The motives behind a mass-shooting attack that left 14 dead and 17 injured in San Bernardino on Wednesday remain unclear, The New York Times reported. The attackers, identified as Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married or engaged couple, were killed during a confrontation with police. A third person...

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When 130 people were killed and 368 injured in a series of terror attacks in Paris earlier this November, 15 clinicians trained by Israeli experts fanned out to area hospitals to offer psychotrauma interventions as the victims were brought in. These French mental-health professionals from OSE, the largest Jewish welfare...

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that “Israel has every right in the world to defend itself and it has an obligation to defend itself,” while meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Thank you. Mr. Prime Minister, Bibi, thank you for welcoming me here. And for...

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The New England Patriots honored American terror victim Ezra Schwartz with a moment of silence before their Monday Night Football game against the Buffalo Bills yesterday. Schwartz was an 18-year-old student and lifelong Patriots fan from the Boston area who was killed by a Palestinian terrorist last week. “Ladies and...

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Following controversial remarks by Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens that terror was no longer confined only to “synagogues and Jewish museums,” Belgium’s Chief Rabbi said that Jews have no future in Europe, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Rabbi Avraham Gigi spoke to Israeli radio station 103 FM about the atmosphere...

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JNS.org – One of the most memorable scenes in the 2010 film “Four Lions,” a dark British comedy about a group of the most incompetent jihadis imaginable, takes place as the aspiring martyrs climb into a van for the long nighttime drive down to London, where their plan is to...

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Sunday’s triumph of Mauricio Macri in Argentina’s presidential runoff election against government candidate Daniel Scioli marks a sea change in Argentine politics. Macri’s victory puts an end to twelve years of “Kirchnerism” in Argentina – a colorful blend of traditional Peronist power politics at home and alliances with repressive regimes...

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An Israeli woman was stabbed to death and a man was injured during three separate terror attacks on Sunday, The Times of Israel reported. The woman, 21-year-old Hadar Buchris of Safed, was stabbed in the afternoon while waiting for a bus at the Gush Etzion junction in the West Bank....

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Sanctions imposed on Iran for violations of the nuclear deal should be used to pay damages to American victims of Iranian-sponsored terror, Daniel Miller, a survivor of a 1997 terror attack in Jerusalem, wrote in an op-ed published Friday in The Orlando Sentinel. According to a prepared testimony (.pdf) that Miller presented at...

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Malian special forces stormed the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako after Islamist terrorists took 170 people hostage on Friday, Reuters reported. Seven hours after the attackers entered the hotel, Malian authorities declared that the siege was over and all hostages were freed. A body count following the rescue effort determined that...

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