LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– “Israel Apartheid Week” (IAW) campaigners will be in for a surprise when they mount their seventh annual hate fest this spring. Pro-Israel students on campuses are ready for them. Over the past year, StandWithUs campus coordinators have worked closely with students to brainstorm about the responses that would be most effective [...]
LONDON (Press Release)–Foreign Affairs Shadow Minister Stephen Twigg joined OneVoice on Monday for an event at the House of Commons to explore whether people power has been the missing element in delivering a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians. Parliamentarians and concerned citizens alike packed the Wilson Room, at Portcullis House, to firsthand witness the [...]
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — As I have predicted, Amr Moussa, former Egyptian foreign minister and Arab League head, has declared his candidacy for president of Egypt. I’d bet he is the most likely to be elected, as a nationalist and “anti-Islamist” candidate. While very possibly the best alternative to the Muslim Brotherhood-backed [...]
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — The years have turned over and suddenly you are fifteen and eighteen years old—a young man with a 4G phone and a young woman with a car. You have never known anything but wireless and mobility. You are living in interesting times, dear children. You have seen our [...]
(Col. 22, Feb. 28, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Simchas When Allison Ogul became a bat mitzvah over the weekend at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, the congregation led by Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal welcomed many non-Jewish visitors, including relatives of her mother, Sharon Wilson-Ogul. They also came from the staff of the San Diego Union-Tribune, [...]
NEW YORK (WJC)–The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CoP) has sent a letter to Cuban President Raúl Castro appealing for the release of Jewish aid worker Alan Gross, 61, who has been held in a Cuban jail since December 2009 and now charged with “crimes against the state.” His trial is to [...]
TEHRAN (WJC)–Iran and Syria have agreed to cooperate on naval training, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported on Saturday, after two Iranian warships docked in a Syrian port. “The two parties will cooperate with each other in training issues and the exchange of personnel,” IRNA quoted the agreement, signed by the commanders of both navies, [...]
EDINBURGH, Scotland (WJC)–Education Minister Angela Constance announced the Scottish Government would pay to ensure two students from every secondary school could take part in the Lessons from Auschwitz Project, which is run by the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET). The four-part course involves a day-trip to Auschwitz. Pupils are given a tour of the death camp [...]
Compiled by Garry Fabian Bailout could forestall amalgamation ADELAIDE, 24 February – Amalgamation with a like-minded Adelaide private school remains the only option for South Australia’s beleaguered Massada College, unless it can be rescued by a major donor. That’s the scenario mapped out by Jewish Community Council of South Australia (JCCSA) president Norman Schueler, after Adelaide’s [...]
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Among the lessons we can tentatively parse from the current commotion in Muslim countries are possible clarifications about the murky overlap between international law and international politics. Notice the extreme lack of certainty, suitable for any discussion of international law and politics. Much more than domestic law in well ordered countries, [...]
