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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Major American Jewish religious streams back continued refugee settlement
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Umbrella bodies for the major American Jewish religious streams have urged the United States to continue to accept Syrian refugees.
A statement Friday by the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly backing the continued settlement of the refugees means that there is cross-denominational support in the community for the Obama administration’s plan to settle 10,000 refugees in the United States over the next year.
“As we discuss the future of Syrian refugees in the United States, we must be mindful not to blame all for the sins of the relative few,” the statement said, alluding to reports that perpetrators of the Nov. 13 massive terrorist attack in Paris included terrorists who had slipped into Europe among refugees. “We cannot turn our backs on innocent individuals fleeing the violence that is tearing apart their homeland.”
The Religious Action Center of the Reform movement and the Orthodox Union issued statements earlier in the week. All three statements likened the plight of the refugees to German Jews seeking refuge from the Nazis in the 1930s.
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From Russia Today
760 German citizens have joined ISIS, 200 returned home – Interior Minister
Published time: 22 Nov, 2015 14:21
Germany has become home to hundreds of potential terrorists with real battle experience, country’s Interior Minister revealed to national media. These are German citizens who joined radical Islamist groups in Iraq and Syria and are now coming home.
Former militants who used to fight in the ranks of so-called Islamic State (former ISIS/ISIL) and other terrorist groups against the troops of the Syrian and Iraqi governments are now coming home, raising the threat of potential terror attacks to a new high, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told Bild am Sonntag.
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The number of potential attackers currently living in Germany is “higher than ever before,” de Maiziere said, estimating the number of German citizens joining terrorists at 760 people, about one-fifth of them women, who usually do not fight among jihadists, but rather “assisting” the terrorists “in other ways,” de Maiziere said.
The vast majority of Germans fighting in Syria and Iraq are men in their 20s who were raised in Germany and had German or double citizenship, De Maiziere added.
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From Russia Today
Most Ukrainians think country headed in wrong direction on 2nd anniversary of Maidan uprising
Published time: 22 Nov, 2015 00:43
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko takes part in a commemoration ceremony at the site where anti-Yanukovich protesters were killed during clashes in Kiev, Ukraine, November 21, 2015. © Gleb Garanich / Reuters Two years ago, protesters gathered in central Kiev to demand change and reforms, eventually ousting then-President Yanukovich. However, 730 days later, the country is far from prosperity, with mounting debts and a costly conflict in the east.
On Saturday, thousands of people gathered in Kiev’s central Independence Square, better known as Maidan, to celebrate the Day of Dignity and Freedom, marking the second anniversary of the Euromaidan protests. Various events were held around the city.
President Petro Poroshenko attended a commemorative ceremony devoted to those killed during the Maidan protests and laid flowers and lit candles at the “Heavenly Hundred” memorial.
“Together with all the heavenly hero’s we honored the memory of our hero’s,” Poroshenko tweeted.
He was booed by some protesters, however, who had come to decry the country’s dire economic situation. “Neither Poroshenko, nor the authorities… they don’t care for the people. We stay here with our questions concerning Financial Maidan… They neither want to hear us nor to hold restructuring measures,” one man told Ruptly.
Ukraine’s desire to move out of Moscow’s orbit and into the arms of the West does not seem to be paying dividends. According to statistics from the International Monetary Fund, Ukraine’s economy will contract by a staggering 12 percent in 2015, while Kiev’s external debt is expected to reach 153 percent of GDP in 2015 before and 134.2 percent in 2016.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Major German department store apologizes for pulling Golan wines
(JTA) — Germany’s KaDeWe department store in Berlin has apologized for removing wines made in the Golan Heights from its shelves and said it will return them immediately.
In a letter to Green Party legislator Volker Beck, the company said it acted “rashly and insensitively” in carrying out a recent European Union labeling regulation.
“We regret that this improper reaction of the KaDeWe group triggered a misunderstanding, and ask for your pardon,” the brief note from the management read, in part.
Beck posted the apology on his Facebook page, noting that “protest pays off.” The department store followed suit on its page.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Kerry agenda in Israel has no plans for new peace talks, State Dept. official says
JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on his visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority is not planning to restart peace talks or broker any agreement.
Kerry will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in an effort to tamp down the current violence.
“We have called many times publicly and privately for the both sides to take concrete steps to demonstrate a genuine commitment to a two-state solution, and that’s what we continue to stress to them,” a senior State Department official said Saturday in a briefing ahead of Kerry’s visit to Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Ramallah set to begin Monday. “We also talk, obviously, to both sides about steps that we think they can take that can help to reduce tensions.”
Kerry also will talk to Abbas about controlling incitement over the Temple Mount and about preventing the P.A. from collapsing, the official said.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Senate approves bill targeting Hezbollah’s foreign finances
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a bill that would expand sanctions targeting Hezbollah to financial institutions dealing with the group.
The bill approved Nov. 17 would target foreign financial institutions that do business with the Lebanese militia, which launched a war with Israel in 2006 and which is currently working with Iran to prop up the Assad regime in Syria.
Hezbollah has for years been a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, and U.S. individuals and entities already are banned from doing business with Hezbollah.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, authored the bill with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. A similar bill unanimously passed the U.S. House of Representatives in May; now the Senate bill goes back to the House for final approval, which Shaheen in her statement said should happen within days.
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