the appointment of an interim replacement, could be another sign that the website’s days may be numbered, experts say.
“Unless they can immediately assure the public that their information is protected, then their business is over,” says Lawrence Kellogg, a partner with the law firm Levine Kellogg Lehman Schneider & Grossman LLP, who specializes in class action lawsuits.
“The only reason for an adulterer to join the service is to keep their information private. Absent that, they don’t have a business.”
Kellogg says that if the lawsuits from Ashley Madison members keep piling up, Avid Life Media Inc., Ashley Madison’s parent company, may ultimately end up filing for bankruptcy protection.
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