British historian spurns Israeli prize on ‘political’ grounds (JNS.org) British feminist historian Catherine Hall of University College London declined an Israeli award, the lucrative Dan David Prize, for what she called “political” reasons. Hall did not attend the award ceremony at Tel Aviv University (TAU) on Sunday. TAU administers annual $1 million prizes, named […]
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Middle EastBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Very few climbers have reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the last two years, due to deadly avalanches and a huge earthquake. The 2016 season has just begun, with 9 Sherpas reaching the summit on May 11; however, four climbers have already died this month, with numerous others taking
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireCoalition chairman MK David Biton (Likud) on Sunday addressed the proposed death penalty law for terrorists initiated by Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman during coalition negotiations. “I think there needs to be a death penalty, not just for those who want to commit suicide, but those who want to carry out a deadly attack only
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Middle EastAt a press conference Sunday with the visiting French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke about Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s (Likud) sudden resignation last Friday. Ya’alon announced Friday that he intends to return and contend for the leadership, after Netanyahu decided to give his post of Defense Minister to MK Avigdor Liberman
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Middle EastThe leftist American Jewish group J Street on Sunday issued a response to the revelation that it received more than half a million dollars to advocate for the Obama administration’s controversial nuclear deal with Iran. The expose, revealed by Associated Press, noted that the Ploughshares Fund was named in an explosive New York Times profile
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Middle East, USATel Aviv (dpa) – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was in Israel Sunday, in a further push to convince the Israelis to accept international talks on their conflict with the Palestinians. Valls was scheduled to lunch with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem Monday, before travelling to the nearby West Bank for talks with
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International, Middle EastThe Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on Sunday transferred two ancient relics from Pharaonic times to the Ambassador of Egypt. The two artifacts are Egyptian sarcophagi covers dating back to the period between the 10th-8th centuries and 16th-14th centuries BCE. The items had been illegally smuggled into Israel and were confiscated by the Israel
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — In September of 1978, three nations’ leaders, US President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin met for thirteen days on an isolated hilltop to iron out the Camp David Accords. Who got the shorter end of the stick depends on whose analysis one
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — In both of Israel’s established political parties everyone seems angry at everyone else. It’s too early for predictions, but it’s like the first news of a major weather change heading in our direction. It may not get here, but if it does, watch out. It came about on account of
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor M. Masori VISTA, California – On the crowded football field of Ranch Buena Vista High School, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders endorsed a California measure that will be on this November’s ballot to legalize recreational use of marijuana. “We have got to rethink the so-called war
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori, Travel and Food, USANEW YORK (Press Release)– World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder delivered remarks Sunday at the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York, condemning the United Nations for its harmful anti-Semitic rhetoric, and for becoming little more than an anti-Israel political cartel. Lauder was joined by an array of Israeli ministers, Knesset members and officials,
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International, Middle East, USASandi Masori gives a pop quiz to the candidates.
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Travel and FoodMount Pleasant: My Journey from Creating a Billion-Dollar Company to Teaching at a Struggling Public High School by Steve Poizner, Portfolio, Penguin Group, 2010 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Steve Poizner describes himself as the quintessential nerd – and proud of it. Taught by his Jewish parents to dedicate himself to the constant pursuit
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Books, Poetry & Short StoriesConservative and big-money allies of Donald Trump are laying the groundwork for him to visit Israel this summer, an idea backed by Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, The Guardian reported on Saturday. According to the report, the Jewish-American billionaire recently indicated in a meeting with the candidate that he would provide about $100 million to help
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