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Students representing Jewish state in international competition in Amsterdam take home four bronze medals as well. Education minister congratulates them on ‘impressive achievements’ Israeli students won five medals, one gold and four bronze, in the 52nd International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), which concluded in Amsterdam on Friday. Following the impressive achievement, […]
Source / Credit: Al Arabiya News It’s not always the chickens that come home to roost. Vultures do it too. Europe has always hated the American eagle, and is a reluctant partner in the current “War on Terror.” On Friday, a new kind of terror wounded Oslo with an incomprehensible […]
Protests over high house prices and rents spread across the country Tent protest villages have sprung up across Israel over the past week to demand action on house prices and rents, attracting large numbers of young workers and students, huge media attention and the panic of politicians beginning to feel […]
The September 11 2001 attacks remain controversial throughout the world. A new poll by the Pew Research Center finds the majority of Muslims from Egypt, Turkey, and the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Indonesia and Pakistan do not believe the 9/11 attacks were carried out by Arabs. The highest rate […]
The Jakarta Post JAKARTA: Islamic radicalism in Indonesia is not merely the responsibility of Muslims but also the government’s, says Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Indonesia representative Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin. “The government should also be held responsible for the spreading of religious […]
JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) — Indonesian National Police on Saturday officially announced the arrest of the principal of the Umar Bin Khatab (UBK) Islamic boarding school, where a bomb blast two weeks ago killed one person, and named him a terror suspect. National Police Spokesman Brigadier General Ketut Untung Yoga […]
The Sikh community in Lahore have been prevented from observing a religious celebration at a gurdwara, their musical equipment thrown out and their entry barred, after a religious group persuaded the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) that celebrating the Muslim holy day of Shab-e-Barat was more important than the Sikh […]
Herman Cain said Sunday that Americans should be able to ban Muslims from building mosques in their communities. “Our Constitution guarantees the separation of church and state,” Cain said in an interview with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” “Islam combines church and state. They’re using the church part of […]
A new glass exhibit at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv is set to dazzle the local art world this summer. Dubbed the ‘largest glass art exhibit’ in the history of the State, the display includes 100 works by 67 Israeli artists. From cute, oversized glass animal figurines to […]
Dr. Barak Weiss, a Ben-Gurion University of the Negev mathematician, has been selected to receive a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in 2011. ……… Dr. Weiss’s research focuses on “exceptionally symmetric higher dimensional objects called parameter spaces, their groups of symmetries move points around inside them and […]
An interview with Zaenuda Ikhwanul Aziz from the Indonesian Ahmadiyah Community (JAI) published by the Asian Human Rights Commission regarding the situation faced by Ahmadis in Indonesia.. How do you feel about what is happening to the Ahmadiyah community in Indonesia? We feel that we are being discriminated against, especially […]
Religious Council figures show only 3,149 couples tied the knot in Israeli metropolis last year, including eight people over 80 and 22 couples who decided to remarry each other after divorce Tel Aviv has had the highest divorce rate in Israel for the past several years. Now it turns out […]
Bali Island, Indonesia – US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton should use her visit to Indonesia this week to press Jakarta to address human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. The United States last year lifted a ban on cooperation with Indonesia’s army special forces, known as Kopassus, which was […]
Commentators both in Israel and around the world have pointed out that the movement toward the right is endangering Israel’s liberal democracy. But maybe it’s time to see what stands behind this flood of anti-liberal legislation. The sound and the fury Israel’s anti-boycott law has not yet died down: Avigdor […]
Annual survey taken by New York’s Travel + Leisure magazine finds Cape Town to be readers’ favorite Middle East/Africa city to visit. Jerusalem and Tel Aviv are among the top three cities in the region to visit, according to a recent poll taken by the New York-based magazine Travel + […]
The couples joining the mass wedding were of various ethnics and religion. The youngest couple was aged 16, while the oldest was 86. JAKARTA – INDONESIA broke the world record for mass weddings when 4,501 couples got married at the Sports Palace of Senayan in Jakarta, local media reported on […]
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has praised the country’s largest Islamic organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), for its commitment in supporting pluralism. “I praise the NU’s consistency in upholding the four pillars of our society, namely Pancasila [five principles], the 1945 constitution, Bhinneka Tunggal Ika [unity in diversity], and the Unitary State […]
Being a minority of about 10 in a predominantly Muslim country of almost 250 million people is truly being a minority. My National Identity Card lists me as a Christian, since every citizen is required to profess one of six prescribed religions by law – none of which is Judaism. […]
Source: News-Leader.com I write this as the countries surrounding Saudi Arabia and Israel are at obvious boiling points with respect to their government’s overthrow or potential revolutions. The people are rising up, fuelled by a hatred of either the ruling leaders now in power, or the Americans occupying their country […]
Israel’s recently inaugurated 60-kilometer Gospel Trail starts in Nazareth, where Jesus spent his early years, and ends up at the Sea of Galilee, the center of his ministry. Walking, biking, or even driving along the route, travelers pass by many of the unforgettable places mentioned in the Christian Scriptures. At […]