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By Bart Jones Newsday Updated July 6, 2019 6:00 AM Long Island’s East End has only one place that’s kosher, a combination bakery-restaurant called Beach Bakery & Grand Café in Westhampton Beach. So when the business went up for sale last year, the Jewish community was understandably nervous that a new owner would stop serving kosher food, especially the baked goods — those fried jelly croissants, custard doughnuts, the crumb cake. Their worry was for nothing. The man who bought the...

The Independent By Bel Trew June 30, 2019 Israel may be celebrating the seemingly friendlier relations with Bahrain, but the conference did nothing to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict It felt more like a Ted Talk or an episode of Dragon’s Den than peace negotiations for one of the world’s trickiest conflicts. This Tuesday in a five-story hotel in Bahrain, Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, zipped through a blur of graphs and facts that made up his $50 billion economic...

The Times of Israel By Raphael Ahren June 28, 2019 I came to Bahrain to cover an economic peace conference, and ended up discovering a small but unique local Jewish community MANAMA, Bahrain — “They may not make peace in Bahrain, but they made a minyan in Bahrain,” David Makovsky, a DC-based think tanker specializing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said Wednesday, as he was taking off his prayer shawl and phylacteries. We had just concluded the first morning service held in this Gulf nation’s...

Arutz Sheva By Yoni Kempinski June 26, 2019 Rabbi Marc Schneier, Special Advisor to King of Bahrain, says economic conference brought Israelis, Arabs together to bolster PA economy. Rabbi Marc Schneier, the Special Advisor to King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, spoke to Arutz Sheva about the US-led economic conference currently taking place in Bahrain. “I’m very excited and honored to be here” at the conference, Rabbi Scheier said. “I think that there was a very intense...

The Times of Israel By Raphael Ahren 26 June 2019, 11:25 am Afterward, worshipers break out in song, hear Torah sermon as Houda Nonoo, a Jewish woman who served as Bahrain’s US ambassador, marvels: ‘It’s a historic moment’ MANAMA, Bahrain — Businessmen, reporters, five rabbis and a senior White House official held rare morning prayers at the only officially declared synagogue in the Gulf Wednesday, on the edges of a peace conference being held in the tiny gulf kingdom that was once home to a thriving...

The Jerusalem Post By Herb Keinon June 26, 2019 “This is historic,” Houdie Nonoo said. “It is the first time in my lifetime that I’ve been in this synagogue with a morning minyan, and more than a minyan” MANAMA, BAHRAIN — In the center of the city, just off a busy street of shops, in a small unmarked synagogue, a group of 15 Jews gathered Wednesday for a morning minyan (prayer quorum). At the end they joined hands and danced around the bima, singing “Am Yisrael Chai” (The People of Israel Live)....

Arab News By Ray Hanania June 25, 2019 -> Schneier led the first Synagogue Mission to Bahrain in February 2018 -> Schneier believes the conference will create an economic momentum that will help the Palestinians and encourage both sides to pursue peace MANAMA: American Rabbi Marc Schneier launched his interfaith efforts in 1989 in the hopes of strengthening understanding between African Americans and Jews. It was so successful, he said, that in 2008 he launched an initiative to strengthen interfaith...

Yahoo! By Bel Trew June 25, 2019 Analysis: Controversy has marred a two-day economic workshop in Bahrain which the US hopes will ‘jump start’ Palestinian economy and build peace in region No Israeli or Palestinian officials will be present when Donald Trump launches his long-awaited and much-touted peace plan for the region. The second hiccup, according to sources in Washington, is that neither the Republican-dominated senate nor the Democrat-led congress have much clue what is going on. Despite...

The Washington Examiner By Rob Crilly June 25, 2019 A U.S.-backed workshop to kick-start Israeli-Palestinian talks with a $50 billion investment is a first step to Middle East peace despite the absence of government figures from either side, according to an adviser to the king of Bahrain. The “Prosperity to Peace” meeting in the tiny Gulf kingdom is designed to mark the first stopping point on the Trump administration’s political road map to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, Israeli...

The Independent By Bel Trew June 25, 2019 Analysis: Controversy has marred a two-day economic workshop in Bahrain which the US hopes will ‘jump start’ Palestinian economy and build peace in region Palestinians step on a placard displaying pictures of Bahraini King Hamad al-Khalifa, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump and his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, during a protest. ( Getty ) No Israeli or Palestinian officials will be present when Donald Trump launches...